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John Nicolson Gibbons (born c. 1795)

Role

Gibbons acted as Bushrod Washington's financial agent in Norfolk, Virginia.

Description

John Nicolson Gibbons (middle name also spelled as Nicholas or Nicholson) was born circa 1795. In 1818 he married Martha Adeline Gray (17981871) in Baltimore, Maryland. They had at least one daughter. A resident of Norfolk, Virginia, “Colonel” Gibbons worked as an inspector for that city’s Board of Health. He was also active in horse racing, serving as secretary of the Norfolk Jockey Club and local agent of a “turf” weekly newspaper.

Citations

American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, Volume 2, Number 1 (September 1830), 46.

American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, Volume 5, Number 4 (December 1833), 213.

The Medical and Surgical Reporter, Volume 31, Number 25 (19 December 1874), 500.

Charleston Daily Courier, 22 August 1832, page 2, column 5 (Newspapers.com).

Richmond Enquirer, 12 October 1832, page 3, column 5 (NewspaperArchive.com).

John Nicholson Gibbons in Mellor-Corrie-Anderson Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

Martha Adeline Gray Gibbons at Find a Grave.

John Nicolson Gibbons at FamilySearch.