Randolph Randall Gibson III (abt. 1777 - 1847)

Born about 1777 in Albemarle County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Dicey Polly Ann (Sprouse) Gibson — married 4 Jul 1804 in Albemarle, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 7 Jun 1847 at about age 70 in Albemarle County, Virginia

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Biography

Randolph was born about 1777. He passed away in 1847.

v. George2, born say 1695, sued William Drinkard in Charles City County in January 1737/8 but failed to prosecute Orders 1737-51, 29]. He was granted a patent for 62 acres on Pease Hill Swamp in Charles City County on 25 July 1741 [Patents 19:1085]. In November 1741 the Charles City County court presented him and George Gibson, Jr., for not going to church. In July 1745 he failed to answer the petition of Phillis Goeing (Gowen) concerning her children, so the court ordered the churchwardens to bind them out. In December 1745 he and Captain Samuel Harwood posted £20 security for his good behavior for a year. In February 1745/6 he, William Witherspoon, and John Atkinson provided a total of £80 security for his good behavior, and he and his son Randolph Gibson and his wife Elizabeth posted bond of £20 each for the good behavior of Randolph and Elizabeth. The court fined him 5 shillings for not going to church in 1746, 1748, 1749, 1755 and 1756 [Orders 1737-51, 185, 196, 371, 383, 391, 392, 394, 417, 474, 499; 1751-7, 194, 298, 419].

https://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Gibson_Gowen.htm

Research note Nov. 2022 by Lilly Martin. I am considering this man to be linked back to the above mentioned George Gibson, and you can see the website listed above for his ancestry. I believe, at this point, this particular Gibson line is mixed race, and may be White, Black and Native American, what is also termed as Melungeon. I base this on the fact that this man's descendant moved next door to Amherst Co VA and married into a mixed race family, the descendants of Thomas Evans, who are considered by all history books to be among the founders of the Monacan tribe, which exists there today.

I feel the fact that there was documented in early Colonial Virginia, a man named George Gibson, who had a documented son Randolph Gibson, and they were of a mixed race background, which later married into similar families in Amherst Co VA, may be giving the clues as to their beginning. These are Free People of Color, not slaves.

http://www.historical-melungeons.com/gibsonnotes.html

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Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/278N-QB2

• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH23-LWK : accessed 15 December 2020), Randolph Gibson, St Anns, Albemarle, Virginia, United States; citing p. 159, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 66; FHL microfilm 181,426.; Year: 1810; Census Place: St Anns, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: 66; Page: 159; Image: 00173; Family History Library Film: 0181426
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBM-WZ8 : 19 May 2020), Randel Gibson, Albemarle, Virginia, United States; citing p. 142, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm.; Year: 1840; Census Place: St Annes, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: 549; Page: 142; Family History Library Film: 0029683
• U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
• Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850

Name Randolph Gibson Gender Male Spouse Name Dicey Sprouse Spouse Gender Female Marriage Date 4 Jun 1804 County Albermarle State Virginia

• Named in father's will, see Randolph Gibson Jr

South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980 Name Randolph Gibson Probate Date 27 Jan 1794 Probate Place Anderson, South Carolina, USA Inferred Death Year Abt 1794 Inferred Death Place South Carolina, USA

DNA Statements

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confident based on a triangulated group on MyHeritageDNA who share a 8.2 cM segment on chromosome 4, consisting of Patty (Luker) LaPlante and SS, her 4th cousin 1x removed, and CR, her 5th cousin 1x removed. (SS and CR are 4th cousins 2x removed.) These matches have been independently verified by via the MyHeritage Chromosome Browser. Their most-recent common ancestors are Randolph Gibson and Dicey Sprouse, the 4x great grandparents of Patty (Luker) LaPlante and 3x great grandparents of SS and 5x great grandparents of CR.