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eluded General Tilghman and his staff, Capt. Jesse Taylor, the hospital attendaiits and strag- glers from the army, in all aUont 78 men, who were placed in charge of Captain Walke, U.S.N. , until the arrival of General Grant about 3 p.m.. the same day. He was exclianged in July, 1862, and commanded the 1st brigade in Loring's division. Pemberton's army, in the Vicksburg campaign, and was killed in the battle of Baker's Creek, while covering the retreat of the Con- federate army. See: " Defense of Fort Henry " by Capt. Jesse Taylor. C.S.A., in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" (Vol. I. pp. 368-72), and " Defender of Vicksburg." ibid. (Vol. IH. pp. 482-92. He died on the battlefield of Baker's Creek, near Vicksburg. Miss.. May 16, 1863.

TILGHMAN, Matthew, delegate, was born in the '• Hermitage." Queen Anne county, Md..Feb. 17. 1718: son of Richard and Anna ]\Iaria (Lloyd) Tilghman: grandson of Dr. Riciiard Tilghman who came from London to Maryland in 1660, and established the homestead " Hermitage " in Queen Anne county, and of Col. Philemon Lloyd. He received a good education; was married in 1741, to his cousin, Anne Lloyd; was justice of the peace for Talbot county; delegate to the general assembly of Maryland. 1751-77; speaker of the house of delegates, 1773-75, and president of the Revolutionary convention that directed the affairs of the colony, 1774-77. He was a member of the committee appointed in 1768 to draw up the protest against the stamp act; in 1774 chairman of the committee on correspond- ence, and in 1775 chairman of the committee of safety. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1774-77, and in June, 1776, was sent as a delegate to the convention at Annapolis to frame a state constitution, and presided over that convention. It was during his absence that the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed, his absence accounting for his not being recorded as one of the signers. He resign- ed his seat in congress in 1777 to accept that of state senator, was re-elected to the senate in 1781 but resigned before the expiration of his term. McMahon, the ^laryland historian, styles him the patriach of that colony. He died at the
 * Hermitage." Queen Anne county, May 4, 1790.

TILOHHAN, Tench, soldier, was born in Fausley, near Easton, Talbot county, Md., Dec. 25. 1744; eldest son of James (q.v.) and Anne f Francis) Tilghman. He was graduated from the College of Philadelpliia in 1761, engaged in merchamlising in Philadelphia, and became a captain in the Pennsylvania militia in 1776. He was m.arried to Anna Maria, daughter of his uncle Matthew Tilghman (q.v.). He was military secretary and aide-de-camp to General Washing- ton. 1776-83, and received promotion to lieu-

tenant-colonel in the Continental army, April 1, 1777, Washington delaying the date of promotion at the urgent request of Tilgiiman, whose mod- esty and love of concord would not allow him to take the rank of Hamilton and Meade on Wash- ington's staff. He was present at Yorktown and was entrusted by his cliief to carry the dispatch to the Continental congress announcing the sur- render of Cornwallis. He accomplished the journey in four days, spreading the news as he rode through the county, and arousing President McKean at midnight to deliver the dispatch. On the dawn of Oct. 24, 1781, cannon were fired in honor of the victory. Congress recognized this service by presenting him with a vote of thanks, a sword and a horse and accoutrements. Washington in speaking of his services, said: " Colonel Tilghman has been in every action in wliich the main army was concerned, and has been a faithful assistant to me for nearlj- five years, a great part of which time he refused to receive pay." After the war he engaged in bus- iness in Baltimore, and established there a branch of the house of Robert Morris of Pliiladelphia. He died in Baltimore, Md., April 18, 1786.

TILQHriAN, Tench, soldier, was born at Plim- himmon farm, near Oxford, Talbot county, Md., March 25, 1810; son of Tench and Ann Mar- garetta (Tilgiiman) Tilghman; grandson of Peregrine and Deborah (Lloyd) Tilgiiman, and of Col. Tench (q.v.) and Anna Maria (Tilghman) Tilgiiman. He was graduated from Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., in 1829. and from the U.S. Military academy, 1833, and promoted brevet 2d lieutenant, 4tli artillery, July 1, 1832. He served in the Black Hawk expedition of 1832 and in gar- rison at Fort Severn, Md., 1833, resigning from the army, Nov. 30, 1833, and resided on his plan- tation at Plimhimmon, Md., 1834-69. He was a member of the state militia and reached the rank of brigadier-general in 1837, and that of major-general in 1860. He was commissioner of public works for the state, 1841-51; superinten- dent of the military department of the Maryland Military academy, Oxford, 1847-57; U.S. consul at Turks Island. 1849, and at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, 1849-50; U.S. collector of the port of Ox- ford, Md., 1857-60, and president of the United States Agricultural society, 1858-60. He was. married, first, Nov. 8, 1832, to Henrietta Maria, daughter of U.S. Senator John Leeds and Sarah C. (Hollyday) Kerr of Maryland; and secondly, IMay 1, 1851, to his cousin, Annie Maria, daughter of his uncle, Robert Lloyd Tilghman. son of Col. Peregrine Tilgiiman, of Hope plantation, Talbot county, Md. He projected many works of in- ternal improvements on the eastern shore of Maryland, including the Maryland and Delaware railroad, now the Delaware and Chesapeake rail-