When Aquilla Gibson was born in 1663, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Gibson, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Purchase, was 21. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1674. He died on 4 November 1671, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 8.
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English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Gibb (a pet form of Gilbert) + son, hence ‘son of Gibb’. The name is very common in Ireland, having arrived in that country in the 17th century. It is also occasionally adopted for Ó Gibealláin, see Giblin .
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