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Y-Line 2: Ezekiel Gibbes; aka, Ezekial Gibbes, Ezekiel Gibbs, Ezekial Gibs, Zekial Gibbs

As Submitted By: David Lee Gibbs

This page was updated on: 1/19/04

Parents
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Siblings

Jeremiah Gibbes/Gibbs; b. ca 1760

Marriages and children

Married on 1 October 1792, Garrard County, KY, to Martha Brown dau. of Frederick Brown, with issue:

Thomas Gibbs b. 5 Mar. 1804

Notes

As of this writing, the earliest official records pertaining to Ezekiel Gibbes are related to his service in the Revolutionary War:
The National Archives Record Group 93 (M246) consists of microfilm containing the "Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR)" which brings together all records on a given individual in one compiled record per regiment in which he served. Among thes the following is listed:

Gibbs, Ezekiel
Rank - Induction: Private
Roll Box: 89
Roll Description: SC

The South Carolina Department of Archives & History, Columbia, SC, holds the following among its Records of Accounts Audited - Claims Growing out of The American Revolution (File No. 2774. Gibbes, Ezekiel):

No. 112
[record no.] 2830 [book] X25 May [17]86
Ezekial Gibbes
For Militia Duty in Brandon's Regt. since the fall of Charles-
ton & Anderson's Return Amounting to
Currancy £90.00
Sterling £12.17.1-1/2
Twelve Pounds, Seventeen Shillings and onePenny & half-penny Sterling.
Exd. J.M.

[Also in this file is an indenture made payable to "Ezekiel Gibbes"]:

State of So. Carolina To Ezekiel Gibbes
For Militia Duty in Brandon's Regmt. Since the fall of Charlestown
& Andersons Return. Amount. to Currency....£90.00; Sterling.... £12.17.1-1/2

Rec'd Columbia ... Dec. 1790, from the Comm. Treasurer and Indent,
No. 2830 Book X, in full of the above Acct. per Order.... £12.17.1-1/2
[signature of] ............James Martin

Union County, SC - Official Minutes of the County Court (1785-1799) includes an entry that names Ezedkiel Gibbs as a defendant in a lawsuit filed on September 8, 1785, by Robert Montgomery, for failure to repay a debt.
Source: Holcomb, Minutes of the County Court, (Union County, Southe Carolina, Court Records, 1785-1799).

Linclon County, KY - Marriage License dated October 1, 1792 for Ezekiel Gibbs to marry Martha Brown, dau. of Frederick Brown. Witnesses: Bazallel Brown and Jeremiah Gibbs.
Sources:
Garrard County, KY Marriage Licenses, Garrard County Courthouse, County Clerk's Office, Lancaster, KY.

Madison County, KY - Tax Rolls for 1792 - Ezekiel Gibbs was listed as a white male over 21 yrs, with 1 horse or mule and 1 cow, who paid taxes for unspecified acreage. [This was evidently not the same land as listed above for Lincoln County, 1789. Madison County was formed out of Lincoln County in 1785-6, so the Lincoln County listing for 1789 would refer to land not in Madison County.]
Source:
Early Kentucky Tax Records From The Register Of The Kentucky Historical Society; Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, 1984. Pg. 151.

Garrard County, KY - Tax Rolls for 1797 - Zekiel [sic] Gibbs was listed as a white male over 21 yrs, with 1 horse or mule, who paid taxes for 20 acres on Sugar Creek [which is a general area about 2-1/2 miles east of Lancaster, KY. [Note: Ezekiel is found on the tax rolls in Garrard County for the years 1797, 1798, 1800 through 1805 (the last year checked by this researcher).]
Source:
Garrard County Tax Rolls, Microfilm, LDS/LA.

Garrard County, KY - Marriage License Record dated January 12, 1798 - For Bazallel Brown to marry Susanah [sic] Gibbs, "by covenant of her father, John Gibbs". Bondsman: Ezekiel Gibbs; return of John Manice dated March 12, 1798. Bond # 17.
Source:
Garrard County, Kentucky, County Clerk's Office - Record of Marriages, 1791-1851, Entry No. 17, Microfilm LDS/LA #4662; S/L #851646, #1 on roll. Researched at LDS GenLib, Los Angeles, CA.

Garrard County, KY - Tax Rolls dated March 23, 1802 - Ezekiel Gibbs was listed as a white male over 21 yrs, with 1 horse or mule, who paid taxes for 80 acres on Sugar Creek.
Source:
Garrard County Tax Rolls, Microfilm, LDS/LA.

Garrard County, KY - Tax Rolls dated June 20, 1803 - Ezekiel Gibs [sic] was listed as a white male over 21 yrs, with 2 horses or mules, who paid taxes for 80 acres on Sugar Creek. [note: Ezekiel is also listed on Garrard County tax rolls for the years 1798, 1800, 1801, 1803, 1804, and 1805 (the last year checked by this researcher.]
Source:
Garrard County Tax Rolls, Microfilm, LDS/LA.

Garrard County, KY - Tax Rolls dated June 20, 1803 - Ezekiel Gibs [sic] was listed as a white male over 21 yrs, with 2 horses or mules, who paid taxes for 80 acres on Sugar Creek.
Source:
Garrard County Tax Rolls, Microfilm, LDS/LA.

Titles to two other parcels of land (in unspecified locations per this source) in the name of Ezekiel Gibs (sic) are listed in Book 2, Page 5 (on August 14, 1805) and in Book 3, Page 15 (on August 8,1806).
Source:
Kentucky, 1774-1924 Land Records, Early Kentucky Landholders, 1787-1811, Pg. 119; MyFamily.com, Inc. October 22, 2003.