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On leaving the "Wars" Thomas Gilpin settled in Oxfordshire and was married prior to 1651 to Joan, daughter of Thomas Bartholomew alias Martin, husband- man, of Shillingsford, a small village in the parish of Warborough, on river Thames, midway between Oxford and Reading. Joan Bartholomew was baptized in the church at Warborough, August 28, 1625, died March 21, 1700-I. Thomas Gilpin, her husband, lived a short time with his father-in-law at Shillingford and then took a house for his little family in the nearby village of Warborough, where he lived the remainder of his life. About 1654, while on a trip to London, he be- came a convert to the new doctrines and faith of the Society of Friends, and on his return established a meeting at his house in Warborough, which was held there for many years. About 1662 he entered the Ministry of the Society, and made frequent visits to the neighboring counties, to London and to Wales. At times he was severely persecuted for his Quaker testimonies, being twice a prisoner in Ox- ford Castle, and once in Newgate, London. In May, 1670, he was fined £20 for having a meeting in his house, and a month later, says a quaint old chronicle, "Was another Meeting att the said Thomas Gilpin's," when the officers of the law, "broke open his Door, and took away his Household Goods, leaveing him not a Bed to lie on, nor a Pot to boil his Food in. He had a Family of five small Chil- dren which suffered much through this Seizure. Some Time after, as soon as he had got his Corn in, being about three Acres, the Officers came and took that alsoe, with two Pigs, in all the value of fII."
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Issue of Thomas and Joan (Bartholomew) Gilpin:
Mary, b. 7mo. 10, 1651;
Thomas, b. 9mo. 13, 1653;
Isaac, b. Imo. 9, 1656; Sarah, b. 2mo. 8, 1658;
RACHEL, b. 2mo. 14, 1660, m. Thomas West, at Friends' Meeting in county Bucks, Eng- land, 1682; of them presently;
JOSEPH, b. 4mo. 8, 1663, m. Hannah Glover, and came to Pa .; of whom presently; Richard, b. Imo. 2, 1666.
RACHEL GILPIN, fifth child of Thomas and Joan ( Bartholomew) Gilpin, born at Warborough, Oxfordshire, 2mo. (April) 14, 1660, was brought up as a Friend and married in Friends' Meeting in county Bucks, 1682, Thomas West, husband- man and grazier, of Long Crandon, Bucks, son of William West, of Long Cran- don, yeoman, by his wife, Elizabeth (died 8mo. 6, 1684).
Issue of Thomas and Rachel (Gilpin) West:
William West, b. 5mo. 19, 1686, settled in Chester, now Delaware co., Pa., locating first in Concord, but moving about 1709 to Springfield township, where he m. Deborah, dau. of Bartholomew Coppock; he died in 1720, without issue;
Joseph West, b. 3mo. 7, 1688, no further record;
Thomas West, a cooper, settled in Concord twp., now Delaware co., Pa., as early as 1712; wife Mary; children, Thomas, Rachel, William, Ellen, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph; John West, b. Iomo. (Dec.) 28, 1690, at Long Crandon, county Bucks, England, did not affiliate with Friends; m. in England and had one child, Thomas, a watchmaker at Reading, Berkshire; about 1714 joined his brothers, William and Thomas, in Pa .; his wife, unable to make the voyage at the time, died soon after, and he m. (second) in Pa., Sarah (b. 2mo. 8, 1697, d. 1756), dau. of Thomas and Margery (Smith) Pearson, of Marple twp., now Delaware co., emigrants from Pownall Fee, Cheshire; from 1721 to 1732, John West was a resident of Upper Providence, now Delaware co., where he owned 21 acres of land on Ridley creek; in 1733 he was an innkeeper in Chester; by 1737 he was in Springfield twp., where he also kept a tavern; in 1744 he took charge of the inn at Newtown Square; he was restored to membership with Friends at Newtown Meeting in 1759; in 1764 he returned to England and died at the house of his sister, in Marlborough, Oxfordshire, Oct. 5, 1776; his portrait appears in his son's painting, "Penn's Treaty with the Indians," and also in the "West Family."
His son, Benjamin West, artist, President of the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts, was the youngest son, and was b. in Springfield twp., now Delaware co., Pa., 1738, d. in London, March 11, 1820, and was buried in the painter's corner in the crypt of St. Paul's; though sometimes referred to as "the Quaker artist" he was not a member of the Society, his parents not being members at the time of his birth, and he never united with the Society.
JOSEPH GILPIN, third son and sixth child of Thomas and Joan ( Bartholomew ) Gilpin, born in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England, 4mo. (June) 8, 1663, was reared in the Society of Friends, of which his father was a minister, and held to that faith throughout his life. At the time of his marriage he was a weaver by trade, living in Dorchester, Oxfordshire, an ancient town on the river Thames about two miles from his native town of Warborough. He married, 12mo. 23, 1691, in a Quaker Meeting at Baghurst, Hampshire, Hannah Glover, of Ichings- well, Parish of Kingsclerc, Hampshire, daughter of George Glover, deceased, by his wife, Alice Lamboll, later of Dorchester. The marriage certificate is entered on the records of Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends, Delaware county, Penn- sylvania.
Alice (Lamboll) Glover and her brother, William Lamboll, were probably children of George Lamboll ( 1634-1720), of Reading, a Quaker, in whose orchard
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George Fox held a great meeting in 1655. William Lamboll was a "mealman," of Reading, Berkshire. Hannah (Glover) Gilpin's sister Alice married (first) John Brunsden, of Bucklebury, Berkshire, yeoman, at a Quaker Meeting at Brumpton, Berkshire, Iomo. 19, 1680, coming with him to Pennsylvania; after his death, which occurred prior to 1692, married (second) William Vestal. She had by Brunsden three children, John, Alice, Hannah, who married John Buckingham, and by Vestal had, William, George and Mary.
By deeds dated June 29 and 30, 1683, William Penn conveyed to William Lam- boll, above mentioned, 625 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania. Lamboll by deed dated August 2, 1684, conveyed 100 acres of this purchase to John Bruns- den, husband of his niece. Brunsden came to Pennsylvania about that time and by warrant dated November 11, 1684, had the whole 625 acres located and sur- veyed on the eastern hills of Brandywine creek in what became Birmingham town- ship, Chester, now Delaware county, apparently making a settlement on his own 100 acres. The tract joined the present Chester county line about one mile south of Dilworthtown, and less than two miles northeast of Chadd's Ford. Nearby is Birmingham Meeting House and the battlefield of Brandywine in the Revolution.
On October 11 and 12, 1694, William Lamboll conveyed 200 acres of the same tract to his sister, Alice Glover, of Dorchester, widow, for her use for life, then to vest in her daughter Hannah, wife of Joseph Gilpin, of Dorchester. The con- sideration mentioned is ten shillings and "the natural love and affection he hath and beareth to his sister Alice Glover and to his niece, Hannah, as also for the making some provision for their future maintenance and Support, and for the settling of said Lands." Additional grants of land by the uncle, William Lamboll, of seventy-five acres, December 8 and 9, 1704, and 250 acres on May 17 and 18, 1713, increased the Gilpin plantation to 425 acres ; the remaining 100 acres of the purchase of Lamboll being granted to Jonathan Thatcher.
In 1695 Joseph Gilpin with his wife and two children crossed the sea to join their relatives and to take possession of the land given to them by Hannah's uncle, Mr. Lamboll. Their certificate of removal, certifying to their membership with Friends in England, was presented to Concord Meeting, 12mo. 10, 1695. They landed at New Castle, according to the written account of Isaac Glover Gilpin, grandson, and set out on foot through the wilderness for their Birmingham planta- tion, eighteen miles to the northward on the frontier of settlement. At about ten or twelve miles distant from New Castle night overtook them. In this situation they applied at the habitation of an earlier 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 the first night
on shore, in America. * * * Next morning being refreshed they went on and arrived in Birmingham township, Chester county, where Joseph Gilpin had previ- ously a large tract of land to the west of Brunsden's land.
They had at first to dig a cave in the earth and went into it, in which they lived four or five years and where two children were born. * * * After Joseph Gilpin had resided in the cave for four or five years, he built a frame house and barn near the Cave, but this was burnt, and then he built a frame house a few hun- dred yards to the westward (about 1720), sixteen feet by eighteen feet, two stories high, where he resided the remainder of his life. It is now in good preserva- tion and comfortable, and forms part of the present house. A brick addition, made
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in 1754, was occupied by Gen. Howe as his headquarters after the battle of Brandywine in 1777. A large barn was also built and covered with weather- boards. This building is still standing in 1909.
joseph Gilpin became popular among the emigrants, who were frequently Friends, and he was so well known there that great numbers of families on com- ing over came to his house, where they were kindly received and entertained. Hannah Gilpin was the best of housewives, superior to most in intellect and friend- ly conduct.
In 1740 Thomas Chalkley ( 1675-1741), eminent travelling Quaker Preacher, notes the following in his Journal, while on a visit to Concord: "The night be- fore this meeting I 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 other's company in the love and fear of God. This Friend had fifteen children, whom he lived to see brought up to the states of men and women, all but two married well, and to his mind." ( Moses and Esther, two of the younger children, were married after the date of the entry in the Journal).
But one of the fifteen children of Joseph and Hannah Gilpin died under the age of sixty years, and at his death, November 9, 1739, he had forty-five living grand- children. At the death of Hannah, January 12, 1757, all fifteen of her children had married, twelve of them were living, and there were sixty-two grandchildren and nearly as many great-grandchildren, one hundred and thirty-three living de- scendants in all.
Issue of Joseph and Hannah (Glover) Gilpin:
Hannah, b. in England, 12mo. (Feb.) 15; 1692, d. 7mo. 1746, m. 8mo. 31, 1718, William Seal, of Birmingham, and had six children, Rachel, Joseph, Hannah, William, Joshua and Caleb; the last named removed to Wilmington, Del., and his son William became a prominent citizen there;
SAMUEL, b. in England, 4mo. (June) 7, 1694, d. in Cecil co., Md., 12mo. 7, 1767, m. Jane Parker; of them presently;
Rachel, b. in the cave in Birmingham, 12mo. (Feb.) 12, 1695-6, d. May 20, 1776, m. gmo. (Nov.) 15, 1722, Joshua Peirce (1684-1752), of Kennett, as his second wife; he was a son of George Peirce, member of Provincial Assembly, 1706, who emigrated from Winscom, Somerset, 1684, with wife, Ann Gainor, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire.
Joshua Peirce settled in East Marlborough, where he built a brick mansion in 1730, still standing, and in possession of the family until 1906; his children were: Joshua, Joseph, Caleb and Isaac. Caleb inherited the homestead, and his two sons, Samuel (1766-1838) and Joshua (1766-1851), established the beautiful botanical garden or arboretem, surrounding the house known as Peirce's Park. Another son, Jacob Peirce (1761-1801), made a settlement on another part of the original estate and kept an interesting diary of his busy life. He was succeeded by his daughter Hannah (1797-1876), who married John Cox (1786-1880), and both were leaders in the reform and anti-slavery movements that agitated southern Chester co., in ante-bellum days; Longwood Meeting, the rallying point of these forces, was established on their land, and Whittier, Garrison, Phillips, Lucretia Mott, and a host of other prominent re- formers were frequently entertained in the hospitable home of the Peirces, which also became an important station of the "Underground Railroad," and hundreds of slaves were aided to escape by that route to the North.
Poems were addressed to John and Hannah Cox, by both Whittier and Bayard Taylor, on the occasion of their Golden Wedding at Longwood in 1873;
Ruth, b. 6mo. (Aug.) 28, 1697, m. 8mo. (Oct.) 30, 1718, Joseph Mendenhall, son of Ben- jamin and Ann (Pennel) Mendenhall, of a Wiltshire family, and settled in Kennett; they had children, Hannah, Isaac, Joseph, Benjamin, Ann, Stephen and Jesse; from the eldest son, Isaac, descend the Mendenhalls of Mendenhall, still seated on the orig- inal tract of 1000 acres, purchased by their emigrant ancestor;
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Lydia, b. 7mo. (Sept.) II, 1698-9, d. Iomo. (Dec.) 2, 1750, m. 9mo. (Nov.) 15, 1722, Will- iam Dean, from Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and settled in Birmingham, but removed to Wilmington, Del., 1749; was a minister among Friends for twenty-two years; had children, Isaac, Caleb and Hannah;
Thomas, b. 5mo. (July) 23, 1700, d. Iomo. 25, 1766, m. 2mo. 12, 1728, Rebecca Menden- hall, who died prior to 1728, when he removed to Phila. and m. 7mo. 26, 1728, Hannah Knowles; he returned to Concord in 1730, again to Phila., 1740; back to Concord, 1743; to Wilmington, Del., 1746, where he m. (third) 5mo. 19, 1757, Ann, dau. of Vincent and Betty (Peirce) Caldwell, of Chester co .;
Ann, b. 5mo. (July) II, 1702, d. 9mo. 15, 1759; m. Iomo. ( Dec.) 31, 1724, Joseph Miller, son of John and Ann Miller, Irish Quakers, and settled in New Garden, Chester co., Pa .; had children, Joseph and Isaac; m. (second) 3mo. (May) 10, 1739, Richard Hal- lett, of Newtown, L. I., a minister among Friends, and had by him, Thomas, Lydia and Israel;
JOSEPH, b. 8mo. (Oct.) 21, 1703, d. 12mo. 31, 1792, m. Iomo. (Dec.) 17, 1729, Mary Cald- well; of whom presently ;
Sarah, b. 4mo. (June) 2, 1706, d. 6mo. 7, 1783, in Warrington twp., York co., Pa., and is buried at the Friends' burying-ground there, m. gmo. (Nov.) 28, 1730, at Concord Meeting, Peter Cook, of London Grove, son of Peter and Eleanor ( Norman) Cook, Quaker emigrants from Northwich, Cheshire, 1713; Peter, Jr., born in Northwich, Iomo. (Dec.) 4, 1700, d. in Warrington. York co., Pa., 4mo. 28, 1779; they resided on a tract of land, purchased in 1720. on the north line of London Grove, Chester co., until 1745, and then removed to Warrington, and became members of the Warrington Meeting. They had seven children, Joseph, Hannah, Samuel, Ann, Jesse, Sarah and Peter. Of these Samuel Cook (1733-1800) was the ancestor of Lieut. Allen Merri- man Cook, U. S. N., and of George D. Cook, of New York City; Jesse Cook ( 1744- 1818) was the ancestor of the late William H. Cooke, M. D., of Carlisle, Pa., and his sons, Robert Grier Cooke, of New York City, and Morris Llewellyn Cooke, of Ger- mantown, Phila.
Henry Cook (1768-1835), son of Jesse, was the father of Jesse Cook ( 1801-1855), whose daughter, Sarah A. Cook, married John T. Myers, of "Kentmere Lodge," Moy- lan, Delaware co., Pa., and had four children, the eldest of whom is Albert Cook Myers, author of "The Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania," editor of "Hannah Logan's Courtship," and "Sally Wister's Journal;"
George, b. 2mo. 16, 1708, d. 10mo. 15, 1773, m. 2mo. 7, 1737, Ruth, dau. of Vincent and Betty ( Peirce) Caldwell, (second) 4mo. 9, 1760, Sarah Woodward, widow of Edward Woodward, and daughter of James Sharpless; by the first marriage he had three chil- dren, Dr. George Gilpin; Betty, married John Dickinson, and Isaac Glover Gilpin, who wrote the historical narrative of the family previously quoted, and who inherited the homestead, and spent his whole life there. He married Hannah Darlington in 1794 and had five children, George Fox, Thomas C., Ruth C., Hannah Glover and John Dickinson Gilpin. The last named succeeded to the homestead and it passed to his son, Gideon Gilpin, who sold it about 1868, after it had been in a continuous occu- pancy by the family one hundred and seventy-three years. Gideon Gilpin now resides in St. Joseph, Mo. Sarah, dau. of John Dickinson Gilpin, before mentioned, m. John B. Heyburn, and had among other children a son, Weldon Brinton Heyburn, now U. S. Senator from Idaho, and a daughter, Mrs. Henry C. Marshall, of Duluth, Minn., who has in her possession an interesting collection of Gilpin heirlooms, including an iron spiral candle-holder set in an oaken stand, inscribed with the date "1686," which was brought to America by Joseph Gilpin the immigrant ;
Isaac, b. Imo. (March) 23, 1709-10, d. 1745, m. 8mo. (Oct.) 21, 1736, Mary Painter, who after his death m. (second) Benjamin Way; her daughter Hannah, by Isaac Gilpin, m. James Bennett;
Moses, b. Imo. (March) 8, 1711-12, m. gmo. (Nov.) 10, 1742, Thomas Buffington, of East Caln, and in 1760 they removed from Birmingham to Sadsbury, Chester co .;
Alice, b. Iomo. (Dec.) 7, 1714, m. 2mo. (April) II, 1739, Richard Eavenson, son of Richard and Jemima (Newlin) Eavenson, of Thornbury, Chester co., and settled in Goshen; their children were, Esther, Enoch, Hannah, Thomas and Isaac;
Mary, b. IImo. (Jan.) 16, 1716-17, d. 4mo. 17, 1806, m. 8mo. (Oct.) 27, 1736, Philip Tay- lor, son of Philip and Ann (Conway) Taylor, of Thornbury, and had children, Philip, Stephen, Hannah, John, Ann, Phebe, Lydia, Mary, Ruth and Rachel; she m. (second) about 1768, George Strode, of East Bradford;
Esther, b. Imo. (March) 9, 1718-19, d. Imo. 10, 1795, m. 6mo. 5, 1741, Samuel Painter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Buxcey) Painter, of Birmingham, and had seven chil- dren, James, George, Joseph, Samuel, Thomas, Hannah and Lydia; from James de- scended Minshall and Jacob Painter, of near Lima, Delaware co., who devoted them- selves to researches in local and family history and botany; they planted on their estate in the middle of that last century, the celebrated arboretum, which contains one of the largest collections of plants of botanical interest to be found in the country.
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SAMUEL GILPIN, eldest son of Joseph and Hannah (Glover) Gilpin, born at Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England, June 7, 1694, came with his parents to the banks of the Brandywine, in Chester, now Delaware county, Pennsylvania, when a little more than a year old, and was reared in the cave and primitive house of his parents there. On January 25, 1722-3, he married Jane, daughter of John and Mary (Doe) Parker, of Philadelphia, and they settled on a farm in Concord town- ship, Chester county, where they lived for ten years, and then removed to Cecil county, Province of Maryland, where he resided until his death, December 6, 1767. His wife Jane survived him until August 9, 1775. She was born March 24, 1701-2. Both are buried in a private burying-ground in what was the farm of their son Joseph Gilpin, near the head of Elk river.
Issue of Samuel and Jane (Parker) Gilpin:
Mary, of whom we have no further record;
Joseph, resided near the "Head of the Elk" in Cecil co., Md .; though a Quaker and not willing to accept military office, he was a strong supporter of the cause of independ- ence and filled a number of civil offices, and was a prominent man in the community; THOMAS, b. in Concord, Chester co., March 18, 1737-8, d. in exile in Va., March 2, 1778; m. Lydia Fisher, of Phila .; of whom later;
Samuel, Major in Maryland troops during Revolution ;
Hannah ;
Rachel;
George, removed to Fairfax co., Va., was a Colonel of Militia there during the Revolu- tion; he was a close personal friend of George Washington, and was one of his pall- bearers.
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THOMAS GILPIN, second son of Samuel and Jane ( Parker ) Gilpin, born in Con- cord township, Chester county, March 18, 1727-8, removed with his parents to Cecil county, Maryland, when a child and was reared to agricultural pursuits, and on coming of age settled on a farm of eighty acres on the banks of the Susque- hanna, but was soon after adopted by his uncle, Thomas Gilpin, and had charge of a valuable property belonging to his uncle on the Brandywine, near Wilming- ton, containing valuable mill sites and water power, which he later inherited. In 1752 he made a voyage to England with a view of obtaining information in regard to its trade relations with the Colonies that might be useful to him in entering into a commercial business which he had begun to contemplate in connection with the development of the property on the Brandywine. Landing at Dublin, he spent some time in Ireland, and then crossed over to Whitehaven and visited relatives in that and other parts of England. He visited and inspected coal and iron mines, potteries, and various kinds of manufacturing plants, and made a careful study of the state and mode of trade at the chief ports of export and import. After hav- ing visited all the localities connected with his ancestors he returned to America, reaching Chesapeake bay, October 3, 1753. Shortly after his return he established himself in business near the head of tide water on the Chester river, eastern shore of Maryland, where the present town of Millington was begun by him, and where he carried on a large and successful business as a wholesale factor and shipper.
In 1764 Thomas Gilpin married Lydia, born May 4, 1736, daughter of Joshua Fisher, then carrying on a large shipping business at Philadelphia, and transferring the active management of his Maryland establishment to his brother, and brother- in-law, Miers Fisher, settled permanently in Philadelphia, and became a member of the firm of Joshua Fisher & Sons Company, the leading member of which was his
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wife's eldest brother, Thomas Fisher. Having prospered in his business under- takings, and being possessed of ample means through his own efforts and by a considerable inheritance from his uncle, he, soon after locating in Philadelphia, began to take an active interest in scientific pursuits and the development of the industrial interests of his native country. He was one of the original members of the American Philosophical Society, and took an active interest in their proceed- ings. Long impressed with the utility of a canal connecting the Delaware and Chesapeake bays, he devoted himself to the task of inducing the merchants and capitalists of Philadelphia to undertake its accomplishment. In 1768 he made thorough and careful surveys and levels of different routes, and prepared estimates of probable expense, and plans of construction, sufficient to show a general com- parison of the advantages and expediency of each route, which he laid before the Philosophical Society in May, 1769, at the instance of a meeting of merchants and traders of Philadelphia, to which they had been first submitted. The Philosophical Society appointed a committee of eight of its members to verify his plans, esti- mates and suggestions, who made their report thereon February 16, 1770, the orig- inal of which is still in existence. This was the first real system of internal im- provement to be originated and carried out for the purposes of trade by the re- sources of the Colonists themselves, and though Thomas Gilpin did not live to see it completed, the project originated by him was carried to a successful issue, large- ly through the instrumentality of his eldest son.
When the protest of the Colonies against the unjust measures of the mother country reached the point of armed resistance, Thomas Gilpin, with many other influential business men of Philadelphia, who were members of the Society of Friends, withdrew themselves entirely from the contest, refusing to take any part in the struggle. Their wealth and influence made them objects of suspicion to the more ardent Patriots, and under the sanction of Congress, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania had a number of them arrested when Philadelphia was threatened by the British forces in 1778, and transported to the neighborhood of Winchester, Virginia, where Thomas Gilpin died March 2, 1778, and was buried in the Friends' burying-ground at Winchester. His wife, Lydia Fisher, survived him twenty-nine years, dying March 14, 1807.
Issue of Thomas and Lydia (Fisher) Gilpin:
JOSHUA, b. Nov. 8, 1765, d. Aug. 22, 1841, m. Mary Dilworth; of whom presently; Sarah, b. 1767, d. 1796;
Thomas, b. 1769, d. 1774;
Samuel, b. 1772, d. 1774;
Thomas, b. Sept. 10, 1776, d. in Phila., March 3, 1853, educated at Friends' schools of Phila., and showed marked ability in mathematics, science, and penmanship; he was left in charge of the commercial establishment in Phila., and the Brandywine mills, at the age of nineteen years, while his elder brother was in Europe, and became his part- ner on his return; introduced improved process for making of paper at the Brandy- wine 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 refer- ence to the banishment of the Philadelphia Friends to Virginia, which was published in 1850; he was a member of a number of scientific institutions; d. unm. in his seventy- seventh year; author of "Genealogy of the Fisher Family" and the "Exiles in Vir- ginia."
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