This is what the British government had to say about my family. What ya think @outlaw?
16, 2016
Gibson Family in the Land of the Pink Pearl
In 1866, Louis Diston Powles (1842-1911), or L.D.Powles, was appointed Magistrate of the Bahamas Island. One of his first acts was to tour the island group, after which he had a book published:
Land of the Pink Pearl. One of the islands that he visited was Eleuthera where he learned of and wrote about the Gibson brothers. One of the eight Gibson brothers referenced in the book was my great great grandfather, Richard Gibson.
This is what the book had to say:
[Source: Powles, Louis Diston. The Land of the Pink Pearl: or, Recollections of Life in the Bahamas. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ltd., 1888 (p. 226-227);[Second edition published in Nassau by Media Publishing, Ltd., 1996. (Page 269)]