Gideon Gibson distinguished himself as a farmer, builder, landowner, and community leader. British government troups laid waste to many Cherokee villages as large numbers of settlers established themselves in the South Carolina backcountry. Their settlements on the hunting grounds of the Cherokee Nation provoked numerous clashes with Indians who depended on those lands. Those who failed under the severe conditions were reduced to living off the land as best they could, and some formed thieving bands that preyed upon the more successful settlers.įamilies from Pennsylvania and Virginia seeking to escape the French-supported Indian attacks in the north joined the migration of settlers to South Carolina. Lands were often resold to other landowners. After two years, settlers could relinquish their land to the royal governor in Charleston and be released from all obligation upon payment of a nominal sum ("quit rent").
In turn, grantees were required to clear and cultivate a new 3% of their land each year. Settlers were offered 100 acres of land for each head of household and 50 acres for every other family member over 12 years of age. The generous terms of this act led to a mass migration to South Carolina between 17, at which time authority for payment of these bounties expired. Taxes on Negroes, slaves and other possessions were also repealed. In 1761, to encourage "poor Protestants" of "good character" to settle in its South Carolina province, the British government amended its General Duty Act by increasing its grants to not only defray the cost of passage but to enable settlers to purchase tools and provisions for a year. Gibson's family was among those who took advantage of the British government's land grant policy and resettled in the "backcountry" area of South Carolina, which contained immigrants from Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. However, there is a record of his 1749 marriage in Virginia to a white woman, Mary Martha O'Connell, who had emigrated from England. Little is known of Gideon Gibson's early life. 1695), who emigrated to North Carolina about 1720, married a white women, Mary Brown, in 1728, and owned slaves to help work his land. While some genealogy records place his birth in England, he more likely was born in Virginia to a British subject of African origin, a carpenter with the same name (b. Gideon Gibson, a mulatto, was born about 1730 and is the great grandfather of Randall Lee Gibson. Gideon Gibson Gideon Gibson, the Great Grandfather
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