This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GIBSON, SEWELL, RHINES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wAZ.2ACIB/5129 Message Board Post: In researching my sewell line, I viewd a 1760 land record (MA land records, S Worcester) book 41, pg. 426 that gives the details for the sale of inherited property of William & Elizabeth SEWELL Rines Gibson residing in HOPKINTON, MA left to Elizabeth in her father, Timothy's will of 1753. Elizabeth was born in 1718 Lynn, Essex Co., MA to Timothy & Elizabeth Jeffrey Sewell. They migrated with several children to Mendon, Worcester Co., MA about 1729--at least the proprietors records for Mendon show property owned by Timothy beginning in that year. Elizabeth Jeffrey Sewell died prior to 1735 and is buried on property where 1.5 acres around her burial were excepted in a sale BY Timothy Sewell of property in 1745. 30 June 1735 Timothy marries Bridget Lyndsey,issues two other children, and dies with will 1753 in which Elizabeth Gibson is an heir. Upon obtaining the will and probates, the transcriber of the probates listed Elizabeth's husband as Eleanah. This clearly was an ! error on the transcriber's part, as it so appears that Elizabeth signed the probate (very badly I might add), and the 1760 land sale settles the issue. In a cursory search for the marriage of William & Elizabeth I find her name given as Rines in the vital records with a note Elizabeth of Mendon. Clearly this was a second marriage for both Elizabeth Sewell and William Gibson as his PREVIOUS WIFE WHOM HE MARRIED IN 1744 HAD DIED, and that event is listed elsewhere in a couple of genealogies. William's father was JOHN GIBSON and it appears that William was born ca 1715.