Re: Gilberts, Cooper, Andrews, Payton in PA, MA & VA
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Gilberts, Cooper, Andrews, Payton in PA, MA & VA
Arlene Gregoire 7/05/02
This is an old one but the comment on Benjamin Gilbert marrying Lucy Andrews in Essex caught my eye. I am decended from that marriage and Benjamin Gilbert lived in Gloucester from 1804-1840 and only had one child, Benjamin Franklin Gilbert. It is unlikely this Benjamin Gilbert is related to yours, as my Benjamin was from an old Ipswich MA, line, son of Jonathan Jr. of Gloucester. The Andrews are a prominant Essex family with many branches. My branch of the Gilberts was in Essex County from the 1640s until the 1880s and returned there in the 1900s, scattering only after WW II.