Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph GILPIN
Joseph Gilpin, eldest son of Samuel and Jane (Parker) Gilpin and ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was born in Concord township,Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 1, 1725, and removed with his parents in Nottingham, Cecil county, Maryland, at the age of eight years. On arriving at manhood's years he acquired the tract of land long known as "Gilpin Manor," and in 1760 erected thereon on the bank of the Big Elk, about one mile north of Elkton, the county seat of Cecil county, the fine old colonial mansion, still standing, and one of the picturesque and historic colonial houses of the Atlantic coast.Joseph Gilpin was one of the prominent patriots of Maryland and was from the first an ardent supporter of the cause of independence. He was a representative in the Provincial convention held at Annapolis,December 7, 1775, and later a member of the convention held August 14,1776, to frame a constitution for the state of Delaware. He was also a member of the Maryland convention that called for the ratification of the United States constitution, in 1787; was a delegate to the Provincial convention of 1777, a member of the Maryland Assembly, 1777, and presiding justice of the first court of Cecil county under the new government. In 1780 he was appointed one of the commissioners from Maryland to the conference at Philadelphia held to consider measuresto restore the public credit; was again commissioned presiding justice of the courts of Cecil county, in 1784, and held that office until his death, March 26, 1790. He was one of the largest contributors to the fund for erecting a court house in 1783 and one of the commissioners in charge of its erection. Joseph Gilpin married, November 8, 1764,Elizabeth Read, who was born 1742, and died 1802. They had ninechildren.
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