The HIBBARD Family
HISTORY OF HANOVER TOWNSHIP AND WYOMING VALLEY
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
By: Henry Blackman Plumb, 1885, 498 pp.
Robert Baur, Printer and Stationer, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Website Compiled By: James H. Culbert
THE HIBBARD FAMILY
CONTAINED IN THE HANOVER GENEALOGICAL TABLES TO 1830, pp. 423-424
This page last updated: 16 Jul 2009
Note: Additions to the information found in Plumb's History of Hanover are shown below in red text.
Robert HIBBARD 1, the first of the family certainly known in America by name, was born in 1647, probably in Beverly, Mass.; married Mary [blank]; removed to Windham, Conn.; died there in 1710. They had:
Robert HIBBARD, b. 1676, m. Mary READ
Joseph HIBBARD, b. 1678, m. Abigail HIBBARD
Nathaniel HIBBARD, m. Sarah CRANE
Ebenezer HIBBARD, m. [blank]
Mary HIBBARD, m. Jonathan CRANE
Martha HIBBARD, m. Ephraim CULVER
Hannah HIBBARD, m. [blank]
Sarah HIBBARD
Abigail HIBBARD
Ebenezer HIBBARD 2 (Robert 1) was born in Windham, Conn. about 1684; married; died, it is believed, in Windham County. They had (among other children):
Ebenezer HIBBARD, b. about 1710, m. Hannah DOWNER; d. 1779
Ebenezer HIBBARD 3 (Ebenezer 2, Robert 1) was born in Connecticut, the date believed to be about 1710, as he came to Wyoming as an old man in 1769 with a family of grown-up sons; had married Hannah DOWNER; died in Hanover in 1779 at Buttonwood. They had:
Ebenezer HIBBARD, b. about 1740, m. [blank]
William HIBBARD, unmarried, d. in Conn. about 1835
Cyprian HIBBARD, b. 1752, m. Sarah BURRETT, d. 1778
Ebenezer HIBBARD 4 (Ebenezer 3, Ebenezer 2, Robert 1) was born in Connecticut, probably about 1740; came to Wyoming among the first two hundred settlers in 1769 with his father's family, or ahead of them; settled near the River Road in Hanover on Solomon's Creek about 1772; married; was in the Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778, with his two brothers, William and Cyprian, but escaped; died in Hanover subsequent to 1790. They had:
Naomi HIBBARD, m. Darius PRESTON
Bathsheba (Brasha) HIBBARD, m. John HENDERSHOT
Calvin HIBBARD, m. [blank]
Cyprian HIBBARD 4 (Ebenezer 3, Ebenezer 2, Robert 1) was born in Connecticut in 1752; came with his father's family to Hanover about 1772; married Sarah BURRETT; resided in Hanover adjoining the "Green," now the Cemetery [in 1885], on the north-east; was in the Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778 with his two brothers, Ebenezer and William, and was slain on the river bank in the edge of the water; the two brothers escaped. They had:
Hannah Downer HIBBARD, b. 1778, m. John ALEXANDER, d. 1867
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