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Benevolence.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Thomas Gibbons, 1720-1785

Julian's account is as follows:

Thomas Gibbons was born at Reak, near Newmarket on May 31st. Now may the God of peace and love.

Pardon. At the time of the case, the concept of nationalism had become increasingly popular in America. It was dated 1769 and headed "Close of Service" The hymn is in all the editions of the Little Flock Hymn Book from 1856 to 1978.

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Thomas Gibbons


RegionOccupationBornDied
North America, New EnglandBusinessman17571826

Planter, lawyer, and steamship owner.

In 1817 Gibbons formed a steamboat partnership with Aaron Ogden, a former New Jersey governor, to transport passengers from New York to New Brunswick, New Jersey.

One executive order gave Thomas Gibbons permission to remain at his mother's and to pass to and from Savannah but required him to hold himself a prisoner to the Sheriff of Chatham County. After the General sailed for the capital in Philadelphia at the end of July, Jackson challenged the validity of the election by petition to the House of Representatives. This is No.

50 in Book ii. This gave him a few warm friends and many bitter enemies."

And finally Spalding describes a conversation with James Jackson, after Jackson had gone on to become Governor of Georgia. The families and the New York courts claimed that the monopoly extended to the shores of New Jersey. In addition to his ministerial office he became, in 1754, tutor of the Dissenting Academy at Mile End, London; and, in 1759, Sunday evening lecturer at Monkwell Street.

His hymns are not unlike those of the second rank of Watts. v.).
5. This I knew, as I was his collector and Mrs. Gibbons his treasurer.
Gibbons was not a very fluent speaker. I never saw any failure in his mind. Book II. Written on sacred subjects and particular occasions by Thomas Gibbons, D.D., 1784.

Gibbons further protested that he purchased a U.S. coastal license, which gave him an overriding permit to use any waterways bordering the Atlantic. The case went to the New York Court of Chancery, where Judge James Kent ruled that only Ogden could sail between New York and Elizabethtown Point because he had earlier yielded to the Livingston monopoly in 1815.

His career had its paradoxes and mysteries, then and later. In addition to his ministerial office he became in 1754, tutor of the Dissenting Academy at Mile End, London: and in 1859, Sunday evening lecturer at Monkwell Street. When Thomas was only twelve, his enterprising father died. The hymn, "Great God, at Thy command, Seasons in order rise," begins with st.

thomas gibbons biography

(5) The Christian Minister in three poetical epistles to Philander, 1772.