Robert Gibbes

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Robert Gibbes (born January 9, 1644 probably in Sandwich , Kent , England , † June 24, 1715 in the Province of South Carolina ) was an English or British colonial official and acting governor of the Province of South Carolina.

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The place of birth of Robert Gibbes is given in almost all sources with sandwich in the county of Kent. Only his biography on Carolana.Com names Sandarich in Barbados as his place of birth. He was a son of Robert Gibbes Sr. and Mary Coventry. In his youth, the younger Robert Gibbes left his English homeland and settled in Barbados. In 1665 he was involved in the unsuccessful founding of an English colony near Cape Fear in what would later become the US state of North Carolina . After the end of this colony in 1667, he first returned to Barbados. In 1672 he began in what would later become South Carolina with the acquisition of larger lands. For a while he shuttled back and forth between Barbados and South Carolina before firmly establishing himself on the North American coast.

Since 1684 he held political offices in South Carolina, which was then the southern part of the Province of Carolina . First he was the sheriff head of the local police. From 1692 to 1694 he was a member of the colonial parliament. He later became a member of the colony's Grand Council. In 1708 he was finally appointed Chief Justice there. After the death of Governor Edward Tynte in June 1710, he managed to be appointed as his acting successor with the help of bribes. As a result, there was rivalry with the inferior or defrauded competitor for this post, Thomas Broughton . This led to riot in the colony in the meantime. Gibbes was able to keep his office until the arrival of the new regular governor Charles Craven (March 19, 1712). In 1711 he sent troops to North Carolina to help the settlers there against Indian attacks. Otherwise, he did not achieve much in his two years as acting governor. Robert Gibbes died on June 24, 1715.

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SURNAME Gibbes, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English politician; Governor of the Province of South Carolina
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandwich , Kent , England
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1715
Place of death Province of South Carolina