Experience, the daughter of John and Hester Swift Gibbs, was born at Plymouth in 1703.[1] She was married there by the Reverend Nathaniel Leonard[2] to Benjamin Cornish on November 11, 1725.[3]
Children
Benjamin b 17 Jul 1727; m (1) Rhode Swift (2) Phebe___
Susannah b 16 Sep 1729; m Jabez Gibbs
Mercy b 20 Mar 1732; m Josiah Gibbs
John b 06 Jun 1734; m (1) Lydia Shurtleff, (2) Sarah Bartlett, (3) Phebe Spooner Pope, (4) Elizabeth (Pope) Clarke
The Gibbs article in NEHGR says that Experience died before October 15, 1736, the date of her mother Esther's will and names only the first four children.[2]There are birth records for children born after that date included in the list above.
Sources
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GM86 : 18 February 2020), Experiance Gibbs, 19 Feb 1703; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934186.
↑ 2.02.1 Brownson, Lydia B. Phinney. "Thomas Gibbs of Sandwich, Mass. (c 1615-1693)." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 123, January 1969. Page 62. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11620/62/0
↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45W-TXV : 14 January 2020), Experience in entry for Experience Cornish, 1740.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GWV9 : 18 February 2020), Experience in entry for Thos. Cornish, 1745; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934186.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Experience by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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