John Taylor Gilman, an American statesman, born in Exeter, N. H., Dec. 19, 1753, died there, Sept. 1, 1828. On the morning after the news of the battle of Lexington and Concord reached Exeter, he marched with 100 other volunteers to Cambridge, Mass., where he served in the provincial army. Soon after, his father being made treasurer of the state, he became his assistant in the office. In 1780 he was a delegate from New Hampshire to the convention which met at Hartford to take measures for the defence of the country. In 1782 and 1783 he was a member of the continental congress, and in the latter year succeeded his father as treasurer of New Hampshire. He was one of the three commissioners appointed by the government of the old confederation to settle the accounts of the states. In 1797 he was chosen governor, was annually reelected for 10 successive years, and again in 1813, '14, and '15, after which he declined to be a candidate. He was a zealous federalist, and his popularity in New Hampshire was so great that he was frequently chosen governor when his party was in the minority.