Robert GIBSON

   Another name for Robert was Robert "The Great" GIBSON.

  Birth Notes:

Robert Gibson [Sr.] (b. abt 1700) County Cork, Ireland
Comment: His parents were probably Scotch [Scottish] who were removed to Ireland by King James I in a resettlement program or religious migration to Ireland. He immigrated to VA Colony.

[Ref: Mary Jane Daniels personal records
Ref: Anne Wynn Laningham. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, Vol I, 1977. Pp 141 ff.
http://members.aol.com/holmestree/gibson.htm#Robert Gibson Sr.]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, Abt 1710, Scotland.

• Occupation: yeoman.

• Land: 370 acres, 190 acres, 1754, Augusta County, VA. 15th May, 1754. Beverley to Robert Gibson, 370 acres in Beverley Manor.

Cor. George Caldwell; cor. Wm. Henderson.

[Records of Augusta County, Virginia, 1745 - 1800, p.327]

21st August, 1754. Beverley to Robert Gibson, 190 acres in Beverley Manor on the Back Draft.

[Records of Augusta County, Virginia, 1745 - 1800, Page 350.]

• Land: Augusta County, VA. Individual: Robert Gibson
Location: Augusta County, Virginia
Record Type: Land
Record ID: 35027
Description: Landowner
Book-Page: 23-112
Property: 185 acres in Beverley Manor.

Remarks: Property devised to James Gibson by his father, Robert Gibson.

[This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County"]

• Court: possibly?, 1755, Augusta County, VA. 1755--List of Robert Breckinridge

Ro. Gibson, Constable
Hugh Gibson

CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA; Vol 2, pp 410 - 419


http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/2court45.txt

• Will, 1760, Augusta County, VA. Page 366.--22d March, 1760. Robert Gibson's will, yeoman--Wife, Isabella Gibson, executrix; son, Robert Gibson, executor; son, George Gibson, 190 acres between here and Spring Hill; son, James Gibson; son, John Gibson (if he be alive or comes to demand it). Teste: A. Thompson, Wm. Johnston, Zechariah Smith. Proved, 20th May. 1760, by the witnesses. Executors qualified (Isabella's mark "E"), with John Gray, Zechariah Smith, Wm. Palmer.


Page 412.--21st August, 1760. Robert Gibson's appraisement, by Jno. Finley, Geo. Caldwell, Wm. Caldwell.


[http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/wills/willbk2.txt
http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/va/augusta/court/3court5.txt]

• Land: 186 acres, heirs, 1760, Augusta County, VA. 29th November, 1760. Robert Gibson to William Caldwell, ?30, 186 acres on a branch of Christian's Creek; cor. George Caldwell; cor. land belonging to the heir of Robert Gibson, deceased. Teste: Wm. Armstrong, Wm. Palmer, George Caldwell, George Caldwell. Delivered: Philip Dold by written order from David Caldwell, 20th May, 1803.

• See also. http://hometown.aol.com/rbghill47/Gibson2.html

http://members.aol.com/holmestree/gibson.htm#Robert Gibson Sr.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bobbistockton/gib.html

Lesa Pfrommer
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lesa&id=I04742

http://hometown.aol.com/rbghill47/Gibson2.html

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/g/Joan-E-Bogut-PA/GENE2-0001.html

Robert married Isabella (possibly FORTUNE). (Isabella (possibly FORTUNE) was born about 1710 and died after Sep 1779.)