Nicholas Gilman
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Nicholas Gilman Jr. was an American Founding Father, a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitut
Order by Nicholas Gilman, Treasurer of New Hampshire, Exeter, 1781
Portrait by Albert Rosenthal after Edward Greene Malbone, 1900.
Exeter, New Hampshire, home of Hon. Nicholas Gilman
General orders of George Washington: the bottom section (May 24, 1779) names Captain Nicholas Gilman, of the Third New Hampshire Regiment as assistant to the adjutant general
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. While the convention was initially intended to revise the league of states and the first system of federal g
Nicholas Gilman
…the Articles of Confederation. That same year, he helped to suppress the Paper Money Riot. He was pleased to serve his state as a representative at the Constitutional Convention that met in July 1787. Although he and fellow New Hampshire delegate John Langdon, his father's former commanding officer, reached Philadelphia after…
States and territories of the United States at the time of the Constitutional Convention
Independence Hall's Assembly Room
Detail of the Rising Sun Chair that presiding officer George Washington sat in during the convention.
James Madison, author of the Virginia Plan