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• Name: William A GILLESPIE
• Sex: M
• Birth: 8 Apr 1788 in Hopewell Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 11 Feb 1866 in Sulphur Springs, Crawford Co, Ohio ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• James William GILLESPIE Birth: 1749 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland Death: 16 Jul 1824 in Sugar Creek Twp, Greene Co, Ohio
Mother:

• Esther Hadassa TAYLOR Birth: Abt 1744 in Cecil Co, Maryland Death: After 1824

Family:
Marriage:

• Anna Maria SMITH on 12 May 1812 at Dayton, Ohio .^m1
  
• Anna Maria SMITH Birth: 29 Aug 1793 in Morris Co, New Jersey

Children:

1. Adessa C GILLESPIE Birth: Montgomery Co, Ohio
2. Cecelia Tuttle GILLESPIE Birth: 18 Dec 1813 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio Death: 25 Apr 1815 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
3. Juliann Tuttle GILLESPIE Birth: 17 Aug 1815 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio Death: 26 Feb 1902 in Adams Twp, Defiance Co, Ohio
4. Cecelia Tuttle GILLESPIE Birth: 3 Apr 1818 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
5. Charles Smith GILLESPIE Birth: 28 Dec 1819 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
6. Ann Maria GILLESPIE Birth: 2 Dec 1821 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
7. Catharine Emaline GILLESPIE Birth: 21 Jan 1824 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
8. Caroline GILLESPIE Birth: 12 Apr 1826 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
9. Emanuel Swedenburg GILLESPIE Birth: 20 Apr 1828 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
10. Perry Pease GILLESPIE Birth: 12 Jun 1829 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio
11. William Tuttle GILLESPIE Birth: 26 Apr 1832 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio Death: 8 Feb 1912 in Tontogany, Ohio
12. James P GILLESPIE Birth: 29 Jun 1835 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Tom Long 12/26/2002]

abt 1788 [Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p26],

place:

[Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p26, Tom Long 12/26/2002],

parents:

[Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p1, Mrs. S. J. Smith 3/9/1880, Tom Long 12/26/2002],

father:

[Ref: James Gillespie 9/20/2002]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p26, Tom Long 12/26/2002]

1866 [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009],

place:

[Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009]

Sources with Information about marriage to Anna Maria SMITH

date:

[Ref: Tom Long 12/26/2002]

abt 1814 [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009],

place:

[Ref: Tom Long 12/26/2002],

names:

[Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p1],

child:

[Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009, Tom Long 12/26/2002]

Research Notes:
moved to Montgomery Co, OH, after marriage [Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p15]

4 Jun 1814: first record in Ohio; bought two lots in Dayton for $100 from Charles Smith (perhaps his father-in-law). Two and a half months later he sold one of these lots for $950 [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009]

operated a canal boat from Toledo to Cincinnati, along the old Miami Canal [Ref: GillespieJR GILLESPIE p15]

William had other land transactions with Charles Smith in 1815 and 1816. On July 27, 1815 William borrowed $5227.45 jointly with Duncan Lewis and Co and secured the loan with his land. When Julia was only four years old William was sued for nonpayment of the note and his land was sold by the Court on Nov. 15, 1819. Between 1819 and 1823 there were a series of suits against William and his business partners for debts and damages. Charles Smith was also sued in some of these cases. One suit names William as a "surviving partner" of the firm Duncan, Lewis & Co. [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009]

1 Sep 1819: William's father, James, wrote in his will: "I bequeath and devise to my son William the north east quarter of section nine town three range six in the County of Montgomery and State of Ohio, there being two hundred and thirty dollars to be paid to the land office which money said William must pay." James also named "my sons Thomas and William sole executors of my estate". William received an affidavit for this land on August 31, 1824 after his father's death. [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009]

1820: living in Dayton, Ohio [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009]

1830: living in Dayton, Ohio [Ref: Betty Pollack 9/7/2009]



Pedigree of William A GILLESPIE
          /-----James GILLESPIE
 /-----James William GILLESPIE
|         \-----Elizabeth RIDDLE
William A GILLESPIE
|                  /-----Nathaniel TAYLOR
|         /-----Matthew TAYLOR
 \-----Esther Hadassa TAYLOR
          \-----Mary BEYERINGTON



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