64–65. Ezra Gilbert was born in Hebron, Connecticut, on Monday, May 23, 1726, and died in Warren, Connecticut, on September 28, 1805. Hannah Rust was born in Coventry, Connecticut, on Saturday, March 25, 1732, and died in Hebron on January 21, 1753. They were married on Wednesday, March 28, 1750. She took the name Hannah Gilbert. He is the son of Samuel and Mercy (Warner) Gilbert. She is the daughter of Nathanial and Hannah (Hatch) Rust. They had no children.
His second marriage was to Mary Hurlbut on Wednesday, November 26, 1755. She took the name Mary Gilbert. She was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on Monday, June 12, 1732, and died on March 29, 1794. She is the daughter of Joseph and Martha (Scott) Hurlbut. They had 11 children:
| i. | Truman Gilbert [#32]: He was born in Kent (Warren), Connecticut, on July 27, 1757, and died in Palmyra Township, Portage County, Ohio, on June 15, 1841. | |
| ii. | Heber Gilbert: born October 18, 1758; married Lucinda Pennock.; died 2 Jan 1832 age 77y 2m 14d (from tombstone in Palmyra Cemetery). Note that Connecticut Vital Records, vol. 1, p. 38, has the spelling of his name in his birth record as "Heborne". Since "Heber" was a popular name in the Gilbert family in those generations, and the spelling "Heborne" is never found anywhere else, it is assumed here that the intended name was, in fact, "Heber". More information on this family. | |
| iii. | Ezra Gilbert: born March 7, 1763; married Huldah Warner on October 4, 1782. | |
| iv. | Joseph Gilbert: born September 30, 1764; married Abigail _____. | |
| v. | Jabez Gilbert: born April 14, 1766; married Love Hull; died 12 Apr 1843. Moved to Palmyra, Ohio, 1808. She died 10 Sep 1847 age 71. | |
| vi. | Warner Gilbert: born January 14, 1768; living April 16, 1799. | |
| vii. | Mary Gilbert: born December 31, 1770; died young. | |
| viii. | Mary Gilbert: born October 18, 1772; living in Thetford, Vermont, in 1806. | |
| ix. | Samuel Gilbert: born about 1774; married Laura Twiss. | |
| x. | Mercy Gilbert: born about 1776; married David Hitchcock. | |
| xi. | Burton Gilbert: married (1) Mary Curtis, (2) Mary Stone, (3) Thalia Niles. |
His third marriage was to Rebecca _____. She survived him.
The information in this item is taken from The Gilbert Family, pages 141-2, from which the following is quoted.
Ezra Gilbert remained in Hebron until the death of his wife, Hannah. Being obliged to make a new start in life, he removed to northwestern Connecticut and in 1755 he was living in the East Greenwich parish of Kent, now the town of Warren. Here he probably lived first in a log cabin or other temporary shelter. The locality was remote and retired. He then built a house on Town Hill in Warren, just east of the present [1930] house of Charles Curtis, who used it as a woodshed. When Ezra Gilbert built this house, he placed upon the top of the chimney a stone with the date 1773 and E. G. cut in it. This stone is now built into the foundation of a house at Storrs, Connecticut.Ezra Gilbert's will, dated April 16, 1799, proved October, 1805, mentions wife Rebecca and all the children named above; also a young man under twenty-one, James Pendall.
Mary, wife of Ezra Gilbert, was a member of the Congregational Church at Warren on March 18, 1772, but not in 1757.
