Colonel Jacob Gibson of the Maryland Militia
Planter, Blacksmith, Gentleman
He was a man, take him, for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again Hamlet
The precise date of his birth is not known, as all family records were destroyed by fire when the house at Marengo burned in 1847. But from certain expressions of his own, in a handbill issued by him in 1809, it is certainly known that he was born in 1759. The most marked characteristic of Jacob Gibson, and it was one which manifested itself under all circumstances in life was his pugnacity. He loved contention. He courted opposition.
"Fined 500 pounds of tobacco for "contemptuously refusing to serve as Constable of Island Hundred"
The land on which Marengo was built orig belonged to Jacob Gibson, a prominent farmer and outspoken observer of the early republic, who was the associate just of the Maren Co. Court from 1802-until 1806. It was Gibson who named the Talbot ? after Napoleon's great victory over the Austrians in 1800 in northern Italy.
Being stricken with immedicable disease he succumbed, and being beaten he threw up his hands to death, January 7th, in the year 1818. His body lies at Marengo, where he was born and he had lived. His grave is marked by no memorial stone, but tradition had perpetuated and is likely to perpetuate for a long time to some the memory of this strong-minded, stout hearted, large bodied man.
m [1] Miss Elizabeth Caulk [Calk] of DE d/o Jacob & Rachel Caulk -she was mentioned in her father's will 1 Feb 1785 New Castle Co., DE
They had 1 child -Frances
m [2] Miss Reynolds of Calvert Co., MD
They had children - Mary Elizabeth, Edward Reynolds, Fayette, Ann Reynolds, Harriet
*Island Hundred was at the time constituted of what is now Miles River Neck and Wye Island
Planter, Blacksmith, Gentleman
He was a man, take him, for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again Hamlet
The precise date of his birth is not known, as all family records were destroyed by fire when the house at Marengo burned in 1847. But from certain expressions of his own, in a handbill issued by him in 1809, it is certainly known that he was born in 1759. The most marked characteristic of Jacob Gibson, and it was one which manifested itself under all circumstances in life was his pugnacity. He loved contention. He courted opposition.
"Fined 500 pounds of tobacco for "contemptuously refusing to serve as Constable of Island Hundred"
The land on which Marengo was built orig belonged to Jacob Gibson, a prominent farmer and outspoken observer of the early republic, who was the associate just of the Maren Co. Court from 1802-until 1806. It was Gibson who named the Talbot ? after Napoleon's great victory over the Austrians in 1800 in northern Italy.
Being stricken with immedicable disease he succumbed, and being beaten he threw up his hands to death, January 7th, in the year 1818. His body lies at Marengo, where he was born and he had lived. His grave is marked by no memorial stone, but tradition had perpetuated and is likely to perpetuate for a long time to some the memory of this strong-minded, stout hearted, large bodied man.
m [1] Miss Elizabeth Caulk [Calk] of DE d/o Jacob & Rachel Caulk -she was mentioned in her father's will 1 Feb 1785 New Castle Co., DE
They had 1 child -Frances
m [2] Miss Reynolds of Calvert Co., MD
They had children - Mary Elizabeth, Edward Reynolds, Fayette, Ann Reynolds, Harriet
*Island Hundred was at the time constituted of what is now Miles River Neck and Wye Island
Colonel Jacob Gibson of the Maryland Militia
Planter, Blacksmith, Gentleman
He was a man, take him, for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again Hamlet
The precise date of his birth is not known, as all family records were destroyed by fire when the house at Marengo burned in 1847. But from certain expressions of his own, in a handbill issued by him in 1809, it is certainly known that he was born in 1759. The most marked characteristic of Jacob Gibson, and it was one which manifested itself under all circumstances in life was his pugnacity. He loved contention. He courted opposition.
"Fined 500 pounds of tobacco for "contemptuously refusing to serve as Constable of Island Hundred"
The land on which Marengo was built orig belonged to Jacob Gibson, a prominent farmer and outspoken observer of the early republic, who was the associate just of the Maren Co. Court from 1802-until 1806. It was Gibson who named the Talbot ? after Napoleon's great victory over the Austrians in 1800 in northern Italy.
Being stricken with immedicable disease he succumbed, and being beaten he threw up his hands to death, January 7th, in the year 1818. His body lies at Marengo, where he was born and he had lived. His grave is marked by no memorial stone, but tradition had perpetuated and is likely to perpetuate for a long time to some the memory of this strong-minded, stout hearted, large bodied man.
m [1] Miss Elizabeth Caulk [Calk] of DE d/o Jacob & Rachel Caulk -she was mentioned in her father's will 1 Feb 1785 New Castle Co., DE
They had 1 child -Frances
m [2] Miss Reynolds of Calvert Co., MD
They had children - Mary Elizabeth, Edward Reynolds, Fayette, Ann Reynolds, Harriet
*Island Hundred was at the time constituted of what is now Miles River Neck and Wye Island
Planter, Blacksmith, Gentleman
He was a man, take him, for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again Hamlet
The precise date of his birth is not known, as all family records were destroyed by fire when the house at Marengo burned in 1847. But from certain expressions of his own, in a handbill issued by him in 1809, it is certainly known that he was born in 1759. The most marked characteristic of Jacob Gibson, and it was one which manifested itself under all circumstances in life was his pugnacity. He loved contention. He courted opposition.
"Fined 500 pounds of tobacco for "contemptuously refusing to serve as Constable of Island Hundred"
The land on which Marengo was built orig belonged to Jacob Gibson, a prominent farmer and outspoken observer of the early republic, who was the associate just of the Maren Co. Court from 1802-until 1806. It was Gibson who named the Talbot ? after Napoleon's great victory over the Austrians in 1800 in northern Italy.
Being stricken with immedicable disease he succumbed, and being beaten he threw up his hands to death, January 7th, in the year 1818. His body lies at Marengo, where he was born and he had lived. His grave is marked by no memorial stone, but tradition had perpetuated and is likely to perpetuate for a long time to some the memory of this strong-minded, stout hearted, large bodied man.
m [1] Miss Elizabeth Caulk [Calk] of DE d/o Jacob & Rachel Caulk -she was mentioned in her father's will 1 Feb 1785 New Castle Co., DE
They had 1 child -Frances
m [2] Miss Reynolds of Calvert Co., MD
They had children - Mary Elizabeth, Edward Reynolds, Fayette, Ann Reynolds, Harriet
*Island Hundred was at the time constituted of what is now Miles River Neck and Wye Island
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