Hi,
One of the BEST Gilpin researchers, R. L. Cooke, III did this research:
-- Colonial Families of Philadelphia
Volume I
Page 431-432
under "Gilpin Family"
John W. Jordan, LL. D.
1911
-- R. L. Cooke, III - RESEARCHED ALL THIS
October 20, 2001, updated November 2, 2001
Alan Buckingham
Newark, Delaware

Private in Delaware Regiment during Revolutionary War
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VINCENT GILPIN, eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin, born in East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 8. 1732, married December 6, 1758, Abigail, born August 20, 1738, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Sharpless) Woodward, of Middletown, Chester county, and settled soon after on the Brandywine, above Wilmington, Delaware, on land now a part of the Dupont estate, where he built a large flour mill, and operated it for many years, shipping large quantities of flour to the West Indies. He was at different times part owner of several vessels plying between the Delaware ports and the West Indies, one of them the brig "Nancy," named for his daughter Ann, is said to have been the first vessel to hoist the American flag in the West Indies. She was eventually chased ashore by British crusiers and blown up. Vincent Gilpin was in the habit of exchanging a portion of his flour in the West Indies for products of those islands, which he disposed of in this country. When the British forces were on their march from the Chesapeake to Philadelphia, 1778, he had a large amount of molasses and rum stored at Wilmington, and fearing it would be seized or destroyed by the British, he sent it up to the old Gilpin homestead in Birmingham, then occupied by his brother Israel, and therby, to use the old and homely phrase, transferred it "from the frying pan into the fire," as the old homestead became the headquarters of Gen. Howe, after the battle of Brandywine. he died at Wilmington, August 5, 1810, and his wife Abigail, five years later, November 10, 1815. Abigail Woodward, wife of Vincent Gilpin, was the granddaughter of James Sharpless, born at Hatherton, Cheshire, England, March 5, 1670-1, who came to Pennsylvania with his parents, John and Jane (Moor) Sharpless, landing at Chester, August 14, 1682. Her mother, Sarah Sharpless, born March 27, 1710, married (first) Edward Woodward, Jr., father of Mrs. Gilpin, and (second) George Gilpin, uncle to Vincent, of Birmingham township. The mother of Sarah (Sharpless) Woodward was the second wife of James Sharpless, Mary, born in Glamorganshire, Wales, July 10, 1674, daughter of Ralph and Mary Lewis, who came to Pennsylvania with John Bevan, 1683, and located first in Haverford, removing soon after to Upper Darby. (Montgomery Co., Pa.) Edward Woodward, Jr., father of Abigail (Woodward) Gilpin, born December 27, 1707, died 1746, was a son of Edward and Abigail (Edge) Woodward, and grandson of Richard and Jane Woodward, who settled in Thornbury, Chester county, 1687.

Issue of Vincent and Abigail (Woodward) Gilpin:


1. EDWARD, b. April 27, 1760, d. April 15, 1844, m. Lydia Grubb; of whom Presently;
2. Ann, b. Aug. 13, 1762, d. June 18, 1822, m. John Ferris, of Wilmington, Del., d. s. p.;
3. Hannah, b. Dec. 27, 1764, d. unm.;
4. William, b. April 3, 1767, d. Aug. 23, 1773
5. James, b. Jan. 11, 1769, lost at sea in 1832; (**James below; same or lost together?)6. Aratus, b. Feb. 29, 1772, d. Sept. 25, 1773
7. William, b. Aug. 18, 1775, d. Dec. 2, 1843, at Byberry, Philadelphia co., m. Nov. 21, 1796, Ann Dunwoody, of Wilmington, who d. at Wilmington, Feb. 1, 1840; both buried in Friends' Burial Ground at Wilmington, they had issue:
8. Josiah H., b. Nov. 22, 1797, d. April 19, 1845, near Galena, Kent co., Md.; m. April 5, 1825, Martha Turner Moffett, of Kent co., Md
(second) 1841, Sarah Forman; four children by first marriage;
Mary Caldwell, b. Sept. 5, 1799, d. at Wilmington, Del., Nov. 13, 1884, m. Feb. 22, 1838, Lewis Rumford, whose first wife was
Henrietta M. Grubb;
5. **James, b. Aug. 16, 1801, lost at sea in 1832;
9. Edward Woodward, b. July 13, 1803, d. April 29, 1876, admitted to Delaware Bar, 1828; appointed Attorney General of Del., Feb. 12,
1840, and held that position ten years; appointed Chief Justice of Del., May 6, 1857, and filled that position until his death at Dover
in 1876, while holding Court; m. March 15, 1842, Elizabeth Adelaide, b. in Phila., May 2, 1813, d. at Wilmington, Nov. 16, 1874, dau.
of Daniel and Susan (Beck) Lammot;
10. William Aratus, b. July 13, 1805, m. Elizabeth Brown;
11. Henry Latimer, b. July 15, 1807, d. Sept. 15, 1851, m. Elizabeth Briscoe;
12.Vincent Caldwell, b. Aug. 29, 1810, d. Oct. 17, 1863, m. Ann Kenney, of Phila.; was sometime mayor of Wilmington, Del.;
13. Elizabeth Ferris, b. Nov. 25, 1812, d. unm.;
14. Lewis, b. July 19, 1815, d. Jan. 17, 1840, unm.
15. Gertrude, b. Aug. 13, 1778, m. Oct. 23, 1799, John Smith, of Wilmington, and after a residence of some years in Wilmington, where eleven children were born to them, removed to the West.
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