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poration of the town of Sherborn. He eventually
became the proprietor of large tracts of
land in Medway, Sherborn and Holliston, some
of which remained in the possession of descendants
as late as 1878. He died in Sherborn
Sept. 27, 1698. His family consisted of twelve
children, three sons and three daughters by
each wife. In closing a most excellent tribute
to his memory Mr. Morse eulogizes the "great
Puritan ancestor of the Bullards" and records
that "he sleeps hard by the scenes of his toils
and his perils. On the apex of one of nature's
pyramids, whose base is laved by the Charles
river, repose his ashes in company with those
of the founders of Sherborn."
(III) John Bullard, son of Benjamin and
Elizabeth, was born March 7. 1678, in Sherborn.
He married Jan. 7, 1702, Abigail Le-
land, who was born Feb. 17, 1683, daughter of
Hopestill and Abigail (Hill) Leland, and they
had their home in Medway. Their children
were: Thankful; John, born May 16, 1705;
Abigail, born Dec. 4, 1708; Hannah, born May
12, 1714; Mary, born April 7, 1717; Comfort,
born March 2, 1721; and Henry, born Oct. 1,
1723.
(IV) Henry Bullard, son of John and Abi-
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 1021
ly planted on the Massachusetts coast, and its
first home in the New World was in Barnsta-
ble county.
(I) Micah Gibbs _was at Plymouth in the
first quarter of the eighteenth century, where
on March 6, 1727, he deeded land at Agawam,
then a part of the town of Rochester, now of
Wareham, Mass., to Thomas Savery. The
Christian name of his wife was Sarah. He
was, perhaps without doubt, a descendant of
Thomas Gibbs, who was at Sandwich and
among those there able to bear arms in 1643,
and a division of whose estate was made in
1693 among his sons, John, Thomas and Samuel,
providing for their mother's maintenance.
The children of Thomas were: John, born
Sept. 12, 1634; Thomas, born March 23, 1636;
Samuel, born June 22, 1649 ; Sarah, born April
11, 1652; Job and Bethiah, born April 15,
1655; Mary, born Aug. 12, 1657; and Samuel,
born June 23, 1659. The children born to
Micah and Sarah Gibbs, all of Wareham record,
were: Thankful, born March 6, 1733; Hannah,
June 8, 1735; Mary, born Aug. 9, 1737;
Micah, June 6, 1741 ; Jonathan, Nov. 9, 1746.
(II) Jonathan Gibbs, son of Micah and
Sarah, born in Wareham Nov. 9, 1746, married
June 1, 1776, Hannah Clark, of Plymouth,
and their children were: Micah, born
gail (Leland), was born, Oct. 1, 1723. On
March 14, 1745-46, he married Jemima Pond,
who was born in Wrentljam, Mass., and died
May 19, 1766. His second wife, Abigail
Morse, was the daughter of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Coolidge) Morse. They lived at Medway.
Mr. Bullard had a family of twelve
children: (1) Mary, born Oct. 14, 1746, was
married in 1766 to Timothy Hill, and died
Feb. 18, 1825; (2) Henry was born April 29,
1749; (3) Adam was born Aug. 10, 1752; (4)
John, bom Nov. 28, 1756, married Elizabeth
Adams, daughter of Rev. Amos Adams, of Roxbury;
(5) Eli, born Nov. 16, 1758, married in
1794 Ruth Buckminster; (6) Royal, born
April 21, 1762, married Ruth Penniman, and
died March 25, 1785; (7) Samuel, born May
15, 1766, married Abigail Bullard and resided
in Shrewsbury', Mass.; (8) Abigail, bom April
11, 1773, died Sept. 24, 1776; (0) Margaret,
bora Nov. 1, 1775, died Oct. 11, 1776; (10)
Liberty, born Nov. Sept. 17, 1777; Clark, Oct. 28,, 1779; Sally,
June 28, 1781; James, Aug. 2, 1783; Lydia,
Sept. 12, 1785; Polly,
11, 1777, married Abigail
Learned and resided at New Salem, Mass. ;
(11) Amos was bom Feb. 35, 1780; (12) Abigail,
born Aug. 11, 1783, married Thomas Burhank
and resided in Warren, Massachusetts.
GIBBS. The Gibbs family, to which the
late Capt. Stephen B. Gibbs, an old-time master
of whaling vessels and a stanch and consistent
advocate of temperance, belonged, was ear-
Dec. 10, 1787; Elisha,
Nov. 1, 1789; Bartlett, Dec. 12, 1791; Elnathan.
May 5, 1794; Deborah, April 1, 1797;
and Jonathan, Sept. 6, 1799. Among the records
of soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary
war is that of Jonathan Gibbs, also called
Jonathan, Jr., of Wareham, who was sergeant
in Capt. Noah Fearing's company, minute-men,
who marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775,
to Marshfield— service four days; also sergeant
in Capt. John Gibb's Co., Col. Ebenezer Sprout's
regiment— service two days, company marched
to Falmouth on the alarm at Elizabeth Island
Dec. 8, 1776; also same company and regiment—
service thirteen days, company marched
to Rhode Island on the alarm of Dec. 10, 1776;
also Capt. John Gibb's company. Col. Ebenezer
Sprout's 4th Plymouth county regiment, entered
service Sept. 6, 1778, discharged Sept.
10, 1778— service five days, company marched
to Dartmouth Sept. 6, 1778, on an alarm;
also same company and regiment, entered service
Sept. 12, 1778, discharged Sept. 18, 1778
— service five days, company marched to Falmouth
on an alarm.
(III) James Gibbs, son of Jonathan and
Hannah, born in Wareham Aug. 2, 1783, mar-