Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameMargery [GIBBONS] 
1282
1282ReligionSociety of Friends (Quaker) but lost her membership
Spouses
Birth Datebef 1681
Birth PlaceENGLAND
ReligionSociety of Friends (Quaker) but lost his membership
Misc. Notes
The founder of one of the largest families of Chester County, was one of the earliest settlers under the proprietary. His name is found in Proud’s "History of Pennsylvania," among the eminent persons of the Society of Friends [Quaker] who settled near Chester in 1681.
He migrated from Warminster, in Wiltshire, England, where his family resided, as appears by the church records, as early as the middle of the sixteenth century. He and his wife Margery were among the best educated members of the society, and appear to have been in very comfortable circumstances.
His name is found on the Holmes map as an original purchaser of two tracts from the proprietary, one in Thornbury and one in Bethel. He occupied the latter as soon as his improvements were completed, and became one of the largest land-owners of the county.
He was one of the jurors impaneled for the trial of Margaret Mattson, on an indictment for witchcraft, which took place before William Penn and his Council, at Philadelphia, in February, 1683–4. There is a tradition in the family that he framed the compromise verdict which prevented a disagreement of the jury. They were hanging witches in old England and New England about that time, and the president of Harvard College was an active participant in that savage remedy for an imaginary crime.
John and Margery both lost their membership in the Society of Friends. The latter became involved in the Keith controversy. She was a fearless and resolute woman, and in her public communications maintained the views of Keith, that the doctrines and discipline of the society were not sufficiently guarded against infidelity. For this she was disowned with many others. John survived his wife, and died on his Bethel plantation about the year 1721. They had two sons, John and James.
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Quaker John Gibbons who left Warminster, England, in 1681 to settle on a grant of land obtained from William Penn in Chester County, Pennsylvania, just south of Philadelphia. The family prospered in the proprietary Colony, being of scholarly inclination and active in public service and the founding of schools. John Gibbons as head of the American line was succeeded by a son, grandson and great grandson, all named James.1252
At a court held "the 1st third day of ye first weeke in ye 1st month, 1684 (-5)," "John Gibbons was Sumôned and att this Cort Presented for selling ye Indians Rum." His fine was remitted. John Mendinghall was guilty of the same offense, "butt upon his Petition remitted."2274
He migrated from Warminster, in Wiltshire, England, where his family resided, as appears by the church records, as early as the middle of the sixteenth century. He and his wife Margery were among the best educated members of the society, and appear to have been in very comfortable circumstances.
His name is found on the Holmes map as an original purchaser of two tracts from the proprietary, one in Thornbury and one in Bethel. He occupied the latter as soon as his improvements were completed, and became one of the largest land-owners of the county.
He was one of the jurors impaneled for the trial of Margaret Mattson, on an indictment for witchcraft, which took place before William Penn and his Council, at Philadelphia, in February, 1683–4. There is a tradition in the family that he framed the compromise verdict which prevented a disagreement of the jury. They were hanging witches in old England and New England about that time, and the president of Harvard College was an active participant in that savage remedy for an imaginary crime.
John and Margery both lost their membership in the Society of Friends. The latter became involved in the Keith controversy. She was a fearless and resolute woman, and in her public communications maintained the views of Keith, that the doctrines and discipline of the society were not sufficiently guarded against infidelity. For this she was disowned with many others. John survived his wife, and died on his Bethel plantation about the year 1721. They had two sons, John and James.
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Quaker John Gibbons who left Warminster, England, in 1681 to settle on a grant of land obtained from William Penn in Chester County, Pennsylvania, just south of Philadelphia. The family prospered in the proprietary Colony, being of scholarly inclination and active in public service and the founding of schools. John Gibbons as head of the American line was succeeded by a son, grandson and great grandson, all named James.1252
At a court held "the 1st third day of ye first weeke in ye 1st month, 1684 (-5)," "John Gibbons was Sumôned and att this Cort Presented for selling ye Indians Rum." His fine was remitted. John Mendinghall was guilty of the same offense, "butt upon his Petition remitted."2274
Family ID1621