George Gilpin and Catharine Peters

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Husband George Gilpin ¹

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           Born: 4 Mar 1740 - Nottingham Twp, Cecil Co, MD 2
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           Died: 24 Dec 1813 2
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         Father: Samuel Gilpin (1694-1767/1767) 3 4 5
         Mother: Jane Parker (1702-1775) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Jane Peters (      -      ) 2

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Wife Catharine Peters ²

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         Father: [Father] Peters (      -      )
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - George Gilpin

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Although reared in the peacable principles of the Society of Friends of which his parents were members, he was among the most active patriots of his section from the inception of the Revolutionary struggle.

He was brought up by his elder brother Thomas, at Brandywine, New Castle County, Delaware, at the head of Chester creek, later Millington, Maryland, where Thomas operated flour mills, and carried on an extensive shipping business for many years. George removed, prior to the Revolutionary war, to Alexandria, Virginia. where the remainder of his life was spent. He was intimately associated with George Washington, and many autograph letters of the "Father of his Country" to George Gilpin were still in possession of the family a century later. He was commissioned colonel of Fairfax county militia in 1775, and joined General Washington's army at Dorchester Heights, Boston, with his regiment, and took part in the siege of Boston, later taking part in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. While the army was encamped at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-8, Colonel Gilpin went to visit his brother, in his exile at Winchester, Virginia, and returning to the camp at Valley Forge proceeded to York, Pennsylvania, where congress was then in session to intercede for the return of the exiles to their homes. He secured the promise that they should be permitted to return, but his brother died before it was accomplished. At the close of the revolution, Colonel George Gilpin, under the direction of General Washington, made a survey of the river Potomac from tide water to the upper falls and prepared a plan for the improvement of the channel for navigation. He was interested in this and other public improvements there, until his death. At the request of the family he was named one of the pall-bearers of Washington.

He had three children by his first wife, and six by his second wife.

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General Notes: Wife - Catharine Peters

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She was a cousin of Martha Washington.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 428, 608.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 608.

3 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 570.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 426, 607.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 338.