Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,297, Israel Gilpin, Del.
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SERVICE Del 
Gilpin, Israel  
NUMBER S. 4297
carded
CONTENTS
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Ohio 7935
Israel Gilpin
of Boone Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a Captain of the Company commanded
by Captain --- of the Regt commanded
by Col McKinley in the Delaware
line for one year.
$240
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Apl
1833 and sent to
Hon. R. N. Johnson, Chartered [Acct?]
Kentucky
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833.  480.-
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Septr. 120
$600

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm. X. Palmer, Clerk
Book E Vol. 8 Page Nine

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1874 April 7  Hon Chas O'Niell - furnished military history (for Geo. Gilpin Phila) 
1889 Dec 7  J. H. Quinn referred his letter to 3d Auditor [Pycot?] as requested

Died 
July 4, 1834
as shown by
"Ohio" Agency 
Book
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SERVICE.              NUMBER
Del Gilpin, Israel.  S4297
CONTENTS Carded

W. Lewis Conner a clergyman residing in the county of Boone and state of Kentucky and Jno  Perkins residing in the same county state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Israel Gilpin who has subscribed & sworn to the written declaration; that we believe him to [sic] Ninety two years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been an officer in the revolution & that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed this day & year aforesaid.
Lewis Conner [hand written seal]
John H Perkins [hand written seal]
Sworn to before me
Chasteen Scott

   And the said Chasteen Scott a Justice of the peace on afsd [aforesaid] do hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and also that the said that he the said Israel Gilpin the said applicant cannot from body infirmity attend court - And it is further certified that it appears to me the said justice that Lewis Conner who has sent the above certificate is a clergyman resident of said county of Boone and that Jno Perkins who has also signed the same is a resident also of said county of Boone and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand as Justice of the peace as of the 19th of October 1832
Chasteen Scott
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Boone County Sctt
I Willis Graves Clerk of the Boone County Court do hereby certify that Chasteen Scott Esq.  whose signature is to the above & other certificates is a justice of the peace in & for said county duly appointed commission & qualified which signature are genuine & in his own handwriting & that as such full faith & credit is due to all his official acts
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 30th of October in the year 1832
Willis Graves Clk
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State of Kentucky
Boon County  Sctt


This day personally appeared
before me Chasteen Scott a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Boone. Joseph Gilpin aged Eighty five years & resident of said County & after being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he lived in New Castle County Delaware during the American revolutionary war & was well acquainted with Israel Gilpin who has subscribed & sworn to the 
within declaration. & does now recollect that
said Israel Gilpin did enter the service of the U
States, as a captain of a volunteer company
of Militia  early in the spring of the year 1776
 & that he continued to command said company as he states for about 18 months &
was then charged o the Commissary department & served in said department making purchases to for the troops for three or four years or until hostilities ceased in that part of the country.  & he recollects that said Israel Gilpin was at the Battle of Brandywine , all of
which this deponent will recollects & he
served with Israel Gilpin in the militia
company as well as while he was in the
Commissary department

Sworn to & subscribed this 19th
October 1832
Joseph Gilpin

Scorn to before me as
af
Chasteen Scott
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Boone County Sctt
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in afor said [aforesaid] county of Boone State of Kentucky Isreal Gilpin the within named applicant for a pension who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grade For Eighteen months as a Captain - and for at least three years in the commissary department & while in the commissary department his grade was that of a Colonel & his pay was Two Dollars per day he acted as principal purchaser [illegible] of provisions & general supplier for the Army & troops in the section of common he lived^ and for such service I claim a pension Sign by S. Isreal Gilpin Sworn to this 8th of Feby 1833
Sworn to before me as of this 8th day of Feby 1883
Israel Gilpin
Robt S. Chambers whose genuine signature is to this above certificate is one of the Justices of Boone County duly appointed commissioned and qualified and on of the Justices of the Boone County court [illegible] is a Court of Record & as such full faith and credit is due to all his official acts
Given under my hand as of this 9th Feby 1833
Willis Graves clk
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Is. Gilpin

fought as Captain

$240 per ann
[scratched out] pension to be paid at Cincinnati by order of Mr. Edwards

Hon. R.M. Johnson
Choctaw Academy
Ken

Mr. Gilpin wishes his pension payable at Cincinnati Ohio
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Isreal Gilpin 
S. 4297
BA-J/MLB

Grace Hart Scott
28 - 172nd Streer
Hammond, Indiana

Dear Madam:
The data which follow in regard to Israel Gilpin were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 4297, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Israel Gilpin and names of his parents were not stated. 

While residing in New Castle County, Delaware, Israel Gilpin entered the service in the spring of 1776 and served eighteen months as a captain in Colonel John Mckinley's Delaware regiment. Shortly before the battle of Brandywine, he was appointed Purchasing Commissary with the rank of colonel and served in that capacity for at least three years. He was in the battle of Brandywine which was fought on the farm which, he stated, then belonged to him. 

Israel Gilpin was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, at which time he was aged ninety-two years and a resident of Boone County, Kentucky. He died July 4, 1834.

It is not shown that Israel Gilpin ever married. 

In 1832, one Joseph Gilpin, aged eighty-five years, of Boone County, Kentucky, stated that he served with Israel Gilpin from New Castle County, Delaware. He was referred to as Captain Joseph Gilpin and it was stated that he followed the sea as a profession. Reference was made to Isaac and John Gilpin, also, who served in the Revolution. No relationship was shown between any of the three to Israel Gilpin or to each other.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, and name of person paid, in the case of Israel Gilpin, you should write to
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The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Israel Gilpin
Certificate #7935
Issued April 20, 1833
Rate, $240 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Revlnay (Revolutionary) 429 nf
INVALID.
File No. 4297
Israel Gilpin
Capt. Del. Line

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A.Page 141
[Arrangement of 1870]

May 7, 1897 – Histor(y) Mr George P. Perkins Covington, Kentuck
1909 Oct. 28 Hist. to Mrs. Fred A Caldwell
1909 Nov. 29 Mr. C.M. Van Hamm
1911 Oct. 11 Mrs. Nettie Mitchell
1920 Mor. 15 – Hist. to Mrs. B.F. Cline
1924 Apr. 26 – Hist. to Eulalie C. Hall. U.M.
1924, Oct. 30 – Hist. to Judge Geo. G. Perkins. U.M.
1929 March 8. Hist. to Wallace H. Gilpin. A.D.Y.
1937-July 23 – Hist. to Mrs. Robt. Rogers – ES
1939, Mar. 16 – Hist. to Grace Hart Scott MLB
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Secretary’s office
Delaware
New Castle
April 7th 1833

Sir;

There are no documents in this office, showing military services by Israel & John Gilpin on either of them – in fact, there is no evidence, in this office, of the services of any part of the military of this states, in the war of the revolution.

You will receive enclosed, confirmatory testimony, as to the declarations of these aged applicants for pensions.

The documents received from you, were addressed to the late secretary by names, & was not mailed by me, without delay – since then, some pressing engagements where with the next session of the legislatures, have increased the delay.

Your last letters & the papers contained, will be attended to as soon
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practicable. All the military papers are at Dover, the seat of government, to which, place I go tomorrow.

I am very respectfully your ob(edien)t Ser(vant)
James Rogers
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various duties of a similar character on diverse other occasions, which I am unable at this day after the lapse of so many years, particularly the enumerate. The officers of the company were Captain Israel Gilpin, 1st Lieut Patrick O. Finn 2d Lieut John Harper and Ensign Edward Giles It was organized, to the best of my knowledge in the month of May or perhaps June, 1775. and remained having and performing other duties until March 1776, when I entered the Army, and left Wilmington after which my knowledge of said Company, in some measure ceased; except that the said Company, the Captain, and first Lieut. still kept together, the other officers and some of the man having entered the Army then in the State of New Jersey. At the same time, I have no hesitation in saying that I believe, that Captain Gilpin continued at the head of the Company until he entered the Staff department in 1777 as states in his application. And further, I am free to declare, that I believe the statement he has made in relation to his further services to be substantially correct and entitled to full faith and credit.
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The applications of Israel Gilpin and Joseph his both of Boone County, Ky for Pensions having been forwarded by the War Department to the Authorities of this State, for the purpose of obtaining information relative to the subject; I avail myself of the occasion to lay before the Department my recollections in respect to the matters contained in the respective statements; in the hopes that these Claims may meet with a favorable consideration. 

Israel Gilpin was a Captain Ccmmanding the first, or at least one of the first Company, raised in New Castle on Delaware, previous to the Declaration of Independence on the fourth of July AD1776. At this period I was a member of his company, then in full standing and completely provisioned for service; and as I well recollect, performed duties of a public nature, in guarding powder whilst being transported from Sinnepuxen (sic) to the City of Philadelphia. He and the Company under his command, also performed
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As to this application of Captain Joseph Gilpin, I can only say that I was well acquainted with him at that day. He followed the sea as a profession, after my my entering the army. I know but little of him; but, I have no hesitation in declaring, that I believe his statement to be substantially correct. His standing in society, and disposition, towards the cause in which we were then engaged, were such, when taken in connexion with information which I have received, as well as facts coming within my own knowledge, that I can firmly say, I consider his statement entitled to full faith and credit.

In addition to the above, I have taken the liberty to forward a statement made by Edward Gilpin touching this subject.

C.N. Bennett 

Witness g(ive)n here, Will, March 15th 1833
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(stamp Chocktaw Academy)

[illegible]
Rh M Johnson

Col James L Edwards
(Chief of Pension Office)
Washington City
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I enclose you a list of cases of persons within my congressional district – your speedy answer to the results in these cases will confer a favour upon me. I am disappointed in not hearing from some of my cases. I agreed to take 1 or 2 months for each of the Gilpins – if nothing better could be had

Yours
Rh. Re: Johnson

In all my cases let the county be first on the certificate of pension.
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(stamp)
Pension Office
U.S.
A
Nov
18
1909
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                                                N.Y. Nov 19, 1909
US. Com. of Pensions
       Washington, D.C.
                  Sir: Will you kindly send me certified copy of pension granted to Israel Gilpin, residing the Boone Co. Ky., Captain in Delaware troops, revolutionary war, under Col. McKinley, application for which we filed Oct 19, 1832.
Whatever response may be attached to this request I shall immediately send upon notification.
                             Very truly
                                C W Van Hawes
Sherman Square Hartley
          N.Y. City
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OLD WAR NAVY
APR 28 1897
FILES




PENSION 
F. U.S.
APR 26 1897
OFFICE
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GEO. G. PERKINS, Judge
W.W.CLEARY, Commonwealth's Attorney
H. C HALLAM, Clerk
EDWARD RENZ, Master Commissioner

COMMONWEALTH KENTUCKY,
KENTON CIRCUIT CIURT,
COVINGTON

21 Apr 97
My Dear Ser,
I want to learn if Israel Gilpin is enrolled as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and as a pensioner.
He is said to have raised the field company for that was at Wilmington, Delaware, and _____ be on the roster from that state or from Pennsylvania. He and his brother Joseph are also said to have applied for pensions late in life - as late as about 1830. I will be thankful for early information and will remit any official fee, c/o Shelton Court of Pensions. 
Yours
Geo G Perkins
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(receipt stamp)
FINANCE DIVISION
MAR 1 1920

(receipt stamp)
PENSION D OFFICE U.S.
MAR 1  1920

Finance  SD

Indianapolis  Ind
Feb. 27th 1920.

Pension Dept of Interior;

Dear Sir
Will you please send me a copy
of the record of the service of Israel Gilpin
who died at Burlington, Boone Co. Ky. July 4th
1834 ?

Kindly oblige.
Respectfully
Mrs. B.F. Cline
2001 Broadway
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Judge Geo G. Perkins
702 The Wyoming apt
Washington DC
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Indianapolis, Ind
March 25,1924
Honorable Commissionier of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
My dear Sir -
Will you kindly send
me the Revolutionary War
records and family data
of Israel Gilpin of Pennsylvania
who later went to Kentucky, when old applied
for pension. Also the 
war record and family
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Datta of Bartholomew Ramsey
of North Carolina
Thanking in advance
for your kindly information
I am most sincerely
Eulalie Cline Hall
2/5 Penison Hotel
Indianapolis
Indiana
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Two receipt stamps on the back side of a letter sent with the logo of STANDARD PLUMBING AND HEATING.

STAMP 1
Pension Office
U.S.
Oct 9 1911

STAMP 2
Records Divisionj
Oct 9 1911
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NETTIE MITCHELL                  P.F.D. NEWMAN

STANDARD PLUMBING 7 HEATING CO.

Special Attention given to repair work
Electrical wiring and Supplies

Garage, Automobiles, Repairing and Supplies

PHONES} F A 30
                } D A 26


Martinsville, Ind.,.. Oct 6th 1911

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. U.S.A.

(handwritten note on the side) 
See Israel Gilpin
Col of Del
S4297
T S C

Dear Sir

Can you give me the War Record and the given name of Col. Gilpin who served as one of the fall bearers of General Washington. I do not know his co - his Regiment or from whence he came. I am trying to trace my lineage from Israel Gilpin and his Brother who owned
the land on which the Battle of Brandywine was
fought.  They owned and operated Powder and Flour Mills along the Brandywine River and it was on that ground on which the Battle was fought.

The Ulster Co. Gazette of New York of Jany(sic January) 1800 gives an account of the burial of General Washington and the names of his shall bearers. I know so little to tell you that will aid you but hope for enough information from you to entitle me to a place among the D.A.R.

Thanking you in advance for this courtesy

I am
Very truly
Nettie Mitchell
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OFFICE TELEPHONE 1051.
RESIDENCE TELEPHONE 1231.

FRED A. CALDWELL.
EMBALMER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR
CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY, DAY OR NIGHT
Office No. 242 North Main St.,
Bowen Block.

Rushville, Ind. October 22 1909.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
Will you be kind enough to let me know if the name of Israel Gilpin appears in the records of your office, as a soldier in the Revolution?
It is a matter of family record that he
was captain of the first company formed
in Wilmington, Delaware, but I have not been able to secure any proof.

Thanking you in advance,
I am Yours, sincerely,
Alice P. Caldwell

Please address                     Receipt stamp from
Mrs .Fred A. Caldwell            PENSION A OFFICE
119 E. Ninth St.                      U.S.
Rushville, Indiana                 OCT 26 1909
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Del   Gilpin, Israel     S. 4297

                                               carded
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Fulton Mo. July 1st
Bureau of Pensions
Have you a record of pension granted to Richard Davis supposedly from Va.  Rev  soldier's wife Priscilla Coe of Maryland
 
Also is there a record of Israel Gilpin Born 1740-1792  wife Elizabeth Hannum  married 1765 - 
m died - 1832 - This Israel was Captain in Rev War_

Thanking you

Mrs Robert Rogers
Fulton Missouri
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Received stamp
Feb 11 1939
Mail Sub. Div.
Vets Adm.
Reader #14

Hammond Indiana,
2? - 172nd Street,
Feb. 6th, 1939

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am a direct descendant of Israel Gilpin who I understand was Captian of the first Company to join the Revolutionary war from New Castle Co., Del. And who made application for a pension when 92 years of age from Boone County, Ky.
Would you kindly give me the information which his pension papers reveal, from your records there?
This Israel Gilpin was son of Joseph Gilpin Sr., also of New Castle Co., Del. and was living altho in his seventies, during the Revolutionary War.  Think he died in 1792.  Do you have any records of this Joseph Gilpin?  Israel Gilpin also had a (lined through) brothers Joseph Gilpin, Gideon Gilpin, and Vincent Gilpin who were in the war of the Revolution as was a brother-in-law, Joseph Shallcross and perhaps others.
In the Deleware Archives, (handwritten insert ?2 p. 155) I find among the Military LIsts of Upper District of Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Del., in a regimental return of Captian Robert Pierce's company, that the nem of twenty-one years and upwards are listed as "The Enrollers and the men of fifty years and upwards as "Non Enrollers. Joseph Gilpin's name is in this latter list.  Do you know what this means? Would this mean that he served or not?
I understand these Gilpin families lived at Chad's Ford and that the Battle of Brandywine was fought partly on their land.  Lossings Field Book of the Rev. War shows the house (picture) which Gen. Howe took for his Headquarters after the Battle of Brandywine, and in a foot note it says this house was owned during the Revolutionare war by Israel Gilpin.  Lafayette was wounded during the battle of Brandywine and it has been tradition in our family that he was cared for by the Gilpin family afterwards. 
Any information your records show will be appreciated on the above families.  Thanking you, I am,
Very truly yours,
Grace Hart Scott
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.


October 30, 1924.

Judge George G. Perkins,
702 The Wyoming Apt.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
.
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4297, it appears that Israel Gilpin, a resident of Newcastle County, Delaware, entered the service in the spring of 1776 and served 18 months as Captain in Colonel John McKinley's Delaware Regiment and for 3 or 4 years as purchasing commissary with the grade of Colonel and was in the battle of Brandywine which was fought on the farm that then belonged to him.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, while a resident of Boone County, Kentucky, aged 92 years. He died July 4, 1834.

It is not stated whether he was ever married.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.


(Hand written note to side)
In 1832 Jos Gilpin aged 85 died in Boone Co KY
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Rev. & 1812 War Section.

April 26, 1924.

Eulalie C. Hall,
215 Denison Hotel,
Indianapolis, IND.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4297, it appears that Israel Gilpin, a resident of Newcastle County, Delaware, entered the service in the spring of 1776 and served 18 months as Captain in Colonel John McKinley's Delaware Regiment and for three or four years as purchasing commissary with the grade of Colonel and was in the battle of Brandywine which was fought on the farm that then belonged to him.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, while a resident of Boone County, Kentucky, aged 92 years.  He died July 4, 1834.
It is not stated whether he was ever married.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

(hand initial to side) A D Y

March 8, 1929

Wallace H. Gilpin,
Barton,
Vermont.

Sir:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4297, it appears that Israel Gilpin, a resident of Newcastle County, Delaware, entered the service in the spring of 1776 and served eighteen months as Captain in Colonel John McKinley's Delaware Regiment and for three or four years as purchasing commissary with the grade of Colonel and was in the battle of Brandywine which was fought on the farm that then belonged to him.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832 while a resident of Boone County, Kentucky, aged ninety-two years. He died July 4, 1834.

It is not stated whether he was ever married.
This is the history of the only Colonel Gilpin found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. 

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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March 16, 1939

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Grace Hart Scott                BA-J / MMHF;MLB
28 - 17 2nd Street
Hammond, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Captain Israel Gilpin, of Delaware and
Kentucky, also the record of his father, Joseph Gilpin. You state that you have found recorded in Delaware Archives that, in a regimental return of Captain Robert Pierce's company, Joseph Gilpin's name is shown on a list of men, aged fifty years and more, as "Non Enrollers", your question -- Did he serve or not?

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Joseph Gilpin, the father of Israel who received
a pension in Boone County, Kentucky.

Your citation, which includes the name of Joseph Gilpin, would not indicate that said Joseph never rendered any service during the
Revolutionary War. He may have been too old to render military service when his name was placed on that list of "Non Enrollers", but
may have rendered previous service. The record of Israel Gilpin is furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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July 23, 1937
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BA_J/EEL
Israel Gilpin-S.4297

Mrs. Robert Rogers
Fulton
Missouri

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Richard Davis, of Virginia, wife, Priscilla Coe, of Maryland, and Israel Gilpin, 1740-1792, wife Elizabeth Hannum, who served as captain. 
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war.  The record is furnished you herein of Israel Gilpin, the only soldier of that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, the data for which were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim S.4297, based upon his military service in that war.  
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Israel Gilpin are not shown.
While residing in Newcastle County, Delaware, Israel Gilpin entered the service in the spring of 1776, and served eighteen months as captain in Colonel John McKinley's Delaware Regiment.  Shortly before the battle of Brandywine, he was appointed Purchasing Commissary with the rank of colonel and served in that capacity for at least three years. He was in the battle of Brandywine which was fought on the farm, which he stated, then belonged to him.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, while residing in Boone County, Kentucky, and aged ninety-two years.
He died July 4, 1834.
It is not shown that he was ever married.

From AB (handwritten on left margin)