Founding Father Thomas Mifflin Gilpin William Smith John Nicholson Vellum Deed

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Founding Father Thomas Mifflin Gilpin William Smith John Nicholson Vellum Deed:
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1794 Vellum DeedDocumentHUGE - 30 inches by 34 inchesPhiladelphia - State Pennsylvania
3316 Acres from the Estate of Thomas Gilpin 1727-1778 by Lydia Gilpin (wife 1736-1807) and Others
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Joshua Gilpin (son 1765-1841)Thomas FisherSarah FisherSamuel R FisherHannah FisherMiers FisherSarah FisherThomas Mifflin (Founding FatherGovernorPennsylvania)William Smith Doctor ofDivinity (1727-1803)to
John Nicholson
WITNESS SIGNATURESThomas Gilpin (1776-1855)invented and patented the first continuous papermaking machine in the U.S.,
Large Vellum Deed
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Bio\'sJohn Nicholson (d. 1800), financier, businessman, comptroller general of Pennsylvania, anti-Federalist pamphleteer, land speculator, and publisher. Nicholson was born in Wales, emigrated to Philadelphia prior to the American Revolution, and engaged in a variety of business enterprises, including button, iron, and glass manufacturing and real estate developments. He later became the partner of Robert Morris in land speculation and development. With Morris he promoted the development of Washington, D.C., and formed the Asylum Company involving hundreds of thousands of acres on the Susquehanna as a haven for French refugees.
William Smith (September 7, 1727 – May 14, 1803)[1] was an Episcopal priest who served as the first provost of the College of Philadelphia, which became the University of Pennsylvania. He was also the founder of Washington College in Chestertown Maryland, and St. John\'s College in Annapolis, Maryland.Smith was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to Thomas and Elizabeth (Duncan) Smith. He attended the University of Aberdeen, later claiming a master\'s from the institution. He also held the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Aberdeen, the University of Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1753, Smith wrote a pamphlet outlining his thoughts about education. The book fell into the hands of Benjamin Franklin and Richard Peters; as a result they asked Smith to come to Philadelphia and teach at the newly established college there now the University of Pennsylvania.In 1755 Smith became the first provost (the equivalent of the modern post of university president) of the school. He held the post until 1779. Smith was an Anglican priest and together with William Moore, Smith was briefly jailed in 1758 for his criticism of the military policy in the Quaker-run colony. Indeed, during the French and Indian War, Smith published two anti-Quaker pamphlets that advocated the disenfranchisement of all Quakers, who were the political elite in Pennsylvania. However, their pacifist beliefs made it difficult for the Quakers in government to provide funds for defense, and as a result anti-Quaker sentiment ran high, especially in the backcountry which suffered from frequent raids from Indians allied with the French. Smith\'s second pamphlet, A Brief View of the Conduct of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1755 (1756), actually went so far as to suggest that while one way of \"ridding our Assembly of Quakers\" would be to require an oath, \"another way of getting rid of them\" would be \"by cutting their Throats.\"[4] Smith\'s virulent attacks on Quakers alienated him from Franklin, who was closely allied with the Pennsylvania Assembly.Smith courted and married Moore\'s daughter, Rebecca, and had seven children. Their grandson William Rudolph Smith became a politician who served in both the Pennsylvania and Wisconsin state legislatures.Smith advocated for the Church of England to appoint a bishop in America, a highly controversial proposal insofar as many Americans feared any ecclesiastical institution that might compel compliance with the force of royal authority. Smith received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen in 1759 and from Trinity College, Dublin in 1763. In 1768 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society. Smith was also the founding editor of The American Magazine, or Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies, the first publication of its kind, which appeared from October 1757 until October 1758, when publication ceased owing to Smith\'s incarceration due to the previously mentioned libel action initiated by the Pennsylvania Assembly. Smith\'s best known work as an author is \"Bouquet\'s Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764\" (1765), an account of the last campaign in Pontiac\'s War, led by Colonel Henry Bouquet.When the American Revolution broke out, Smith was in a bind. As an Anglican priest, he was viewed as a Loyalist, but his sentiments were far more sympathetic towards the Patriots than otherwise, even to the point of founding a college named for George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Patriot Continental Army, in the midst of war. He was appointed to serve on the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence in 1774, along with such notables as John Dickinson, Samuel Miles, and Joseph Reed. Forced to leave Philadelphia, Smith moved to Maryland where helped found and become the first president of Washington College, an institution that he intended to be the premiere academic institution of the region; it received almost exclusive patronage from the first President of the United States, George Washington.After the war, he returned to Philadelphia, where he briefly regained his post at Penn. His final project was the development of land in the western region of the state. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was founded by Rev. Smith, and his sons were the first leaders of its government.
Thomas Gilpin (1776-1853), the son of the elder Thomas Gilpin, was born in Philadelphia on September 10, 1776. He and his brother Joshua (1765-1841) established Delaware\'s first paper mill near Wilmington in 1787. Although Thomas maintained his residence in Philadelphia, he summered near the mill. Joshua resided in Delaware at Kentmere. In 1817, Thomas invented and patented the first continuous papermaking machine in the U.S., based on information secured by his brother in England. While the brothers were successful in their business endeavors, they suffered from a shortage of capital and losses in other investments. As a result, they sold the mill in 1837.
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