Peter Gilstrap Sr. (abt. 1700 - 1758)

Born about 1700 in Somerset Co., Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Aydelott) Gilstrap — married 1728 in Somerset, Maryland

Descendants

Died 1758 at about age 58 in New Bern, Craven, Colony of North Carolina

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Biography

Peter Gilstrap was born abt 1700 in Somerset, Province of Maryland of Thomas Gilstrap and Hannah Haseling. ^[1]

He married Rachel Aydelott (in 1728) in Somerset, Maryland where as Rachel Gilstrap she had been devised the land "Aydelott's Ignorance" from her father Benjamin Aydelott (in 1739), and as w/o Peter Gilstrap sold the tract to Paul Waples; by 1786 the land was in Delaware and was being sold again. ^[2]

Peter and Rachel had 6 sons born in Somerset, Maryland:

Child: Peter Gilstrap

Child: Idolet Gilstrap Note: another spelling of mother's maiden name.

Child: John Gilstrap

Child: William Gilstrap

Child: David Gilstrap

Child: James Gilstrap, b.1736

Peter died in 1758 in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees,The Generations Network, Inc.; 2006
2. ↑ Elaine Hastings Melson and F. Edward Wright, Land Records of Sussex County, Delaware: 1782-89, Deed Book N, No.13, 366, Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2002, p65.
3. ↑ Somerset Sampler: Families of Old Somerset County Maryland: 1700-1776 by Pauline Manning Batchelder (Gateway Press, 1994), pp18-20 (Aydelott Family)

See also:

Profile Rachel Aydelott

Acknowledgements

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