Henry GIBSON

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth: Albemarle County, VA.

• Property: descendant match? - Fire Insurance, 1825, Henrico County, VA.

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Title Gibson, Henry.
Publication March 23, 1825.
Gen. note 5435.
Note Location of property: City of Richmond.
Note Occupant.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia. Declarations. Vol. 84, Reel no. 12.
Biog./Hist. Note This collection contains policies issued for Richmond and Henrico County between 1796 and 1867. The individual policies (declarations) and reevaluations include the name of the insured, the location of the property, the name of the occupant, a description and estimated value of each structure, and, in most instances, a sketch of the property.
The "Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on Buildings, of the State of Virginia" was incorporated by the General Assembly on December 22, 1794, and held its organizational meeting on December 24, 1795. William Foushee (Richmond's first mayor elected in 1782) was named the first president and directors were chosen for Richmond and vicinity, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Staunton, Alexandria, Winchester, and Norfolk. Property was insured in Virginia, West Virginia (until 1868), and the District of Columbia. Insurance offered by the company was against "all losses and damages occasioned accidentally by fire." Reevaluations of insured property were required every seven (7) years or whenever additions were made to a policy. While the society suffered financially with the fall of the Confederacy, its reserve fund, required by law, enabled it to recover rapidly from the effects of the war.
Related Work Part of an index to the Richmond and Henrico County fire insurance policies issued between 1796 and 1867 by the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia that are housed in the Archives of the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Gibson, Henry.
Subject - Topical Insurance, Fire -- Policies -- Virginia -- Indexes.
Genre/Form Business records -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Insurance policies -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Added Entry Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia. Declarations and reevaluations of assurance, 1796-1872.
Library of Virginia.

System Number 001213277

• Will, 1808, Monroe County, WV. will dated 20 MArch 1808 Monroe Co.,WV

• See also. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~miisty/pafg10.htm

Henry married Dicey HARVEY on 6 Feb 1794 in Albemarle County, VA. (Dicey HARVEY was born about 1777 in Albemarle County, VA.)

  Marriage Notes:

1794 6 Feb Gibson, Henry & Dicy Harvie; bond: William Harvey Wit: John Carr [Rec. of Marr. Bonds, 1780-1806]
Dicy gives her own written consent. Wit: Henry Austin & james White & George Bingham [B/C Papers 1793-1798]