Rebekah (Gibbons) Garton (1700)

Ancestors

Wife of John Garton — married 21 Feb 1725 in Concord, Chester Co., PA

Descendants

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Biography

Rebekah Gibbons parents were John Gibbons who was born in England, and died 1706 in Bethel, Chester County, PA and Sarah Howard. Sarah Gibbons Garton gave the land upon which Benjamin Franklin built the first circulating library in America in the city of Philadelphia in in 1731. ^[1]

Marriage

p.39. John Garton of Bethel in the county of Chester in the Province of Pennsylvania husband and Rebekeh Gibbons of ye Township and County aforesaid Spinster ..21m, 2nm, 1725 ... at the meeting house at Concord... ^[2]

Inheritance from her grandfather

John Gibbons Sr. was born in about 1656 in Warminster, Wiltshire county, England and died in 1721 in Bethel Plantation, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He married Margery Suddery in Warminster. John Gibbons of Bethel. Date Signed: 11/2/1720. Date Proven: 1/25/1721. A. 110. To brother Robert Gibbons £5 if living 12 months after date of will. To grandson John Gibbons my half of the house I now live in and plantation belonging which land is three score and fifteen acres, when 21. To granddaughter Rebecca Gibbons, a plantation and the land which is 200 acres, when 21. To daughter in law Sarah Gibbons 5 shillings. To son James, remainder of estate, also executor. Witnesses: Francis Fervis, Rachel Fervis, Marsi Booth. To sister in England £10 if living 12 months after date of will. http://www.shissem.com/Hissem_Gibbon.html

Sources

1. ↑ William Blewett Family Genealogy, http://www.ncgenweb.us/richmond/wmblewett.pdf
2. ↑ Quaker Marriage Certificates, Concord Monthly Meeting, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1679-1808, compiled by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman.

• Source #S24 Record ID Number 80 Data Date: 12 FEB 2004
• S24Type: Electronic File GEDCOM File Claunch_02_12_2004.ged Author: Erle Gordon Bush

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Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of Cloninger.ged on 27 September 2010.