The GIBBS Family of Charlestown, Suffolk, MA and Sudbury, Middlesex, MA | Send comments and corrections to anneb0704@yahoo.co.uk |
MERCY GIBBS (b. 1691),
wife of James Aikens
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MATTHEW GIBBS of Charlestown and Sudbury
Parents: Unknown
Matthew Gibbs married Mary Bradish. [Ref, p. 714]
Matthew was a planter in Charlestown. [Ref, p. 714] In 1654 he moved to Sudbury. [Ref, p. 714]
Children of Matthew Gibbs and Mary Bradish:
JOHN GIBBS (c. 1662 - 1718) of Sudbury
Parents: Matthew Gibbs and Mary Bradish [Ref][Ref, p. 19]
John Gibbs was born about 1662 in Sudbury. [Ref, p. 31] He died on 2 Apr 1718 in Sudbury. [Ref] He married first Ann Gleason on 27 Apr 1688 in Sudbury. [Ref] He married second Sarah Unknown. She died on 31 Aug 1725 in Sudbury. [Ref]
Thomas Gleason left five shillings to his "son-in-law John Gibbs, who married [his] daughter Ann Gleason". [Ref, p. 19]
Children of John Gibbs and Ann Gleason:
Children of John Gibbs and Sarah Unknown:
MERCY GIBBS (b. 1691)
Parents: John Gibbs and Ann Gleason
Mercy Gibbs was born on 3 Aug 1691 in Sudbury. [Ref][Ref] She married James Aikens on 15 Oct 1718 in Brookfield, MA. [Ref]
Mercy united with the church in Hardwick on 29 May 1737. [Ref]
References
Bodge, George, "Soldiers in King Philip's War," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, many volumes.
Gates, Horatio, The Aikens Monograph, privately printed, no date.
Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants, Boston, Samuel Usher, 1913.
Paige, Lucius R., History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: with a genealogical register, Boston, Houghton-Mifflen, 1990.
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.
Stearns, Ezra S., History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts: From the grant of Dorchester Canada to the present time, 1734-1886: With a genealogical register of Ashburnham families, Ashburnham, MA, The town, 1887.
Ward, A. H., "Sudbury Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 17, 1863, 254-260, 311-315; 18, 1864, 45-48, 139-141.
Wilson, Lillian May, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Gleason of Watertown, Mass., 1607-1909, unknown, John Barber White, 1909.