Tench Tilghman [SEP] father
, and illness and an early death from disease contracted during the American Revolutionary War.
Early life.
Tilghman was born on December 25, 1744, at "Fausley", a plantation owned by his father, James Tilghman, located on Fausley Creek, a branch of the Miles River, in Talbot County, Maryland, a few miles from the town of Easton. Tench's great-grandfather was Richard Tilghman, a British Navy surgeon who was born in Kent, England. In 1661, he moved his family
", near Oxford, Maryland, on March 7, 1841. His father, General Tench Tilghman (a graduate of West Point military academy), and his mother was a daughter of John Leeds Kerr, United States Senator of Maryland from 1841 to 1843. Matthew Tilghman, an ancestor, was a member of the Continental Congress at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and Colonel Tench Tilghman, another ancestor, served as "aide-de-camp" to General George Washington in the Continental Army.
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