Ancestors

Orsimus Gilbert

1770-1843 · Wilbraham MA → Becket MA → Lebanon NY
Born 1770
Died 1843
Children include Vine

Orsemus Gilbert, of Wilbraham in Hampden County when he entered his intention of marriage there on 20 May 1793, married Annis Blair at her own town of Western on 27 June 1793. Their children were born at Becket in Berkshire County from 1795.

At Becket he was a clothier. On 11 October 1796 David Brown of Becket, gentleman, sold "Orsimus Gilbert of Becket, Clothier" house lot number 2, forty two acres, for $100. A clothier finished the cloth that farm families wove at home, fulling and dressing it at a water mill. He mortgaged the lot back to Brown, and in September 1802 he sold out to John Lester.

The next year he is found at Lebanon, in Madison County, New York. By 1805 he was keeping the first tavern in the place, and he held one of the five original shares of the land Lebanon village was built on. His son's gravestone calls him Deacon.

The family had a painted record made, with three tombstones for the children who died and a profile of each parent and of six living children. In 1966 it was on show at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. It is the only known likeness of him.

He died on 9 March 1843 and is buried at Lebanon Village Cemetery under a footstone cut O. G.

Children

Vine Brown Gilbert (1797-1873)

Sources

Wilbraham town clerk's record of marriage intentions, in Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 · FamilySearch image ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97M-B3N4
Vital records of Warren (formerly Western), Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, archive.org vitalrecordsofwa00warr · marriages, page 81
Vital records of Becket, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, archive.org vitalrecordsofbe00beck · births, page 22 of the scan
Luna M. Hammond, History of Madison County, State of New York (Syracuse, 1872), archive.org historyofmadison00hamm · pages 569-570
Luna M. Hammond, History of Madison County, State of New York (Syracuse, 1872), archive.org historyofmadison00hamm · page 559
Gilbert monument, Lebanon Village Cemetery, Lebanon, Madison County, New York · photographs on Find a Grave memorials 32796130 and 32796136

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