Living Individual - Details withheldFrom Gillingham Family Descendants of Yeamans Gillingham, Compiled by Harrold Edgar Gillingham, Gillingham Family Descendants of Yeamans Gillingham, (Patterson and White Company, Philadelphia, 1901), p 6: In the will of Mary Brodwell (or Bodwell), signed January 8, 1727, proved January 29, 1729 (administration Book C, page 150), mention is made of her "grandson-in-law's children, Joseph, Mary, Margaret and John Paul" (children of Ann Gillingham and Henry Paul) to whom she bequeaths "nineteen pounds lawful money of America"; also "James and John GIllingham, sons of Yeamans Gillingham, late of Frankford, deceased, the sum of three pounds lawful money of America apiece."
Children of Yeamans and Mary: "Granddaughter Sarah Spicer , wife of Abraham Spicer, of Philadelphia, currier; granddaughters Elizabeth and Rebecca Gillingham, and granddaughter Ann Paul, wife of Henry Paul; granddaughter Mary Wilson, wife of James Wilson; Elizabeth Gillingham and Rebecca Gillingham, five pounds apiece." Great-grandchildren, "James Wilson's two children, Mary and Elizabeth, and John SPicer, son of Abraham SPicer:. She willed to "Henry Paul and Ann, his wife, all my shop goods," etc. Letters of administration were granted to Henry Paul February 6, 1729.
It is believed this Mary Brodwell, whose will is mentioned above, was the mother of Mary (Taylor) Gillingham, as she mentions her daughter Sarah Taylor and grandson Isaac Taylor, son of Isaac Taylor.
