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  • Driving up to New Hampshire to visit the family homestead in Exeter, they would have passed the town of Winthrop, just outside Boston, as well as Phillips Exeter Academy, founded by another ancestor in the Gilman branch of the family one of the Gilmans was a signer of the Constitution.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • Driving up to New Hampshire to visit the family homestead in Exeter, they would have passed the town of Winthrop, just outside Boston, as well as Phillips Exeter Academy, founded by another ancestor in the Gilman branch of the family one of the Gilmans was a signer of the Constitution.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • If the Gilmans needed compensation for their kindness, they found it in the celebrity of their visitor; even strangers made pilgrimages to the house at Highgate to hear the rhapsodies of "the old man eloquent."

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • I love the faithful Gilmans more than while they exercised their virtues towards him living.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

  • Since Peter had learned of the disaster that through his laziness had befallen the Gilmans, his indignation at the injustice had been hourly increasing.

    The Red Cross Girl 1917

  • Look at who my friends are -- the Fromes and the Merrills and the Gilmans.

    The Vision Splendid William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Her branch of the Gilmans has always been of the vigorous, pioneering type, as well as intellectual.

    The War Terror 1908

  • Gilmans side and when i come up and looked round they wasent enny feller ennywhere. so i swum back prety lively and my close was gone and the apples and the gewsharp and the fellers two. so i dident know what to do. i thougt they had hid the close and i hunted in the buches but i dident find them. so i wated a long time and bimeby i heard sum oars and

    'Sequil' Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First 1899

  • I was always listening to stories of three wars from older people -- the siege of Louisburg, the Revolution, in which my father's ancestors had been honest but mistaken Tories, and in which my mother's, the Gilmans of Exeter, had taken a nobler part.

    A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • I love the faithful Gilmans more than while they exercised their virtues towards him living.

    Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866

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