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Edward Gilman is the first on record to have the last name Gilman spelled like how it is now. There have been a few Gilmans in Politics like Senator Nicholas Gilman and Gov. John Taylor Gilman. These two were around when the Revolutionary War was going on. Many Gilmans were interested in the Lumber Industry

Nicholas Gilman is part of the raid on Fort William and Mary he was a colonel at the time and when the revolutionary war started he led a regiment of men from New Hampshire into battle.Once the war was close to being done he became a senator of New Hampshire and even got to sign the constitution of Independence.