More about the South Carolina Gibbs family

Col. James Gibbs (1740-1794) and his wife, Ann Barnett Johnson Gibbs (1740-1831) had their first children, twins, born May 24, 1772 and Sept. 18, 1772.  

What, you have trouble believing that?  Somehow this is what I keep having to pull my hair out about at Ancestry.  One or the other was in a different year, I'm thinking...or if they were twins in fact, then they should choose which birthday to have.

I was actually looking to see if they were born back in VA where James and Anne got married in 1770 (Orange County).  Nope, they already had moved to SC for the births of their first 2 children.

More information on the not-so-likely-twins.

Agatha Gibbs White was probably born earlier, as some records state she was born "abt 1770" in Union Dist, SC.  So I've changed my listing for her. 

Zach, born on Sept. 18, 1772 according to these records, is listed in
American loyalists, biog. sketches of adherents to the British crown in the War of the Rev. By Lorenzo Sabine. Boston. 1847. (733p.):319 Vol. 62, p 186.  

Since he would have been 10 years old in 1782, I find this an interesting listing.  Perhaps it should have been linked to his father's brother Zacharias, born in 1741, who died in 1784.  And younger Zacahary is even buried in his fathers private graveyard, which would be doubtful if he'd been a Tory.

Zachariah Gibbs in Gibbs Family Cemetery, Union County, SC

I'm  relieved in a way, that Col. James was related to some of the Loyalists to the Crown, because I knew they existed, and wondered if they had records as well. Zach's birthday still is questionable, but he has a gravestone, the younger one. 

There was not only an uncle Zacharias Gibbs, but a great uncle of the same name, who lived in VA.  I would think either of them the more likely Tories.

Checking for some other sites to visit when I go looking for graves, here are some for the area around Spartanburg SC.

Cowpens National Battlefield

4001 Chesnee Hwy
Chesnee SC 29341
Area: Chesnee
(864) 461-2828

At Hannah's Cowpens, on January 17, 1781, a force of Continentals and militia from Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas commanded by Gen. Daniel Morgan won a decisive Revolutionary War victory over British Lieut. Col. Banastre Tarleton. It was after this battle that British Gen. Cornwallis abandoned South Carolina to the Patriots and marched north to his eventual surrender at Yorktown. This battle is considered a tactical masterpiece, frequently studied in military academies around the world.

 

A treaty with the Cherokee Indian nation in 1753 opened up the area for settlers. The county formed in 1785 and got its name from the Spartan Regiment, a local militia unit that fought in the Revolutionary War

Seay House

106 Darby Rd
Spartanburg SC 29306
Area: Spartanburg
(864) 596-3501

Built as early as the 1790s, the Seay House is believed to be the oldest homestead standing in the City of Spartanburg. Interpretation by the Spartanburg County Historical Association focuses on the lives of women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as three unmarried daughters of Kinsman Seay - Ruthy, Patsy, and Sarah - lived a simple farm life in this house. The oldest portion of this dwelling is a typical Scots-Irish log house. The logs are hand hewn, and the pipestem fieldstone chimney is a style commonly found in Virginia but unusual for Upstate South Carolina.

Musgrove Mill State Historic Site

398 State Park Rd
Clinton SC 29325
Area: Clinton
(864) 938-0100

The park's visitor center is filled with interpretive exhibits which focus on the Battle of Musgrove Mill and detail South Carolina's pivotal role in the Revolutionary War. The park's nature trail highlights the Enoree River, Cedar Shoals Creek and Horseshoe Falls, where legend has it Mary Musgrove, the mill owner's daughter, hid a Patriot soldier from the British. The park also offers picnicking and a popular fishing pond. Portions of the state park lie within Spartanburg county, but most of battle was located just across the county line in Laurens County.

Price House 1200 Oak View Farms Rd Woodruff SC 29388 Area: Woodruff (864) 576-6546
Thomas & Ann Price built their house about 1795. Price ran a general store, post office, tavern and inn. Enslaved African Americans performed much of the work for his businesses and labored in the fields of his 2,000-acre farm. Visitors may tour the brick home, a slave cabin, and hike a nature trail to learn how the environment-altering work done by settlers and slaves transformed South Carolina's frontier into a fully-integrated part of the early United States.

Walnut Grove Plantation

1200 Otts Shoals Rd
Roebuck SC 29376
Area: Roebuck
(864) 596-3501

Charles & Mary Moore established Walnut Grove Plantation when they settled in South Carolina about 1765. The Scots-Irish immigrants raised ten children in the house they built and lived in for 40 years. Mr. Moore relied on a dozen enslaved African Americans and his own large family to work his sizable farm. During the American Revolution, the Moore family, including eldest daughter Kate Moore Barry, actively supported the Patriot cause and militia even mustered at Walnut Grove. Loyalist William 'Bloody Bill' Cunningham killed 3 Patriot soldiers sheltered at the plantation. A historic site operated by the Spartanburg County Historical Association and offering tours of the centuries-old home, Walnut Grove Plantation tells the stories of the free and enslaved people who settled South Carolina and the rest of Britain's American colonies, who fought for independence, and who, in the end, built a new nation.
Here's the Source of Spartanburg SC historic sites

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