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Anyone know where Gilbert Gibsons Mill was located in Louisa County. I have seen reference to Lickinghole Creek, Gibby’s Creek, 3 Notch Road, Green Springs, Lake Isaac, Forest Hill, Shenandoa Crossing, and many more, but I would think with that much info it could be almost pinpointed.
I know Lake Isaac is a dammed up Lickinghole Creek.
There is another Lickinghole Creek farther west along 3 Notch Road. An old road order mentions Gilbert Gibson in relation to clearing the road.
Most of what I have read, I think refers to the creek in present day Louisa County, but not sure.
Does anyone have any insight.
OK, I spent the day researching Gibsons Mill. I think this document lays it out pretty well.
Louisa County Deedbook:
“Deed Book E: 333-335
9 Nov 1778
Between (1) John BOSWELL and Ann, his wife, of Louisa County and (2) Manoah LASLEY of Louisa County.
Regarding a parcel of 166 acres on the west side of Gilbert GIBSON’s mill creek and the north side of the South Anna River. Sold to Manoah Lasley for 200 Virginia pounds. The parcel begins at two pines and a white oak in the BARK line running along the same 55 and 1/2 degrees, east 121 poles to Gilbert Gibson’s mill creek and down the same creek as it meanders, making a straight line 214 poles to said Gilbert’s line at the end of his mill dam; then along the same line north 43 degrees, west 123 poles to three white oaks in Likinhole Creek; then a new line north 33 and 1/2 degrees, east 188 poles to the beginning. All woods, underwoods, waters, watercourses, houses, pastures, fences, orchards, tithes, profits, commodities, advantages, etc. are also transferred.”
This would put the mill dam approximately at this coordinance
Latittude 38.064423, Longitude -78.140738 or maybe a little up creek.
This is where Mill Creek emptys into the South Anna River. Mill Creek is the next creek downriver (South Anna) from Lickinghole Creek.
LAND GRANTS OF GILBERT GIBSON
224 acres July 11, 1719.
Listed in Cavaliers and PioneersAbstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Author: Nell Marion Nugent
p. 214
GILBERT GIBSON, 224 acs. (N.L.) New Kent Co; adj. Stephen Sunter; Capt. Dangerfield; & Paul Bunch; 11 July 1719, p. 437. Imp. of 5 pers: Gabriel Hulkes, Thomas Norman, Thomas Norman, Thomas Shoden, Edward Meloney, Sarah Whitworth
p. 214,
Listed in Cavaliers and PioneersAbstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Author: Nell Marion Nugent
SAME, 125 acs. (N.L.; same Co., date & page. Adj. John macon; Matthew & Tho. Anderson; Capt. Dangerfield & land of John Chiles. Imp. of 3 pers: Robert Clarkson, John Bright & Elizabeth Collings.
400 acres September 28, 1728 on both sides of the South Anna River.
CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS – PATENT BOOK NO. 14, p. 379
by William Gooch, Esqr., Lieut. Governor
GILBERT GIBSON, 400 ACS. (N.L.), Hanover Co., 28 Sept. 1728, p.3. Adj. Capt. Clark, on N. side of the Southanna River. 40 Shill.
400 acres on January 28, 1733, adjoining 400 acres on the banks of Little Creek.
Court petitions were made with regard to a right-of-way to Gilbert Gibson’s Mill. On August 26, 1746,, Charles Mooreman (Moorman) and John smithson were appointed to view “the way through Captain Holland and Thomas Moreman’s land to the mill” with regard to a right-of-way. Subsequently, the court ruled that if a right-of-way was granted, it would not be prejudicial to anyone; therefore, a thoroughfare was determined and the land was cleared accordingly.
September 22, 1716, O.S., p. 37 [new pagination p. 59; Chamberlayne p. 75]
In Obedience to an Order of new Kent County Court, dated ye 8,th day of march 1715, its
Ordered that Jeremiah Parker, have Frances Clark: Jno English, Jno Venable, Jno, Corley, Sam,l
Sperring, W,m Webb, Paul Bunch.s Quart,r Tho,s Wetherford, Gilbert Gibson, W,m Thacker,
Stephen Raglin, & John Hart, with all their Male Tithables to assist him in Clearing a road from
Stony run downward to half sink road
In 1727 Gibby Gibson, made deed of gift to his daughter Mary Smith, two Negro boys; names her children; Tom, Lightfoot, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Ann. [A Lightfoot Smith is witness to will of Gilbert– his nephew?]
In the 1727 will Gibby/Gibson Gibson gave to Hannah Dennam, my negro boy Jack, for life, and then to my son Gibby Gibson. And to Hannah Dennam, my negro boy Peter for life and then to my daughter Fran Smith.
Paul Heinegg: FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS
OF VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE
Gibson Family
Gibson or Gibby Gibson, son of Elizabeth Chavis, was a Charles City County planter who left a 1727 will by which he gave land and slaves to his children. Another member of the family, Gideon Gibson, owned a thousand acres of land in Northampton County, North Carolina, near the Bass, Bunch and Chavis families. Gideon married a white woman and moved to South Carolina by 1731 when a member of the Commons House of Assembly announced that “free coloured men and their white wives had immigrated from Virginia with the intent of settling on the Santee River.” Most members of this branch of the family were considered white by the end of the colonial period.
Another branch of the family descended from Gilbert Gibson who appeared first in a Henrico County court suit of 1709. He patented land in what was then New Kent County but later became Hanover and Louisa counties. He planned on making a trip to visit his relatives in South Carolina in 1758, but the sheriff stopped him on the road because he had not paid a debt of 10 pounds to another resident of Louisa County. Nothing is known of his first wife, but his second was white. He lived in an area of Louisa County called Gibson’s Mill which included several other mixed-race families such as Branham, Bunch, Collins, Donathan, Gowen/ Going and Hall. He owned over a thousand acres of land and at least one slave when he made his 1760 Louisa County will. Most of the Gibson family in Louisa County were considered white by the end of the colonial period. In 1775 a Colonel Anderson of Louisa County charged that Gideon4 Gibson, “being a Mulatto,” had beaten him, but the court ruled that Gideon was not a “Mulatto.”
THE ROUTE OF THE THREE NOTCH’D ROAD: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
by
Nathaniel Mason Pawlett
Faculty Research Historian
and
Howard H. Newlon, Jr.
Assistant Head
21 May 1734 O.S., p. 254, Goochland County Order Book 3
Surveyor of the road.
Peter Jefferson is appointed Surveyor of the Road from the Mountains to Licking hole Creek in the
room of Henry Runnalls./.
16 March 1741 O.S., p. 26, Goochland County Order Book 5
Road to be Cleared.
Ordered that a Road be Cleared the most Conveinent and best away from Lickinghold Chapple into
the Mountain road between Number thirty and thirty two.
20 Dec. 1743 O.S., p. 328, Goochland County Order Book 5
Road to be Clear’d.
Ordered that a Road be Cleard from Lickinghole Chapple into the Mountain Road and that Thomas
Sanders be Surveyor thereof.
George Gibson, son of Gilbert Gibson,
Served with sons in Revolutionary War with 8th Division of Louisa Co.Militia-Capt. Wm. Harris
1785 Post Revolutionary Pleasant Grove region Saponi Indians Jeramiah Bunch, George Gibson, and Henry Bunch receive land Grants in 1785 along the Eno River just east of Hillsboro, North Carolina.
Cty. Lou, Book: 4, Page: 100, George Gibson, Type: Will, Date: 10-Feb-1800
Will George Gibson, debts to be paid by sons William, Gilbert and Lightfoot and daughter Catharine each paying equally. To sons and daughters Patty, Sally, Betsy, John, Nathan and Ambrose 1s sterling each. Son William 1/4 tract I now live and furniture, son Lightfoot 1/4 part same tract; Son Gilbert 1/2 part same tract; daughter Catharine 1/4 part same tract to include present dwelling home. Neighbor Charles Quarles and sons William and Gilbert to be exors. 8 Feb 1798. Sig. George Gibson. Rec. 10 Feb 1800.
William Gibson, son of George Gibson,
Served in Revolutionary War with 10th Divsion of Louisa Co. Militia-Capt. Wm. Harris
Will of William Gibson:
In the name of God Amen.
I William Gibson of Louisa County do make this my last will and Testament in manner and form following to wit: It is my will and desire that all my children hereafter named that is to say, Salley Napper, Loucy Napper, Nathan Napper, Lightfoot Napper, George Napper, Richard Napper, Stepen Napper, William Napper and Burrell Napper together with their mother Mary Adams Napper do each of them as above named receive one full and equal portion of my Est. both real and personal to them and each of their heirs and assigns forever and that the whole of my estate of whatsoever kind be kept together until my youngest son Burrell Napper arrives at an age to justify his chosing a Guardian which and not until then the division of my estate to take place. In Confirmation of which I again declare this to be my last will and Testament in witness whereof I have requested my name to be subscribed to the same. I do further Constitute and appoint my son Nathan Napper my executor to this my will in full revocation of all other wills heretofore made. As witness my hand and seal this the 18th of January 1823.
William(his mark) Gibson
Attested at the particular request of said
Gibson ~ Thomas Wash. Dickesson
Wash.William Wash
At a Court held for Louisa County of the 10th day of November 1823.
The last will and Testament of William Gibson and was this day presented in open Court and proved by the oaths of Thomas Wash Dickenson Wash and Wm. Wash the witnesses thereto and by the Court ordered to be accorded. And on the Motion of Nathan Napper Gibson the executor therein named who made oath as the Law directs and together with approved security entered into and acknowledged bond in the penalty of $5000 conditioned accordingly to law. Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form.
Teste
Louisa CO. VA. marriages:
Book 1, p. 506 10 Jan. 1859 William Gibson, widower, age 57, to Mary Knapper age 28, son of William and Mary Gibson, daughter of John and Dicey Knapper.
1850 Census Vinton County Ohio, Wilkesville Township District 148 Reel # M432-736 Page # 295a
Reference; Enumerated by David Jones on September 13th, 1850 HW-Page # 589
LN HN FN Last Name First Name Age Sex Race Occup. Val. Birthplace R/W
19 119 1023 Lamy David 79 M M Farmer Va. X
20 119 1023 Knapper Sarah 73 F M Va. X
Can someone versed in colonial dialect help me understand what “Tithables” means in the context below.
NEW KENT COUNTY AND HANOVER COUNTY ROAD ORDERS 1706-1743
Transcribed from the Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish
by
Ann Brush Miller
Senior Research Scientist
September 22, 1716, O.S., p. 37 [new pagination p. 59; Chamberlayne p. 75]
In Obedience to an Order of new Kent County Court, dated ye 8,th day of march 1715, its
Ordered that Jeremiah Parker, have Frances Clark: Jno English, Jno Venable, Jno, Corley, Sam,l
Sperring, W,m Webb, Paul Bunch’s Quart,r Tho,s Wetherford, Gilbert Gibson, W,m Thacker,
Stephen Raglin, & John Hart, with all their Male Tithables to assist him in Clearing a road from
Stony run downward to half sink road
I think this website may answer your question. Good luck.
http://www.genfiles.com/legal/Tithables.htm
Thanks Mousini……It seems to say that after 1705, everyone accountable to the head of the household, over the age of 16 by June 9, were “tithables” and subject to taxes. Before 1705 it would have been rather confusing to know how to make your list of tithables and turn it in to the authorities. In either case, it is easy to imagine how a tithable list may not be all inclusive.
Tahwey,
Is this your Gibson line? I suspect it is mine…though, I still haven’t found my Martin’s parents. I like how Heinigg says they were considered white by the end of the colonial period…mine were considered FPC into the mid-1800’s, when they returned to Virginia:) My Martin was born in Orange County…Hillsboro area…
Shirley
I know what you mean Shirley. Even after some of them went to Ohio in the mid 1830’s they changed their color between white, mulato, black depending on the census taker. Makes me think the census takers just hollered in the house and asked how many was in there and what color they were. They answered according to what worked best for them 🙂
Several of my lines seem to go back to Gilbert Gibson in Louisa County. My closest Gibson is William, Grandson of Gilbert. I have seen Martin’s name occasionally during my research, but have not collected anything on him. I will keep my eyes open…….Tahwey
Tahwey;35003 wrote: I know what you mean Shirley. Even after some of them went to Ohio in the mid 1830’s they changed their color between white, mulato, black depending on the census taker. Makes me think the census takers just hollered in the house and asked how many was in there and what color they were. They answered according to what worked best for them 🙂
Several of my lines seem to go back to Gilbert Gibson in Louisa County. My closest Gibson is William, Grandson of Gilbert. I have seen Martin’s name occasionally during my research, but have not collected anything on him. I will keep my eyes open…….Tahwey
LOL…I like your analogy on the census takers:)…this is very plausable…we are very likely cousins…:) Blessings,
Shirley
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