Robert Gibson, of Lancaster County

• Not the son of William Gibson, II, Quaker
• Not the son of John Gibson & Hannah Underwood
• Brother of George Gibson (Abt 1704 - 1761); William Gibson (bef 1717 - 1771)

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Robert Gibson

• Born about 1700 in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland
• Died 13 Mar 1754 at about age 54 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Son of Unknown Gibson and [mother unknown]
• Brother of George Gibson and William Gibson
• Husband of Mary (McClellan) Gibson — married [date unknown] in Ireland

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Do not confuse Robert Gibson with David Gibson.

They are too different people See LXGM-RNX for David Gibson and his family. Early genealogies confused David and Robert Gibson and their families, but current research (online wills and probate records and other sources) have proven they are two different men.

There was also some confusion in early genealogies about the sons of Robert Gibson, Andrew and Robert. Authors thought there was an extra generation of these sons, but that has been cleared up though evaluation of current sources.

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Gibson_%2838%29

Robert Gibson was born abt 1700 in Stewartstown, Ulster, Ireland, and died 1754 in Derry Twp., Lancaster Co., PA. He married Mary McClellan 1721 in Ireland.

-their children are:

1. Robert*, (abt 1722-1756), m. Elizabeth Draper.
2. Andrew*, (abt 1724-1783), m. Elizabeth Carnes.
3. John, (abt 1726-1761).
4. Israel, (abt 1728-?).
5. Hugh*, (abt 1730-1836(???)), m. Mary White.
6. Mary, (abt 1732-?).

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gibson-13827

According to "Gibson Genealogy ca 1730-1910, Sarah D. Gibson, 1910 pg 12, "Robert and George Gibson, brothers, came from Stewartstown, in the province of Ulster, in the North of Ireland about 1730." (Please look at information on his brothers, George Gibson and William Gibson.)

Robert Gibson married Mary McClellan in Northern Ireland in 1721. They had six children: Robert b 1722, Andrew b 1724, John b 1726 d April 1761, Israel b 1728, Mary b 1732, and Hugh b 1730. - Sarah D. Gibson

Some people may have confused with another Robert Gibson. The other Robert Gibson (1734-1777) lived in Bucks Co., PA, and according to Donna Hay, (Hay Genealogy) Robert is a descendant of "immigrant Sir John Gibson (1601-1694) of Massachusetts and his grandson, John Gibson III (1676-1751), a Quaker in Philadelphia." But in the book, "John Gibson of Cambridge Mass., and his descendants", Metitable Wilson, 1900, a John Gibson III, who married Anne St. Clair, cannot be found.

Sarah D. Gibson (1844-1932) is a descendant of Robert Gibson. She was regent of her DAR chapter in Illinois in 1920.

The following is quoted from "Notes and Queries: Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania", Vol. I, pg 143-144, written by William Henry Egle in 1887. ...

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Robert Gibson, or as some sources claim, David Gibson, was born 8 February 1699 at Six Miles Creek, Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ulster Province, Ireland.He married Mary McClelland about 1720 in Ireland. Mary was born about 1700 in County Donegal, Ulster Province, Ireland.

Ulster, one of the four traditional "kingdoms" of Ireland, was only 20 miles across the channel from Scotland. Under an agreement with King James ofEngland, the lands "should be planted with British Protestants and that no grant of fee farm should be made to any person of mere Irish extraction." So back inScotland, with an ever increasing hardship due to the spread of a form of land tenure, called the feu, which had the effect of dispossessing many farmers of their traditional lands, a large migration of Scots travelled the channel to take advantage of the economic advantages of Ireland. However along with this migration came religious turmoil. Under the Jesuits the Irish people had become fervently Catholic and viewed the Protestants of Ulster as heretics and interlopers.Around the year 1717 the first of five large migrations to the Americas began. The first was touched off by a combination of a five-year drought, rack-renting, which means excessive taxation on our land and homes, a diminished trade in woolen goods, financial depression and religious discrimination and persecution. There were but two real drawbacks to coming to the Americas – the perils of an ocean crossing and the expense of passage.Along the time of the third migration, Robert and Mary came to the Americas in the year of our Lord 1740 along with their five children; Robert,18; Andrew, 16; John, 14; Israel, 12; and Mary, age 8. They settled on a plantation of their purchase in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, two and a half miles below Peach Bottom Ferry, on the Susquehannah River. There, their sixth child, Hugh, was born."Like all Scotch-Irishman the Gibsons did things – great things – and followed the Dutch maxim of "Sage nicht und sie still" – say nothing and be quiet. In this they were unlike their "down east" Puritan neighbors who when they accomplished anything great or small told the world of it as a hen cackles about her newly laid egg, and those Puritans have been cackling ever since they stumbled onto Plymouth Rock. Scotch-Irishmen did great things and did them as part of their allotted work, and had nothing to say about them.Robert died 13 March 1754, at the age of 55, in Derry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

After Robert's death, Mary is often noted as the "Widow Gibson." She and her family move to a place in the vicinity of Robinson's Fort, nearly twenty miles from Carlisle, and at length, in consequence of danger from Indians, moved in 1756 into the Fort. On 1 July 1756, at the age of 56, Mary was killed in a brutal attack by Indians at Shermans Creek, Perry County, Pennsylvania.

References

1. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Gibson_%2838%29 cites
   1. http://webspace.webring.com/people/vg/gibsongt/JohnGibsonScotland.h... Gibson (dead link)