Joseph Gilman (1738)
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| Judge of the Northwest Territory | |
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In office December 1796 – March 1803 Serving with John Cleves Symmes Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. |
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| Appointed by | George Washington |
| Preceded by | Rufus Putnam |
| Succeeded by | territory eliminated |
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May 5, 1738 Exeter, New Hampshire |
| Died | May 14, 1806 (aged 68) Marietta, Ohio |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York |
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| Children | Robert, Benjamin |
Joseph Gilman (5 May, 1738 – 14 May 1806) was a pioneer settler in the Northwest Territory of the United States. Prior to his immigration to the frontier, he was a state senator in New Hampshire, and member of the Committee of Safety. President Washington appointed him to be one of three judges in the territory in 1796. He served until the territory was dissolved in 1803.
Joseph Gilman was the son of Reverend Nicholas Gilman and Mary (Thing) Gilman. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on May 5, 1738. He was a cousin of Nicholas Gilman. He was educated in his hometown, and went to Boston, Massachusetts, at age fifteen to work for a merchant. He stayed there until at least 1760, and in 1761 entered into partnership for seven years with Nathaniel Folsom and Josiah Gilman in Exeter as Folsom, Gilman and Gilman to keep a store, build ships and make seas voyages. They had extensive dealings in England and the Caribbean.
Gilman was married to Jane Tyler, who probably died in 1760, and then to Rebecca Ives (1745-1823) of Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1763. They had sons Robert (1764-1766) and Benjamin (1766-1833).
In the autumn of 1776, Gilman was appointed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives as Treasurer of Rockingham County, and in 1779 he was commissioned as a justice of the peace. He was elected to the New Hampshire Senate twice, and served from 1784 to 1787. He was the chairman of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety in the American Revolutionary War, a group responsible for supplies for the state's troops. At the end of the war, the currency collapsed, and debts were hard to collect. Gilman became an associate of the Ohio Company of Associates, and decided to emigrate to the Northwest Territory with his wife and son for a fresh start.
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