1820 US Census: Name: Saml R Gibson; Event Place: Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4 [2]
1830 US Census: Name: Samuel R Gipson; Event Place: Sumter, South Carolina, United States[3]
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 7
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Males - 24 thru 35: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 3
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 2
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 1
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total Slaves: 16
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 22
Research Notes for Samuel Gibson in Sumter
Note there is more than one Samuel Gibson in the area. There is at least one each in Barnwell[4] and Sumter[5] in 1830.
In his Will of 1907, Benjamin Reese Gibson describes his residence in Sammy Swamp, Clarendon, South Carolina as tract of land as which I ? reside containing seventy five (75) acres more or less known as the old Gibson Homestead This suggests the Gibson family had owned the place before him. Where was Sammy Swamp at the time of his father?
Sources
↑ Third Census of the United States, 1810. (NARA microfilm publication M252, 71 rolls). Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Clarendon, Sumter, South Carolina; Roll: 61; Page: 482; Image: 00394; Family History Library Film: 0181420
↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG6-JWK : accessed 15 April 2021), Saml R Gibson, Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 119, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 121; FHL microfilm 162,024. 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina; Page: 103; NARA Roll: M33_121; Image: 183
↑ "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP2-6SL : 20 February 2021), Samuel R Gipson, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing 108, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 172; FHL microfilm 22,506.
↑ Year: 1830; Census Place: Barnwell, South Carolina; Series: M19; Roll: 169; Page: 141; Family History Library Film: 0022503
↑ "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP2-6SL : 20 February 2021), Samuel R Gipson, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing 108, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 172; FHL microfilm 22,506.
"United States Census, 1850" database with images, FamilySearch, 12 April 2016, accessed 5 Jun 2019 : Samuel Gibson, Barnwell county, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States; citing family 2039, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).