John Nicholas Gibbs II (1733–1817) was a German settler in Eastern Tennessee. He was born Johann Nickel Gibbs on September 29, 1733, in the Village of Wallruth in the Duchy of Baden, Holy Roman Empire."Nicholas Gibbs Burial Information"
There is a Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society"Website of Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society" that bought"The Gibbs House: Excavation of a Late 18th century German-American Farmstead in Knox County, Tennessee" the Gibbs farmstead and applied to make the place a national landmark."Application For National Landmark Status by Nicholas Gibbs Society" It was a rural domestic site was inhabited by four generations of the Nicholas Gibbs family between ca. 1792 and 1913." The Nicholas Gibbs Farmstead, Knox County, East Tennessee" An archaeological survey was conducted by the University of Tennessee and has helped academics understand the life of early settlers in the region.Mark D. Groover "An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Appalachia, 1790-1820"
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