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Ancestry.com on different occasions and computers yielded different results or simply froze when researching his parentage. The name is common among
Quakers in Loudoun County north of Culpeper County where this Gibson married his first wife. Furthermore, Rev. John Gibson was an Episcopal minister in
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Huntington Library in California has some papers relating to Gibson, transferred through his daughter Frances, who married twice, both to Alabamians and whose daughter Martha (a/k/a "Mattie") would marry Issac Jordon Stone, who moved his family to North Carolina and ultimately California, where
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Following the war, Gibson returned to farm using enslaved labor, as well as practice law in
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379:"Jonathan C. Gibson" in 1840 U.S. Federal Census, slave schedule for Culpeper county, pp. 28-29 of 72; also John Gibson owned 3 slaves in the St. Georges district of nearby Spotsylvania County in that census
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