I am searching the origins of my great-great-great grandfather William Gibson, who was born in Ireland of Scottish ancestry about 1767. He came to this
country in the late 1780's and settled in Allegheny County near Pittsburgh, where he became a farmer. He married a woman whose maiden name may have been Laugshead, who had several brothers who fought in the War of 1812, one
of whom may have been a general. Late in life, William Gibson moved to Beaver County and died there in 1846. He may have had a brother Robert who died there the same year. We know much more about his William's son, William Robison Gibson, who was born in Allegheny County in 1803. He
became a tin- and coppersmith and had a shop in Beavertown, PA. He married Martha McChesney in Darlington, Beaver Co., 9 February 1837, and had seven sons: Robert McChesney, William Robison, Jr., Samuel McChesney, Thomas
James, Richard John, Josiah Hatchman, and Joseph L., all except the last born in Butler County, PA between 1837 and 1847. William R. Sr.'s wife was born in Ireland in 1809, and was the daughter of Robert McChesney, who emigrated to America about 1812, and settled in Indiana County, PA. He
afterwards moved from there to Lawrence County, of which he was an early settler, and became a well-to-do farmer before his death in 1852. After William R. Sr.'s wedding he and his wife settled in Centreville, Butler County, where he worked as a tinsmith. Three years later he moved onto his farm, which he had purchased a short time before his marriage, and built a log cabin and became one of the first settlers of the place. He improved a farm of 126 acres and cultivated it until the fall of 1852, when he movedhis family (including all seven sons) to Andrew, then the county seat of Jackson County, Iowa, near the Mississippi River. He became a wealthy farmer and died in 1886, though not in Iowa. I would particularly appreciate any suggestions or leads to the Irish origins of William R. Sr.'s father, described at the beginning of this e-mail, including any manifests for ships travelling between Ireland and New York or Philaselphia in the late 1780s. His brother Robert may have had descendants in Beaver County with information about William R.Sr.'s and Robert's father.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

David R. Gibson