John Gibson, of Sugar Creek

• Not the same as John Gibson, Acting Territorial Governor of Indiana
• Parents are not certain

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http://hackerscreek.com/norman/GIBSON/JOHN.htm

1.JOHN GIBSON

John Gibson was born about 1750 and was among the first settlers on Sugar Creek in present day Barbour County WV. His entire family was captured by raiding Indians in 1781 or 1782. Only Nicholas survived. On February 22, 1790, the Randolph County Court bound "Nicholas Gibson, an orphan boy of the age thirteen years the eight day of May next, to William Gibson, until he arrives to the age of 21 years ..."

Known children of John Gibson.

• 2. (1). Nicholas b.May 8 1777 d.Jan 5 1858 m.Lydia Sinks 1795
• 3. (2). John
• 4. (3). Elliot

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https://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/places/barbour_county.html

There have only been two recorded incidences of Indians attacking European settlers in Barbour County. The first occurred in either 1781 or 1782. John Gibson and his family, possibly the first settlers on Sugar Creek, were at their sugar camp when Indians surprised and attacked them. The Indians took the family prisoner and, before they had gone far, killed Mrs. Gibson in front of her children. One of her sons later escaped to tell the tale. He never found out what happened to the rest of his family.

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This John Gibson?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bobbistockton/gib...

5. John GIBSON (Robert) Born 1740, died in Carter Co., Virginia.

"I believe this is the Gibson who married Chief Cornstalk (Logan) daughter. Chief Logan is the Indian who addressed the Continental Congress and brought the Assemblage to tears (about white man treatment of Chief Cornstalk's tribe). John Gibson went west but later returned to and died in Carter County, Virginia. Had no issue." From Gibson Family Research Paper done by Stephen D. Gibson

John married the Daughter of Chief Cornstalk (Logan) No children.

The following account appears to have an ominous ending for John Gibson:

Account of Cornstalk's killing at Fort Randolph in 1778: http://www.fortrandolph.org/index_files/facts.htm

Henry Aleshite was part of Gen. Hand's Indian campaign, and he was present at Fort Randolph when Cornstalk was killed. He stated that one of the murdered Indians was a white man who was married to Cornstalk's daughter.

References

1. Not this John Gibson https://www.familysearch.org/memories/memory/1161689
2. Probably not this https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Gibson_%2875%29
3. Maxwell, Hu (1899). The History of Barbour County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time. Acme publishing Company. p. 326. < Archive.Org > "John Hill, a Revolutionary soldier, who went to the army as a substitute for his brother, was an early settler on Sugar Creek, but the Gibson family and the Hunter family were there before him, and the ruins of their cabins are still pointed out." Page 182. < Archive.Org > "In 1780, savages came again and raided Tygart's Valley, above the mouth of Elkwater, where they set an ambuscade and attacked a party of men on their way to Greenbrier County. The fight occurred about a mile above Haddan's fort. John McLain, John Nelson and James Ralston were killed, and James Crouch was wounded. Soon after this, Mrs. John Gibson was murdered and her children carried into captivity, probably by these same Indians who escaped without punishment. ...:" Page 321. < Archive.Org > John Gibson with his wife and several children was among the first, if not the very first, to settle on Sugar Creek. The first mention of them there is the record of their murder by Indians, believed to have been about 1782, although it may have been at the time of the Leading Creek massacre in April, 1781. They were at their sugar camp when Indians surprised them and took them prisoners, and before proceeding far, they murdered Mrs. Gibson in the presence of her children. One son afterwards came back. Nothing is known of the fate of the other members of the family." Page 322. "Mrs. Gibson was the first citizen of what is now Barbour County to be killed by Indians. It was then part of Monongalia County." Page 367. < Archive.Org > Isaac J. Coonts, born 1851, son of Adam and Sarah (Stalnaker) Coonts, was married April 17, 1878, near Meadowville, to Mai'y E., daughter of Captain M. T. and Sarah (Nestor) Haller. Children, Irvin D., William H., Adam J., Merrill, Floyd F., George L., Orem S. and Isaac J. He is a member of the M. E, Church, a Democrat and a farmer and mechanic, living on the west fork of Sugar Creek, where he owns 265 acres, 200 improved. The land on which the unfortunate Gibson family was murdered by Indians belongs to him; also the old "Hunter Field," and the old stone house, the ruins of which are still visible. A portion of his land is underlaid with a twelve-foot vein of coal.