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Commanders of the Castle Island Fort

Edward Gibbons

Time line

About 1606: Birth based on estimated date of marriage. (GMB p. 752.)
1623 Migration (Anderson, GMB)
1628 Morton arrested by John Endicott, Gibbon's inventories his holdings. (MHS Proceedings, 3rd Series, Vol 45)
1630 living in Charlestown (Savage, p. 245) (Anderson, GMB)
19 Oct 1630 Request to be a Freeman (Savage, p. 245) (Anderson, GMB, p.749; MBCR 1:79)
1631: Marriage to Margaret estimated date (Anderson, GMB, p.752.)
18 May 1631 admitted as Freeman (Takes Freemans oath) (Anderson, GMB, p.749; MBCR 1:366)
Late 1631 Admitted to Boston Church, member #113 (Anderson, GMB; BChR 14)
5 Oct 1631 d. Jerusha born (WM) (Savage, p. 245)
27 Oct 1633 s. Jotham bpt. (WM) (Savage, p. 245)
25 Sep 1634 Chosen as Ensign to Capt. Underhill (Anderson, GMB, p.749; MBCR 1:129)
1635 appointed commander of Castle Island, ^{[citation needed]}
1635 s. Edward (WM)
3 March 1635/36 Dismissed from service at Castle Island (Anderson, GMB, p.749; MBCR 1:165)
3 Jan 1636 s. Edward b. or bpt. dies young. (Savage, p. 245)
25 Oct 1636 paid 10 pounds for dangerous service (Anderson, GMB, p.749; MBCR 1:181)
1636 given up for lost, returns with French prize ship and alligator (WM)
9 Mar 1636/37 Chosen Lt. under Capt. Underhill for Boston (Anderson, GMB, p.749; MBCR 1:191)
1637 Founding member of Artillery Company (Savage, p. 245)
Lieutenant Edward Gibbons, and Sergeant Samuel Willard, to seize control of land there and establish what became Fort Saybrook, one of Connecticut's oldest settlements and its first military fortification. (WM)
26 Mar 1637 s.Edward again (Savage, p. 245)
1637 land awarded at Pullen Point (WM)
1638 s. Metsathiell (WM), illegible or perposterous * (Savage, p. 245)
1639 Squaw Sachem sells Winthrop land (later Winchester); Gibbons friend of Squaw and recieves land for Jotham (WM)
1639 Living in Boston (Anderson, GMB)
1639 Boston Selectman (WM)
1639 Commander of AHAC, Boston
???? Deputy to the Court(WM)
1641 Travels to England and returns (Anderson, GMB)
18 Apr 1641 s. John (WM) (Savage, p. 245)
1641 Commander of AHAC, Boston (Savage, p. 245) [check shurtleff]
7 Sep 1643: Court gives Capt. Gibbons use of house on Castle Island. (Anderson, GMB, p.750; MBCR 2:45)
1643 aids LaTour in failed attempt to capture Fort in Acadia, goes Bankrupt (VM)
1644 Sergeant Major of Suffolk County (WM)
14 May 1645 Sergent Major, given commission, Boston. (Anderson, GMB, p.750; MBCR 2:116)
12 Aug 1645 Commander of Forces against Narragansett, (Anderson, GMB, p.750; MBCR 3:39-42)
6 May 1646 Commander of Military Company at Hingham (Shurtleff, 3:65]
2 May 1649 highest military rank in the colony, Major General. (Shurtleff, 2:265) (WM) (Savage, p. 245)
1650 Assistant Magistrate (WM) (Savage, p. 245)
1650 Lord Baltimore appoints Gibbons Admiral of the Province of Maryland. (WM)
1654 Commander of AHAC, Boston (Savage, p. 245) [check shurtleff]
9 Dec 1654 dies in Boston (Savage, p. 245)
1656 wife Margaret dies in Plymouth, England.

Research Notes

Was he an indentured servant?
Caution this site does not provide sources and appears to make date mistakes and conjectures not supported. * Winthrop Memorials, Edward Gibbons

Sources

Savage, v. 2. D-J., p. 245.
Charter Member of the Artillery Company of Massachusetts (1637)
GMD, p. 129.
GM profile

GM Sources used by Anderson:

BChR - The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630· 1868, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volumes 39, 40 and 41, ed. Richard D. Pierce (Boston 1961)
BBOP - "The Book of Possessions" for Boston, in 'Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston; containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and the Book of Possessions, 2nd ed. (Boston 1881)
BTR - "Boston Town Records," in Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston; containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and the Book of Possessions, 2nd ed. (Boston 1881)
BVR - Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Ninth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1883; rpt. Baltimore 1978)
ChTR - Charlestown Town Records (see "Sources: Town Records: Charlestown")
Lechford - Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641, ed. Edward Everett Hale, Jr. (Cambridge 1885; rpt. Camden, Maine, 1988). Citations herein refer to the pagination as printed (and not to the manuscript pagination) and will therefore differ from the index entries of the 1885 edition.
MA Civil List - William H. Whitmore, The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774 (Albany 1870; rpt. Baltimore 1969)
MBCR - Records of the and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854)
NEHGR - New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+)
SCC - Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680, 2 vols., in Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vols. 29 and 30 (Boston, 1933)
SLR- Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1 through 14 (Boston 1880-1906). Citations to later volumes are from the microfilm copies of the originals.
SPR - Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records
THREE EPISODES - Charles Francis Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, 2 volumes (Boston and New York, 1903)
WJ - John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, ed. James Savage, 2 volumes (Boston 1853). Citations herein refer to the pagination of the 1853 and not the 1826 edition, even though the index to the 1853 edition continues to use the 1826 pagination.
WP - Winthrop Papers, 1498-1654, 6 volumes, various editors (Boston 1925-1992)

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