| 4. | George HIBBARD was born on 1 Jan 1746 in Windham (Windham) Connecticut (son of Joseph HIBBARD, M.D. and Martha SMITH); died on 23 Jul 1823 in Hadley (Hampshire) Massachusetts. Notes:
George Hibbard came to Hadley, Massachusetts from Windham, Connecticut about 1780. He was one of the principal settlers of North Hadley. At the date of his death, he had 16 children, 109 grandchildren, and 51 great grandchildren.
His obituary from the Northampton Gazette reads: "Mr. George Hibbard, formerly of Windham, Conn., died at Hadley, Mass., July 23, 1823, aged 77. He had sixteen children, one hundred and nine grandchildren and fifty-one great-grandchildren. Fourteen of his children, twenty of his grandchildren, and one of his great-grandchildren are married and most of them have flourishing families. A few years since, Mr. Hibbard and wife made a public profession of religion in Hadley, together with seventeen of their children and children-in-law. He was the progenitor of great part of the neightborhood called Upper Mills, in Hadley, and during a long life has been to them, in a happy degree, and example of that 'wisdom that is from above is first oure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy'."
George married Lydia ALLEN. Lydia was born in Lebanon, Massachusetts; died after 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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