Joseph Gilpin ^{1 2}

   Ancestral File Number: 1MCK-86.

  General Notes:

"Joseph Gilpin (1664-1771) Colonel in Cromwells Army and later became a Quaker. Descended from Richard De Gaylpin in 1206. Sailed from England to Chester Co., Pa., 1696. Settled at Chads Ford, Chester Co., Pa., 1696." American Armoury and Blue Book., 1907. John Matthews

"The Gilpin House, used by the Marquis de Lafayette as headquarters at the time of the Battle of Brandywine, has been restored and preserved in Brandywine Battlefield State Park, overlooking Chadd's Ford, Pa. Washington moved his army to Brandywine Creek, southwest of Philadelphia, and there engaged the British advance on September 11, 1777.

"John Gilpin, Elkton, Md. (1123) Son of Henry H. and Margaret W. (Ricketts) Gilpin; grandson of John and Mary Hollingsworth) Gilpin; great grandson of Henry Hollingsworth, Colonel Elk Battalion Maryland Militia; great grandson of Joseph Gilpin, member of Maryland Convention of 1776" National Register of the Society Sons of the American Revolution.

  Research Notes:

Joseph Gilpin, third son and sixth child of Thomas and Joan (Bartholomew) Gilpin, was born , June 8, 1663, at Warborough, Oxfordshire, and at the date of his marriage, February 23, 169 0-1, was a weaver at Dorchester in the same county, as shown by the certificate of his marria ge to Hannah Glover, "of Ichingwell in ye parish of Kingsclerc, and County of Southton, spins ter, daughter of Geroge Glover of the same place, deceased, and Alice his wife, him surviving ," at "an Assembly of the People of God called Quakers, in their publick meeting place at Baghurst, County of Southton, aforesaid." Which certificate is entered on the records of Concord Friends Meeting, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where the certificate of Joseph Gilpin an d his wife "from Friends in England" was deposited February 10, 1695-6. Alice Glover, the mo ther mentioned in the above quoted certificate was a sister to Willian Lamboll, of Reading, B erkshire, England, who by deed of lease and release dated June 28 and 30, 1683, purchased of William Penn 625 Acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania. George Glover, Had beside H annah Gilpin, another daughter, Alice, who December 19, 1680, married John Brunsden, of Bucklebury, to whom William Lambol, by deed dated August 2, 1684, conveyed another 100 acres there of to his sister Alice Glover, of Dorchester, County Oxford, for her use for life then to her daughter Hannah Gilpin. John and Alice (Glover) Brunsden, for the said William Lamboll, wh o never came to Pennsylvania, dying at Reading, County Berks, England, October 3, 1720 in his eighty-sixth year. By deed, dated December 9, 1704, he conveyed 75 acres to Joseph Gilpin , and by another deed, dated May 18, 1716, 250 acres of the 625 acre purchase, making their holdings on the Brandywine, 425 acres. This tract was nearly a century later the scene of th e historic battle of Brandywine. Joseph Gilpin, his wife Hannah and their two eldest childre n arrived at New Castle in the autumn of 1695, an drrom thence made their way on foot to their new home in the primitive wilderness, still inhabited by the Indians, with whom he and hi s family remained on intimate terms for many years. Their first residence was in a cave on the bank of the Brandywine, where their first American born child was born. Joseph Gilpin was the patriarch of the early English Settlement of that section and for many years acted as the agent of later settlers in securing homes for them in the wilderness. He died on his Birm ingham plantation, November 9, 1739, and his widow and the mother of his fifteen children sur vived until January 12, 1757, when all of her fifteen children survived until January 12, 175 7, when all of her fifteen children were married, and she had sixty-two grandchildren, and several great grand-children.

Joseph married Hannah Glover, daughter of George Glover and Alice Lamboll, on 23 Feb 1691 in Friends Meeting House, Hamps, England. (Hannah Glover was born in 1675 in Fishingwell, Kingsclere, Southhampton, England, died on 12 Jan 1757 in Birmingham Township, Chester, Pennsylvania and was buried in Jan 1757.)

  Marriage Notes:

Page 6 Joseph GILPIN of Dorchester in the County of [torn]
Oxon? Weaver by trade Son of Thomas GILPIN of Warbor[torn]
in the County aforesaid Tallowchandler by trade and of Joan?
his wife And Hannah GLOVER of ?hingswell in ye parish of
Kingsshare? and County of Southton? Spinster Daughter of
the? same place Deseased And of Alice GLOVER his wife him
Surviving . . . 23, 12m call'd February, 1691 . . . in their
Publick Meeting place at Baghurst & County of Southton?
aforesd . . .
Thomas GILPIN Junr
Isaac GILPIN
Thomas WEST
John WHITE
William LAMBELL
Richard LAMB
John BUY?
Benjamin WHITAKER
William WALTER
Edward ALLAY
Richard HOLLYMAN
William APPLETON
John STEVENS
Thomas THORP?
Thos. DELL Junr
Thomas PRICE
John PALMER
Nichs. GATES Senr
James POTTER
Thomas GILPIN Senior Matthew POTTER Joseph GILPIN
John GIDON?
Mordin: TULL
Thos. ALMAN
John HOSKINS?
Jerom: GODING
Tho: KIRTON
Nath: GODING
Joan GILPIN
Ats. GLOVER
Ann GILPIN
Eliz: KAMBALL
Eliz: CRAFT
Ann WALTER
Mary DELL?
Jane BURGESS
Ann EDWARDS
Eliz: SPARABEL
Mary TITTLEWORTH
Patience HOLLYMAN
Hannah GLOVER
Mary PETERSON
Mary POTTER Junr
Bridget YATES
Sarah POTTER
Jane SMITH
Alice HOSKINS
Bridget GREEN
Jane YATES
Sarah TULL
Katherin KINGM
Mary ALLEN?
Elizabeth WATTS
Jane TULL
Ann TEGE?
Mary HOLLYMAN
Marnerv POTTER