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Pennsylvania. Land grant : Philadelphia, 1774 Feb. 28.

Title: Land grant : Philadelphia, 1774 Feb. 28.

Grant by the proprietors Thomas and John Penn of 309 1/2 acres in Bedford County to Thomas Gilpin and Miers Fisher. The land was originally granted in 1773 to Samuel Fisher, who deeded it to Gilpin and Fisher; the present grant confirms that transaction. Printed form filled in by hand and signed by John Penn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) : vellum ; 33 x 39 cm. folded to 16 x 14 cm.

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Thomas Gilpin letterbook, 1771-1777, 1771-1777

Title: Thomas Gilpin letterbook, 1771-1777 1771-1777

This letterbook includes documents other than letters, such as "A method of destroying . . . the Wheat Fly," observations on herring, and articles establishing a grammar school at Wilmington (1771).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

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Gilpin, Thomas, 1776-1853. Papers, 1840.

Title: Papers, 1840.

Biographical account of Thomas Gilpin, 1728-1778, and "memorial and reminiscences in private life" by Hannah Logan Smith with additions made by Thomas Gilpin in 1840.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.; 30 cm. or less.

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Gilpin, Thomas, 1776-1853. Inventory, deeds, and letters, 1738-1852.

Title: Inventory, deeds, and letters, 1738-1852.

Contains an estate inventory for Isaac Gilpin dated 1745, an inventory of items owned by Thomas Gilpin taken between 1839 and 1850; an invoice of glassware,bookcases, and books purchased by Joshua Gilpin in 1801; some letters; and property deeds relating to members of the Gilpin family. The volume containing Thomas Gilpin's inventory opens with a table of contents listing packages, the inventories of the packages, a list of furniture and other articles, and items sent to various individuals. The inventory documents such possessions as paintings, drawings, lithographs, copper plates, and other types of art; letters, ledgers, journals, and other business records; books, maps, and pamphlets by title; paper on hand at Brandywine, 1839; clothing with information on the date each article was made and its condition; napkins, table cloths, sheets, blankets, and other household linens; silver, crockery, dishes, china, glassware, and other housewares; and deeds, patents, and other private papers owned by Thomas Gilpin. An 1844 inventory of financial holdings and a list of books lent in 1843 are also included. The volume closes with a room by room inventory of the furniture in Catherine Hubert's cottage. The invoice of goods purchased by Joshua Gilpin in 1801 also includes three pencil drawings of caskets or decorative boxes. Property deeds record purchases of lots and houses by Thomas Gilpin and others in Wilmington between 1738 and 1771. An associated document from 1748 shows a plot with a store and house owned by Gilpin, Joshua Way, and John Knowles. Thomas Gilpin was also involved in land transactions with Thomas Fisher, Samuel R. Fisher, and Miers Fisher in Bedford and Westmoreland Counties, Pa. between 1773 and 1777. Another deed indicates that Lydia Gilpin purchased a lot in Wilmington from Simeon Hutton in 1792. The last deed involves the transfer of two tracts of land in Indiana County, Pa. from Henry D. Gilpin to Richard Gilpin in 1849. The letters are to or from the younger Thomas Gilpin. Some of them concern business, some family news. He writes about his efforts to pen a Gilpin family history and to obtain illustrations for it.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

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Gilpin, Thomas, 1728-1778. Miscellany, 1769-1772 [photoprints].

Title: Miscellany, 1769-1772 [photoprints].

The records are estimates, proposals, drafts, surveys and sketches for the construction of canals to connect the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay. Several routes were examined, from New Castle County in the north to Sussex County in the south. The project was revived after the Revolution and eventually completed by the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company in 1829.

ArchivalResource: 32 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503429 View

Gilpin, Thomas, 1728-1778. Diary and manuscript map, 1777 Sept. 2-1778 Jan. 24.

Title: Diary and manuscript map, 1777 Sept. 2-1778 Jan. 24.

Diary kept by Gilpin while held in exile in Winchester, Virginia during the Revolution and map of Winchester (Sept. 2, 1777-Jan. 24, 1778). Taken prisoner and transported to Virginia, Gilpin recounts in his diary the circumstances leading to his imprisonment, the transport of the Quaker prisoners, life as a political prisoner, his guards, harassment by Whig mobs, behavior of the American militia, notes of Quaker meetings, and movements of military forces. The map is drawn to scale by Gilpin and includes names of householders and table of distances; addressed on the back to Ann Gilpin, Wilmington.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (in one enclosure)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58664812 View

Gilpin, Thomas, 1728-1778. Letterbook, 1771-1777.

Title: Letterbook, 1771-1777.

This letterbook includes documents other than letters, such as "A method of destroying . . . the Wheat Fly," observations on herring, and articles establishing a grammar school at Wilmington (1771).

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298240 View

Hall, Thomas William. Papers, 1809-1894.

Title: Papers, 1809-1894.

Letters concerning investments in midwestern railroads, particularly the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. Early papers are those of John Wood, a merchant of Baltimore, including a description of the first gas lights in the city, 1817, and legal papers of Joshua and Thomas Gilpin relating to their business, the Delaware Brandywine Paper Mills. The collection also contains the papers of William Maxwell Wood, including the manuscript of his book, Fankwei, describing his voyage to the Far East, 1855-[1858?], as ship's doctor aboard the U.S.S. San Jacinto and giving an account of the Second Opium War; and a journal chiefly concerned with William M. Wood's career in the Civil War as fleet surgeon of the North Atlantic blockade and inspector of hospitals in North Carolina, 1863.

ArchivalResource: 125 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19594814 View