Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,296, Joseph Gilpin, Del. Sea Service

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State of Kentucky, Boone County [illegible Sctr.]

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in the said County of Boone.  Joseph Gilpin who being duly sworn, deposeth and said, that, by reason of old age and this 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 less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grades.  [illegible Four?] years & six months I served as a private military man man capt Israel Gilpin For three months.  I served in this [illegible] department and while in that department & service I ranked [illegible] captain - I served three years in the Sea Service in which service.  I was three times taken prisoner.  I served as Sailing Master generally while at Sea & ranked as a Lieutenant.  I had three mates under me & in one of the engagements at Sea between the american helped.  Lady Washington and a british sloop of war or letter of margin off Savannah that this afficiant acted as principal commander, tho capt. [illegible] incapacitated by indisposition and for such service I claim a pension and would the more willingly receive it.  As I lost during the american revolution at least Ten thousand Dollars worth of property.  Which [illegible] me to indigent circumstances - & I am old very infirm & dependant upon friends for support.

Given under my hand and seal
Joseph Gilpin [illegible]
[illegible] to before me this 
11th day of Feb. 1833
Cornelius Hughes, [illegible]
State of Ky. County of Boone [illegible]
I Willis Graves clerk of the Boone County
court afs, Do hereby certify that Cornelus Hughs Esq. whose genuine signature is to the above certificate is one of the commonwealth, Justices of the peace in [illegible]
County duly appointed [illegible] qualified as a Justice of said County Court which is a court of Record and as such full forth record is due to act as official acts given under my hand as [illegible] this 11th of February 1833
Willis Graves CLK

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376 Bennett St. Dubuque, Iowa
July 15, 1907
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Have you record of Samuel
Gilpin, Major from Pennsylvania;
or George Gilpin, Colonel of
Militia of Fairfax Co. Virginia; or
of Joseph and Vincent Gilpin
of Wilmington, Delaware in
connection with the American
Revolution
I am seeking information in
order to join the Daughters of The American Revolution
Respectfully
Mabel F. Smith