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There is a letter from John Gibb, Jr. to Mary Towell and Harvey Shannon. This letter is from a collection of Mary Lee Page. This letter says that he, John Gibb, met his "cousin Dr. Guinn, Senator of California" and that he had told him that "old aunt Guinn" was still alive. not exactly the quote but close enough.
I thought that old aunt Guinn could be Nancy Towell m. David Gwin. Anyway, got nowhere there so I did a search on the California Governors and sure enough there is a William McKendree Gwin, Senator from California; born near Gallatin, Sumner County, Tenn., October 9, 1805. He was a doctor and graduated from Transylvania University in 1828. He is not the son of Nancy and David. He is the son of a Methodist preacher, James A. Gwin. I have found: "James Gwin was born on January 16, 1769 in Orange County, North Carolina. While in North Carolina he married Mary Adair McAdams and during 1790 he removed his family with twenty other families to Tennessee and settled at Fountain Head on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee." The mother is Mary Adair McAdams. David m. Nancy Towell is not listed as a son of this couple and I have no idea who David's parents were. The connection (cousin and aunt) could be through Guinn and it may be through McAdams. "Mary [McAdams] Gwin was born December 2, 1773 in Orange County, North Carolina and was married and removed to Tennessee in 1790" In the historical sites of Tennessee, I find: "Fountain Head was named for a large spring which emerged 2.4 miles northeast of here near Drake's Creek. Long hunters had explored the area, but James Gwin and family, who came in 1792, were among the first permanent settlers" I find it notable that this James Gwin also began in Orange County where Henry Towell is said to have died and where Sarah McAdams was born and that they came to Drakes Creek. I also find: "James Gwin was a preacher whose talents and usefulness were well known to a good many yet living in Middle Tennessee...He was a native of North Carolina, embraced religion and married there. Shortly after his marriage, he emigrated to Cumberland, which was in the year 1791; stopped at Hamilton station, Sumner County; attached himself to the society I belonged to, on Drake's Creek, a few miles from the station."
Anyone information which could help unravel this mystery would be greatly appreciated.
Further, anyone with any information of what became of John Gibb, son of Mary Towell and John Gibb after he moved to California would also be greatly appreciated.
Pamela Jordan
pjordan315866501@aol.com
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