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 8 1, 1777. He continued with Washington until Yorktown and was the messenger sent with news of the surrender to Congress at Philadelphia. He arrived in Philadelphia at midnight, October 23, 1781, sought out the house of Mr. McKean, president of Congress, and awakened him, uttered words which, echoed by a watchman, brought the people from their beds to rejoice at the glad tidings. Congress on October 29, following, voted Colonel Tilghman a horse and caparisons and a sword. After the army disbanded he located in Baltimore and resumed commercial life, having as partner Robert Morris, of Philadelphia. He died April 18, 1786, and was eulogized by his friend and commander, General Washington, as leaving "as fair a reputation as ever belonged to a human character." He married, June 9, 1783, his cousin, Anna Maria Tilghman, born July 17, 1755, died January 13, 1855, daughter of Matthew Tilghman, a member of the Continental Congress, and his wife, Anna (Lloyd) Tilghman. Children: Ann Margaretta, see forward; Elizabeth Tench, married Nicholas Goldsborough.

Ann Margaretta Tilghman, eldest daughter of Colonel Tench and Anna Maria (Tilghman) Tilghman, died prior to 1835. She married Tench Tilghman, of Hope, born April 18, 1782, died April 16, 1827, son of Colonel Peregrine Tilghman and his wife, Deborah, daughter of Colonel Robert Lloyd, of Hope, the latter a descendant of Captain Philemon Lloyd, the former a descendant of Richard and Anna Maria (Lloyd) Tilghman, of the Hermitage.

General Tench Tilghman, son of Tench and Ann Margaretta (Tilghman) Tilghman was born March 25, 1810, died in Baltimore in December, 1874. He was a graduate of West Point United States Military Academy, class of 1832, served in the Black Hawk war and resigned from the army, November 30, 1833, afterwards becoming major general of Maryland militia. He was commissioner of public works, Maryland, 1841-1851, United States Consul at Mayagues, Porto Rico, 1849-1850, collector of customs at Oxford, Maryland, 1857-1860, and was also president of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad. In 1861, when war broke out between the states, he cast his fortunes with the south and enlisted in the confederate army serving with honor. He married (first) in November, 1832, Henrietta Maria, daughter of John Leeds Kerr, United States Senator from Maryland, and his first wife, Sarah Hollyday Kerr, daughter of Samuel Chamberlaine. He married (second) May 1, 1851, Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Lloyd and Henrietta Maria (Forman) Tilghman. Children, all by first marriage: Tench Francis, of further mention; William Arthur, died in 1853; John Leeds, born September 30, 1837, died aged twenty-seven years, a gallant and efficient officer of the Confederacy; Oswald, deceased, a lawyer of Easton, Maryland, married Martina Martin; Anna Maria, died young; Ella Sophia; Henrietta Kerr, married John Richard Burroughs; Rosalie, married Thomas Shreve; Ann Margaretta; Sarah Chamberlaine.

Tench Francis Tilghman, eldest son of General Tench Tilghman and Henrietta Maria (Kerr) Tilghman, born September 25, 1833, died in 1868. He was a civil engineer by profession, but his career as an engineer was hardly begun ere it was interrupted by four years' service in the Confederate army and his death soon after the close of the war. When Richmond was evacuated he was in command of the personal escort of President Davis. He married (first) Anna, daughter of Dr. C. C. Cox. He married (second) Elizabeth Barron Camp, of Norfolk, Virginia, daughter of George Washington and Elizabeth Barron (Armistead) Camp, the latter a descendant of Captain James Barron, of the United States navy, who died April 21, 1851. Children of second marriage: Fannie Barron; Tench Francis, of further mention.

Tench Francis Tilghman. of Norfolk, Virginia, the fifth of his direct line to bear the name "Tench," was born in Norfolk, June 1, 1868, son of Tench Francis Tilghman and his second wife, Elizabeth Barron (Camp) Tilghman. He was educated in the public schools and Norfolk Academy. He spent his first year after graduation in the employ of Burruss, Son & Company, bankers of Norfolk, and in 1883 entered the service of the Citizens' Bank of Norfolk and is now completing his thirty-first year with that well known financial institution. He began as messenger boy and has passed through every grade of promotion to his present position, vice-president and cashier. He has won his way upward through merit