Inventory, deeds, and letters, 1738-1852.

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

Inventory, deeds, and letters, 1738-1852.

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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.

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