William Gibbins was born in Boston. He was a shopkeeper in Boston and held various town offices between 1696 and 1705. He joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1691. He married Anne in 1686. Their first child was born in 1687. William became a lieutenant of a Boston military company. Administration was granted on his estate on 16 Aug 1711.
According to Zachariah Gardner Whitman, 10 Feb 1789 - 11 Mar 1840, of the AHAC, William was "undoubtedly a descendant of Major-Gen. Gibbons [1637], a charter member" of the Military Company of Massachusetts.
Wife Ann's last name a birth may have been Adams.[1]
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