Eunice GIBSON

   Other names for Eunice were Nice GIBSON and Nicy GIBSON.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth, Abt 1729. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dfitchett&id=I3094

• Alt. Birth, Abt 1692, New Kent County, VA. dates are definitely hosed - either we missed a nix generation or there should be a age/wife gap in the gibson siblings

[http://www.wehmeyergenealogyplus.com/nixtree.htm]

• Will: husband' will, 1776, SC. PROBATE RECORDS: WILL of Edward NIX of SOUTH CAROLINA, CAMDEN DISTRICT
In the name of God Amen on this Eighth day of October 1776, I Edward NIX of the Province & District aforesaid being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God, therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all. I give and recommend my Soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same by the might power of God, and as touching such worldly Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

Item: I give and bequeath to my Grandson James NIX son of James NIX one shilling sterling.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son Valentine NIX one shilling sterling.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son George NIX one shilling sterling.

Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Sabra LOX one shilling sterling.

Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Francis DOSS, one shilling sterling.

Item: I give and bequeath to my Grandson Ambrose NIX one hundred and twenty five acres of land lying on the north side of Santee River in Camden District beginning on a marked hickory and running down the Santee River, for the compliment of one hundred and twenty acres be the same more or less, it being part of a large track of Land granted by his Excellency Thomas BOONE to Edward NIX.

Item: I give and bequeath to my Grandson John LYON and his heirs, after the death of my beloved wife my plantation whereon I now live, on the south side of Sandy River with all the Remaining part of my Land it being part of a larger tract of Land granted by his Excellency Thomas BOONE, Esq., the 18th day of August 1763 to Edward NIX.

Item: I give and bequeath to my Grandson John LYON to him and his heirs the following negroes, Judy, Beck, Dick, and Mourning after the decease of my wife during her natural life, & after his decease, to be equally divided between his two sons Elijah and Elisha.

Item: I give to my Grandson John LYON all the remaining part of my Stock of horses, hogs, and black cattle, household furniture, and plantation tools after paying my just debts funeral expenses, and Legacies.

Item: I likewise constitute make and ordain my loving wife Unice NIX and John LYON Executors of this my present Last will and Testament, & I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disannul, all and every other former Testament, Wills, Legacies, and bequests, & Executors by me in any ways before mentioned willed of bequeathed, rectifying & confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal the day & year first above written.
Edward NIX His X (LS).

Signed, Sealed, published pronounced & declared by the Edward NIX as his last will & Testament in presence of us the subscribers.
Wm. FARR, Richard CROSBY, William CROSBY
[Recorded in Will Book 1774-1779 page #418, Charleston, South Carolina Geneology Library]

• See also. http://www.shadowchasers.tv/famtree/files/d0000/g0000016.html#I2180

Eunice married Edward NIX, son of John (or James) NIX and Elizabeth LEWIS, about 1732 in New Kent, Hanover County, VA. (Edward NIX was born on 7 Nov 1686 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, VA and died after 8 Oct 1776 in Camden District, SC.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage, Abt 1711, New Kent County, VA.

  Marriage Notes:

there must be another generation in here....

http://lawsondna.org/Media/virginiacounties/Bedford.html

Bedford County, Virginia Order Book 1A, 1754-1758, August Court 1754 \endash On the petition of Michael Prewit and others, ordered that a road be cleared the best and most convenient way from Thomas's Ferry on Stanton River into Randolph's Rolling Road and Joseph Williams is appointed Surveryor thereof and it is ordered that he, together with the said Michael Prewit, Jonas Lawson, John Lawson, William Lawson, John Lawson, Richard Prewit , John Layne, William Hayth, James Milwood, Joseph Williams, James Nix, Francis Luck, Charles Talbot, James Hancock and their tithes do forthwith lay open, clear and keep the same in repair.