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Coates, of Philadelphia, born October 8, 1741, died August 10, 1780. Her grand- father, John Coates, was a native of Gloucester or Lincolnshire, England, born in 1684, died Philadelphia, March 16, 1760. With his brothers, William, Thomas and George, he was sent for to England by their maternal uncle, Thomas Sisom, then of Philadelphia, later of Bristol, Bucks county, soon after the marriage of Sisom to Priscilla Smith in 1693. They were the sons of his sister, Jeane Coates, and were members of the Society of Friends. John settled in the Northern Liber- ties of Philadelphia, where a street was named for him, and married at Christ Church, June 16, 1711, Mary, daughter of Warwick and Dorothy Hale (who had settled in the "Lower Counties"), and became a member of the Episcopal church. He set apart a lot for the erection of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. His son Warwick, born November 3, 1715, died February 12, 1782; married (first) Mary -, who died October 1, 1744, leaving an only child, Mary, above men- tioned, who married Thomas Plumstead.
Issue of Thomas and Mary (Coates) Plumstead:
Clement, b. Sept. 4, 1763, d. unm. in the East Indies, 1798; was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Andrew and Elizabeth ( Plunistead) Elliot, and lived for several years in N. Y .; received appointment as midshipman in British Navy, 1783, and later joined the mer- chant service, following the sea until his death;
REBECCA, b. March 8, 1765, m. July 27, 1780, of whom presently;
REBECCA PLUMSTEAD, only daughter of Thomas and Mary (Coates) Plumstead, like her mother, was one of the most beautiful women of her day. At the age of eleven years she lost her father, and prior to the death of her surviving parent, four years later, she become betrothed to Benjamin Hutton, and her devoted mother, stricken with an incurable disease of which she was about to die, and de- siring to leave her daughter with a lawful protector, hastened the wedding, and she was married July 27, 1780, when only a few months past her fifteenth year. Her gifted and beautiful mother died two weeks later, August 10, 1780.
Benjamin Hutton was born in Philadelphia, May 4, 1752, and was a son of John Strangeways Hutton, who died at the residence of his son in Southwark, 1792, at the reputed age of one hundred and eight years and four months. Later investi- gations, however, indicate that this was a mistake of some twelve years as his par- ents, John Hutton and Katharine "Stranguish," obtained their license to marry in New York, October 28, 1695. John Hutton, the elder, was born at Bouresdours, Scotland, and the maternal grandfather, Arthur Strangeways, died in Boston at the age of one hundred and one years. The latter was a landowner in New York in 1674. John Strangeways Hutton was born in New York, and was educated for the sea, and was for some years Lieutenant on a private armed vessel. He married (first) Catharine Cheeseman, by whom he had eight children. Locating in Philadelphia, he married (second) 1735, Anne, daughter of John Van Laer, Jr., by his wife, Priscilla, daughter of William and Ann Preston, of Frankford, and a sister to Amos Preston, an early settler in Buckingham, Bucks county, and the ancestor of the Preston family of Bucks county. John Van Laer, the elder, emi- grated from the Duchy of Cleves, Westphalia, about 1685, and located in the Northern Liberties soon after 1700. He was made a member of Common Council, October 6, 1713, and sat in that body until his death in 1722. John S. Hutton had by his second wife, Ann Van Laer, twelve children, making him the father of
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twenty children in all. Benjamin Hutton and his family resided in Southwark, where he died August 20, 1809. His widow, Rebecca Plumstead Hutton, removed later to Burlington, New Jersey, died there July 5, 1841, and was buried at St. Peters, Philadelphia. She was a strikingly handsome woman, tall, slender and dignified, and of a very kindly and benevolent disposition. During the yellow fever scourge of 1798, when nearly all those who could afford a refuge elsewhere fled in terror from the city, she remained to care for the deserted sick, and many a fever-stricken victim had reason to bless as an angel of mercy the stately lady in her spotless white cap and lace neckerchief, who brought hope and cheer to their deserted bedsides.
Issue of Benjamin and Rebecca (Plumstead) Hutton:
Mary Hutton, b. Aug. 9, 1781, d. Nov. 21, 1870, m. at the country seat of her uncle, Na- thaniel Hutton, near the Lazaretto, Sept. 22, 1799, John Devereux, b. at Dumbrody, Wexford, Ireland, June 6, 1773, and settled in Phila. in 1793;
Sarah Hutton, b. Sept. 15, 1783, d. Aug. 30, 1786;
Thomas Hutton, b. April II, 1786, d. April 27, 1803;
Benjamin Hutton, b. Aug. 5, 1778, d. Sept. 10, 1789;
Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1791, d. Aug. 20, 1792;
ELIZA ELIOT HUTTON, b. Sept. 21, 1794, m. Robert Burton; of whom presently;
Anne Hutton, b. Nov. 18, 1795, d. Feb. 28, 1870, unm .;
Eleanor Hutton, b. April 24, 1799, d. April 27, 1803;
Clement Hutton, b. Jan. 20, 1801, d. May 10, 1803 ;
Ellen Hutton, b. July 19, 1804, d. Jan. 7, 1873, unm .;
ELIZA ELIOT HUTTON, born September 21, 1794, married Robert Burton, a mer- chant of Philadelphia, son of John and Rachel Burton, born in Delaware, Novem- ber I, 1784, died in Philadelphia, December 29, 1854. Mrs. Burton died April 24, 1870, and both are buried at St. Peters.
Issue of Robert and Eliza Eliot (Hutton) Burton:
Mary Anne Burton;
Anna Maria Burton, m. John Rowan Penrose, of Phila .;
John Burton, a merchant of Phila., d. unm .;
Caroline Burton, d. y. ;
Rebecca Burton;
Caroline Burton, m. (first) John G. Reading, (second) John C. Rockhill;
George Washington Burton, Capt., Commissary of Subsistence, Penna. Vols., July 17, 1862; Major and Asst. Adj. Gen. April 21, 1864; resigned March 7, 1865; m. Josephine Clement ;
Henry Clay Burton, of New Castle, Del., m. Julia M., dau. of Chief Justice Booth, of Del .;
Robert Burton, d. s. p .;
EMILY ADELAIDE BURTON, b. July 9, 1836, m. Robert Neilson (son of Robert Neilson, for some time Governor of Trinidad), b. in Trinidad, Feb. 8, 1834, d. May 4, 1901 ; he was Captain of a Phila. company during the Civil War, and after nine months service discharged by reason of a severe wound received at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va .; the issue by his marriage was :
Emily Burton, b. Dec. 14, 1857, m. Daniel T. Worden, of New York City, where they now reside; one child, Florence, b. Oct. 29, 1892, d. Dec. 13, 1898;
Robert William, b. Aug. 13, 1859, m. Margaret Keith, of Warrenton, Va .; their children are: Robert Keith, b. July 6, 1885; Edward Steptoe, b. July 11, 1903; Florence, b. March 23, 1862, unm.
Edward Burton, of Phila., dec.
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GILPIN FAMILY.
Few American families possess a pedigree of such length and so fully and well authenticated as the Gilpin family. This is largely due to the interest and care taken by the early as well as the later members of the family to preserve its rec- ords. In the latter part of the sixteenth century George Gilpin, of Kentmere Hall, the ancient seat of one branch of the family, compiled a pedigree, a copy of which he sent to his uncle, George Gilpin, then Queen Elizabeth's Minister at The Hague. About the middle of the seventeenth century this pedigree was the subject of care- ful research by Sir Daniel Fleming, of Rydal Hall, noted for his genealogical re- searches in Westmoreland. His Gilpin manuscripts are still in possession of the Fleming family at Rydal Hall, and a copy is in the Bodleim Library at Oxford. In 1713 William Gilpin ( 1657-1724), of Scaleby Castle, Recorder of Carlisle, with the aid of his kinsman, Alan Chambre, of Hall Head, Recorder of Kendal, made a pedigree of the family. His grandson, Rev. William Gilpin (1724-1804), of Bol- dre, wrote a "Life of Bernard Gilpin" in 1753, and was interested in the family genealogy.
Thomas Gilpin, of Philadelphia (1729-78), grandson of Joseph Gilpin, the American emigrant ( 1663-1739), made a trip to England in 1753, visiting his Gil- pin relatives and noting genealogical memoranda in his diary. His son, Joshua Gilpin, of Philadelphia ( 1765-1841), visited Rev. William Gilpin, of Boldre, 1796, and made copies of the early Gilpin records. He and his brother, Thomas Gilpin, of Philadelphia ( 1776-1853), prepared the work "Memoirs of the Gilpin Family of Philadelphia." Their large collection of family manuscripts, including those of Henry D. Gilpin, son of Joshua, are preserved in the Gilpin Library of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania.
Several charts and sketches of various American branches of the family have appeared in recent years. Probably the best account of the early English Gilpins is embodied in the elaborate pedigree made by the learned antiquary, the late Wil- helm Jackson, F. S. A., of Whitehaven, England, and inserted in his volume, "Memoirs of Dr. Richard Gilpin, of Scaleby Castle, in Cumberland," published in 1879, by the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Soci- ety. He made use of Sir Daniel Fleming's manuscripts ; those of Mrs. Fawcett, of Scaleby Castle, a descendant of the Gilpins ; and of manuscripts and records from various other sources. From these various sources have been gathered the data contained in these pages.
The name and family of Gilpin is doubtless of Norman origin, as the name, traced from authentic English records, for eight generations, was spelled "de Gylpyn."
The earliest ancestor of the Pennsylvania Quaker family of Gilpin, of which any record is known, was,
RICHARD DE GYLPYN, to whom the Baron of Kendal granted the estate of Kent- mere, county of Westmoreland, in or about 1206, in the reign of King John. This grant is said to have been made as a recompense for the slaying, by de Gylpyn, of a fierce wild boar, which had done great damage in the valleys of Westmoreland and
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Cumberland. From the same feat originated the arms ever since borne by his descendants, viz., "Or. a boar statant, sable, langued and tusked gules," with a Crest, A dexter arm emboyed, in armour proper, the naked hand grasping a pine branch fesswise vert, with the Motto, Dictis factisque simplex.
Kentmere Hall, still standing at the foot of the fantastic rocky heights of Rang- moor, and the estate surrounding it in the rich valley of Kent, was held by the elder male branch of the family until the time of Cromwell, when George Gilpin, who then held it, became a Captain in the army of Charles I, and, on the Parlia- mentary forces gaining the ascendency, made a deed to his brother-in-law, Sir Christopher Philipson, of the Parliamentary party, to save the estate from seques- tration, which his heirs failed to have set aside at the Restoration, and Kentmere was lost to the family.
A Pennsylvania descendant of the family recently visited Kentmere Hall and found the ancient structure, dating back probably to the fourteenth century, occu- pied by a farmer. It is surmounted at the west end by a peel tower, and the "mere" from which it took its name had been drained something over a century ago.
GYLPYN, son of Richard de Gylpyn, to whom Kentmere passed at the death of his father, whose name has not been preserved, had a son,
RICHARD DE GYLPYN, who flourished in the reign of Henry III., 1216 to 1272. To him Peter de Bruys, who had married the daughter and heiress of William de Lancaster, the last Baron of Kendal, granted the Manor and lands of Ulwithwaite. The original deed of grant, in Latin, dated 1268, A. D., neatly engrossed in char- acters of that time, with seals in perfect condition, is still in possession of the de- scendants of Rev. William Gilpin, Vicar of Boldre, near Lymington, a lineal de- scendant of the grantee.
DE GYLPYN (first name unknown), who succeeded his father, had,
RICHARD DE GYLPYN, who possessed the estates of Kentmere and Ulwithwaite : witnessing a deed executed in the year 1333, A. D., had a son,
RICHARD DE GYLPYN, who possessed both estates, and was succeeded by,
WILLIAM DE GYLPYN, his son, who married a daughter of Thomas Airey, Bailiff of Kentmere, and was succeeded by his son,
RICHARD DE GYLPYN, who married a daughter of Fleming of Coniston Hall, Westmoreland, and had five children. The Fleming family derived its descent from Sir Michael le Fleming, who accompanied his kinsman, Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, and brother-in-law, William of Normandy, to assist in the conquest of England in 1066 A. D. Sir Michael le Fleming's second son, Sir Richard le Flem- ing, was the grandfather of Richard le Fleming, who by marriage with Elizabeth Urswick, became possessed of Coniston Hall, and was the ancestor of Sir Daniel Fleming, of Coniston Hall and Rydal, who in the latter part of the seventeenth century made a pedigree of the Gilpin family, before referred to, the manuscript of which yet remains among the collections of S. H. Fleming, Esq., at Rydal Hall, in the English Lake District.
WILLIAM GILPIN, one of the five children of the last named Richard de Gylpyn, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lancaster, of Sockbridge Hall, a descend- ant of Roger de Lancaster, of the Lancasters who were Barons of Kendal, West- moreland, by his wife Philippa, daughter of Hugh de Bolbec, of Northumberland. This William Gilpin, "was an eminent man and of great dealings in the Barony of
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Kendal." He lived, as Sir Daniel Fleming's ms. has it, in the time of Edward IV., about 1472, and had seven children. His son,
RICHARD GILPIN, of the tenth generation from Richard de Gylpyn, the grantee of Kentmere, married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Rowland Thornborough, of Hams- fel, in the reign of Richard II., and had eleven children, of whom William, the eldest son and heir, a captain in the King's Army, was killed at the battle of Bos- worth Field, August 22, 1485, leaving no issue ; and the estates and title descend- ed to the second son,
EDWIN GILPIN, who married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Layton, of Dale- main, county Cumberland, descended from Sir William de Laton, of the Latons of county Durham. Margaret Layton's brothers, Sir William, Sir Brian, Sir Cuth- bert, Sir Richard, Anthony and Thomas Layton, were "All famous men of great renown, some for their learning, and others in war, of which three were Knights of the Rhodes. Her sisters married Redman of Harwood; P. Redman of Ireby ; Carleton; Clybourn; and Vaux, all worshipful Families." Her mother was a daughter of Thomas Tunstall, Lord of Thurland Castle and Tunstall, Lancashire; a grandson of Sir Richard, and a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Tunstall, of Thur- land Castle, Man-at-arms at the battle of Agincourt, 1415. Her mother's brother, Sir Brian Tunstall, Lord of Thurland Castle, was killed at Flodden Field, 1513, A. D., and another brother, Cuthbert Tunstall ( 1474-1559), was Bishop of Dur- ham.
George Gilpin, son of Edwin and Margaret (Layton) Gilpin, was a distinguish- ed man of letters and became Queen Elizabeth's Minister at The Hague.
"Bernard Gilpin," another son of Edwin, writes his biographer in 1628, "was Born at Kentmere in the County of Westmoreland, in the Year of Our Lord, 1517, of an Ancient and Honorable Family, Being the Son of Edwin Gilpin, the elder Brother of which Edwin was Slain in the Battle of Bosworth, being Heir in the fifth Descent to Richard Gilpin, who in the Reign of King John was enfeoffed in the Lordship of Kentmere Hall, by the Baron of Kendal, for his singular Deserts, both in Peace and War. This was that Richard Gilpin, who Slew the Wild Boar, that raging in the Mountains adjoining had much indamaged the Country People ; whence it is, that the Gilpins in their Coat of Arms give the Boar. The mother of Bernard Gilpin, was Margaret, the daughter of William Laton, of Dolemaine in Cumberland, a man of an Ancient House, and a Family Famous in that Warlike Age, as from whence had Sprung many Right Valiant Gentlemen."
This Bernard Gilpin was educated at Queen's College Oxford, and was made a Fellow of the College. On taking orders as a Priest, he was made one of the head masters by Cardinal Wolsey. In the divisions arising at the University at this time, on the doctrines of the Reformation, he at first took sides against them, but after diligent study of the Scriptures, took ground in favor of the Reformation. In 1552 he became Vicar of Norton, Diocese of Durham, of which his mother's uncle, Cuthbert Tunstall, was Bishop, and after preaching a sermon before Ed- ward VI., was licensed as a general preacher of the Gospel throughout the King- dom.
Troubled with doubts, however, he resigned his vicarage and went to London, Paris and Antwerp to pursue his theological studies. Returning to England, towards the close of Queen Mary's reign, he was invested by his great-uncle, Bishop of Durham, with the Archdeaconry of Durham and became Rector of
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Essington. He attacked the vices and ignorance of the clergy with such vigor that he incurred the enmity of the priests and was brought before the Bishop for heresy. The Bishop not only discharged him but conferred upon him the rectorship of Houghton-le-Spring, Diocese of Durham, he having resigned the Archdeaconry. His enemies, however, carried his case before the Bishop of London, Dr. Bonner, and Gilpin, hearing that a warrant for his arrest had been issued, started to Lon- don, prepared to suffer martyrdom. But breaking his leg on the journey, "Bloody Mary" had died before he recovered sufficiently to resume his journey and Catholic supremacy being at an end with the accession of "Good Queen Bess" to the throne, he returned to Durham and resumed his charge of Houghton-le-Spring. He was offered the Bishopric of Carlisle, when the Roman Catholic Bishop was deposed, but declined it, preferring to retain the rectorship of Houghton-le-Spring, where he continued to preach until his death, March 4, 1583.
His parish, including fourteen villages, was then, as now, one of the richest benefices of the North and yielded an ample income, the whole of which he spent in charity and beneficence. His rectory was always open to travellers and strangers, and he kept a table for his parishioners every Sunday from Michaelmas to Easter, and every fortnight provided forty bushels of corn, twenty bushels of malt, and a whole ox, with which to feed the poor of his parish. He founded a grammar school at Houghton-le-Spring, and assisted many of the more promising youths there, educated to enter universities to prepare themselves for the Church ; always maintaining at least six at the different universities, and after their gradua- tion, charging himself with their settlement. George Carleton, afterwards Bishop of Chichester, who wrote a life of Bernard Gilpin, was one of his beneficiaries. (Bishop Carleton in his "Vita B. Gilpini," was printed by William James, "dwelling in Red-Crosse Street," London, 1628, and an English translation of the Latin was published in 1629).
Disgusted with the ignorance and inefficiency of the clergy, Bernard Gilpin, every year, visited the neglected parts of Northumberland and other northern shires, particularly the lawless region of Redesdale and Tynedale, holding forth the commands and sanctions of Christianity, and did much to change the character of the denizens of that lawless region, where he became known as the "Apostle of the North," as he was known in his own parish as the "Father of the Poor." He was never married.
In the ancient church of Houghton-le-Spring, where he so long ministered, is the tomb of Bernard Gilpin. It is a massive table or altar monument of free- stone, at the upper end of the south transept. At the west end of the monument, cut in raised characters, divided by an escutcheon on which is relieved a boar resting against a tree, with a crescent cut in the side of the boar, is the following inscription :
"BERNERDS GILPIN Rector HVIVS ECCLAE"
"OBIIT IVA RTS DIEM ARTII AN DOM 1583."
In Durham Cathedral, on the left-hand as you enter the nave by the north door, is a window, erected in modern times to Bernard Gilpin. It contains three pictures arranged above each other representing, first, Gilpin giving away his horse; second,
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quelling the feud in Rothbury Church ; third, founding Houghton Grammar School. In 1884 there was at Wallington Hall, Northumberland, the seat of Sir G. Trev- elyan, Baronet, a painting by William Bell, Esq., representing Gilpin in Rothbury Church. A portrait of him is in collection of Gilpin portraits and family papers at Scaleby Castle, Cumberland. Among the books bequeathed by him to his alma mater, Queen's College, is a folio, "Opera A Politani," edited by Aldo Pio Man- uzio, Venice, 1498, containing the autographs of him and his uncle, William Laton, and inscribed, "Erat hic Willus Layton de Dalemane in Comtatu Cumbriae ad Emontis fluenta, unde et Bernardus Gilpin (qui librum hunc bibliothecae 'd) genus maternum duxit."
WILLIAM GILPIN, eldest brother of Bernard Gilpin, the "Apostle of the North," married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Washington, of Hall Head, Westmoreland, great-grandson of Robert Washington, Lord of Milburne, West- moreland, ancestor of President George Washington. William and Elizabeth ( Washington) Gilpin had twelve children. He was buried, according to the Ken- dal parish records, January 23, 1577.
The Kentmere estate descended to the eldest son, George Gilpin, who collected a pedigree of the family to his own time and sent a copy to his uncle, George Gilpin, before referred to as Queen Elizabeth's Minister at The Hague. George Gilpin was succeeded in the tenure of Kentmere by his son, William Gilpin, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Richard Sanford, of Howgill, and was succeeded by his son, George Gilpin, who married Catharine, daughter of Robert Philipson, of Holl- ing Hall, Westmoreland. This latter George Gilpin lost the estate of Kentmere to the Gilpin name in the time of the Civil War. He was a Captain in the army of Charles I., and made a conveyance in trust to one Philipson, and afterwards to Capt. Nicolson, of Hawkeshead, of the Parliamentarians, to save the estate from sequestration. Upon prosecution by the Parliamentarians, Capt. Gilpin fled be- yond the sea and died abroad without issue. Capt. Nicolson held the estate until the Restoration, when he was ousted in a suit-at-law under the first conveyance by Sir Christopher Philipson.
MARTIN GILPIN, a younger son of William, was an Attorney-at-law of Leathes House, Cumberland, and of Kendal, Westmoreland. He married, 1580 A. D., Catharine Newby (died 1634), and died at Kendal, December 18, 1629, leaving eight children.
His son, Isaac Gilpin, of Gilthroton, Westmoreland, was the father of Richard Gilpin, D. D., born October 5, 1625, at Kendal, who was eminent for his piety and learning. Dr. Richard Gilpin studied medicine and later divinity, and became rector of Greystock, in Cumberland, developing into a staunch Presbyterian divine. He was called by the dissenters to Newcastle-on-Tyne, but returning to Cumber- land, purchased Scaleby Castle, a fortress of consequence erected on the confines of England to repel the inroads of the Scots. There he died in 1699.
He was succeeded by his son, William Gilpin ( 1657-1724), in the ownership of Scaleby Castle. This William Gilpin, a Barrister-at-law, Deputy Vice-Admiral of Cumberland, and Recorder of Carlisle, in 1713, compiled a pedigree of the Gilpin family. His son, Capt. John Bernard Gilpin ( 1701-1801), was the father of Will- iam Gilpin ( 1724-1804), rector of Boldre, Hampshire, before referred to as hold- ing the old deed of Ulwithwaite. He was a prolific writer on Scottish and English
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scenery and country life and published in 1753 a life of Bernard Gilpin, the "Apostle of the North."
Sawry Gilpin, R. A. (1733-1807), a brother of Rev. William Gilpin, of Boldre, was a celebrated painter of animals. John Bernard Gilpin (1754-1851), son of Rev. William Gilpin, of Boldre, came to Philadelphia in 1783, and was British Consul to the Eastern States in 1803, dying at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, aged ninety-seven years.
BERNARD GILPIN, eldest son and heir of Martin Gilpin, married Dorothy Ayrey and had eleven children. He died April 21, 1636. His sons of whom we have record were: William, Martin, Samuel, Arthur, Ranulph, Alan and Thomas.
THOMAS GILPIN, one of the younger sons of Bernard Gilpin, resided at Mill Hill, parish of Caton, Westmoreland, on the borders of Lancashire. He had five sons and five daughters of whom we have the name of but one, Thomas, the youngest son. "They were People of Good Repute in the Country, and were Religious, being called Puritans, who Educated their Children very Strictly." After their father's death the mother removed with her children to Kendal, five of her children being dead.
THOMAS GILPIN, Quaker minister, of Warborough, Oxfordshire, youngest son of Thomas of Mill Hill, was born in 1622, died 12mo. 3, 1702. According to a sketch of his life published in 1706, in "Piety Promoted," part iii., from which the above reference to his parents is quoted, Thomas Gilpin went as a young man from Kendal to London as an "Apprentice to a Tallow Chandler, and after went into the Wars." In the "Memoirs of the Gilpin Family of Philadelphia," it is stated that he was an officer and fought at the battle of Worcester, 1651, but the statement is based entirely on tradition and lacks proof.
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