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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



las. The former removed to New- 

 garden, but the latter, after having 

 married Ann, the daughter of Joseph 

 Need, of Darby, became a lar^e pro- 

 perty holder, and resided on the I3raudy- 

 wine, above Chadd's Ford. 



Gabitas, William, one of the mill- 

 wriijhtH of our early colonists, came 

 from East Markham in the County of 

 Nottingham, England, and settled in 

 or near the town of Darby in 1685. 

 He was accompanied by his wife Abi- 

 gail. Their children were Jeremiah, 

 Elizabeth, Rebecca, Deborah, and per- 

 haps others. They were Friends, and 

 William had experienced a small share 

 of persecution in his native country on 

 account of his religion. He removed 

 to Philadelphia where his wife and 

 son Jeremiah died in 1691. 



Garrett, Will'am, (webster,) with 

 his wile Ann and several children, came 

 from Leicestershire, England, in 1684, 

 in company with Samuel Levis, John 

 Smith, and Robert Cliffe, who brought 

 with them a joint certificate which 

 they presented to a meeting of Friends 

 held at " the Governor's house" in 

 Philadelphia the 4th of the 9th month 

 (November) 1684. Immediately before 

 leaving England, he, jointly with Sam- 

 uel Levis, had purchased 1000 acres of 

 land, and they were prepared to locate 

 it immediately on their arrival. Early 

 in 1685 William located his share in 

 Darby, now Upper Darby, where he 

 came to reside. Both William and his 

 wife were consistent members of the 

 Society of Friends, and were much 

 confided in by the meeting. Their 

 children were Mary, Samuel, Alice, 

 Sarah, Thomas, William and John; 

 all of wliom were born in England ex- 

 cept the last, who died young. Mary 

 intermarried with Abel Nolde, Samuel 

 with Jane, the daughter of Robert 

 Pennell of .Middletown, Alice with Jo- 

 seph, a son of Robert Pennell, Sarah 

 with Randal Cro.xton of Providence, 

 Thomas with Rebecca Vernon of the 

 same township, and William with Mary 

 Smith of Darl.y. The elder William 

 Garrett was alive in 1703. Ann, the 

 wife of William Garrett, lived till 1722, 

 when she died, in Philadelphia. 



Gibbons, John, and his wife Margery 

 were among the early Quaker emigrants 



to Pennsylvania from England, and had 

 settled in Bethel as early as 1684. 

 They came from Warminster in the 

 County of Wilts. Owing to some 

 theological notions promulgated by 

 Margery, she was disowned by Friends, 

 and John appears to have lost his in- 

 terest in the society. They had two 

 sons, John who married Sarah Howard 

 of Philadelphia, and James who mar- 

 ried Ann, the daughter of George 

 Pearce of Thornbury. John died be- 

 fore his fother, leaving two children, 

 John and Rebecca. James removed to 

 Westtown, and had three children, 

 Mary, James and Joseph. The elder 

 John Gibbons died in 1721. 



Gibbons, Henry, came from " Pari- 

 vidge, Darbyshire, England," in 1682, 

 with his wife Hellen and family. He 

 was a Friend, and continued to reside 

 in or near Darby till the time of his 

 death in 1701. In his will he calls 

 himself " Henry Gibbons of Darby 

 Webster." He left three daughters 

 but no son. His wife died in 1715. 

 His daughter Anna intermarried with 

 Samuel Sellers in 1684. Henry Gib- 

 bons with forty others, had suffered 

 one month's imprisonment in England, 

 for no other ofl'ence than being present 

 at a meeting in which Elizabeth Deane 

 was making a prayer. 



Gilpin, Joseph, the son of Thomas 

 and joan Gilpin of Warborough, Eng- 

 land, was born in 1664. He was mar- 

 ried to Hannah Glover in 1691, and 

 went to reside in Dorchester, but it 

 was not till about the year 1695 that 

 they emigrated to America. They set- 

 tled in Birmingham, their first dwell- 

 ing being a cave on the side of a hill, 

 the e.\act site of which can yet be 

 pointed out on the farm late the pro- 

 perty of John D. Gilpin, Esq., one mile 

 south of Dilworthstown. How long 

 this couple occupied their cave as a 

 dwelling is not known. They were 

 strict members of the Society of Friends, 

 and maintained a good standing both 

 in that society and in the coiuiHunity 

 at large. Their children were fifteen 

 in number, viz : Hannah, Samuel, Ra- 

 chel, Ruth, Lydia, Thomas, Ann, Jo- 

 seph, Sarah, George, Isaac, Moses, 

 Alice, Mary and Esther, the two elder 

 of whom were born in England. From 

 the low habitation of a cave, J jseph 



