• General Notes

  See pg 139 of "KNOW YOUR RELATIVES - THE SHARPS" for additional info.
  Served in the American Revolution. Fought in the Battle at Kings
  Mtn., NC. Info shows that the family originally came from England to
  Germany - due to religious persecution. He also served as a Justice
  of the Peace in Knox Co., TN in 1796.
  
  Arrived on the Ship "Phoenix" from Rotterdam on 1 Oct 1754. Nicholas arrived in
  North Carolina before 1765 and moved to Harbinson's Cross Roads in Knox County Tennessee.
  
  Another distinguised settler at Sharp's Station was Nicholas Gibbs. Gibbs was born in the Duchy of Baden, German, on September 29, 1733. It is claimed that he saw service in the French and Indian War and during the  American Revolution as an official of Orange County, North Carolina, under the Continental Government. The Gibbs family had once been courtiers at the royal court when the Stuart dynasty held power in England and held great estates there. Gen. G. W. Gibbs, a son of Nicholas, in a letter to the first William Gibbs McAdoo, in 1846,stated that his family left England to save their heads at the time their king lost his, and from this bit of information, we believe that the Gibbs family migratd to German when Cromwell came to power and caused King Charles I to be executed.   Before migrating to Tennessee Nicholas Gibbs lived some four miles from present Burlington, North Carolina on  Liberty Road. Stoner's Church at the confluence of the creeks that united to form Great Alamance, housed both the German Reform and the Lutheran congregations.
  Nicholas died from injuries suffered in the War of 1812.
  Nicholas held the rank of 2nd Liet. He died from wounds suffered in the Battle of Horseshoe in the Great War Against Great Brittain (War of 1812).  Nicholas was a friend of Andrew Jackson.
  
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  It is believed that the forefathers of Nicholas Gibbs, because of religious and politcal reasons, migrated from England, their mother country in 1649. They sought refuge along the Rhine River in Germany. It was in the village Wallruth, Duchy of Baden, that Nicholas Gibbs was born in 1733.
  
  At the age of 21, Nicholas left his homeland and arrived at the port of Philadephia in 1754. He served in The French and Indian War under Captain Nicholas Weatherholt.
  
  He settled in Orange County North Carolina before 1764. He married Mary Efland about 1764. Nicholas purchased 600 acres of land in 1768, situated where Almance County is located now. He served as tax collector in 1778 and 1782. He sold his property in 1791 and moved to Knox County in Eastern Tennessee.
  
  According to Tennessee records, Nicholas bought 450 acres in what was then Hawkins County. Nicholas attended Millers church (first known as Lona Church). He was one of the first elders.
  
  Nicholas died in 1817, and Mary in 1833. They are both buried in an old Cemetery located Emergy Road near Knoxville, Tennessee.
  
  

Details of Johann "Nicholas"'s family with Mary Efland