Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Henry Gilbert

Male Abt 1718 - Abt 1778  (~ 60 years)


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  • Name Henry Gilbert 
    Birth Abt 1718  Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 4 May 1778  Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I115679  Tree1
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

    Family Mary Wyatt,   b. Abt 1722, St. Margaret's Parish, Caroline County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1786, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1748  St. Margaret's Parish, Caroline County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Henry Gilbert,   b. Aft 1748, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1812, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 62 years)  [Father: natural]
     2. Ezekiel Gilbert,   b. 1751, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1822, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]
     3. Anne Gilbert,   b. 1755, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1793, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)  [Father: natural]
     4. Josias Gilbert,   b. 1756, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     5. Mary Gilbert,   b. 1757, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1793, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]
     6. Thomas Gilbert,   b. Abt 1758, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1798, Amherst County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 40 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F21871  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
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      The Virginia Genealogist Volume 31, 1987 [John Frederick Dorman] Page 261
      1775-1803 British Mercantile Claims
      Claims of Geo: Kippen & Company, received 12 June 1801 [Page 145-147):
      Daniel Gaines, Amherst. £10.17.11-1/2, by bond. Before the war he possessed a very considerable estate but was generally declining in his circumstances. After the peace he was also in possession of property of considerable value and it appears by the records of Amherst that in 1784 and 1785 large sums of money were recovered from him by process of law. About the same period he was taken a security for the executrix of Henry Gilbert, Senr. (whose daughter he married) in several replevy bonds entered into by her upon execution for large debts due from the estate of her testator. Unless Gaines had been deemed solvent the Sheriff would not have been so great a rogue as to have received him as security. Before 1790 he became totally insolvent and removed to South Carolina where he commenced the practice of law, but with little success. He shortly afterwards removed to Georgia and settled in the town of Washington. After his removal to Georgia he declined the practice of law and the last that was heard of him he was keeping a boarding house, still in solvent.
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      The Virginia Genealogist Volume 32, 1988 [John Frederick Dorman] Page 184
      1775-1803 British Mercantile Claims
      Claims of William Cunningham & Company [Page 47-48]:
      Henry Gilbert, Senr., Amherst. £48.11.8-1/2 by account. He died in Amherst during the war. He had before his death been in possession of a handsome estate but the extravagance of his sons (all of whom are subjects of claims before the board of commissioners) exhausted his estate in such a manner that as soon as the courts were opened after the peace the whole of it was sold to pay his debts. All accounts agree that the whole of his sons became insolvent before the peace, but it appears from the records of Amherst that in 1784 and 1785 considerable debts were recovered by process of law from the estate of Henry Gilbert, Senr. It is certain that the whole of the estate of Henry Gilbert, Senr., at the peace was not sufficient to have paid all his debts, foreign and domestic. Whether these debts could have been r ecovered or not could only have been ascertained by an experiment which the creditors were not permitted to make.

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