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Hi Bill,
Thank you for comments. I’m sure that those who made early commentary on the Gibeon Gibson’s family had only the best of intentions, but it was all hearsay and assumption, no one had done any actually research into the background of the family. In 1876 the family knew nothing of their ancestry prior to their great grandfather, Gibeon. Letters went out to historians Rev. J. G. Jones and John F. H. Claiborne, but nether could give them any information beyond the grandfather, Rev. Randall. [McBride, “Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana”, pp. 173/4] By 1895, your forbearer, Mrs. Sarah (Gibson) Humphries, had apparently made additional inquires and learned of Hannah Gibson Saunders, projecting her as having some from England with 5 Gibson boys. I think, because of a similarity of some given names and perhaps the knowledge that Gibeon had come from South Carolina, it was assumed that Gibeon shared a commonality with those of Pee Dee. From that time on the story was repeated in one form another right through 1953 [McBee, May Wilson, “Abstracts of Natchez Records”]. Nonetheless, the assumption was wrong.
That Gibeon came from South Carolina is proven by the 1850 when D(avid) Gibson, was enumerated in Jefferson Co., MS, then age 82, born SC. I have caught a glimpse of Gibeon in South Carolina. On 1 July 1766 as Gibbion Gibson, he petitioned for 400 acres “on waters of the Saluda” [Holcomb, “Petitions for Land, Vol. VI 1755-1770”, p. 15]. Mr. Holcomb was recently hired (not by me, but his results were shared) to further search for the man and his property. After an exhaustive search, no further grant or subsequent deed was located. It was determined that the property was located on Beaverdam Creek in what was then Ninety Six District, that part which later became Newberry County. The original petition does tell us a couple of things: 1) that Gideon had never received a previous grant in South Carolina; 2) that he household consisted of himself and 6 others, presumably a wife and 5 children.
By the way, the great grandfather, GiBeon, is consistently found that way. This is not a matter of spelling, but phonetics. For some unexplainable reason Mrs. McBee transcribed the Natchez records giving his name erroneously as GiDeon. I now have copies of many of the originals and he is never once recorded as anything but Gibeon or occasionally as Gibieon/Gibion. These records are consistent and there is no ambiguity in handwriting in no less than three languages, Spanish, French and English.
Due to all these errors and others it has taken awhile to work through this, but I am confident of what I have written. - Val
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