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Thomas Gilpin (1727-1778) Thomas Gilpin was an American merchant who has businesses in Pennylvania and Delaware.

Biography
The family originated in England and migrated to America at the end of the seventeenth century. They came from Kentmere in Westmorland, and maintained links with their English cousins, including William Gilpin, the artist. Thomas Gilpin owned flour mills in Maryland and on the Brandywine, in Delaware, as well as other properties in Wilmington and Philadelphia. Thomas was a member of the American Philosophical Society, was a correspondent of Benjamin Franklin, and helped establish, in 1771, a grammar school at Wilmington. During the American War of Independence he was suspected of disloyalty and was exiled to Winchester, Virginia, where he died in 1778.