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... Joseph Gilpin, the American Pioneer, was a descendant of Richard de Guylpyn of Westmoreland, who was granted a coat of arms for having killed a wild boar. The family in England has a deed dating about the middle of the thirteenth century for the Castle Kentmere or Ulthwaite Hall, which was in possession of the family until the year 1672. Joseph Gilpin married in England, February 23, 1691, Hannah Glover, and came to America about the beginning of 1696, and settled in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pa. They had fifteen children, of whom the second son, Samuel Gilpin, was born in England June 7, 1693, and died December 7, 1767. He married January 25, 1722 Jane Parker ; she died August 8, 1775 ; they had seven children, of whom the sixth child, Rachel Gilpin, married George Evans.
The Family Bible of George Evans, printed in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1752, was recently [1922] in the possession of Joel Evans, Colmar, Pa. ...
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... Joseph Gilpin] ... married Hannah Glover and had fifteen children, of whom the eighth child, Joseph Gilpin, born January 21, 1704, died December 31, 1792. He left fifteen children and forty-five grandchildren. At the death of their mother there were living twelve children and sixty-two grandchildren, and in 1763 there were ten children, sixty-two grandchildren and seventy great grandchildren. ...
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