Re: Help on info Tracy Doe m. 1820 China, ME
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Re: Help on info Tracy Doe m. 1820 China, ME
LARRY BAKER 7/04/05
Larry,
Sorry for the delay in answering.Most of my information is filed away so I have to look for it. I did this bit about the family quite awhile ago and haven't checked it recently for accuracy...but it will give you an idea:
According to the records I have found, Lois Sands, the daughter of Thomas Sands and Elizabeth Brown, was born May 14, 1749 in Scarborough Maine.Thomas Sands and Elizabeth Brown were married October 6, 1743 in Scarborough.At this time I do not know the parentage of Elizabeth, but I have found quite a bit of information on this Sands family.
Thomas Sands was the son of James2 Sands and Emm Jepson of Boston.James2 Sands and Emm Jepson were married by the Rev. Cotton Mather November 23, 1714.According to “Mr. Thomas Lewis of Saco, his Family and Friends” (CD 194), Emm was probably a granddaughter of the John Jepson who married Emm, widow of John Coddington in 1656.James Sands2 was a cordwainer living in Biddeford in 1730.He died in 1745, leaving his property by will (probated April 16, 1745) to his wife Emm, sons James, Thomas, and Ephraim and daughters Hannah, wife of John Carter, Mary, wife of Ephraim Stimson, and Ruth and Patience Sands.He also had another daughter Emm Sands who married John the son of Captain John and Elizabeth (Basford) Davis of Biddeford.When James2 died, his estate was valued at over 1000 pounds. (I do have a trascription of the will)
James2 Sands was the son of James1 Sands and his wife Patience Gibbins.It is for Patience Gibbins family that I believe Gibbons McLaughlin (son of George1) was named.This Gibbins family had huge early land holdings in Maine from the marriage of James Gibbins and Judith Lewis, the daughter of Thomas Lewis.According to what I have found on the Gibbins and Lewis family, there is nothing positively known at this time of the ancestry of James1 Sands, but I think we know that he arrived early in Maine.In the Thomas Lewis article, it states that nothing can be found on the marriage between Patience Gibbins and James1 Sands, but that the marriage probably occurred during the years in which Maine was abandoned to Indian attack and occupation.The marriage lasted about 10 years, as her second marriage to John Annable (intention) took place in Ispwich Massachusetts on January 16, 1719/20.Immediately after the division of the Gibbins estate, Patience Annable distributed her Maine property among her children, deeding all her right in the lower division to her son James Sands of Biddeford, and her remaining interest to Thomas Sands of Ispswich, John and Hannah Bryant of Biddeford, and the children of Patience Hodgkins, deceased.
Patience Gibbins is identified by the fact that she shared a child’s portion of the Gibbins estate with Rebecca Wakefield, who was a daughter of James Gibbins Jr. as she herself stated.
Patience Gibbins was the daughter of James2 Gibbins and his wife Dorcas Cilley, whose father was William Cilley (some entries say Seely)of the Isle of Shoals.James 2 Gibbins and Dorcas married December 1668.James Gibbins died before 1683 and his widow became the second wife of Francis Backhouse of Saco.
James2 Gibbins was the son of James1 Gibbins and his wife Judith Lewis, and was born May 19, 1648 in Saco.James1 Gibbins was a planter who settled at Winter Harbor on the patent of Mr. Vines in 1642, taking over the grant of Henry Boade in partnership with Thomas Mills, fisherman.He was not the equal to his wife’s father in social standing, nor does he seem to have possessed ability above that of the average lesser planter of the colony.But, the size of his wife’s estate, for she became the owner of the entire Lewis share of the patent, made him necessarily a man of great importance (CD 194 as above), but he did not assume the governmental standing which control of such a large territory would naturally entail, and his alienation of the most important section of the patent withheld from his descendants his opportunity.He was an officer of the plantation’s military company, a selectman in 1656, a juryman in 1661 and a town commissioner in 1664. Judith Lewis was the only child of the Patentee Thomas Lewis who permanently remained in Maine.After the death of her mother and the departure of her sister, Mrs. Gibson, for England, she ultimately inherited the entire patent of her father Thomas Lewis.The portion of the patent described above (the most important part) was sold in April 1680 to Mr. Benjamin Blackman, and included the 100 acres adjoining the falls of the Saco river together with the timber and mill priviledges.In 1690, Gibbins dated his last deed, giving 100 acres at Rendezvou Point in the first division, to his daughter Elizabeth Sharp.He apparently died soon after, and from the fact that Judith did not join in the deed to his daughter, it is suggested that she did not survive him.Neither James or Judith Gibbins left a will, and for 39 years after the gift to Elizabeth Sharp, the estate remained undivided.In 1729, Hannah Mace, their only child still surviving, petitioned for a settlement of her father’s property.The result was the final division of the patent between Hannah Mace, and the heirs of her brother James and of her sisters Elizabeth Sharp and Rachel Edgecomb…a complicated process which took five folios of Probate Records (CD194).
I will see what else I have.