Abraham GIBSON

Abraham married Mary WHEELER on 29 Nov 1724 in Newbury, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Lieut. Deliverance WHEELER and Mary DAVIS) was born on 05 Nov 1707 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 15 Jan 1793 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Lower Village Cemetery, Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A son of John & Rebecca (Harrington) Gibson. He married Rebecca Gates on November 17, 1700 at Concord, MA.

"Timothy Gibson was one of the thirty-one signers of the petition for a church at the west precinct, now the centre of Sudbury, dated January 15, 1706-07. The church at Rocky Point, as Sudbury Centre was then called, was not built until 1723. The original church, where all in the vicinity worshiped from 1639 to 1723, was in East Sudbury, now Wayland, Massachusetts. The first bridge over the Assabet river was built between land of Gibson on one side and Burk on the other, by vote of the town, December 14, 1715. Timothy Gibson also owned land in Cambridge and Lunenburg. The records show that Ephraim Sawtelle sold land to Timothy Gibson about June 25, 1723. Five or six other lots were granted to him. Of his sons, John, Harrington, Isaac and Reuben settled in Lunenburg. They were men of great personal prowess, and they and their descendants were prominent in the town. Timothy Gibson removed to Stow between December 6, 1728, and February 24, 1731-32. He was selectman of Stow, 1734. 1735. 1736 and 1739. He was one of those who dissented from the vote to give Rev. John Gardner sixty pounds May 17, 1736. He was a deacon of the church while Gardner was the pastor. His homestead in Stow lay on the south slope of Pomciticut Hill. He deeded his homestead to his son Stephen ten years before he died, and the place descended in the family in this way until 1823, when it was sold. In 1826 it was bought by the Maynard family, who called it Summer Hill Farm. The northwest part of Sudbury, including Assabet village and the northeast part of Stow, including the hill and the Gibson homestead, were incorporated April 19, 1871, as the town of Maynard."

Source: "Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity." by Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1907, Vol. 4, pp. 133-134

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Timothy married Rebekah GATES on 17 Nov 1700 in Concord, Masachusetts. Rebekah (daughter of Stephen GATES and Sarah WOODWARD) was born on 23 Jul 1682 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1754 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Lower Village Cemetery, Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]