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I have a newspaper (original issue) dated, Sunday,
May 24, 1908, The North American, Philadelphia. It tells of hundreds of years of
Gilpins, including, "the Gilpin's of Philadelphia," a prominent
family.
The Huntington Library, in San Marino, (Pasadena) Ca., just down the road, has
records of several Gilpins, one of which was, William Gilpin, the first
territorial governor of Colorado. All are descended from Joseph Gilpin
& Hannah Glover. These pictures are scanned portions of this
newspaper. Wonderful history to share!
R. L. Cooke
[email protected]
Click these images to enlarge! Be Patient, they are worth the wait!!!
Story of the ancient family, click to enlarge!
Story of the ancient family, click to enlarge!
Story of the ancient family, click to enlarge!
Story of the ancient family, click to enlarge!
Where shall I begin with the Gilpin's...
The earliest I have is Richard de Gylpyn born bef.
1150, Westmoreland, Eng.,
with a direct line to Joseph Gilpin, father of Sarah Gilpin, wife of Peter
Cook. The Gilpin name is fairly rare in America, and most with that name are
descended from Joseph Gilpin & Hannah Glover, Sarah's parent's.
The Gilpin family is connected to the Washington's. George Washington's gr.
gr. grandmother, Elizabeth Washington, married a Gilpin. A Col. Gilpin was a
pall bearer at Geo. Washington's burial.
Joseph Gilpin was the first Gilpin in America, 1695, and his family lived in
a cave in Birmingham Twp, Chester Co., for their first four years. Two
children (out of 15) were born in the cave, Rachel & Lydia. Joseph's family
was most friendly towards the native Americans (Indians) and his children
played with the Indian children with no problems at all. (I have parts of
Isaac Glover Gilpin's, Joseph's grandson, journal)
I have recently received a letter from the Brandywine Battlefield Park,
Chadd's Ford, Chester Co., Pa., explaining what became of the cave and the
Gilpin homestead, which is still standing. The cave was used as a dump after
Joseph moved out and 18th century items are still being found there.
Joseph Gilpin, b. June 8, 1663, Dorchester, Oxfordshire, Eng., son of Thomas
Gilpin and Joan Bartholomew. Joseph married Hannah Glover, dau. of George &
Alice (Lamboll) Glover, on Feb. 23, 1690/91, Baghurst MH, England.
Joseph died Jan. 9, 1738/39, Birmingham, Chester Co. I have a copy of his
will.
I Joseph Gilpin of the Township of Birmingham in the
County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania Yeoman being sick and weak in
Body but of sound and disposing mind and memory and minding to settle that
Temporal Estate which God has bestowed upon me to present all Difference
Concerning the same after my decease do make this my last Will and Testament
manner following that is to say First my Will is that all my past debts
and funeral Charges be paid as soon as may be after my decease. Item
I give and devise to my loving wife Hannah Gilpin all that my Tract of land
Situate in New Garden Township in Chester County (the bounds will more fully
appear by the writings thereto belonging) which Contains by Estimation One
hundred and Ninety five acres with all my Personal Estate during her natural
life which [unin] not otherwise disposed of this my Will. Item and I
give and Devise to my Son Samuel Gilpin and to his heirs forever Sixty Pounds of
lawful money of this Province to be paid to him within one year after my Wife's
decease And also five pounds of [unin] lawful money to Samuel's Son Joseph
Gilpin to be paid to him within one year after my wife's decease. Item
And I give and Devise to my son Joseph Gilpin and to his heirs forever Tenn
pounds of lawful money of this Province to be paid to him within one year after
my wife's decease. Item And I give and Devise to my Son Mofes Gilpin
and to his heirs forever Fifty pounds of lawful money of this Province to be
paid to him within one year after my Wives decease and one half of my Wearing
Apperel to him after my decease. Item And I give and Devise to my
Daughter Esther Gilpin and to heirs forever Twenty pounds of lawful money of
this Province to be paid to her within one year of my decease And a long Leavith
it to my Wife to give to her what further she think proper or Convenient.
Item And I give and Devise to my Grandson Joseph Seal five pounds lawful
money of this Province to be paid to him within one year after my Wives decease.
Item And I give and Devise to my Grandson Joseph Mendenhall five pounds
lawful money of this Province to be paid to him within one year after my Wives
decease. Item And I give and bequeath to my Grandson Joseph Peirce
five pounds lawful money of this Province to be paid to him within one year
after my Wives decease. Item And I give and Devise to my Grandson
Joseph Cook five pounds lawful money of this Province to be paid to him within
one year after my Wives decease. Item And I give and Devise to my
Son George Gilpin and to his heirs forever my Clock and Great Bible and Shewels
History after my Wives decease and my wearing apparel that is not otherwise
disposed of I give him after my decease. Item And I give and Devise
to my daughter Rachel Peirce and to her heirs forever fifteen pounds lawful
money of this Province to be paid to her within one year after my Wives decease.
Item And I give and Devise to my Son in law Joseph Mendenhall and to his
heirs forever five pounds lawful money of this Province to be paid to him within
one year after my Wives decease. The Remaining part of my Estate not
otherwise Disposed of in this my Will I give and order my Executor herein after
named to divide equally between my daughters that are hereafter mentioned (viz)
Hannah Seal, Ruth Mendenhall Lydia Dean, Sarah Cook, Mary Taylor and Esther
Gilpin that is to say after my wives decease. And I do hereby name and
Constitute my Loving Wife and my Son George Gilpin and my Son in law Joseph
Mendenhall Executors of this my last Will and Testament (Given them full power
or the Survivor of them full power and Authority to sell my aforementioned tract
of land and make Conveiance of (said) land with the appiontenances for ever as
firmly as if I was present) Revoking all other Wills and Testaments by me
made. In Witnefs whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this
Twentyninth day of the Eighth month Anno Dom One Thousand seven
hundred and thirty nine. Joseph Gilpin (Seal)
Signed Sealed Published and Delivered by the within named Joseph Gilpin as and
for his last Will & Testament in the presence of us who in his presence
inscribed our Names as Witnefses Samuel Painter, Jeremiah Dean, Nathaniel Ring.
KNOW all men by these presents that Hereafter I George Gilpin was Constituted
and Appointed by my Father Joseph Gilpin to be one of the Executors of his last
Will and Testament and not thinking fit to take upon me the Execution thereof
Therefore for several good Causes and Conciderations me thereunto moving I have
refused to act as one of the Executors of the Will Giving myself sent and
Consent that letters of Administration thereof may by any [unin] be granted to
His other two Executors. Therein named and faith I do hereby make that I
have no ways [unin] any of the Testors Effects As Witnefs my Hand and Seal
this fifth day of December Anno Dom 1739
George Gilpin (Seal)
Sealed and Delivered in the presence of Nathaniel Ring, Joseph Parker
Chester Decemb. 5, 1739. Then Personally appeared Samuel Painter and
Nathaniel Ring two of the Witnefses to the above and within written Will who on
their solemn Affirmations do declare that they were present and saw the Testator
above named Sign Seal Publish Pronounce and declare the above writing to be his
last Will and Testament and that as the doing thereof he was of Sound mind and
memory to the best of their understanding. ------
Affirmned before Jo. Parker [unin]
LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of JOSEPH GILPIN, son of Thomas & Joan (Bartholomew)
Gilpin
Born - June 8, 1663, Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England
Married - February 23, 1690/91, Hannah Glover, Baghurst MM, England
Died - November 9, 1739, Birmingham, Chester Co., Pennsylvania
Buried - Birmingham, Chester Co., Pennsylvania
Obtained - Chester County Archives
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Will Book - B, Vol. 2,
Pages 51-52
-- R. L. Cooke
September 12, 1997
Joseph Gilpin of Dorchester, county of Oxon (Oxfordshire), England, weaver, son
of tallow chandler Thomas and Joan Gilpin of Warborough, and Hannah Glover of
Schingswell, parish of Kingscleare, county of Southton (Southampton), spinster
dau. of Alice Glover, m 20th of 12th mo, 1691 at the meeting place at Baghurst,
Alton, Southampton, England.
-- Early Church Records of Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Volume 2
Page 1-2
Concord Monthly Meeting
"Marriage Certificates 1681 - 1800"
Henry C. Peden Jr., M.A.
John Pitts Launey
1997
-- R. L. Cooke
May 29, 1999
Joseph and Hannah Gilpin of Birmingham, children: Hannah, b. 15th of 12th mo,
1692 in Great Britain; Samuel, b. 17th (another list gave the 7th) of 4th mo,
1694 in Great Britain; Rachel, b. 12th of 12th mo, 1695 in Birmingham [PA];
Ruth, b. 8th (another list gave the 28th) of 6th mo, 1697 (b. in Birmingham, as
were the following); Lidia, b. 11th of 11th mo, 1698; Thomas, b. 23rd of 5th mo,
1700; Ann, b. 11th of 5th mo, 1702; Joseph, b. 21st of 1st mo, 1704/5; Sarah, b.
2nd of 4th mo, 1706; George, b. 16th of 2nd mo, 1708; Isaac, b. 23rd of 1st
1709; Moses, b. 8th of 1st mo, 1711; Alice, b. 7th of 10th mo, 1714; Mary, b.
16th of 11th mo, 1716; and, Esther, b. 9th of 1st mo, 1718.
-- Early Church Records of Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Volume 2
Page 32-33
Concord Monthly Meeting
"Births and Deaths 1682 - 1800"
Henry C. Peden Jr., M.A.
John Pitts Launey
1997
-- R. L. Cooke
May 29, 1999
Joseph Gilpin of Birmingham, formerly of Dorchester, arrived in Pennsylvania
with wife Hannah (Glover) and children Hannah and Samuel, certificate dated 10th
of 12th mo, 1695. Joseph, Sr. d. Fall 1739 in Birmingham. Hannah
(Glover) Gilpin, widow of Joseph, d. Jan 1759.
Children: Hannah, d. 7th mo 1746; Samuel, d. 7th of 12th mo, 1767;
Rachel, d. 20th of 5th mo, 1776; Ruth; Lidia, d. 2nd of 10th mo,
1750; Thomas, d. 25th of 10th mo, 1766; Ann, d. 15th of 9th mo, 1759;
Joseph, d. 31st of 12th mo, 1792; Sarah, d. 7th of 6th mo, 1783;
George, d. 15th of 10th mo, 1773; Isaac, d. 1745; Moses; Alice;
Mary, d. 17th of 4th mo, 1806; Esther, d. 10th of 1st mo, 1795.
-- Early Church Records of Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Volume 2
Page 206
Concord Monthly Meeting
"Annotations and Addendum"
Henry C. Peden Jr., M.A.
John Pitts Launey
1997
-- R. L. Cooke
May 12, 1999
FIRST GILPIN in AMERICA
They landed at New Castle-on-Delaware, according to the written account of Isaac
Glover Gilpin, a grandson, and set on foot through the wilderness, for their
farm, eighteen miles to the northern, in what was afterward known as Birmingham
Township, Chester County.
From the grandson's chronicle, we have these interesting items relating the
early and later experiences of the emigrents, following the disembarkation at
New Castle :
About ten or eleven miles distant from New Castle, night overtook them. In
this situation they applied at the habitation of an early settler for shelter,
which was refused them...Fortunately some of the natives lived near, into whose
wigwams they were received and treated kindly; and they lodged there for their
first night ashore in America...Next morning, being refreshed, they went on and
arrived in Birmingham township, Chester county...
They had at first to dig a cave in the earth and went into it, in which they
lived for four or five years, and where two children were born. [Rachel &
Ruth]...After Joseph Gilpin had resided in the cave for four or five years, he
built a house and barn near the cave, but this was burnt, and then he built a
frame house a few hundred yards to the westward, it was built two stories high
16 feet by 18 feet, a superb edifice for the time.
The above mentioned house was built about 1720, a brick addition being made in
1754. It is said to have been occupied by General Howe after the Battle of
Brandywine. The original frame building was torn down in 1835, and
replaced by a stone structure. The house, including the brick section
erected in 1754, still stands. {See photo in Quaker Date Book
(1961)}
The grandson's narrative thus continues:
There were a number of Indian wigwams on the farm of Joseph Gilpin, and the
account we have is-that they all lived together in perfect harmony...Joseph
Gilpin's house was seldom clear of the Indians who frequently slept there,
perhaps a dozen or more at a time-men, women and children, all peacably and much
friendship...The chilrden of Joseph Gilpin give very pleasant and interesting
accounts of their sports and games with Indian boys,-of their shooting with them
for days at a time with bows and arrows.- there was no quarelling or fighting.
Joseph Gilpin's hospitality was likewise extended in equal measure to all newly
arrived emigrants, quite in contrast to his own reception the night after
landing.
The grandson thus writes:
As he was so well known there great numbers of families on coming over, came to
his house, where they were kindly recieved and entertained week after week.
As an evidence of this writer, who was an inmate of Joseph's family-knew that he
killed upwards of 30 hogs and 7 or 8 Beeves in the fall season-and the meat was
all duly and frugally consumed by the next harvest. Hannah Gilpin, was the
best of housewives,-and superior to most in intellect and friendly conduct.
Thomas Chalkey, the celebrated Quaker preacher and traveler, born in 1675, and
died in 1741, makes the following note in his journal in 1740:
Lodged at the widow Gilpin's, whose husband, Joseph Gilpin, was lately deceased;
there was true Christian Love and Friendship between us for above fifty years.
When first I saw Joseph in Pennsylvania, he lived in a cave in the Earth, where
we enjoyed each others Company in the Love and Fear of God. This friend
had fifteen children, who he lived to see brought up to the States of Men and
Women, and all but two married well and to his mind.
As stated in Chalkley's journal, of the fifteen Gilpin children all but two had,
prior to the father's death, in 1739, "married well and to his mind".
As a matter of fact, these two, the youngest son (Joseph] and the youngest
daughter, [Esther] married shortly after their father's decease. With the
Gilpin family it was a remarkable case of longevity, only one of the fifteen
children having died under the age of sixty years. At the time of the
mother's death, in 1757, there were living twelve children, sixty two grand
children and nearly as many great-grand children, one hundred and thirty three
living descendants in all!
-- The North American Philadelphia
Sunday, May 24, 1908
Page 1
"The Philadelphia of Our Ancestors -- Old Philadelphia
Families...LI...Gilpin"
Conducted by Frank Willing Leach
-- Albert Cook Myers
R. L. Cooke, Jr.
R. L. Cooke, III
June 1997
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