Daughter of Joshua & Sarah (Rowland) Fisher.
Widow of Thomas Gilpin I found marriage date of Dec 13, 1764 (OS/NS?)... 71 years
Thank you to Norman Donoghue (48379527) for sharing the following:
Her husband is the Quaker Exile Thomas Gilpin, son of Samuel Gilpin (1694-1767) and his wife Jane Parker Gilpin (1702-1775), m. 1723. He died in exile in Winchester, Virginia, when he caught a respiratory illness. His death and that of exile John Hunt, a Quaker minister, caused the Patriot government of Pennsylvania and the Continental Congress, who together had exiled 17 Quakers and some others, to relent and release them, which they did at Lancaster, the state capital in its own self-exile during the British occupation of Philadelphia. 15 of the 17 Quakers returned to the city by April 30, 1778. The British evacuated Philadelphia on June 18, 1778, and headed back to New York City where they could regroup. Thomas Gilpin is credited as the grandfather if not the father of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, which he was the first to survey in the 1760s, which he reported to the American Philosophical Society of which he was a founding member. He also conducted a study of the wheat fly and invented useful mechanical devices, one of which his correspondent Benjamin Franklin lauded. As a businessman he was the owner of mills in Maryland on the Chester River, and in Delaware and Pennsylvania, in both cases on the Brandywine River. His son Thomas Jr. was the compiler and editor of a book published privately in 1848 detailing the Quaker Exile in documents entitled Exiles In Virginia, with observations on the Conduct of the Society of Friends during the Revolutionary War. It is the key to understanding how the exile occurred and contains nearly all the government documentation along with excerpts from Quaker diaries and their own documents.
Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Widow of Thomas Gilpin I found marriage date of Dec 13, 1764 (OS/NS?)... 71 years
Thank you to Norman Donoghue (48379527) for sharing the following:
Her husband is the Quaker Exile Thomas Gilpin, son of Samuel Gilpin (1694-1767) and his wife Jane Parker Gilpin (1702-1775), m. 1723. He died in exile in Winchester, Virginia, when he caught a respiratory illness. His death and that of exile John Hunt, a Quaker minister, caused the Patriot government of Pennsylvania and the Continental Congress, who together had exiled 17 Quakers and some others, to relent and release them, which they did at Lancaster, the state capital in its own self-exile during the British occupation of Philadelphia. 15 of the 17 Quakers returned to the city by April 30, 1778. The British evacuated Philadelphia on June 18, 1778, and headed back to New York City where they could regroup. Thomas Gilpin is credited as the grandfather if not the father of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, which he was the first to survey in the 1760s, which he reported to the American Philosophical Society of which he was a founding member. He also conducted a study of the wheat fly and invented useful mechanical devices, one of which his correspondent Benjamin Franklin lauded. As a businessman he was the owner of mills in Maryland on the Chester River, and in Delaware and Pennsylvania, in both cases on the Brandywine River. His son Thomas Jr. was the compiler and editor of a book published privately in 1848 detailing the Quaker Exile in documents entitled Exiles In Virginia, with observations on the Conduct of the Society of Friends during the Revolutionary War. It is the key to understanding how the exile occurred and contains nearly all the government documentation along with excerpts from Quaker diaries and their own documents.
Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Daughter of Joshua & Sarah (Rowland) Fisher.
Widow of Thomas Gilpin I found marriage date of Dec 13, 1764 (OS/NS?)... 71 years
Thank you to Norman Donoghue (48379527) for sharing the following:
Her husband is the Quaker Exile Thomas Gilpin, son of Samuel Gilpin (1694-1767) and his wife Jane Parker Gilpin (1702-1775), m. 1723. He died in exile in Winchester, Virginia, when he caught a respiratory illness. His death and that of exile John Hunt, a Quaker minister, caused the Patriot government of Pennsylvania and the Continental Congress, who together had exiled 17 Quakers and some others, to relent and release them, which they did at Lancaster, the state capital in its own self-exile during the British occupation of Philadelphia. 15 of the 17 Quakers returned to the city by April 30, 1778. The British evacuated Philadelphia on June 18, 1778, and headed back to New York City where they could regroup. Thomas Gilpin is credited as the grandfather if not the father of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, which he was the first to survey in the 1760s, which he reported to the American Philosophical Society of which he was a founding member. He also conducted a study of the wheat fly and invented useful mechanical devices, one of which his correspondent Benjamin Franklin lauded. As a businessman he was the owner of mills in Maryland on the Chester River, and in Delaware and Pennsylvania, in both cases on the Brandywine River. His son Thomas Jr. was the compiler and editor of a book published privately in 1848 detailing the Quaker Exile in documents entitled Exiles In Virginia, with observations on the Conduct of the Society of Friends during the Revolutionary War. It is the key to understanding how the exile occurred and contains nearly all the government documentation along with excerpts from Quaker diaries and their own documents.
Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Widow of Thomas Gilpin I found marriage date of Dec 13, 1764 (OS/NS?)... 71 years
Thank you to Norman Donoghue (48379527) for sharing the following:
Her husband is the Quaker Exile Thomas Gilpin, son of Samuel Gilpin (1694-1767) and his wife Jane Parker Gilpin (1702-1775), m. 1723. He died in exile in Winchester, Virginia, when he caught a respiratory illness. His death and that of exile John Hunt, a Quaker minister, caused the Patriot government of Pennsylvania and the Continental Congress, who together had exiled 17 Quakers and some others, to relent and release them, which they did at Lancaster, the state capital in its own self-exile during the British occupation of Philadelphia. 15 of the 17 Quakers returned to the city by April 30, 1778. The British evacuated Philadelphia on June 18, 1778, and headed back to New York City where they could regroup. Thomas Gilpin is credited as the grandfather if not the father of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, which he was the first to survey in the 1760s, which he reported to the American Philosophical Society of which he was a founding member. He also conducted a study of the wheat fly and invented useful mechanical devices, one of which his correspondent Benjamin Franklin lauded. As a businessman he was the owner of mills in Maryland on the Chester River, and in Delaware and Pennsylvania, in both cases on the Brandywine River. His son Thomas Jr. was the compiler and editor of a book published privately in 1848 detailing the Quaker Exile in documents entitled Exiles In Virginia, with observations on the Conduct of the Society of Friends during the Revolutionary War. It is the key to understanding how the exile occurred and contains nearly all the government documentation along with excerpts from Quaker diaries and their own documents.
Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
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