Solomon Gibbs (1730 - 1796)

Born 30 Jan 1730 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died 27 Mar 1796 at age 66 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Solomon, the son of Thomas and Dorothy (birth surname unknown) Gibbs, was born at Sandwich in 1729/30.^[1] At age 23 he married third cousin Hannah Gibbs^[2] and they had eleven children whose births were recorded at Sandwich.^[3]

Children

1. Thomas b 29 Dec 1753; d 14 Dec 1754
2. Thomas b 25 Oct 1755
3. Dorothy b 24 Dec 1757
4. Maria b 10 Feb 1760
5. Sarah b 19 Mar 1762; m Noah Haskell
6. Warren b 15 May 1764
7. Lydia b 02 Jan 1767
8. David b 01 Jun 1769
9. Eunice b 19 Feb 1772; died unmarried at age 35
10. Hannah b 11 Sep 1774
11. Micah b 19 May 1779

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-R4NT : 18 February 2020), Solomon Gibbs, 30 Jan 1729; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934221.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC8L-VQV : 24 January 2020), Solomon Gibbs, 1753.
3. ↑ Brownson, Lydia B. Phinney. "Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich, Mass. (c 1615-1693)." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 123, July 1969. Page 206 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11620/206/0.