Sir John GIBSON of Pentland

   Another name for John was The immigrant.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. John, a successful shipping merchant and heir to family fortune, left most of it behind when he and Rebecca emigrated to Cambridge in the American colonies.

The immigrant, a "free thinking" merchant, he fled from Scotland in 1632 abandoning a significant family fortune.
John, an early "uncompromising Presbyterian " like his brothers, with his wife, emigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1632.


[http://www.shohola.com/Gibson/ or http://faculty.ycp.edu/~tgibson/gibson/]

• Biography. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33:
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1634.
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP:Admission to church prior to 17 May 1637 implied by freemanship.In the list of church members compiled in January 1658/9, are "John Gibson & Rebecca his wife both members in full communion. Their children: Rebeccah, now joined in full communion with the church at , Mary, Martha, John, Samuel," the last four listed as "baptized in this church".
FREEMAN:17 May 1637.
OFFICES: fenceviewer, 9 March 1662/3, 26 March 1666. Field driver, 15 March 1676/7, 11 March 1677/8.
EDUCATION:Signed his deeds.
ESTATE:On 4 August 1634, "John Gibson" was granted six acres in the West End. Received a proportional share of one in the undivided meadow, 20 August 1635. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "those men who have houses in the town at this present," "John Gibson" is credited with one house in the West End.
In the land inventory on 10 October 1635, "John Gibson" held one parcel: "in West End one house with planting ground about six acres".In the 1639 land inventory, "John Gibson held one parcel: "in the new lots next Manotomie three acres of planting ground," and had bought of Edward Elmer "in the West End three acres of land".In the 6 September 1642 land inventory, "John Gibson" held two parcels: "in West End one dwelling house with nine acres land"; and "in the Fresh Pond Meadow five acres".
By 1642, John Gibson had sold to Nathaniel Sparrowhawk five acres in the Fresh Pond Meadow.
In 1648, "Jno. Gibson" was granted sixty acres "on the rocks on the north side the river," and, by 9 October 1648, had sold this land to Thomas Danforth.In the Shawsheen grant of 4 June 1652, "John Gibson" received Lot #52, eighty acres.
On 30 November 1668, "John Gibson Senior of " deeded to "John Gibson Junior his son the westerly end of or part of his now dwelling house with the chimney thereto appertaining ..., also three acres of land being part of the lot adjoining thereto," provided the father and son work in equal partnership all the land of the father, "and at the decease of the said John Gibson Senior all the said lands with all the houses & buildings thereon to be & remain to the said John Gibson Junior," with further provisions for maintenance if the grantor's wife outlives him.
On 26 May 1679, "John Gibson Senior of ..., yeoman," sold to "Edm[ond] Angier of the same place, woollendraper, ... one parcel of land" in "on the south side of Charles River, & containeth by estimation three acres"; acknowledged by "Joanna my wife".On 15 April 1687, "John Gibson of " sold to "Deacon Walter Hastin of the aforesaid town ..., tanner, ... a small parcel of land containing one acre & a half ... in West Field in the Great Swamp".
BIRTH:about 1601.
DEATH:In or after 1688. (Secondary sources say he died in 1694, but the evidence for this has not been found.)
MARRIAGE:By about 1634 Rebecca _____.She died at Roxbury on 1 December 1661.
COMMENTS:On 8 May 1637, it was "agreed with John Gibson to keep 100 cows at our direction all this summer".On 11 December 1648, it was "granted by the townsmen to John Gibson the use and profit of the weir and weir land for two years ensuing, upon condition, that he serve the town with fish, at ninepence per thousand, and if he afford help for loading them to be allowed ten pence per 1000".
The year of birth of son John would be about 1631 based on the age at death on his tombstone as published, but this must be incorrect. The list of church members of January 1658/9, when describing a family, enters the children in birth order, and for this family John is placed between Martha and Samuel, strongly suggesting that the age at death has been misread, and should be 38 rather than 48. This is consistent with his date of marriage.
In 1659 various members of the family of John Gibson accused Winifred and Mary Holman, wife and daughter of WILLIAM HOLMAN {1635, }, of witchcraft, but there is no record of a trial resulting from these charges. Early in 1660, Winifred and Mary charged John Gibson Senior and his wife, Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns and John Gibson Junior with defamation. Winifred was unsuccessful in her suits against the first three, but Mary Holman won her suit against John Gibson Junior. This defamation suit generated many documents, some of them long and detailed, which are very revealing about the characters involved and about daily life in at the time.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1900 Mehitable Calef Coppenahgen Wilson compiled a genealogy of John Gibson and his descendants.

[http://www.laddfamily.com/16126.htm]

• Note: alternate parents: Durie, ENGLAND. father George GIBSON
Born: 1574, Durie, ENGLAND

http://www.laddfamily.com/16133.htm

John married Rebecca THOMPSON, daughter of William THOMPSON and Unknown, in 1630. (Rebecca THOMPSON was born in 1613 in Hertfordshire, ENGLAND and died on 1 Dec 1661 in Suffolk County, MA.)

John next married Joanne (widow PRENTICE) on 24 Jul 1662.