Gibbs Family Tree
Desire Chipman
1674 - 1705 (31 years)1. Desire Chipman was born on 26 Feb 1674 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (daughter of John Chipman and Hope Howland); died on 28 Mar 1705 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA. Desire married Judge Colonel Melatiah Bourne on 23 Feb 1693 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Melatiah was born on 12 Jan 1673 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America; died on 24 Nov 1742 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America; was buried in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Bathsheba Bourne was born on 11 Nov 1703 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; died on 4 Mar 1781 in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
2. John Chipman was born on 30 Jun 1621 in Briant's Piddle, Dorset; died on 7 Apr 1708 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. John married Hope Howland. Hope (daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley) was born on 30 Aug 1629 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; died on 8 Jan 1683 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Lathrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Hope Howland was born on 30 Aug 1629 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley); died on 8 Jan 1683 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Lathrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Children:
- 1. Desire Chipman was born on 26 Feb 1674 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; died on 28 Mar 1705 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA.
Generation: 3
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John Howland was born in 1592 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England; died on 23 Feb 1672 in Rocky Nook, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America; was buried on 25 Feb 1672 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. Other Events and Attributes:
- Immigration: 11 Nov 1620, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; Passenger on the Mayflower
Notes:
John Howland (c. 1592 – February 23, 1673) accompanied the English Separatists and other passengers when they left England on the Mayflower to settle in Plymouth. He was an indentured servant and in later years an executive assistant and personal secretary to Governor John Carver.
In 1620 he signed the Mayflower Compact and helped found the colony. During his service to Governor Carver in 1621, Howland assisted in the making of a treaty with the Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag. In 1626, he was a freeman and one of eight settlers who agreed to assume the colony's debt to its investors in exchange for a monopoly on the fur trade. He was elected deputy to the Plymouth General Court in 1641 and held the position until 1655, and again in 1658.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howland
John married Elizabeth Tilley on 25 Mar 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Elizabeth (daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst) was born on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire; died on 22 Dec 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Elizabeth Tilley was born on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire (daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst); died on 22 Dec 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Immigration: 11 Nov 1620, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; Passenger on the Mayflower
Children:
- 3. Hope Howland was born on 30 Aug 1629 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; died on 8 Jan 1683 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Lathrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
Generation: 4
14. John Tilley was born on 15 Dec 1571 in Henlow, Bedfordshire; died on 10 Apr 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Immigration: 11 Nov 1620, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; Passenger on the Mayflower
Notes:
John Tilley (c. 1571 – winter of 1620/21) and his family were passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact, and died with his wife in the first Pilgrim winter in the New World.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tilley_(Mayflower_passenger)
John married Joan Hurst on 20 Sep 1596 in Henlow, Bedfordshire. Joan was born on 13 Mar 1567 in Henlow, Bedfordshire; died on 11 Jan 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Joan Hurst was born on 13 Mar 1567 in Henlow, Bedfordshire; died on 11 Jan 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. Other Events and Attributes:
- Immigration: 11 Nov 1620, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; Passenger on the Mayflower
Children:
- 7. Elizabeth Tilley was born on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire; died on 22 Dec 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.