A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts : From 1639 to 1800
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of Robert Gibbs, an eminent merchant, of Boston, who was bom in 1639, known in England as Sir Henry Gibbs, came to this country as early as 1660 ; he bmlt an elegant house upon Fort Hill, about 1665, which cost about dE3,000. [Snow's Hist. Boston, page 158.] His wharf was near or the same now called Fort HiU Wharf. Married Elizabeth, dr. of Jacob Sheafe, and had Benry and Bobert. Robert m. Mary Shrimpton, and had Henry, Nov. 7, 1694. GIBBS — GODDAED. 293 GIBBS, HENRT, Jr., m. Hannah , and had, ...in Boston, Gilhert, William, Rebecca, Ann, andTemoved to Newton about 1742, and purchased of Kev. John Prentice, of Lancaster, sixty acres land on the B. side of the Dedham highway, upon which he buUt the large house now owned and occupied by the present Town Clerk, Mar- shall S. Bice, Esq., being part of the same laud purchased by James and Thomas Prentice, in 1657. Also, fourteen acres on the plain B. on the Dedham highway, lying between the farms of John Spring N., and Jonathan Hyde, Sen. s., being the same land owned by John Jackson, Sen., and then by his s.
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