Gibbons, Thomas, 1757-1826
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Gibbon, Thomas, 1757-1826
Gibbons, Thomas (Of Elizabeth, N.J)
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found: NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Lib. for Gibbons family. Papers, 1807-1856(Thomas Gibbons; brother of William Gibbons (d. 1852) accused of aiding a runaway slave; owner of steamboats Thistle, Bellona, etc.)
found: DAB(Gibbons, Thomas, 1757-1826; lawyer, politician, steamboat operator; plaintiff in Gibbons vs. Ogden; mayor Savannah; res. Elizabethtown, N.J.; owner of steamship Bellona)
found: Wall, J.P. The chronicles of New Brunswick, 1931:p. 74, etc. (Thomas Gibbons; Thomas Gibbon; owner of New Brunswick steamship Bellona; in partnership with A. Ogden until dissolved by court injunction)
found: LC data base 2/27/87(hdg.: Gibbons, Thomas, of Elizabeth, N.J.)
found: Robert W. Carver collection of Gibbons family papers, 1788-1990 :(Thomas Gibbons; born December 15, 1757 at Savannah, Ga.; died May 16, 1826 at New York City; lawyer, plantation owner raising rice, cotton and timber; slaveholder in Georgia; in 1811 made his permanent home at Elizabethtown, now the City of Elizabeth, N.J., where he owned property that included a ferry landing; in 1818 began operating an early steamboat line between New York City, Elizabethtown and New Brunswick, N.J., in competition with his former partner Aaron Ogden, precipitating the lawsuit that resulted in the landmark Supreme Court case of Gibbons vs. Ogden, father, not brother, of William Gibbons (1794-1852))
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1986-07-01: new
2019-04-05: revised
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