Re: Gibson -17th Cent. NJ to eastern PA ? to Loudoun Co VA
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In reply to:
Re: Gibson - Collier/Collyer, 17th - 18th Century NJ
Wade Collier 3/18/04
A small point of clarification -- Nathaniel Loughborough (or Luftborough etc.) settled in Hatboro rather than Hatfield.As you surmised, Hatboro is a suburb of Philadelphia.As with Lunenburg, it's much more urbanized now than when I first visted there.
I have scarcely had any opportunity to scour the Delaware Valley for traces of Gibsons; that will have to await another day.
My one and only Lunenburg visit was about 21 years ago, and very brief, but I'm glad I went then so that I have at least a memory of its existence when still more rural than suburban.
I'm pleased to hear that Jaffrey stands still well preserved.The house John Wood built there circa 1785 still stands (or at least it did 21 years ago).They couldn't buy wallboard from Walmart, so they paneled the interior with the local hardwoods, probably sawn close by.(John's son Jonathan owned the mills in Jaffrey until the year(s) without a summer evidently broke him financially, and he relocated to NW of Utica, NY, leaving Sarah and some of the boys to manage the Jaffrey homestead.The youngest son, my ancestor, struck off for the Wisconsin wilderness when he came of age, and later to Iowa, so our people were following the same pattern you described in your post.
In Iowa, his son married my great grandmother Amanda Ash, whose grandmother Catherine (Merrihew) Ash has many south shore Mass. lines such as Borden, Barlow, Whitley, etc. as well as Merrihew (Marihue).