Thomas [2] Gilpin

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Husband Thomas [2] Gilpin ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Sep 1776 2
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           Died: 3 Mar 1853 - Philadelphia, PA 2
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         Father: Thomas Gilpin (1728-1778) 1 3 4
         Mother: Lydia Fisher (1736-1807) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas [2] Gilpin

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He was educated at Friends' schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and showed marked ability in mathematics, science, and penmanship; he was left in charge of the commercial establishment in Philadelphia, and the Brandywine mills, at the age of nineteen years, while his elder brother was in Europe, and became his partner on his return. He introduced improved process for making of paper at the Brandywine mills as well as cotton and wool manufacturing; devoted much time in later years to scientific research, and literary pursuits; collected papers and data in reference to the banishment of the Philadelphia Friends to Virginia, which was published in 1850; he was a member of a number of scientific institutions. He died unmarried in his seventy-seventh year; author of "Genealogy of the Fisher Family" and the "Exiles in Virginia."

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

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 429.

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

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

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