The Founders of Hartford
William Gibbons was Mr. Wyllys's steward, and came to Hartford in 1636, with twenty men, to build a house
and prepare a garden for his employer. He was an original proprietor of Hartford, and in the distribution of 1639
received a home-lot on the east side of the highway now Governor St., south of Charter Oak St. Chosen juror,
1643 ; townsman, 1643, 1652 ; constable, 1647 ; surveyor of highways, 1648. He d. in 1655 ; will dated Feb. 28,
1654-5 ; inv. Dec. 2, 1655, £1499. 14. 5. He mentions his wife, Ursula; dam. Mary and Sarah; brothers, Richard,
Jonathan or John, and Thomas G. in England; sister Hidgcoke, brother Hidgcoke, and their son, John; gave land at
Pennywise "towards y' maintenance of a lattin schools at Hartford"; 40 p. to the Artillery in Hartford.-Ch.: i.
William, b. ab. 1639 (aged ab. 54, March, 1693) ; not named in his father's will. ii. Mary. iii. Sarah, b. Aug. 17,
1645; m. (1) Hon. James Richards, of Hartford (q. v.) ; (2) as his second or third wife, Humphrey Davie, Esq., of
Boston, son of Sir John Davie, Bart., of Creedy, Co. Devon; (3) May 30, 1706, Col. Jonathan Tyng, of Dunstable, Mass.
; d. Feb. 8, 1714. One of her daughters, Jerusha Richards, was the wife of Gov. Gurdon Saltonstall; and another,
Elizabeth Richards, m. John Davie, Harvard Coll., 1681 ; he settled in Pequonnock, now Groton, in 1693 ; in 1707
he received the news of his accession to the Baronetcy, and went to England to take possession of his inheritance,
Creedy, near Exeter, Co. Devon. Elizabeth, Lady Davie, d. at Creedy, 1713; Sir John d. 1727.
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