Gaius Kibbe was born
August 17, 1785, to Mary or Polly Pease. In their early married life this couple lived in
Enfield, but by 1797 Gaius is recored in Coos County, New Hampshire, where his sister,
Margaret, and the Parsons family had settled near Colebrook. By 1802 Gaius had moved his family
across the river into Minehead Vermont. Since 1830 this area has been called Bloomfield, Vermont.
Mary Kibbe died in Minehead, May 14, 1802 aged 35. Gaius then married Nance Kidd on March 17, 1803
in Chesterfield, Mass. She was born December 18, 1777. Around 1814 this family moved to
Buffalo, New York and in 1820 began a long trek to Louisiana. Gaius, having secured a grant
of land in Attakapas, Louisiana, induced his large family of sons and daughters, and their
children to move with him to that new country. Accordingly they prepared rafts of lumber, and
houses ready for erection. They embarked with all their possesions from Olean Point, traveled
down the Ohio River, and spent the first winter in Cincinnati. In the spring they continued
the journey down the Ohio and Mississippi, and into the bayous of southern Louisiana. When they
arrived in Louisiana acclimating fever attacked them, and many died. They settled in the
Bayou Teche area of St. Mary parish. Gaius died there. July 21, 1821. His widow died
September 15, 1840, at Bayou Chicot, Louisiana.
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