Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Henry Gilbert
Abt 1718 - Abt 1778 (~ 60 years)-
Name Henry Gilbert Birth Abt 1718 Hanover County, Virginia Gender Male Death Abt 4 May 1778 Amherst County, Virginia Person ID I115679 Tree1 Last Modified 21 Mar 2024
Family Mary Wyatt, b. Abt 1722, St. Margaret's Parish, Caroline County, Virginia d. Aft 1786, Amherst County, Virginia (Age ~ 65 years) Marriage Abt 1748 St. Margaret's Parish, Caroline County, Virginia Children 1. Henry Gilbert, b. Aft 1748, Amherst County, Virginia d. 1812, Amherst County, Virginia (Age < 62 years) [Father: natural] 2. Ezekiel Gilbert, b. 1751, Amherst County, Virginia d. 24 Aug 1822, Amherst County, Virginia (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] 3. Anne Gilbert, b. 1755, Amherst County, Virginia d. 16 Apr 1793, Georgia (Age 38 years) [Father: natural] 4. Josias Gilbert, b. 1756, Amherst County, Virginia [Father: natural] 5. Mary Gilbert, b. 1757, Amherst County, Virginia d. 16 Apr 1793, Amherst County, Virginia (Age 36 years) [Father: natural] 6. Thomas Gilbert, b. Abt 1758, Amherst County, Virginia d. 1798, Amherst County, Virginia (Age ~ 40 years) [Father: natural] Family ID F21871 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Mar 2024
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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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