Nathan Gibbs
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Michigan's Early Military Forces (2003) lists Nathan Gibbs as having served as a private in Goff's Company, from May 22 through June 6, 1832. A pension application record for him exists.
There are two land patent records for him, both with an issue date of 1 Apr 1831. One is the NE quarter of section 34, T7S R4E (Palmyra Township, Lenawee County). (It's a fractional section -- 64 acres.) The other is the W½NW of Section 35, T7S R4E (80 acres). The Raisin River flows through the NE of Section 34.
There is a reference to Gibbs in the 1874 Lenawee county atlas, on page 15:
Palmyra was set off from Blissfield in the spring of 1834, and included also the present limits of Ogden Township. Ezra Goff and Henry J. Paddock are supposed to have been the first actual settlers in 1826, followed soon after by T. B. Goff, Wm. Foster, Benjamin Mather, Americus Smith, Nathan Gibbs, Jr.,...
The 1909 county history contains these references to him:
Page 256:
In 1829 Alanson Darwin, one of the early Presbyterian ministers in the county, established a church organization at the village of Blissfield. A class was organized under the leadership of Hervey Bliss, Timothy Goff, and Nathan Gibbs, the class consisting of themselves and wives, and a few others. The congregation at first worshiped in.the dwellings of the members and in the old log school house, which had been constructed in the summer of 1827,
Page 483:
The Presbyterian church of Blissfield, the second of that denomination established in Lenawee county, and the first religious organization of any sect to be placed in the field in Blissfield, was formally organized on Feb. 22, 1829, in the log house of Hervey Bliss-the founder of the village-the Rev. Alanson Darwin, of Tecumseh, presiding over the meeting. There were nine original members, and they have all passed to the church triumphant. Hervey Bliss, Timothy Goff, and Nathan Gibbs constituted the first board of elders. The congregation at first worshipped in the dwellings of the members and in the old log school-house, which had been constructed in the summer of 1827.
