Historic Markers - Thomas Gibbons TN23

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Thomas Gibbons TN23

Born in Surry (now Sussex) County, Virginia, in 1734, he settled here in 1778, having been forcibly ejected from a homestead about 12 miles east by one Robert Young. The courts of Spencer County,State of Franklin,met in his house 1785-87. On June 4, 1787,the first county court of Hawkins County, North Carolina, met here. Gibbonsdied in 1811.

U.S. llW, at Blevins Road at Big Creek Hawkins County Tennessee


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