GARNESEY, Elizabeth

Elizabeth and William Garnesey lived at Bampton, Devon, in 1641. They came to York, Maine, in 1652, but William died soon after this. Elizabeth Garnesey went back to Pinhoe, Devon. In 1660 William Rogers was granted administration of her estate in New England.

GIBBONS, Margaret

Margaret Gibbons was the wife of the Boston merchant Edward Gibbons, who made great losses in the fur trade in French Acadia. Edward Gibbons died on 9 December 1654. His widow returned to England and died not long afterwards, at Plymouth in Devon. Administration of her estate in New England was granted to her daughter Jerusha, wife of Thomas Rea, on 28 February 1656/7; Susanna Gibbons and Captain Samuel Scarlet later presented an inventory.

GIBSON, Richard and Mary

Richard Gibson graduated BA at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1636. He emigrated to New England in 1637 or 1638, as minister to a fishing plantation owned by Robert Trelawney of Plymouth, Devon. He wrote to John Winthrop, 14 January 1638/9, describing himself as ‘minister of the Gospell at Richmond Iland and Saco’, asking Winthrop to procure testimonies from the shoemaker George Burden* and his wife Ann*. They had been fellow passengers with Gibson's new wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Lewis of Saco, on the voyage to New England.