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© 1998-2002 Dana E. Edgecomb
This has been compiled using information in the "Early Families of Standish,
Me", by Albert J. Sears, p. 89 and 90, emails sent by Judy Buss
([email protected]) dated 11/2/1999 and 11/3/1999, and an email from
Kim Stiles ([email protected]) dated 11/3/1999 who made contact
with Wayne Clarke Gilman in Cromwell, CN. to clear up some questions about
this family.
This Gilman family are the very folks who provoked the British to
start / enter the Revolutionary War. I visited the American Independence
Museum at Exeter, N.H. It is in the old Gilman House [Address: One
Governors Lane, Exeter, NH 03833 Telephone (603) 772-2622]. They are
always proud to share Gilman Information. I might add they treat Gilman
descendents as VIP's.
Edward Gilman, b abt. 1525, Caston England, m June 22, 1550 Rose Rysse.
Edward, bapt. April 20, 1557, Wife unknown.
Edward Gilman (Edward the Emigrant), bapt 1587, Hingham England; d 1654 at
Exeter, NH, m Mary Clark, They emigrated to America in 1633.
I found the following in "Planters of the Commonwealth" by Charles
Edward Banks, pgs 191 &192. 1638: "Diligent" of Ipswich, John Martin,
Master. She sailed from Ipswich, Sulfolk,in June and arrived August 10
at Boston, with about one hundred passengers, principally from Hingham,
Norfolk, destined for Hingham, Massachusetts:
Mrs. Mary Gilman
Edward Gilman
Moses Gilman
Lydia Gilman
Sarah Gilman
John Gilman
Edward Gilman, bapt. Dec 26, 1617, Hingham Eng. m abt. 1646 at Ipswich, MA.
Elizabeth Smith, dau of Richard Smith of Ipswich MA. Edward died at sea in
1653.
Edward Gilman, b 1648 Exeter NH; d. 1692 Exeter N.H., m. Dec 20, 1674 Abigail
Maverick, dau. of Antipas Maverick.
Edward Gilman, b. Oct. 20, 1675, d 1748-9. Exeter, N.H. m. Abigail Folsom,
b. 1678, dau of Deacon John Folsom.
Edward Gilman, b. abt 1703 m. Phebe Hall. "He was living in 1748 when he
inherited land and money from his father who died that year. No further
record." He would be the Edward Gilman who owned Right No. 111 in
Pearsontown (now Standish). This implies that he served in the Cape Breton
Expedition during the Siege of Louisburg in 1745.
Edward Gilman bp. First Parish in Falmouth in 1745, d. before Mar. 31, 1792
m. Agnes Stevens of Windham on May 1, 1766, by the Rev. Peter Smith. She
was the daughter of John and Hannah (____) Stevens of Newburyport, MA, and
Windham, Maine.
1.Ebenezer Gilman of Standish
2.Mimar Gilman m. Zachariah Small
3.Phebe Gilman, spinster, m. Paul Leighton.
On Mar. 31, 1792 they sold to Nathan Winslow of Falmouth their rights in
the real estate of their honored father, Edward Gilman (19/175).
Paul Leighton b. 5/30/1770 [some records show 5/3/1770] in Falmouth (now
Portland) m. Phebe Gilman b. 2/1/1763 in Standish, on 9/13/1792. He died
7/4/1847 in Falmouth and she died 11/7/1816 in Falmouth. Paul Leighton was
the son of George Leighton and Dorothy Hall.
Edward Gilman had a brother who had children:
1.John Gilman of Falmouth
2.Edward Gilman of Bolton in Canada. (Bolton-Est, Mephremagog, Que?
or Bolton, Unincorporated area, Peel, Ont.?).
On Jan. 25, 1804, Ebenezer Gilman of Standish, John Gilman of Falmouth,
Zachariah Small and Jemima, his wife, of Falmouth, Paul Leighton and Phebe,
his wife, of Falmouth, and Edward Gilman of Bolton in Canada sold to
Nathan Winslow their rights to land in Falmouth and Presumpscot River
belonging to their grandfather Edward Gilman, late of Falmouth, which he
purchased of Edward Gilman of Exeter, N.H. on Oct. 12, 1741 (45/415).
Bibliography:
"The story of the Gilmans and a Gilman genealogy of the descendants
of Edward Gilman of Hingham, England, 1550-1950" -- a reprinted and
revised second edition by Wayne Clark Gilman and John Ames, the original
Author's son (original by Constance Le Neve Gilman Ames). The second
edition is published by Heritage Books, date unknown but must be in the 1950s.