Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 167 merchant, son of Abraham Gibbs and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Maudit, bapt. St. Mary Arches, 27 March, 1653 5 Bailiff of the City, 1685, 1694; Sheriff, 1696 ; died 31 March, buried St. Mary Arches, 4 April, 1726, aged 73, M.I. By him she had issue a daughter, Ann, who married at St. Mary Arches, 18 Dec, 1705, John Pine of Dartmouth, bapt. St. Paul's, Exeter, 23 Nov., 1680, son of Malachy Pine of Exeter, and his wife Mary, daughter of John^Goodall of Fowye. And a son, John Mercer, born 29 Oct., bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 17 Nov., 1659; buried there 24 Jan., 1719. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Conant, Vicar of East Budleigh, 1672-1688, and his second wife Mary Northcott, of Compton Valance, Dorset. Bapt. at East Budleigh, 5 Sep., 1668; married there 7 July, 1681 ; buried at Ottery St. Mary, 19 May, 1701. They had issue: — John Mercer, named in will of brother Malachy, iyl. Richard Mercer, named in will of grandfather, John Mercer, 1694. Malachy Mercer, of Exeter, Apothecary, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 24 Sept., 1684. Will dated 4 Jan., 1711; proved 9 Apr., 1712 {Archdy. Exeter). He married at St. Pancras, Exeter, 18 June, 1710, Susanna Winde. And a daughter, Jael Mercer, bapt. at Ottery St. Mary, 21 Oct., 1686; married at Holy Trinity, Exeter, 5 Nov., 1719; buried at St. Paul's, Exeter, 3 Aug., 1763. She married, as his second wife, Henry Gandy,* son of Simon Gandy, of Exeter, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Gibbs, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Maudit. He was born 11 April, bapt. 22 Apr., 1679, at All Hallows, Goldsmith St. ; Town Clerk of the City of
- His first wife was Grace, born 14 Nov., bapt. 23 Nov., 1679, at All
Hallows, Goldsmith St. ; married at St. Martin's, 7 Oct.. 1705 ; buried at St. Paul's, 9 Oct., 1718 ; daughter of Samuel Sampson, of Exeter, Apothecary, and his wife Grace, daughter of Philip Hooper. Samuel Sampson bapt. at Coiyton, 3 Oct., 1648, was son of Nicholas Sampson, of Colyton (1617- 1704).
