Joseph Gilbert (abt. 1755 - aft. 1804)

Born about 15 Jan 1755 in Mecklenburg, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Husband of Nancy Ann (Cheek) Gilbert — married 8 May 1784 in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died after 17 Dec 1804 after about age 49 in Lee, Virginia, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gilbert Name Study.

Gilbert DNA Project Information on this family showing matching Gilbert Lines but not Joseph's father and ancestors who are as yet unknown. His parents are not Thomas Gilbert and Sarah Edmundson of Pennsylvania as shown in some on-line trees. His father is not Capt Thomas Gilbert.

Joseph Gilbert was reportedly born on 15 Jan 1755 in Mecklenburg, Virginia.^{[citation needed]} He has come to be entered in on-line trees as Joseph Hiram Gilbert and probaly not for Hiram being a middle name but an alternative name. Hiram is not a name he uses in his Will but appears to have been used by many on-line trees based on information on his son James Gilbert and descendants written in Sketches Of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers where he is called just Hiram Gilbert and from Virginia or even England.

It is reported but unsourced that he served as a private on the Virginia line in the Revolutionary War. ^{[1] [2]}

Joseph married on 8 May 1784 in Shenandoah, Virginia, Nancy Ann [Lnu] Cheek, (widow of William Isiah Cheek) ^{[citation needed]}

Nancy Ann (Lnu) Cheek was born about 1760 in Virginia. She had married first about 1776 in Virginia to William Cheek and had at least one child: *William Andrew Cheek, born ca. 1778-79. Birthplace at Culpepper C. H. (sic.) or Bumcum (sic. Buncombe), N. Carolina, who died in Lee County VA on 17 October 1862 at age 81 years 6 months 22 days (year unclear in source ^[3]) and his wife Esther age 85 years 5 months 11 days, died 7 October of the same year. Esther was born ca. 1777-78

Children identified in his will are:

• Joseph Gilbert (1794-1859);
• Thomas Gilbert
• James Gilbert who is assumed to be James M Gilbert (abt.1787-abt.1858)
• Mary Polley (Gilbert) Standifer (1790-bef.1826)
• John Gilbert who may be Rev John M Gilbert

Children appearing in unsourced trees and commentaries who are not mentioned in his Will:

• Harvey Gilbert b: 1800 in Virginia
• William M Gilbert; b.ca.1803 in Virginia
• Rebecca Gilbert Heston 1804–1875
• Nancy Gilbert
• Sarah Sally Gilbert
• David J Gilbert
• Elizabeth Gilbert

9 Feb 1799: A Joseph Gilbert received from James Fulkerson, SR 150 acres of land by grant lying on the north side of Wallen's Ridge corner of William McMillan's land for $46 3/4. ^{[citation needed]}

9 Mar 1801: Merry McGuire and Drucilla conveyed 60 acres lying on the north side of Wallen's Ridge being part of a tract Francis McGuire last lived on to Joseph Gilbert for $100.^{[citation needed]}

He died after 17 Dec 1804, the date his will was signed when he was living in Lee County, Virginia, and is supposedly buried at the nearby Mulberry Gap Baptist Church Cemetery, which is just over the State border in Tennessee,^[4] although other unsourced trees give his burial place as Thompson Settlement Family Farm, Lee County, Virginia.

Last Will and Testament of Joseph Gilbert:

"In the name of God, Amen, I Joseph Gilbert in the County of Lee and State of Virginia being very weak in body but in perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say princably (sic) and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that give it my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the decresion (sic) of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly Estate herewith in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

First, I give and bequeath to Nancy my dearly beloved wife whom I make and ordain the sole Executrix of this my last will my home plantation whereon I now live and all the movable and perishable property debts and movable effects as her right and property and wholy at her disposal according to her own mind and will within her own family. I also give and bequeath to my son Thomas Gilbert one horse beast which he hath received and also to my son James Gilbert one horse which he hath received and then to my daughter Mary Gilbert one mare, also to my two youngest sons Joseph and John Gilbert whom I likewise constitute and make sole heirs of my lower plantation adjoining the former, to wit, beginning at a small sugar tree near a small cave on the west side of the branch, running along the rocky ridge leaving a flat of Land known by the beach flat to a marked forked Chestnut thence on the same ridge to another forked Chestnut on the line of said survey this formerly a conditional line between Francis McGuire deceased and said Joseph Gilbert and said Land to be Equally divided for quality as well as quantity. Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.

In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four.

Signed sealed in the presence of Hezekiah Applegate, Jas. Fulkerson, Signed Joseph (X his mark) Gilbert, Seal

Codicil to Will

Be it known by these presents that I Joseph Gilbert in the county of Lee and state of Virginia, farmer had made and declared my last will and testament in writing bearing date the seventeenth day of December one thousand Eight hundred and four. I the said Joseph Gilbert by this present codical do rectify and confirm my said last will and testament and farther give and bequeath unto my loving grandson and namesake the Joseph Cheek the some of ten dollars and also to my loving stepson William Cheek the some of ten dollars to be paid unto them by the Executors out of any Estate my will and meaning is that this codical be adjudged to be a part and parcel of my last will and testament and all things therein mentioned and contained be faithfully and timely performed and as fully and amply in every respect as of the same more so declared and set down in my last will and testament writings my hand this seventeenth day of December one thousand Eight hundred and four.

Signed sealed in the presents of: Hezekiah Applegate and Jas. Fulkerson. Signed Joseph (X his mark) Gilbert."

Sources

1. ↑ Joseph Gilbert, 18 Dec 1782, on a muster list the Southern Army Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXT-Y3VY : 15 Mar 2018), Joseph Gilbert, 18 Dec 1782; citing 18 Dec 1782, Virginia, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,392.
2. ↑ It is improbable that he was the Joseph Gilbert who is recorded in this source because it is for a Lt. Gilbert in a Mass. Regiment commanded by Col Wm Prescott. United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL6T-BK8W : 20 February 2021), Joseph Gilbert, 04 Oct 1776; citing 04 Oct 1776,
3. ↑ "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X51T-NBL : 29 January 2020), Isaah Cheek in entry for Esther Cheek, 1862.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #203589381

See also:

• Burnett, J.J. Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of Marshall & Bruce Company, 1919. pages 174-178; https://knoxcotn.org/old_site/tnbaptists/gilbert_thomas.htm

• No online copy found: Early Records of Lee County, VA, Vol II, compiled by Ada Grace Catron, Copyright 1972, Chattanooga Public Library. This is an index of Lee County, VA Wills, Will Book 1. It lists Joseph Gilbert and his family, Page 17.

• Will of Joseph Gilbert