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Lemuel Gibbons

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Lemuel Gibbons

Birth
Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1797 (aged 40–41)
Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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Lemuel Gibbons
Born 1756 Oct 1 Granville, MA
Bapt Hardwick, MA Oct 22 1758
Died 1797, age 41 Granville, MA
Burial Main Road Cemetery, Granville, MA

Father Peter Gibbons
Mother Sarah Green

Married about 1780 Granville, MA
Mary Goss Davidson
Born 1757 May 6 Granville, MA
Died
Father Phillip Goss
Mother Sarah
Siblings
Sarah Goss
Note #1 Her sister, Sarah Goss SEWARD resided in Granville, MA

Mary first married, William Davidson
Born
Died 1778 in Wyoming Valley, killed by the Indians.
Daughter
Mary Davidson
Born 1775 Aug 20 PA
Died

After William Davidson death, she returned to Granville, MA with her daughter, Mary Davidson, where her sister, Sarah Goss Seward lived. She met & married Lemuel Gibbons, son of Peter Gibbons and Sarah Greene about 1780 in Granville, MA

Information about her sister, Sarah Goss Seward:
Born 1745 Jul 4 Brookfield, MA
Died 1821 Apr 18, Huntington Mills, PA
Burial Goss Cemetery Harveyville, PA FAG 113925978
Married 1765 Oct 31 Granville, MA
Deacon Enos Seward
Born 1735 Jul 13 Dunham, MA
Died 1820 Aug 23 Huntington Mills, PA
Burial Goss Cemetery, Harbeyville, PA
Son of Ebenezer Seward and Dorothy

Enos' Revolutionary war service:
• Private; Capt. Wm Cooley's co., Col. John Mosley's regt., marched under Lt. Col. Timothy Robinson to reinforce Northern army, Oct. 21-30, 1776
• Sergeant; Capt. Aaron Coe's co., Lt. Col. Timothy Robinson's detachment at Ticonderoga, Dec. 25, 1776 to March 25, 1777
• Private, Capt. Wm Cooley's co., Col. John Moseley's regt., Aug. 17, 1777 till Aug. 19 or 21; company march towards Bennington on alarm
• Capt. Solomon Brown's co., Col. Elisha Porter's regt. July 31 to Sep. 1, 1779 at New London, CT

Of Note Lemuel was in William Cooley's Unit

At one point, and at the request of his sister-in-law Mary (Goss) Davidson, Enos assumed guardianship of his niece [Mary Davidson] after her father was killed in the Wyoming Valley in 1778.

Sarah Goss(e)
Father Philip Goss IV
Mother Mary Kendall

Lemuel was born 1756 Oct 1 in Granville, MA
He was almost 19 when he enlisted on May 4, 1775 as a Private in Capt. Lebbeus Ball's Comany and served in the Revolutionary War.

His brother, Peter Gibbons, also enlisted.

Lemuel enlisted four times, serving under different commanding officers. In October 1781, British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, and Lemuel, still a Private, this time in Captain Samuel Thrall’s Company, marched “on Mohawk River,” until discharged November 9, 1781. Mass. Soldiers & Sailors, Vol. 6 p377

According to Granville MA vital records Lemuel, was born 1756 Oct 1 in Granviille, MA son of Peter Gibbons and Sarah Green Lemuel died in 1797.

VITAL RECORD OF BIRTH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Gender: Male
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1756
Birth Place: Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
Father: Peter Gibbons
Mother: Sarah Gibbons

VITAL RECORDS OF DEATH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town Death Records, 1620-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Death Date: 1797
Burial Place: Granville
Source: Granville
New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, U.S., Town Death Records, 1620-1850

and was the father of children with Mary:

1. Philomelia "Amelia Gibbons Messinger Norton
Born 1781 Jun 5 Granville, MA
Died 1852 Apr 25 Bloomfield, OH
Burial Headstone Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, OH Sec E row 3
FAG 62596992 in Messinger Plot.
Married abt 1800
Grove Messenger
Father Capt David Messenger
Mother Hannah Higley
Children Adah, Eliza, Frederick, William
Married 1825
Issac Norton

2. Larkin Green Gibbons-Twin
Born 1783 Aug Granville, MA
Died

3. William Davidson Gibbons Twin 1783 Aug 27 Granville, MA-1854 Nov 9 St. Joseph's, IN Burial Huff Cemetery Bremen, IN FAG 45465909

4. Infant
Died 1791 Granville, MA
Burial Main Road Cemetery, Granvile, MA FAG

5. Gibbons
Born 1796
Died 1797 Granville, MA

I do not see records to substantiate Lemuel marrying Valdia in Goshen, CT. I believe that after Lemuel died in 1797, Mary a widow again, joined her sister in PA, where as a widow she married a third time in Mar 1800 Valentine Santee. After Valentine's death on Jan 7 1812 in Hecktown, PA , Mary joined her children in Granville, OH area about 1819, her children resided in Ohio about 1905 . IT is ASSUMED she is buried in Old Burying Ground in Granville, OH Valentine in buried in Dryland Union Cemetery in Hecktown, PA in Center section B-33

"Mary Goss was married three times;
#1 William Davidson: married abt1775 Wilkes Barre, PA
#2 Lemuel Gibbons: married abt 1780 Granville, MA
#3 Valentine Santee: married by March 1800 in Huntington, PA

Mary was the eighth of twelve children, and third daughter, born to Philip Goss IV and Mary Kendall. Her siblings: Sarah, Philip V, Experience, Comfort, Nathaniel, David, Solomon, Hannah, Ebenezer, Mercy, Abel and Levi.

Interestingly, Mary was born with a genetic condition known as polydactyly which means that she had an extra finger on each hand and an extra toe on each foot. Her son, William had the same condition which can be found in Mary's Kendall [maternal] ancestors and in Goss and Gibbons descendants to this day.

Mary's father moved the family to Wilkes Barre, PA by August, 1769. There she met and married William Davidson with whom she had a daughter, Mary, on August 20, 1775. William was killed [along with Mary's father, Philip Goss] by Indians on November 9, 1778. At this time Mary fled to safety in Granville, MA, to the home of her sister, Sarah Seward, wife of Enos. Mary appointed Enos guardian to her young daughter. She was now a widow with a toddler at age 21.

While living in Granville, Mary met and married Lemuel Gibbons with whom she had two children: Pamelia on June 5, 1781, and William Davidson Gibbons on August 27, 1783, whom she named after her first husband. no divorce record has been found, but when Enos and Sarah Seward [and family] returned to Pennsylvania in 1793, Mary probably went with them. There she met and married Valentine Santee. He died on January 7, 1812 in Hecktown, Pennsylvania.

Mary's children by Lemuel both moved to Granville, Ohio ,in about 1804/05. After Valentine's death in 1812, Mary followed, as she was received by letter to the Baptist Church on August 1, 1819

IT has been represented that Mary was a pauper at her death, no stone has been recorded or found for her. Town records show members of the Baptist church( Granville, Oh) cared for her during the last year of her life and that a local carpenter was paid to build a coffin for her. It is assumed that she was buried in the Old Burying Ground upon her death. (by Gayle Van Dyke)

About 1800, Mary Goss Davidson Gibbons returned to Luzerne County,
Lemuel then married Vadeia in Goshen, CT B 1773 Goshen, CT
They resided in Goshen, CT

Children with Mary Goss

1. Larkin Green Gibbons
Born 1783 Jan 3 Granville, MA
Possible information
Note there is a transcription of Vital Records for Goshen, CT done by Coralynn Brown stating that a Larkin Green, son of Lemuel & Vadeia, b 1795 Jan 3 Goshen. NOTE THE BIRTH date is 1795, vital records of Granville have Larkin Green's birth as 1873 Jan 3.

There is a death as infant of Lemuel in Granville, MA in 1797 with a birth of 1796.

SOURCES children for Lemuel
Larkin Green Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town Birth Records, 1620-1850
Name: Larkin Green Gibbons
Birth Place: Granville
Father's First Name: Lemuel
Mother's First Name: Sarah
Source: Vital Records of Granville
This is a transposition error for Sarah, record reads Sarah as grandmother.

Larkin Green Gibbons in the Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: Larkin Green Gibbons
Gender: Male (Man)
Birth Date: 3 Jan 1795
Birth Place: Goshen
Parent: Lamuel
Parent: Vadeia

Larkin Green Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Larkin Green Gibbons
Event Type: Birth
Birth Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Father Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Mother Name: Mary Gibbons

Children with Mary Goss
1. Philomela "Amelia" Gibbons
Born 1781 Jun 5 Granville, MA
Died; 1852 Apr 25 Bloomfield, OH
Burial Headstone in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, OH Sec E, Row 3 FAG 62596992
Married 1802
Grove Messenger
Born 1782
Died 1814
They moved to LIcking County, OH as members of a land resettlement group called the Licking Land Company and were pioneers in Granville, OH
Children
1. Adah Messenger West 1803 Granville, MA died 1888
2. Eliza 1805-1807 Granville, MA
3. Frederick Dent 1806 Grnville, OH Died 1871
4. William Henderson B 1808 OH 1889
1805 they moved to Granville, OH
Grove enlisted in war 1812, was taken prisoner and died 1814 Jan 29 in Montreal Hospital
Pamelia married 1825 Isaac Norton
She is buried in Messenger plot with her son in Bloomfield Cemetery Morrow, OH

2. William Davidson Gibbons
Born 1783 Aug 26 Granville, MA
Died 1854 Nov 9 St. Joseph's IN
Burial Headstone Huff Cemetery, Bremen, IN Row 12, Grave 2 FAG 45465909
First marriage 1794
Mary Polly Hoover
11 Children
1. son born 1811
2. Sonora 1811-1901
3. Thomas 1811-1812
4, Benjamin 1812
5. Rhoda Gibbons 1813-1835
6. Araminta Gibbons 1815-1836
7. Thomas Butler 1817-1876
8. Benjamin S. 1819-1910
9. Andrew Smith 1825-1986
10. Richard Conine 1825-1897
7. Thomas died as infant
Mary died from childbirth complications with the twins, Richard and Andrew. William feeling unprepared to care for the twins placed them with local families.
Second marriage 1827 Jul 29
Anna Roney Born 1791 Nov 1 Newark, OH-1861 IN
Burial Huff Cemetery
Children
1. John 1828 OH
2. Jane 1835-1911 IN
3. William Jasper 1838-1864 IN

William had Anna sign a deed in Nov. 1827 at Granville regarding the sale of his farm. He then told her he was going to go visit his sister in Knox Co. Ohio and suggested she take his four children and stay with her brother in Newark, Ohio, and wait for his return. After Anna left, Wm. sold the contents of their home and took off for parts unknown. Anna then gave birth to John at her brother's home. On 22 Sep 1829 Anna filed a complaint against Wm in Newark complaining that he left her destitute and asking for a share of monies due her from the sale of the farm and the contents of the house.

William and Anna must have reconciled at some point as they deeded property in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1835; Wm. purchased 160 acres in St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1836; and received a land patent from the government for 160 acres in 1838. The 1840 census shows him with a wife, one child under five and two children -- one boy and one girl -- between 5 and 10]. Their first child, John, is listed as an 'idiot' in the census and it should be noted that William left property to be used for his care and support.

William served in the War of 1812. Rank: Private, in Capt. Levi Rose's 3rd regt, Ohio militia, commanded by Col. Lewis Cass. He volunteered with nephews Campbell and David Messenger Jr. Company commissioned June 1, 1812, Mad River. He was taken prisoner, possibly after the Fall of Detroit, as he is listed on U.S. Marshal's returns of enemy aliens and prisoners of war, 1812-1815, part one. In this record he reports that he was married and had 3 children.

William Davidson Gibbons died 9 Nov 1854, in Union Township, St. Joseph, Indiana. Anna died about 7 years later and is buried in the same cemetery.
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Birth date Source: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, Granville, Town Minutes and Earmarks with Births, Marriages and Death, page 103

Polydactyly source: The History of Granville, Ohio. pg 139

"A Turning of Hearts" William Davidson Gibbons Family History published 1981 by Remember When, Orem, Utah.

SOURCES
BIRTH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Gender: Male
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1756
Birth Place: Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
Father: Peter Gibbons
Mother: Sarah Gibbons

Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1756
Birth Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Father Name: Peter Gibbons
Mother Name: Sarah Gibbons

Lemuel was a weaver and no evidence has presented that he owned any land. Public records mentioned him on September 1790 court record which stated that “12 jurors presented that Sanford Thompson at Blanford on the 23rd day of October last past with Force and Arms did make an assault on the body of Lemuel Gibbons of Granville, yeoman, and him did beat and wound and ill treat, contrary to law

DEATH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Death Date: 1797
Burial Place: Granville
Source: Granville

Lemuel Gibbons in the Millennium File
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1756
Death Date: 1797
Father: Peter Gibbons
Children: William Davidson Gibbons

DEATH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Event Type: Death
Birth Date: abt 1756
Death Date: 1797
Death Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Death Age: 41

SOURCES FOR MARY GOSS DAVIDSON GIBBONS
BIRTH
Mary Goos in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town Birth Records, 1620-1850
Name: Mary Goos
[Mary Goss]
Birth Date: 6 May 1757
Birth Place: Granville
Father's First Name: Philep
Mother's First Name: Sarah
Gender: Female
Source: Vital Records of Granville

Mary Goss in the American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Name: Mary Goss
Birth Date: 1757
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Volume: 65
Page Number: 288
Reference: Genealogical recd. Capt. Sam. Reed and Mary Winship Reed. By Worrall Dumont Prescott. (N.p.) 1953. (154p.):141

SOURCES FOR CHILDREN OF MARY GIBBONS & LEMUEL

Mary Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Name: Mary Gibbons
Gender: Female
Spouse: Lemuel Gibbons
Child: William Dawisson Gibbons

Amelia Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Amelia Gibbons
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 5 Jun 1781
Birth Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Father Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Mother Name: Mary GibbonsLemuel Gibbons is listed as dying at the age of 41 years abt. 1797 in Goshen, Berks, CT, on the LDS records. There is no such place. There is a Goshen, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and there is a West Goshen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and there is a Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. More research will find his place of death and burial place. Lemuel was the third child born to Peter Gibbons III* and Sarah Greene who married in Hardwick, MA in 1751. He was baptized on October 22, 1758.

His siblings: Elizabeth, Peter, Bildad, Mary (1760-1761), Sarah (1760-1761), Timothy, Sarah, Eli, Jedediah Howe, Mary, and Hannah (1775-1776)

Military service:
• Enlisted May 4, 1775, Private, Capt. Lebbeus Ball co., Col. Timothy Danielson regt; served 3 mos, 5 days
• Enlisted August 17, 1777, Capt. William Cooley co., Col. John Mosley regt; marched toward Bennington on alarm to assist Vermont militia to defect British Gen. Burgoyne's troops; discharged August 19
• Enlisted either August 24 or September 10, 1777, Capt. John Morgan co., Col. Ruggles Woodbridge regt.; discharged November 29, 1777
• Enlisted October 12, 1778, Capt. Phones Stebbins co., Col. Nathan Sparkhawk regt., detached to reinforce Gen. Sullivan's troops, then ordered to Boston; discharged December 12, 1778
• Enlisted August 21, 1781, Capt. Samuel Thrall co., Col. Marenus Willet regt., Mohawk river expedition; discharged November 9, 1781

Though no marriage record has yet been found, but based upon his first child's birthdate, Lemuel married Mary (Goss) Davidson, a widow, in about 1780. They had two children: Pamelia (b. 1781) and William Davidson (b. 1783). Though no divorce record has yet been found, Mary left the area in about 1790.

According to Goshen, CT vital records, Lemuel had at least one child with a woman named Vadeia: Larkin Green (b. 1795). There may have been another son, Lemuel (b. 1797) born just before he died.

There is no evidence that Lemuel ever owned land. The only public record is a court record that 12 jurors found that he was assaulted on October 23, 1789 in Blanford, MA.

Note: Lemuel is listed as dying at the age of 41 years abt. 1797 in Goshen, Berks, CT, on the LDS records. There is no such place. There is a Goshen, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and there is a West Goshen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and there is a Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. More research will find his place of death and burial place. The clue may be in a manuscript of Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley that recorded area deaths and funerals.

*Added "III" to Peter Gibbons name because of multiple men named Peter in the family.

Sources: Massachusetts Town Birth Records; Town Vital Collections 1620-1988; Town Death Records 1620-1850; Goshen Vital Records, Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 Barbour Collection; Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War; "A Turning of Hearts," William Davidson Gibbons Family History.
Lemuel Gibbons
Born 1756 Oct 1 Granville, MA
Bapt Hardwick, MA Oct 22 1758
Died 1797, age 41 Granville, MA
Burial Main Road Cemetery, Granville, MA

Father Peter Gibbons
Mother Sarah Green

Married about 1780 Granville, MA
Mary Goss Davidson
Born 1757 May 6 Granville, MA
Died
Father Phillip Goss
Mother Sarah
Siblings
Sarah Goss
Note #1 Her sister, Sarah Goss SEWARD resided in Granville, MA

Mary first married, William Davidson
Born
Died 1778 in Wyoming Valley, killed by the Indians.
Daughter
Mary Davidson
Born 1775 Aug 20 PA
Died

After William Davidson death, she returned to Granville, MA with her daughter, Mary Davidson, where her sister, Sarah Goss Seward lived. She met & married Lemuel Gibbons, son of Peter Gibbons and Sarah Greene about 1780 in Granville, MA

Information about her sister, Sarah Goss Seward:
Born 1745 Jul 4 Brookfield, MA
Died 1821 Apr 18, Huntington Mills, PA
Burial Goss Cemetery Harveyville, PA FAG 113925978
Married 1765 Oct 31 Granville, MA
Deacon Enos Seward
Born 1735 Jul 13 Dunham, MA
Died 1820 Aug 23 Huntington Mills, PA
Burial Goss Cemetery, Harbeyville, PA
Son of Ebenezer Seward and Dorothy

Enos' Revolutionary war service:
• Private; Capt. Wm Cooley's co., Col. John Mosley's regt., marched under Lt. Col. Timothy Robinson to reinforce Northern army, Oct. 21-30, 1776
• Sergeant; Capt. Aaron Coe's co., Lt. Col. Timothy Robinson's detachment at Ticonderoga, Dec. 25, 1776 to March 25, 1777
• Private, Capt. Wm Cooley's co., Col. John Moseley's regt., Aug. 17, 1777 till Aug. 19 or 21; company march towards Bennington on alarm
• Capt. Solomon Brown's co., Col. Elisha Porter's regt. July 31 to Sep. 1, 1779 at New London, CT

Of Note Lemuel was in William Cooley's Unit

At one point, and at the request of his sister-in-law Mary (Goss) Davidson, Enos assumed guardianship of his niece [Mary Davidson] after her father was killed in the Wyoming Valley in 1778.

Sarah Goss(e)
Father Philip Goss IV
Mother Mary Kendall

Lemuel was born 1756 Oct 1 in Granville, MA
He was almost 19 when he enlisted on May 4, 1775 as a Private in Capt. Lebbeus Ball's Comany and served in the Revolutionary War.

His brother, Peter Gibbons, also enlisted.

Lemuel enlisted four times, serving under different commanding officers. In October 1781, British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, and Lemuel, still a Private, this time in Captain Samuel Thrall’s Company, marched “on Mohawk River,” until discharged November 9, 1781. Mass. Soldiers & Sailors, Vol. 6 p377

According to Granville MA vital records Lemuel, was born 1756 Oct 1 in Granviille, MA son of Peter Gibbons and Sarah Green Lemuel died in 1797.

VITAL RECORD OF BIRTH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Gender: Male
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1756
Birth Place: Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
Father: Peter Gibbons
Mother: Sarah Gibbons

VITAL RECORDS OF DEATH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town Death Records, 1620-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Death Date: 1797
Burial Place: Granville
Source: Granville
New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, U.S., Town Death Records, 1620-1850

and was the father of children with Mary:

1. Philomelia "Amelia Gibbons Messinger Norton
Born 1781 Jun 5 Granville, MA
Died 1852 Apr 25 Bloomfield, OH
Burial Headstone Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, OH Sec E row 3
FAG 62596992 in Messinger Plot.
Married abt 1800
Grove Messenger
Father Capt David Messenger
Mother Hannah Higley
Children Adah, Eliza, Frederick, William
Married 1825
Issac Norton

2. Larkin Green Gibbons-Twin
Born 1783 Aug Granville, MA
Died

3. William Davidson Gibbons Twin 1783 Aug 27 Granville, MA-1854 Nov 9 St. Joseph's, IN Burial Huff Cemetery Bremen, IN FAG 45465909

4. Infant
Died 1791 Granville, MA
Burial Main Road Cemetery, Granvile, MA FAG

5. Gibbons
Born 1796
Died 1797 Granville, MA

I do not see records to substantiate Lemuel marrying Valdia in Goshen, CT. I believe that after Lemuel died in 1797, Mary a widow again, joined her sister in PA, where as a widow she married a third time in Mar 1800 Valentine Santee. After Valentine's death on Jan 7 1812 in Hecktown, PA , Mary joined her children in Granville, OH area about 1819, her children resided in Ohio about 1905 . IT is ASSUMED she is buried in Old Burying Ground in Granville, OH Valentine in buried in Dryland Union Cemetery in Hecktown, PA in Center section B-33

"Mary Goss was married three times;
#1 William Davidson: married abt1775 Wilkes Barre, PA
#2 Lemuel Gibbons: married abt 1780 Granville, MA
#3 Valentine Santee: married by March 1800 in Huntington, PA

Mary was the eighth of twelve children, and third daughter, born to Philip Goss IV and Mary Kendall. Her siblings: Sarah, Philip V, Experience, Comfort, Nathaniel, David, Solomon, Hannah, Ebenezer, Mercy, Abel and Levi.

Interestingly, Mary was born with a genetic condition known as polydactyly which means that she had an extra finger on each hand and an extra toe on each foot. Her son, William had the same condition which can be found in Mary's Kendall [maternal] ancestors and in Goss and Gibbons descendants to this day.

Mary's father moved the family to Wilkes Barre, PA by August, 1769. There she met and married William Davidson with whom she had a daughter, Mary, on August 20, 1775. William was killed [along with Mary's father, Philip Goss] by Indians on November 9, 1778. At this time Mary fled to safety in Granville, MA, to the home of her sister, Sarah Seward, wife of Enos. Mary appointed Enos guardian to her young daughter. She was now a widow with a toddler at age 21.

While living in Granville, Mary met and married Lemuel Gibbons with whom she had two children: Pamelia on June 5, 1781, and William Davidson Gibbons on August 27, 1783, whom she named after her first husband. no divorce record has been found, but when Enos and Sarah Seward [and family] returned to Pennsylvania in 1793, Mary probably went with them. There she met and married Valentine Santee. He died on January 7, 1812 in Hecktown, Pennsylvania.

Mary's children by Lemuel both moved to Granville, Ohio ,in about 1804/05. After Valentine's death in 1812, Mary followed, as she was received by letter to the Baptist Church on August 1, 1819

IT has been represented that Mary was a pauper at her death, no stone has been recorded or found for her. Town records show members of the Baptist church( Granville, Oh) cared for her during the last year of her life and that a local carpenter was paid to build a coffin for her. It is assumed that she was buried in the Old Burying Ground upon her death. (by Gayle Van Dyke)

About 1800, Mary Goss Davidson Gibbons returned to Luzerne County,
Lemuel then married Vadeia in Goshen, CT B 1773 Goshen, CT
They resided in Goshen, CT

Children with Mary Goss

1. Larkin Green Gibbons
Born 1783 Jan 3 Granville, MA
Possible information
Note there is a transcription of Vital Records for Goshen, CT done by Coralynn Brown stating that a Larkin Green, son of Lemuel & Vadeia, b 1795 Jan 3 Goshen. NOTE THE BIRTH date is 1795, vital records of Granville have Larkin Green's birth as 1873 Jan 3.

There is a death as infant of Lemuel in Granville, MA in 1797 with a birth of 1796.

SOURCES children for Lemuel
Larkin Green Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town Birth Records, 1620-1850
Name: Larkin Green Gibbons
Birth Place: Granville
Father's First Name: Lemuel
Mother's First Name: Sarah
Source: Vital Records of Granville
This is a transposition error for Sarah, record reads Sarah as grandmother.

Larkin Green Gibbons in the Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: Larkin Green Gibbons
Gender: Male (Man)
Birth Date: 3 Jan 1795
Birth Place: Goshen
Parent: Lamuel
Parent: Vadeia

Larkin Green Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Larkin Green Gibbons
Event Type: Birth
Birth Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Father Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Mother Name: Mary Gibbons

Children with Mary Goss
1. Philomela "Amelia" Gibbons
Born 1781 Jun 5 Granville, MA
Died; 1852 Apr 25 Bloomfield, OH
Burial Headstone in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield, OH Sec E, Row 3 FAG 62596992
Married 1802
Grove Messenger
Born 1782
Died 1814
They moved to LIcking County, OH as members of a land resettlement group called the Licking Land Company and were pioneers in Granville, OH
Children
1. Adah Messenger West 1803 Granville, MA died 1888
2. Eliza 1805-1807 Granville, MA
3. Frederick Dent 1806 Grnville, OH Died 1871
4. William Henderson B 1808 OH 1889
1805 they moved to Granville, OH
Grove enlisted in war 1812, was taken prisoner and died 1814 Jan 29 in Montreal Hospital
Pamelia married 1825 Isaac Norton
She is buried in Messenger plot with her son in Bloomfield Cemetery Morrow, OH

2. William Davidson Gibbons
Born 1783 Aug 26 Granville, MA
Died 1854 Nov 9 St. Joseph's IN
Burial Headstone Huff Cemetery, Bremen, IN Row 12, Grave 2 FAG 45465909
First marriage 1794
Mary Polly Hoover
11 Children
1. son born 1811
2. Sonora 1811-1901
3. Thomas 1811-1812
4, Benjamin 1812
5. Rhoda Gibbons 1813-1835
6. Araminta Gibbons 1815-1836
7. Thomas Butler 1817-1876
8. Benjamin S. 1819-1910
9. Andrew Smith 1825-1986
10. Richard Conine 1825-1897
7. Thomas died as infant
Mary died from childbirth complications with the twins, Richard and Andrew. William feeling unprepared to care for the twins placed them with local families.
Second marriage 1827 Jul 29
Anna Roney Born 1791 Nov 1 Newark, OH-1861 IN
Burial Huff Cemetery
Children
1. John 1828 OH
2. Jane 1835-1911 IN
3. William Jasper 1838-1864 IN

William had Anna sign a deed in Nov. 1827 at Granville regarding the sale of his farm. He then told her he was going to go visit his sister in Knox Co. Ohio and suggested she take his four children and stay with her brother in Newark, Ohio, and wait for his return. After Anna left, Wm. sold the contents of their home and took off for parts unknown. Anna then gave birth to John at her brother's home. On 22 Sep 1829 Anna filed a complaint against Wm in Newark complaining that he left her destitute and asking for a share of monies due her from the sale of the farm and the contents of the house.

William and Anna must have reconciled at some point as they deeded property in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1835; Wm. purchased 160 acres in St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1836; and received a land patent from the government for 160 acres in 1838. The 1840 census shows him with a wife, one child under five and two children -- one boy and one girl -- between 5 and 10]. Their first child, John, is listed as an 'idiot' in the census and it should be noted that William left property to be used for his care and support.

William served in the War of 1812. Rank: Private, in Capt. Levi Rose's 3rd regt, Ohio militia, commanded by Col. Lewis Cass. He volunteered with nephews Campbell and David Messenger Jr. Company commissioned June 1, 1812, Mad River. He was taken prisoner, possibly after the Fall of Detroit, as he is listed on U.S. Marshal's returns of enemy aliens and prisoners of war, 1812-1815, part one. In this record he reports that he was married and had 3 children.

William Davidson Gibbons died 9 Nov 1854, in Union Township, St. Joseph, Indiana. Anna died about 7 years later and is buried in the same cemetery.
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Birth date Source: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, Granville, Town Minutes and Earmarks with Births, Marriages and Death, page 103

Polydactyly source: The History of Granville, Ohio. pg 139

"A Turning of Hearts" William Davidson Gibbons Family History published 1981 by Remember When, Orem, Utah.

SOURCES
BIRTH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Gender: Male
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1756
Birth Place: Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
Father: Peter Gibbons
Mother: Sarah Gibbons

Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1756
Birth Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Father Name: Peter Gibbons
Mother Name: Sarah Gibbons

Lemuel was a weaver and no evidence has presented that he owned any land. Public records mentioned him on September 1790 court record which stated that “12 jurors presented that Sanford Thompson at Blanford on the 23rd day of October last past with Force and Arms did make an assault on the body of Lemuel Gibbons of Granville, yeoman, and him did beat and wound and ill treat, contrary to law

DEATH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Death Date: 1797
Burial Place: Granville
Source: Granville

Lemuel Gibbons in the Millennium File
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1756
Death Date: 1797
Father: Peter Gibbons
Children: William Davidson Gibbons

DEATH
Lemuel Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Event Type: Death
Birth Date: abt 1756
Death Date: 1797
Death Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Death Age: 41

SOURCES FOR MARY GOSS DAVIDSON GIBBONS
BIRTH
Mary Goos in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town Birth Records, 1620-1850
Name: Mary Goos
[Mary Goss]
Birth Date: 6 May 1757
Birth Place: Granville
Father's First Name: Philep
Mother's First Name: Sarah
Gender: Female
Source: Vital Records of Granville

Mary Goss in the American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Name: Mary Goss
Birth Date: 1757
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Volume: 65
Page Number: 288
Reference: Genealogical recd. Capt. Sam. Reed and Mary Winship Reed. By Worrall Dumont Prescott. (N.p.) 1953. (154p.):141

SOURCES FOR CHILDREN OF MARY GIBBONS & LEMUEL

Mary Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Name: Mary Gibbons
Gender: Female
Spouse: Lemuel Gibbons
Child: William Dawisson Gibbons

Amelia Gibbons in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Amelia Gibbons
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 5 Jun 1781
Birth Place: Granville, Massachusetts
Father Name: Lemuel Gibbons
Mother Name: Mary GibbonsLemuel Gibbons is listed as dying at the age of 41 years abt. 1797 in Goshen, Berks, CT, on the LDS records. There is no such place. There is a Goshen, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and there is a West Goshen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and there is a Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. More research will find his place of death and burial place. Lemuel was the third child born to Peter Gibbons III* and Sarah Greene who married in Hardwick, MA in 1751. He was baptized on October 22, 1758.

His siblings: Elizabeth, Peter, Bildad, Mary (1760-1761), Sarah (1760-1761), Timothy, Sarah, Eli, Jedediah Howe, Mary, and Hannah (1775-1776)

Military service:
• Enlisted May 4, 1775, Private, Capt. Lebbeus Ball co., Col. Timothy Danielson regt; served 3 mos, 5 days
• Enlisted August 17, 1777, Capt. William Cooley co., Col. John Mosley regt; marched toward Bennington on alarm to assist Vermont militia to defect British Gen. Burgoyne's troops; discharged August 19
• Enlisted either August 24 or September 10, 1777, Capt. John Morgan co., Col. Ruggles Woodbridge regt.; discharged November 29, 1777
• Enlisted October 12, 1778, Capt. Phones Stebbins co., Col. Nathan Sparkhawk regt., detached to reinforce Gen. Sullivan's troops, then ordered to Boston; discharged December 12, 1778
• Enlisted August 21, 1781, Capt. Samuel Thrall co., Col. Marenus Willet regt., Mohawk river expedition; discharged November 9, 1781

Though no marriage record has yet been found, but based upon his first child's birthdate, Lemuel married Mary (Goss) Davidson, a widow, in about 1780. They had two children: Pamelia (b. 1781) and William Davidson (b. 1783). Though no divorce record has yet been found, Mary left the area in about 1790.

According to Goshen, CT vital records, Lemuel had at least one child with a woman named Vadeia: Larkin Green (b. 1795). There may have been another son, Lemuel (b. 1797) born just before he died.

There is no evidence that Lemuel ever owned land. The only public record is a court record that 12 jurors found that he was assaulted on October 23, 1789 in Blanford, MA.

Note: Lemuel is listed as dying at the age of 41 years abt. 1797 in Goshen, Berks, CT, on the LDS records. There is no such place. There is a Goshen, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and there is a West Goshen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and there is a Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. More research will find his place of death and burial place. The clue may be in a manuscript of Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley that recorded area deaths and funerals.

*Added "III" to Peter Gibbons name because of multiple men named Peter in the family.

Sources: Massachusetts Town Birth Records; Town Vital Collections 1620-1988; Town Death Records 1620-1850; Goshen Vital Records, Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 Barbour Collection; Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War; "A Turning of Hearts," William Davidson Gibbons Family History.


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