3643. Philip Gildersleeve
(135) was born on 2 Jul 1757 in Huntington,
Suffolk County, New York. He was christened on 21 Aug 1757 in Huntington, Suffolk
County, New York. He died on 26 Oct 1822 in Gildersleeve, Middlesex County,
Connecticut. He is listed in the DAR Patriot Index; Cpl NY.
Baptised by Rev. Ebenezer Prime, Presbyterian Church of Huntington. Moved to
Southampton, then to Connecticut. Was Cloth Fuller and Shipbuilder.
The Middletown Press, September 5, 1991 Supplement, Middletown, Connecticut.
Gildersleeve Pioneers, by Willard Harvey Gildersleeve, 1941.
'They were shipbuilders'.
Philip moved with his father in 1776 to Connecticut River, where he
succeeded in his father's business. He was a master carpenter on the United
States warship "Connecticut", which was built at Gildersleeve in 1798.
She
displaced five hundred and four tons and carried twenty guns. He was corporal
in Captain David Pierson's minute company, Suffolk County, New York militia.
The ship yard, at Gildersleeve, has produced many notable vessels, some
of
them Privateers in the War of 1812; others for the U.S. Government; and still
others for commerce. The line of shipbuilders at Gildersleeve, Connecticut is:
Obadiah, Philip, Sylvester, Henry, Oliver and Alfred.
He was married to Temperence
Gibbs on 4 May 1780 in Gildersleeve, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
Temperence Gibbs(135) was
born on 9 Apr 1756. She died on 22 Sep 1831. Philip Gildersleeve and Temperence
Gibbs had the following children:
+4212 i.
Jeremiah Gildersleeve.
4213 ii.
Betsy Gildersleeve(135) was born
on 23 Apr 1783 in Gildersleeve, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
4214 iii.
Lathrop Gildersleeve(135)
was born in Connecticut.
+4215 iv.
Henry Gildersleeve.
4216 v.
Nancy Gildersleeve(135).
+4217 vi.
Sylvester Gildersleeve.
+4218 vii.
Cynthia Gildersleeve.
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