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About David Gillespie
David B. Gillespie was an American land surveyor and politician. He was the first person granted a document in the nature of a diploma from what is today the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the document prior to leaving the university in 1796 to assist the astronomer Andrew Ellicott with determining the Southern boundary of the United States after the 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo with Spain. Gillespie was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from Bladen County, served on the North Carolina Council of State, and in the North Carolina militia as a second major in the War of 1812.
Everything about David Gillespie →- Occupation
- surveyor, politician
- Position held
- member of the North Carolina House of Commons, North Carolina Council of State
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 5, 1774
- Died
- September 28, 1829