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Richard Bibb's father was John Bibb whose will is recorded in Goochland DB 9, p.213. The will was written 24 May 1769; probate 17 Jul 1769. Wife Susanna [Bigger]. Sons Richard, William, John, James. Daughters Susannah Clark whose husband is James Clark; Elizabeth Farrar. Slave to granddaughter Lucy Clark. Sons John & James are to purchase slaves for granddaughter Susanna Elizabeth Bibb and Jane Farrar. Land bought from nephew William Bibb to be sold and the money invested to maintain William Bibb, wife Susanna, son Richard, and father-in-law, William Bigger. Exec: Wife Susanna, sons William & Richard. Wit: John Watson, William Barnett, William Woodall.

Goochland DB 12
p.209 1 Dec 1778 Richard Bibb & Lucy his wife to John Syms of Hanover Co. 1163 £ 5 sh. Tract in Goochland & Hanover whereon the said Richard Bibb & Susanna Bibb his Mother now live, except the burying ground of one half acre. 775 and 1/2 acres bounded by a survey Latly made and is hearunto annexed. The upper moiety of which tract of 387 3/4 acres the said Richard Bibb is seized of …fee simple of the lower oiety containing a like number of acres and separated from the upper part by a Dividing line laid down in said Survey, seized in fee simple on the death of his Mother, the said Susanna Bibb according to the will of his Deceased Father. To have the upper moiety immediately, from the estate hereof the remainder. Signed: Richd. Bib
Wit: L. Merrideth, Daniel Hawes, David Newland, James Vaughan
21 Dec 1788 David Haes, Newland & Vaughan proved this deed.

Date of Probate 28 Jan 1839. Will written 11 Oct 1837. Executors: Richard Jr. & John B. Bibb. Witnesses: M. B. Morton, K. H. Wood, James E. Wright.

Remarks from the 1928 Bible transcription, placed in quotes and probably not from the Bible, follow:
"Richard Bibb was a Captain in the Revolutionary War & Member of the Legislature of Virginia and of Kentucky.
William Bibb [his brother] moved to Georgia from Virginia and was the Father of William & Thos. Bibb. William was Senator of U.S. from Georgia and afterwards Governor of Alabama.
Thos. was also Governor of Alabama. [I believe this is the son of William]
John B. Bibb was a Major in the War of 1812, Representative & Senator in the KY Legislature from Logan Co 1828, 1829, 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1835.
[Richard Bibb Sr] was an educated man & a successful farmer and business man. He was a local Preacher in the Methodist Church and strongly advocated in several pamphlets & newspapers, in his latter days, a reform in Church government, so as to have a Lay delegation. This has since been effected.
Descendants of Jas. Bibb & John Bibb are scattered about the U. States - some in Kentucky."

Written in T.P.Atticus Bibb Family Record which appears in Kentucky Ancestors with the bible record of Rev. Richard Bibb is the following:
"My grandfather Richard Bibb was a Virginia and was educated for the ministry in the Episcopal Church. On coming to Kentucky and finding few or no churches and the ministry in the state abandoning the church, one by fighting a duel, the other by corruption and bribery, he joined the Methodist Church and entered the pulpit. He died a Methodist at age 86. He was a man of fortune. He emancipated all his slaves and gave them lands in Ky. and Illinois."

Kentucky Historical Marker, Eighth & Winter Sts., Russellville, US 431
Bibb, a Revolutionary War soldier, was born in Va. in 1752. He came to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1798; moved to Logan Co. the next year where he built Bibb's Chapel. Later, erected this house for his wife. Maj. Bibb freed 29 of his slaves in 1829 and sent them to Liberia. He died in 1839, and his will provided for the release of his other slaves and gave them land.

Birth	15 Apr 1752	Goochland County, Virginia
Marriage	28 Sep 1775	Lucy Booker
Marriage	25 Dec 1817	Mary Ann Jackson
Death	25 Jan 1839	Logan County, Kentucky

Spouse	Lucy Booker (1758 - 1815)
Child	George M. Bibb (1776 - 1859)
Child	Richard Bibb Jr. (1780 - 1839)
Child	Mary Bibb (1782 - 1819)
Child	[Son] Bibb (1784 - 1784)
Child	Lucy Booker Bibb (1786 - 1848)
Child	John B. Bibb (1789 - 1884)
Child	Edward C. Bibb (1792 - 1794)
Child	Thomas Bibb ( - 1795)
Child	Susanna Elizabeth Bibb (1800 - 1825)

Spouse

Mary Ann Jackson (1777 - 1831)

Father	John Bibb (1703 - 1769)
Mother	Susanna Bigger (1711 - 1786)
Sibling	Susanna Bibb (1737 - )
Sibling	William Bibb (1739 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Bibb (1741 - 1828)
Sibling	John Bibb Jr. (1743 - )
Sibling	James Bibb (1745 - 1820)
Sibling	Thomas Bibb (1749 - 1766)