Re: Gilberts of CO Chowan and Camden CO, NC aFelix Gilbert of VA and Gilberts of MD
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Re: Gilberts of CO Chowan and Camden CO, NC aFelix Gilbert of VA and Gilberts of MD
Sammie Morris 7/11/13
Sue,
The previous message posted before it was complete. Sorry.
In one of the Chowan court documents Samuel Gilbert is mentioned with Josiah and one Hannah Gilbert. The older Robert Gilbert was married to Hannah Pierce.I think James Gilbert born in 1735 or so is the brother of Robert [Bertie, Co., NC] and their sister is Penelope [in her eighties] in the early census of Wake/Bertie.
Nicholas Gilbert had sons James and Nicholas [Martin Co,NC]who descend from the William of England according to my notes. This also includes Wilson Gilbert.
Below is the will of John Gilbert of Taunton who married Mary Street in England. They had two sons Joseph and Thomas. She passed away in England, and he brought the two sons to America where he married again several times. John had a sister who married Nicholas Street.
I found this information at PAT GRIFFITHS FAMILY SITE AT daynesfamilytree.com. I copied on her.
The will of Mr. Gilbert, dated May 10, 1654, begins as follows:
I, John Gilbert, of Pondsbrook, in Taunton, though being in good health and of perfect memory, ...my body to be buried near my house at Pondsbrook upon the hill near the pine tree. . . To my son Gyles, my farm at Pondsbrook, one hundred acres, with the house, houses and commons there belonging, ten acres of meadow lying at Scadingamore, one yoke of my biggest oxen, named Colliar and Browne, 2 cows named Cherry and Colly, 2 steers named Summer and Winter, etc., etc.
Pondsbrook, so called, describes a locality in the northerly part of the present Berkley, where his land probably was. When he had finished nameing all the articles of household furnityre, farming tools and wearing apparel he wanted Gyles to have, he proceeds with the same particularity to name his sons Joseph and Thomas, his daughter Mary Norcross, and in case of her death, her daughter Mary, and his wife, Winifred, whom he appoints executrix, and Nicholas Street and Richard Williams, overseers, the last two "for and towards their pains and christian care, "are to receive "each of them 4 bushels of wheat." "I give," he says, "10 bushels of Indian corn unto such as have most need of corn in the town to be disposed of at the discretion of the deacons of the church at Taunton." "April 1, 1656, the testator, John Gilbert, had this will read to his wife and sons, and they expressed their good lining of it." Nicholas Street and William Pole, witnesses to the will. Mr. Gilbert is supposed to have died some time the next year, as the inventory of his estate is exhibited at court June 3, 1657. Mrs. Winifred Gilbert had three heads in her family in 1659. The names of the children were Thomas, John, Joseph, Gyles, and Mary.
17. Thomas Gilbert, the eldest son of John, senior, whose account has just been given, was, like his father, a "first purchaser." Born in England, in that part of it where so many of your first settlers originated, the County of Devon, he married Jane, the daughter of Hugh Rossiter, in Cohannet, March 23, 1639. He was freeman in 1643, constable in 1648 and 1649, and one to order town affairs in 1648 and 1651; was deputy to the General Court in 1651. In 1653 he returned and never came back, but died there in 1676. His wife and children remained in Taunton. The wife died June 9, 1691, aged 77. The name of their eldest son was Thomas who was born in 1643, and married in Boston, December 18, 1676, Ann, daughter of William Blake of Milton. This Thomas was constable in 1677, surveyor, 1679, 1690, 1694; selectman, 1699,1707-1713, 1715, 1718. He bore the title of Ensign. His children were Hannah, Sarah and Mary who were twins, Thomas, Nathaniel, Mehitabel, Susannah, and Experience. He died April 20, 1725, aged eight-two. The other children of Thomas and Jane (Rossiter) Gilbert were Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Eliezer. From the daughter Mary, the eldest, who married Samuel Williams, son of Richard, descended the Hon. Francis Baylies. Mr. Baylies, in his account of the family, named Jean as the wife of Samuel Williams, but Mr. E.H. Reed is very sure that it was Mary.
18. John Gilbert, the younger son of John, senior who was named among the first proprietors of Taunton, returned to England much earlier than his brother Thomas, and like him, never returned, and the entire record of him is lost. "The family of Gilbert," remarks Mr. Baylies, quoting from Mr. Samuel Davis, the antiquary of Plymouth, "Were related to the Harts and Streets and to the Rossiters, both of Old and New England."
In 1654 Mrs. Thomas Gibert "desired that her servant, now in Mr. Streets family, might remain until her husband returned from England," showing that if there was considerable intimacy, between the two families.
THE END.
Joseph Gilbert married Martha Slocumb, daughter of Anthony Slocumb. He can be found in Rhode island at a early date. I have seen her name Martha Slocumb one time in a Rhode Island Record sent to me by another researcher.So I will call her Martha until otherwise proven. The surname Pole is Pool[e] in Pasquotank, NC..
Back to the N.C. Gilberts...Benjamin Gilbert is presumed to to be the father of Timothy Gilbert of Norfolk,Va.. who married Mariah Walker. Joseph Gilbert and Martha Johnston are shown as the parents of my Timothy Griffin Gilbert. I think he may have been born in Plymouth in 1792/93 as his son's death record has him being of Plymouth. If Joseph Gilbert, Sr. married Mary Bagley first and then Martha Johnston, the two Timothy's would be half- brothers. If Josepth Sr.'s son Joseph married Martha Johnston , one would be a nephew. My dad said the Gilbert ancestor John Gilbert came from Essex or Exxes, England to New England and they were millers of grain and farmers. Also, had water mills. My cousin from Currituck said they were in Plymouth before moving on down to Va..
One William Gilbert fell out of favor with the King and he came to America. This would be the Mabel Gilbert family ancestor. They are related but I don't have an exact connection. I know some of them were in the Elizabeth City, NC census and some lived in Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
I will gather some more names and information and post it. Some of the ancestors were Quakers and -according to my dad-were married several times, although he did not mention his grgrandfather Timothy 1793 being a Quaker. He was Methodist.
My Timothy Gilbert married Eliza Wiggins who has to be the grand daughter of John Wiggins and Catherine Baker.
Correction: The wife of Josiah Gilbert was a Pierce. Her mother was a Kent.
I will post some more names.
Sam