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Finding Aid to the Tilghman Family Papers, MS 2821
Maryland Historical Society
Collection summary
Title The Tilghman Family Papers
Creator Colonel Richard Tilghman and descendents
Call number MS 2821
Span dates 1607-1969
Extent 54 boxes; bulk 1760-1880
Abstract Papers of three sons of Richard Tilghman II (1673-1738)
and their descendents, including connecting families,
such as the Chew, Allen, Lawrence, and Penn families,
and genealogical records. Among these materials are the
papers of Edward Tilghman (1713-1785), James
Tilghman (1716-1793), Edward Tilghman, Jr., William
Tilghman (1756-1827), Benjamin Chew Tilghman
(1821-1901), and Richard Albert Tilghman (1824-1899).
The collection also includes letterbooks, day books,
accounts, property books, legal papers, pamphlets, maps,
prints, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and records
from the family estate in Queen Anne's County, "The
Hermitage."
Administrative summary Repository H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
www.mdhs.org
Access restrictions Access to this collection is unrestricted.
Use restrictions Permission to quote from this collection must be received
in writing from the Special Collections Librarian.
Provenance Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Chew Tilghman, The
Hermitage, Centerville, Maryland 21617, in 1985.
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Accession number 003673
Processing note Initial inventory and processing 1982-1985 by Caroline
D. Bain. Processed in its entirety 2007 by Jim Tschen
Emmons and Robert Finch. Items of particular value or
which are too fragile to handle have been copied and
removed from the open collection—these are marked
[R].
Introduction A collection of truly national importance, the Tilghman Family Papers contain
close to 7,500 items, among them letters, scrapbooks, letterbooks, and
photographs. The collection is an invaluable resource for the years leading up to,
and those that witnessed, the American Revolution, the first steps of the national
government in Philadelphia, the creation of the state governments of both
Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Industrial Revolution. This collection is
particularly strong with regard to prominent Loyalists. Among the correspondents
of Richard, Edward, Edward II, James, Tench, and William Tilghman—to name
only a few—were George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Robert Morris.
The Tilghman Family Papers contain not only evidence of the great affairs and
prominent figures of the burgeoning nation, but also a window into daily life in
early America. These papers provide a glimpse into the lives of plantation owners
and slaves, the military, the world of rebels and loyalists, legal practice,
manufacturing, the public and private lives of women, and the world of one of the
founding families of the United States, the Tilghmans. Compilation of this
collection was largely the hard work of William McMurtrie Tilghman (b. 1815), a
prominent Philadelphia lawyer and secretary of the Schuylkill Navigation
Company, who was an avid genealogist and family historian.
Biographical Sketches
The Tilghmans
The Tilghmans of America descend from Dr. Richard Tilghman (1626-1675) who,
with his wife Mary, came to America in 1660 and settled at "The Hermitage,"
originally a four-hundred acre farm, in Queen Ann's County, Maryland. His son
Richard Tilghman (1672-1738) married Anna Maria Lloyd (1676-1748), daughter
of Philemon Lloyd (d. 1685). Their son, Edward (I) (1713-1786), married first
Anna Maria Turbett, then Elizabeth Chew (I) (b. 1720), with whom he had seven
children. Their fourth child, Edward (II) (1750-1815), married Elizabeth Chew (II)
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(1751-1842). Their second son, Benjamin (b. 1785), married Anna Maria
McMurtrie of Philadelphia. They had eight children, two of whom, Benjamin
Chew Tilghman (1821-1901) and Richard A. Tilghman (1823-1899), produced
much of the latter portion of the material in this collection.
Edward Tilghman (I) (1713-1786): Edward Tilghman of Wye, the fourth son of
Colonel Richard Tilghman (1672-1738), was a judge and High Sheriff of Queen
Anne's County. He was also a member of the Maryland State Assembly. Edward
kept a detailed and complete record of most aspects of life at his Wye River
plantation in Corsica Hundred. His accounts from 1740 to 1785 contain
information about the cost of building, furnishing, and maintaining his home, about
crops of wheat and tobacco, his annual net worth, and the cost for maintaining
slaves per year. Much of his material within the collection consists of
correspondence with his son, Edward Jr. He married first Anna Maria Turbett, then
Elizabeth Chew (I), and finally Juliana Carroll.
Edward Tilghman, Jr. (II) (1750-1815): The third son by Edward (I)'s second
wife, Elizabeth Chew, Edward Tilghman Jr., like many of the Tilghman men,
studied law at the Middle Temple in England (1772-1774). Upon his return to the
colonies, Edward Jr. became a prominent lawyer in Philadelphia, handling cases
such as the William Cobbett libel trial and the issue of Robert Morris' land
speculation. He also became a member of the Continental Congress. Of particular
interest among his papers are letters to his father from the Middle Temple, so many
of which provide a firsthand account of English sentiment on the eve of the
Revolution. He married his cousin, Elizabeth Chew (II).
Benjamin Tilghman (III) (1785-c.1852): Son of Edward Jr., Benjamin was
a lawyer and merchant in Philadelphia. Most of the items relating to him
reflect his mercantile career and interest in land investment. He married
Anna McMurtrie (1787-1872).
William McMurtrie Tilghman (1815-1900): Son of Benjamin III
and Anna McMurtrie. Though he studied law in the 1840s, William
did not limit himself to a legal profession, but participated in various
projects of his brothers, Benjamin Chew II and Richard Albert. He
eventually took up the office of Secretary of the Schuylkill Navigation
Company. William was the family historian, and it is largely thanks to
him that this collection survives today. Much of his material relates to
Tilghman genealogy. He married Catherine Ingersoll (d. 1861).
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James Tilghman (1716-1793): The fifth son of Colonel Richard Tilghman, James
was a Loyalist, though one whose fortunes survived the Revolution intact due to
his compliance with colonial orders to remain in Chestertown. James was a
delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. The following year he became the
secretary of the Penn family's land office, where he not only made land purchase
treaties with Native Americans, but also took part against the settlers in the
Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania during the "Pennamite Wars." Within his series
are records concerning his nephew James (b. 1742), son of William, a merchant in
Alexandria, Virginia; James' son James (b. 1748); and another nephew named
James (b. 1743), son of Richard III, a lawyer in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
James Tilghman married Ann, daughter of Tench Francis, in 1743.
Tench Tilghman (1744-1786): Son of James. Best known as an aide-de-
camp and close friend of General George Washington, Colonel Tench
Tilghman, before 1775, had been a merchant in Philadelphia. Such was
Tench's value in Washington's eyes that he was chosen to deliver the news
of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown to Congress. Though Tench and his
father differed in their political outlook, the two men continued to
correspond during the war. In 1783 Tench married his cousin, Anna Maria
Tilghman, with whom he had two daughters. Tench left the military for
business and worked for a time with Robert Morris.
Richard "East India Dick" Tilghman (1746-1786): Son of James (1716-
1793). Richard Tilghman, affectionately nick-named "East India Dick" by
his family for his work with the East India Company, went to London in the
late 1760s to study law at the Middle Temple. In 1777 Richard became
Advocate for Bengal with the East India Company and left for India. He was
there until 1780, returning to London for reasons of health, but was forced
back to Bengal in 1783. Several years later Richard sailed once again for
Europe, but died en route. Among his papers are those concerned with the
settlement of his estate (c. 1799), his natural daughter Elizabeth, or "Betsy"
(who became a ward of James upon the death of his son), and those
documents pertaining to his experience with the East India Company.
William Tilghman (1756-1827): Son of James. At the height of his career
William was Chief Judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in
Philadelphia. Like his father James and elder brother Philemon, William was
a Loyalist. Philemon left the colonies with Maryland's last Proprietary
Governor Robert Eden and joined the royal navy. William remained behind.
Both he and his father were paroled to their Maryland plantations by 1777,
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later going on trial to regain their rights and property. James' parole and
William's record of trial are part of the collection (see Boxes 8 and 11
respectively).William married Margaret Elizabeth Allen in 1794.
Matthew Tilghman (1717-1790) Maryland's "Father of the Revolution," Matthew
Tilghman was not only a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-1776), but
presided over it in 1776. His reports to his brother James about behind-the-scenes
negotiations provide a unique glimpse of the Congress. Locally, he was one of
those who helped transform Maryland from a province into a state, even
contributing language to the Maryland Constitution. In 1741 he married his first
cousin Anne, a daughter of James Lloyd (d. 1723).
Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821-1901) The son of Benjamin Tilghman, a
lawyer, and Anna Maria McMurtrie, Benjamin Chew Tilghman studied law, but
joined his brother Richard in business. They engaged in a series of scientific and
technological experiments that produced several commercial ventures, most
successfully a sand-blasting business they began in 1870. This work took them to
England, where they had plants in Sheffield and Manchester, as well as elsewhere
in continental Europe. Benjamin Chew Tilghman fought in the Civil War and was
wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863. Upon recovery he took
command of the Third U.S. Colored Regiment out of Philadelphia. After the war
Benjamin rejoined Richard. Benjamin oversaw the "Tilghman Patent Sand Blast
Company, Ltd.," while his brother Richard ran the BC and RA Tilghman Company
in America. Benjamin's nephews, Benjamin Chew Tilghman II and Richard A.
Tilghman Jr. took over the business upon the death of their father.
Richard A. Tilghman (1824-1899) Richard A. Tilghman was the son of Benjamin
Tilghman, a lawyer, and Anna Maria McMurtrie. Upon completing college in
1841, Richard pursued chemistry and its commercial applications with his brother
Benjamin Chew Tilghman. His first patent, in 1843, was a process to improve the
manufacture of potassium dichromate or "chrome yellow." In time he licensed the
process to the Baltimore Chrome Works. Richard was also interested in the power
of steam, hydrolysis, and producing gas from coal. Richard's success invited
imitators and in 1859 he fought a long case against Proctor & Gamble for
infringement upon his hydrolysis patents. Richard and Benjamin, while partners,
were separated from 1844 as each handled different aspects of their business. They
corresponded constantly, however, and their letters comprise a sizable portion of
the latter material in the collection. Richard married Susan Price Toland in 1860.
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Benjamin Chew Tilghman (V) (1861-1911): Son of Richard Albert, named
for his uncle, Benjamin Chew II, Benjamin Chew Tilghman followed his
namesake in combining business and a military career. As a young man, he
worked in the sand blast company, but took over the B.C. and R.A.
Tilghman Company when his father died. His records include two indexed
letterpress books, business letters, and items of personal interest to him, such
as pamphlets about meteor craters in Arizona. He married Mary "Polly"
McMichael.
A Note about "The Hermitage" "The Hermitage," (or as it was originally known, "Tilghman's Hermitage") in
Queen Anne's County was one of several Tilghman family homes, the other
notable property being "Grosses," the seat of another branch of the family. Richard
Tilghman, who arrived in Maryland in 1660, was granted the land patent upon
which "The Hermitage" was built. The original patent was signed by Charles
Calvert, Third Baron Baltimore and was still on display at the house as of 1980.
Though the initial grant was only for 400 acres, succeeding generations greatly
expanded the property. The first house is believed to have burned down in 1832.
The current structure was built in 1859 out of the surviving eastwing of the first
house. Much of the material evidence of generations of Tilghmans remains at "The
Hermitage," including furniture and portraits. The grounds of the estate contain a
family cemetery and stables modeled after those of the Spanish royal family. The
gardens, and in particular the variety and age of many trees, have added to "The
Hermitage's" fame.
Related Families Though the majority of the collection consists of the papers of the Tilghmans, it
also contains valuable information about their relations and associates, such as the
Allen, Lawrence, and Penn families. A family tree compiled by Robert Finch,
included with this finding aid, shows the connections between the families. It also
distinguishes Tilghmans of the same name (e.g. "Benjamin Tilghman," of whom
there are six) from one another.
The Chew Family Benjamin Chew (1722-1810) was the fourth son of Samuel Chew of Dover,
Delaware and an influential man in Philadelphia before and after the American
Revolution. His father, Samuel Chew, served as Chief Justice of the Lower
Counties of Pennsylvania (now in Delaware). Benjamin Chew, at the age of 15,
studied law under Andrew Hamilton, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer. After
Hamilton's death in 1741, Benjamin served as his father's assistant in Dover and
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then went to London to study law, returning in 1746 to establish a successful legal
practice in Philadelphia. By 1755, although only 33 years old, he was the Attorney
General of the Province of Pennsylvania as well as Speaker of the Delaware
Assembly. By 1759 he was recognized as the leader of the Philadelphia Bar.
Benjamin Chew was appointed Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania by
Governor John Penn in 1774, succeeding William Allen in that position, but he did
not hold this position long because of suspected Loyalist views. He was arrested in
1777 for treason, but was released a year later. After his arrest, he took a decade-
long hiatus from public life, taking up public office later as President of the High
Court of Errors and Appeals from 1791 until the court's final dissolution in 1808.
Benjamin Chew married first Mary Galloway (1697-1734). After Mary's death in
1755, he married Elizabeth Oswald (1757).
The Allen Family William Allen's (1704-1780) impressive career and achievements are largely
forgotten as his attempt to remain neutral during the Revolution cost him
everything (three of his four sons were Loyalists). He had been Chief Justice of
Pennsylvania, the mayor of Philadelphia, and a successful business man. Educated
at the Middle Temple (c. 1720) in London, William took advantage of his time
abroad to tour England. He returned in 1725 when his father died. William joined
the Governor's Council in 1727, when he was only 23, and four years later joined
the Provincial Assembly. By 1742, he had become the leader of what was known
the "Gentleman's Party" (1742), a group of Anglican and Presbyterian
Assemblymen who opposed Quaker politics. Equally successful in business,
William owned mines, iron works, and added to his fortune with spoils from
privateering during the French and Indian War. While much of his capital went to
lavish entertaining, William was philanthropic as well, founding the Pennsylvania
Hospital and the College of Philadelphia. He was patron to artists, among them
Benjamin West and John Singleton Copely, and to doctors, such as John Morgan
and John Redman. William desired to remain neutral during the American
Revolution, though he was an advocate for colonial rights and opposed the Stamp
Act. William married Margaret Hamilton, daughter of Andrew Hamilton, Speaker
of the Pennsylvania Assembly.
James Allen (1742-1778) was the third son of William Allen and Margaret
Hamilton, the daughter of Andrew Hamilton, Attorney General of the Province of
Pennsylvania. James Allen was likewise a lawyer, having trained for the law with
Edward Shippen. He served as a Common Councilman of Philadelphia between
1767 and 1776. James Allen married Elizabeth Lawrence, the only child of John
Lawrence [q.v.], son of Thomas Lawrence [q.v.]. Their children were Anne Penn
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Allen, who married James Greenleaf, Margaret Elizabeth Allen, who married
William Tilghman [q.v.], Mary Masters Allen and James Hamilton Allen.
Andrew Allen (1740-1825), the second son of William Allen, is mentioned
frequently within the collection. He was a Loyalist, but served as a Pennsylvania
delegate to the Continental Congress until the decision to declare independence
was made. With his brothers, he then sought out the protection of British General
William Howe. Another brother, William Allen, led the Pennsylvania Loyalist
Corps during the American Revolution.
The Lawrence Family Thomas Lawrence (1689-1754) was active in the political life of Philadelphia and
south-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Edward Shippen, Lawrence began
Shippen & Lawrence one of the most prominent Philadelphia firms engaged in the
fur trade. Lawrence was most notable for his business acumen concerning land
speculation. He owned, for example, much of what is now Reading, Pennsylvania.
Politically, Thomas Lawrence helped negotiate a treaty with Native Americans at
Albany, New York in 1745. He also served as mayor of Philadelphia several times
between 1727 and his death in 1754. Both of his sons, Thomas Lawrence II and
John Lawrence [q.v.], served as mayor of Philadelphia as well.
John Lawrence (1724-1799), Thomas' second son, married Elizabeth Francis,
(daughter of Tench Francis and Elizabeth Turbett, and sister of Anne Francis, wife
of James Tilghman (1716-1793)). They had only one daughter, Elizabeth
Lawrence who married James Allen. John Lawrence was a noted Loyalist.
The Penn Family The descendents of William Penn (1843-1718), the English Quaker who was the
founder of Pennsylvania, were involved both professionally and collaterally with
the Tilghmans, as well as the Allen, Lawrence, and Chew families. Thomas Penn
(1701/2-1775), a son of William by the founder's second wife, was much involved
with cleaning up the estate of his blacksheep half-brother, William Penn, Jr.,
during James Tilghman's [q.v.] term as secretary of the Penn family’s land office.
Two of Thomas' brothers, John Penn (1700-1746) and Richard Penn (1705-1771)
also figure in this collection, as does their half-sister Letitia [Penn] Aubrey.
John Penn (1725-1795), last of his family to govern Pennsylvania—from 1773-
1776—was a grandson of the province's founder by way of that worthy’s son
Richard. In 1766 John married Ann Allen, the daughter of William Allen (1704-
1780) [q.v.] and the sister of Andrew (1740-1825) [q.v.] and James Allen (1724-
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1778) [q.v.]. Both Allen brothers became Loyalist émigrés: William Tilghman
(1756-1827), a Loyalist, but not an émigré, married James Allen's daughter
Margaret Elizabeth Allen (1772-1798) in 1794; she probably was responsible for
her uncle John Penn’s papers appearing in this collection.
Scope & Content
The Tilghman Family Papers are divided into ten series. Series I comprises the
correspondence, records, and other materials relating to the most prominent and
prolific writers among the Tilghmans in the collection, each of whom makes up a
subseries (e.g. Subseries B: Papers of Edward Tilghman, Jr.). The last subseries in
Series I, "Miscellaneous Tilghman Family Documents," contains the documents of
other, less well-represented Tilghmans. Series II contains Tilghman family
genealogical materials. Those records pertaining to "The Hermitage" comprise
Series III; ephemera Series IV; and photographs, Series V. Families related to the
Tilghmans, specifically the Chew, Lawrence and Allen, and Penn families, each
make up their own series (Series VI-VIII). An "Allied Families" series, Series IX,
houses the extended kin of those families related to the Tilghmans and their
relations whose documents are too few to warrant individual groupings. The last
group, Series X, consists of land records.
Series I: Papers of the Tilghman Family
Subseries A: Edward Tilghman (I) [Box 1; Flat Box A]
Subseries B: Edward Tilghman, Jr. (II) [Boxes 2-6; Flat Boxes B & C]
Subseries C: James Tilghman (including his son and two nephews, all
James') [Boxes 7-9; Flat Boxes D-G]
Subseries D: Richard "East India Dick" Tilghman [Boxes 9-10; Flat Boxes
H & J]
Subseries E: William Tilghman (II, 1756-1827) [Boxes 11-16; Flat Box
J]
Subseries F: Correspondence of Benjamin Chew Tilghman II &
Richard A. Tilghman [Boxes 16-19]
Subseries G: Papers of Benjamin Chew Tilghman II [Box 20]
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Subseries H: Papers of Richard A. Tilghman [Box 21]
Subseries I: Miscellaneous Tilghman Family Documents (including Tench
(1744-1786),Matthew (1717-1790), Benjamin Chew Tilghman,
son of Richard A. Tilghman, (1861-1911), Philemon II (1760-
1797), and others) [Boxes 22-25; Flat Boxes I & K]
Series II: Tilghman Genealogical Materials (including the personal documents and
genealogical research of William McMurtrie Tilghman)
[includes Over-size materials, separately housed] [Boxes 26-
28; plus one Oversized, G-OS]
Series III: Records relating to "The Hermitage" [29; plus # of Flat Boxes]
Series IV: Tilghman Ephemera [Boxes 30-31]
Series V: Tilghman Photographs [Box 32]
Series VI: Papers relating to the Chew Family [Box 33]
Series VII: Papers relating to the Lawrence and Allen Families [Boxes 33-34]
Series VIII: Papers relating to the Penn Family [Box 35]
Series IX: Allied Families (a catch-all for families not represented well enough to
fit into Series V-VIII) [Box 35]
Series X: Land Records [Boxes 37 & 38 include Over-size materials, Land-OS]
[Boxes 36; 37 OS, 38 OS]
Container List The container list lists box and folders—not individual items.
Series I; Subseries A: Papers of Edward Tilghman I Box 1
1. Undated, 1741-1785 Receipts & Memoranda
2. Undated, 1771-1779 Correspondence—Edward Jr. to Edward I
3. Undated, 1772, 1776 Correspondence—Edward I to Matthew Tilghman
4. Undated, 1772-1785 Correspondence
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5. 1748-1785 Legal Papers
6. 1754-1-16 Account Entry List
7. 1761-1771 Accounts
8. 1762 Papers relating to the Supply or Assessment Bill, March
17-April 24 Session of the Maryland General Assembly
9. 1769-1774 Land Records for Lowe's Lands
10. 1779-3-20 Incoming Correspondence
11. 1780-1785 Correspondence—Edward Jr. to Edward I
12. 1782-9-15 Philip Francis to Edward I
13. 1783-1784 Correspondence—Edward I to Benjamin Tilghman
14. 1785-1786 Estate Papers
Flat Box A Letterbook of Edward Tilghman and Edward Tilghman,
Jr., 1722-1811
Series I; Subseries B (Boxes 2-6): Papers of Edward Tilghman, Jr.
Box 2
1. Undated Leather wallet of Edward Tilghman and Edward
Tilghman, Jr.; lock of hair of Edward Tilghman, Jr.
2. Undated Outgoing Correspondence-- Edward Tilghman, Jr. to
John Andrews
3. Undated Legal Papers
4. Undated Legal Papers
5. Undated, 1765-1771 Incoming Correspondence
6. Undated, 1768-1789 Correspondence with John Chew
7. Undated, 1771-1772 Bills, Receipts, and Memoranda
8. Undated, 1771-1803 Correspondence with Phineas Bond
9. Undated, 1777-1790 Receipts, Bonds, and Accounts (Anna Maria Tilghman
Goldsborough Smith and Robert Smith with Edward
Tilghman and Edward Tilghman, Jr.)
10. Undated, 1788 Unidentified Elevation; Inscription for Mr. Pitt's Statue;
List of Law Books; Certificate for Voting for Trustees of
the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia
11. 1760-1785 Two Letters from John Chew
12. 1761-1768 Correspondence, Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman,
Jr.
13. 1763-1776 Correspondence, Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman,
Jr.
Box 3
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1. 1767-1773 Account Books of Edward Tilghman, Jr.
2. 1769-1772 Correspondence, Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman,
Jr.
3. 1769-1787 Accounts, Edward Tilghman, Jr.
4. 1770-1776 Case Book
5. 1770-1785 Accounts of Fees in Legal Cases
6. 1771-1-29 Phineas Bond to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
7. 1772 Incoming Correspondence
8. 1772-10-26 John Hanson 4th
to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
9. 1772-1790 Correspondence from Anna Maria Tilghman
Goldsborough Smith
10. 1772-1802 Correspondence with Benjamin Chew
11. 1773-1-6 Anna Maria Chew to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
12. 1773 Incoming Correspondence
13. 1773-1774 Bills, Receipts, and Memoranda
14. 1773-1776 Correspondence, Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman,
Jr.
15. 1773-1799 Anna Maria Chew to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
Box 4
1. 1773-1799 Account and Bank Books (1773-1783; 1792-1799)
2. 1773-1802 William Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
3. 1774-6-28 P. Cromp to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
4. 1774-1779 Incoming Correspondence
5. 1775-1791 Legal Papers
6. 1776-1815 Bills, Receipts, and Memoranda
7. 1777-1779 Correspondence, Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman,
Jr.
8. 1777-1816 Outgoing Correspondence
9. 1778-1806 Samuel Chew to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
10. 1779-1793 James Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
11. 1780-1782 Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
12. 1780-1789 Incoming Correspondence
13. 1782-5-15 George Read to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
14. 1783 Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
15. 1783-1810 Elizabeth Chew Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
Box 5
1. 1784-1785 Edward Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
2. 1785-12-5 Anna Smith to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
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3. 1785-1799 Matthew Tilghman to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
4. 1785-1800 Robert Smith to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
5. 1786-1802 Jared Ingersoll to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
6. 1789-2-18 Joseph Potts to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
7. 1789-1790 Richard Tilghman IV to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
8. 1789, 1797 Robert Morris to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
9. 1789-1798 Edward Tilghman, Jr.'s Appointments
10. 1790 Invitations
11. 1790 Mr. Randolph to Edward Tilghman
12. 1790-2-8 Chief Justice William W. Kean to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
13. 1790-12-28 William Madison to Mr. Tilghman
14. 1790-12-27 John Adams, Reply to Edward Tilghman, Jr. [R]
15. 1790-12-28 Thomas Jefferson, Reply to Edward Tilghman, Jr. [R]
16. 1790-12-28 Alexander Hamilton, Reply to Edward Tilghman, Jr. [R]
17. 1790-1799 Incoming Correspondence
18. 1791-1851 Miscellaneous Papers of Elizabeth Chew Tilghman, wife
of Edward Tilghman, Jr.
19. 1794-9-14 Deed for Sale, Edward Tilghman and Joseph Thomas to
James Wilson
20. 1794-1814 Legal Papers
21. 1798-1815 Financial Statements
22. 1799-1800 William Cobbett to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
23. 1800-2-9 William Lewis to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
24. 1800-4-8 Alexander Hamilton to Edward Tilghman, Jr. [R]
25. 1800-1801 James Asheton Bayard to Mr. Tilghman
26. 1800-1802 Incoming Correspondence
27. 1801-2-5 Thomas Pinckney to Edward Tilghman, Jr. [R]
28. 1803-1815 Incoming Correspondence
Box 6
1. c. 1806 Edward Tilghman, Jr.'s Envelopes
2. 1807-1-17 Journal Notes
3. 1808-2 Jasper Moylan to Edward Tilghman, Jr.
4. 1808-12-3 Edward Tilghman, Jr. to James Latimer
5. 1809-1822 Estate Papers
6. 1815 Bush Washington to Edward Tilghman, Jr. and William
Tilghman
7. 1815-1850 Eulogia and Obituaries for Edward Tilghman, Jr.
8. 1820 Stock Certificates, Belmont and Eastern Turnpike
9. 1823-1825 Estate Papers
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10. 1826-1829 Estate Papers
11. 1832-1836 Estate Papers
12. 1840-1858 Estate Papers
Flat Box B Account Book of Edward Tilghman, Jr., 1803-1815;
Commonplace Book of Edward Tilghman, Jr., 1775; Law
Notes of Edward Tilghman, Jr., 1773 [with clasp]
Flat Box C Legal Opinions of Edward Tilghman, Jr., 1785-1815 Vol.
1; Legal Opinions of Edward Tilghman, Jr., 1785-1815
Vol. 2
Series I; Subseries C (Boxes 7-9): Papers of James Tilghman and Family
Box 7
1. Undated, 1707-1769 Legal Papers for Lands in New Jersey
2. Undated, 1750 Legal Papers
3. Undated, 1764- 1793 Accounts, Bills, and Receipts
4. Undated, 1765-1775 Incoming Correspondence
5. 1734-1793 Land Papers
6. 1760-1770 Legal Papers
7. 1761-1769 Papers relating to the Dispute between Connecticut and
Pennsylvania over the Wyoming Valley
8. 1762-1774 Outgoing Correspondence
9. 1763-1764 Account Book
10. 1764-4-4 Account Entry
11. 1764-1765 Tobacco Accounts
12. c. 1765 "Reflections upon the Stamp Act"
13. 1765 Notes
14. 1765-7-6 William Anderson to James Tilghman [R]
15. 1766-2-24 Richard Tilghman III to James Tilghman
16. 1766-3-8 Thomas Ringgold to James Tilghman
17. 1766-1776 D. Dulaney to James Tilghman
18. 1766-1774 Incoming Correspondence
19. 1767-1796 William Johnson to James Tilghman
20. 1767-7-24 Bond for Service—John Hill apprenticed to James
Tilghman
21. 1768-2-13 Bernard Daugherty to James Tilghman
Box 8
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1. 1767-1796 Papers relating to the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix and the New
Purchase
2. 1768-4 Thomas Penn to James Tilghman
3. 1768-1775 Matthew Tilghman to James Tilghman [R]
4. 1769 Receipt for Native American Treaty
5. 1769-3-9 Richard Pearis to James Tilghman
6. 1769-1777 Michael Earle to James Tilghman
7. 1770-1787 Papers relating to the Dispute between Connecticut and
Pennsylvania over the Wyoming Valley
8. 1771-1789 Legal Papers
9. 1772-1773 Incoming Correspondence
10. 1773-8-17 William Tilghman to James Tilghman
11. 1773-1774 Horatio Gates to James Tilghman, Jr. [R]
12. 1773-1792 Correspondence with Thomas Penn, John Penn, and Lady
Juliana Penn
13. 1774-11-16 James Tilghman to James Lloyd Chamberlain
14. 1775 Ringgold Hemsley to James Tilghman
15. 1775-8-23 William Horness to James Tilghman
16. 1775-10-2 Ringgold Hemsley to James Tilghman
17. 1775-12-20 Juliana Penn to James Tilghman
18. 1776-6-30 Letter to James Tilghman
19. 1776-1785 Incoming Correspondence
20. 1777-8-9 Charles Wilson Peale's Witness of James Tilghman's
Parole [R]
21. 1777 Aug. to Oct. Parole of James Tilghman
22. 1780-1783 Outgoing Correspondence
23. 1781-7-4 William Baker to James Tilghman
24. 1781-8-16 Charles Thomson to James Tilghman
25. 1781-1784 William Geddes to James Tilghman
26. 1781-1787 James Tilghman to William Geddes
27. 1782-1787 Edward Shippen to James Tilghman
28. 1784-1787 Outgoing Correspondence
29. 1785-1786 Legal Letters
30. 1785-4-12 William Hopper to James Tilghman
31. 1785-8-25 A. Francis to James Tilghman
32. 1785-12-22 John Hurt to James Tilghman regarding the hire of a
"Negro"
33. 1786-4-23 Robert Morris to James Tilghman [R]
34. 1786-1788 Tench Coxe to James Tilghman
35. 1786-6-25 Thomas Morris to James Tilghman
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36. 1786-1789 Matthew Tilghman to James Tilghman
37. 1786-1787 Correspondence relating to Richard "East India Dick"
Tilghman's natural daughter Elizabeth (upon Richard's
death she became the ward of his father, James)
Box 9
1. 1786-1789 James Tilghman to Thomas Ringgold Tilghman
2. 1786-1789 Thomas Ringgold Tilghman to James Tilghman
3. 1786-1787 Incoming Correspondence
4. 1787-1793 Edward Tilghman, Jr. to James Tilghman
5. 1788 Incoming Correspondence
6. 1788-1789 Outgoing Correspondence
7. 1789-1793 Incoming Correspondence
8. 1790-1793 Outgoing Correspondence
9. 1792-1806 Estate Papers
10. 1793-7-3 John Godfrey to James Tilghman
11. 1829-7-28 James Tilghman to Thomas Cadwalader (a nephew)
12. 1849-3-3 Bill of Sale
13. 1860-9-27 Eli K. Price to James Tilghman
Flat Box D Receipt Book of James Tilghman, 1770-1777; Letterbook
of James Tilghman, 1773-1777; 1786-1793 (marginal
notes by William M. Tilghman); James Tilghman to
Tench Tilghman, August 1776 (19th century copy
removed from Letterbook [item 2, Flat Box D]
Flat Box E Letterbook of James Tilghman, 1751-1777
Flat Box F Letterbook of James Tilghman, 1766-1782
Flat Box G Letterbook of James Tilghman, 1766-1781
Series I; Subseries D (Boxes 9-10): Papers of Richard "East India Dick"
Tilghman
Box 9
14. Undated, Notes of Richard Tilghman
15. Undated, 1772-1785 Receipts, Bills, and Memoranda
16. Undated, 1774-1785 Correspondence
17. 1773-1785 Legal Papers
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18. 1776-1784 Accounts
Box 10
1. 1779-1784 Envelopes
2. 1779-1785 Papers relating to the East India Company
3. 1780-1785 Correspondence with the East India Company
4. 1785 Account Book (August to December)
5. 1785-1789 Estate Papers
6. 1786-1789 David and John Godfrey to James Tilghman regarding
the Estate of Richard Tilghman
7. 1790-1793 David and John Godfrey to James Tilghman regarding
the Estate of Richard Tilghman
8. 1803 Correspondence with William Tilghman regarding the
Estate of Richard Tilghman
Flat Box H Letterbook of Richard Tilghman, 1762-1786
Flat Box J Law Notes of Richard Tilghman, 1769-1770 [with clasp];
Law Notes of Richard Tilghman, ca. 1770
Series I; Subseries E (Boxes 11-16): Papers of William Tilghman
Box 11
1. Undated William Tilghman's Legal and Account Documents
2. Undated Legal Papers
3. Undated, 1775-1805 Incoming Correspondence
4. Undated, 1809-1826 Notebooks (undated before 1780): Rules Relative to
Practice in the Land Office" and "Notes & Books Lent."
5. Undated, 1785-1826 Correspondence concerning Legal Matters
6. Undated, 1795-1823 Memoranda
7. Undated, 1796 Printed Materials: Broadsheet about Status of African-
Americans in Pennsylvania & Act concerning Emigrants
to Western Pennsylvania
8. Undated (p. 1800) "Book of Roads"
9. Undated, 1803 Invitations
10. 1773-1807 Correspondence with Edward Tilghman, Jr.
11. 1776-1809 Accounts, Bills, Receipts
12. 1777-1789 Legal Papers
13. 1780-4-4 Letter to William Tilghman from Unknown
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14. 1783-1784 William Tilghman's Trial for Loyalty to the American
Cause
15. 1784 William Tilghman's Trial for Loyalty: Proceedings to
Remove him from the Bar; Court Judgement
16. 1784-1785 Edward Tilghman to William Tilghman
17. 1786 Charles Carroll to William Tilghman
18. 1787-1793 Richard Tilghman IV's Instructions to William Tilghman
upon Legal Matters
19. 1788-2-11 William Tilghman to Hollingsworth
20. Undated Bookplates, Letterhead, and Invitations [R]
Box 12
1. 1788-1826 Outgoing Correspondence
2. 1790-1-18 Letter to Electing Committee for Society for Abolition of
Slavery
3. 1790-6-2 William Dallas to William Tilghman
4. 1790-7-8 Letter to Doctor Thomas
5. 1790-1792 Legal Papers
6. 1790-c. 1793 Correspondence from Philemon Tilghman
7. 1790-1798 Correspondence from Harriet Milbanke (Mrs. Philemon
Tilghman)
8. 1791-1816 Letters by William and others to George Washington;
Letters by Bush Washington [the latter [R]]
9. 1792-1793 William Tilghman to Margaret Allen Tilghman
10. 1793 Margaret Allen Tilghman to William Tilghman
11. 1793-1824 Legal Papers
12. 1793, 1799, 1803 Miscellaneous Financial Papers
13. 1794 Margaret Allen Tilghman to William Tilghman
14. 1794 William Tilghman to Margaret Allen Tilghman
Box 13
1. 1794 Incoming Correspondence
2. 1794-1799 Documents relating to Suits against Robert Morris and
John Nicholson
3. 1795-1796 William Tilghman to Margaret Allen Tilghman
4. 1795-1798 Margaret Allen Tilghman to William Tilghman
5. 1796-1803 Colonel John Lawrence to William Tilghman
6. 1796-12-19 William Tilghman to Edward Fox—Copy of Certificate
7. 1796-1797 Advertisements of Lands for Sale
8. 1797 William Tilghman to Margaret Allen Tilghman
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9. 1797-1799 William Tilghman to Ann Penn
10. 1797-1820 William Tilghman to Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs.
Philemon Tilghman)
11. 1798-2-9 Deed from George Harrison
12. 1799-12-21 Pierce Butler to William Tilghman
13. 1799-1800 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
14. 1799-1823 Bank Book
15. 1800 Proposal to Navigate Lehigh River Canal
16. 1800-1807 Examples of Slave Manumissions
17. 1800-11-10 James Lawrence to William Tilghman
18. 1801-3-3 John Adams—Appointment of William Tilghman as
Chief Justice, Circuit Court, for the Third Circuit of the
United States [R]
19. 1801-1802 Correspondence relating to William Tilghman's
becoming Security for General James Lloyd
20. 1801-1803 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
21. 1801-1805 William Tilghman to Andrew Allen, Jr.
Box 14
1. 1801-1825 Andrew Allen, Jr. to William Tilghman
2. 1802-4-12 John Dickinson to William Tilghman
3. 1802-1803 Correspondence with Circuit Court Judges concerning
Repeal of the 1801 Judiciary Act
4. 1802-1815 Andrew Allen to William Tilghman
5. 1802-1816 William Tilghman to Andrew Allen
6. 1803 Letters of Introduction from John Carroll for William
Tilghman
7. 1803-12-20 Tench Coxe and A.J. Dallas to William Tilghman
8. 1804-1805 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
9. 1805-12-11 John Sergeant to William Tilghman [R]
10. 1805-1823 William Tilghman's Notebooks while on Circuit
11. 1806-2-25 Governor Thomas McKean to William Tilghman
12. 1806-1826 Incoming Correspondence
13. 1806-1807 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
14. c. 1807-1808 Draft of Reports on English Statutes in Force in
Pennsylvania
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15. 1807-8-19 William Tilghman to A. Allen, Esq., London
16. 1808-1809 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
17. 1808-1815 Land Papers
Box 15
1. 1810-1812 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
2. 1810-1817 Papers relating to Elizabeth Tilghman, William
Tilghman's daughter
3. 1811-1814 Account Book
4. 1812-1827 Horace Binney to William Tilghman
5. 1813-1823 Harriet Milbanke Tilghman (Mrs. Philemon Tilghman) to
William Tilghman
6. 1814-12-5 John Randolph to Chief Justice Tilghman [R]
7. 1817-1826 Religious Reflections
8. 1818-3-28 Joseph Hopkinson to William Tilghman
9. 181-1826 Caroline Tilghman to her Uncle, William Tilghman
10. 1819-11-10 James Buchanan to William Tilghman [R]
11. 1819-1820 Papers Relating to the Missouri Question
12. 1819-2-27 Indenture to Convey Land from 1819-1-27 with Joseph
Johns
13. 1820 William Tilghman's address to the Philadelphia Society
for Promoting Agriculture
14. 1820-1825 Mary Allen Livingston to William Tilghman
15. 1821-1826 Ann Penn Allen Greenleaf (Mrs. James Greenleaf) to
William Tilghman
16. 1822 Richard Peters to Chief Justice Tilghman
17. 1823-5-29 Clement Biddle to William Tilghman
18. 1825-1826 James Greenleaf to William Tilghman
19. 1826-3-10 William M. Meredith to William Tilghman
20. 1826-8-16 William Tilghman to Benjamin Tilghman
Box 16
1. 1827 An Eulogium upon the Hon. William Tilghman, Late
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, by Horace Binney
2. 1827-6-28 William Tilghman to Unknown
3. 1827-1833 Estate Papers
4. 1830 Design for William Tilghman's Tomb
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5. 1831-6-25 Writ of Levari Facias, Transfer of Property, William
Deal Sheriffs to James Sullivan
6. 1834-1843 Estate Papers
7. 1839-10-10 Marriage Settlement—Ann Penn Allen and William
Tilghman
Flat Box J Receipt Book of William Tilghman, 1784-1827 [with
clasp]
Series I; Subseries F (Boxes 16-19): Correspondence of Benjamin Chew
Tilghman II and Richard A. Tilghman
Box 16
8. Undated Receipt for Tools
9. Undated Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
10. Undated Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
11. Undated Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
12. Undated Correspondence addressed to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
to Richard Albert Tilghman
13. Undated, 1887 Richard Albert Tilghman to Richard Tilghman, contract
between Richard Albert Tilghman and Benjamin Chew
Tilghman II
14. 1843-1887 Patents of Richard Albert Tilghman
15. 1844-1849 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
16. 1844-1851 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
17. 1847 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
18. 1848-1878 Documents relating to Patents, Richard Albert Tilghman
19. 1847-1857 Anna McMurtrie Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
II and Richard Albert Tilghman
20. 1853-1854 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
21. 1854 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
22. 1855 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
23. 1855 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
24. 1856 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
Box 17
1. 1856-1860 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
2. 1858-1860 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
3. 1858-1861 Empty Envelopes--Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin
Chew Tilghman II
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4. 1861-1865 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
5. 1861-1865 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
6. 1873-1874 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
7. 1873-1874 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
8. 1875-1876 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
9. 1875-1877 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
10. 1877-1878 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
11. 1877-1879 Letterbook, 1877-Sept. to 1879 Oct. (Benjamin Chew
Tilghman II)
Box 18
1. 1878 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
2. 1879 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
3. 1879-1902 Sand Blast Company Contracts, Account Book, and
Patent
4. 1880 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
5. 1880 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
6. 1881-1882 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
7. 1881-1884 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
8. 1884 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
9. 1884 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to his Nephew Benjamin
Chew Tilghman and Richard Albert Tilghman
10. 1885 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
Box 19
1. 1885-1886 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
2. 1886-1887 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
3. 1887-1888 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
4. 1887-1899 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
5. 1888-1891 Richard Albert Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
6. 1890-1893 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II to Richard Albert Tilghman
7. 1891-1892 Correspondence between Richard A. Tilghman and his
sons, Benjamin Chew Tilghman and Richard Albert
Tilghman
8. 1891-1896 Correspondence, J.E. Matthews and B.C. Tilghman &
Richard A. Tilghman
9. 1894 Saint Louis Shovel Company to J.E. Matthews, B.C.
Tilghman & Richard A. Tilghman
10. 1894 & 1903 Patents of Richard A. Tilghman and Benjamin Chew
Tilghman II
23
11. 1901-1906 Transfer of Patents from J.E. Matthews to Benjamin
Chew Tilghman II and Richard Albert Tilghman
Series I; Subseries G (Box 20): Papers of Benjamin Chew Tilghman II
Box 20
1. Undated Civil War Memorabilia, 26th
Regiment Survivors;
Lincoln Memorial Ribbon [R]
2. Undated Correspondence & Ephemerae
3. Undated Correspondence
4. Undated Memorabilia
5. Undated Legal Papers
6. Undated, 1847-1873 Maria Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
7. Undated, 1861-1872 Ephemerae
8. 1830-1890 Financial Accounts, Bristol College
9. 1831-1874 William McMurtrie to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
10. 1847-1888 Anna Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
11. 1847-1855 Anna McMurtrie Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
12. 1848-1860 Correspondence
13. 1848-1888 Elizabeth Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
14. 1854-1890 Foreign Patents
15. 1858-1868 Documents relating to Patents
16. 1861 Muster Rolls
17. 1862-1866 Official Military Papers
18. 1863-1864 Ordnance Papers
19.1864-1865 Ordnance Papers
20. 1861-1865 Correspondence
21. 1867-1892 Correspondence
22. 1870-1894 U.S. Patents
23. 1899-1911 Estate Papers
24. 1901 & 1912 Clippings
25. 1904-1925 Military Biography, LTC. Benjamin Chew Tilghman, 3rd
Infantry
26. Undated Red Glass Fragment with Design from Sand Blast
Process [R]
Flat Box I Letterbook of Colonel Benjamin Chew Tilghman, 1861-
1865
Series I; Subseries H (Box 21): Papers of Richard A. Tilghman
24
Box 21
1. Undated Accounts, Bills, Receipts
2. Undated BC Tilghman II to B.C. Tilghman, son of Richard A.
Tilghman
3. Undated Biographical Materials, Richard A. Tilghman
4. Undated Clippings
5. Undated Correspondence
6. Undated Anna McMurtrie Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
7. Undated Estate Papers
8. Undated Legal Papers
9. Undated Notes
10. Undated Susan Toland (Mrs. R.A. Tilghman), Family
Correspondence
11. Undated Will of Elizabeth Tilghman
11. Undated, 1830-1855 Correspondence of Anna Tilghman
12. Undated, 1857 Notes
13. 1843-1844 Correspondence with Isaac Tyson, Jr. regarding Chrome
Experiments
14. 1844-1848 Correspondence
15. 1844 Correspondence with Isaac Tyson, Jr. regarding Chrome
Experiments
16. 1845-1847 Correspondence with Isaac Tyson, Jr. regarding Chrome
Experiments
17. 1847-1858 Correspondence with Sisters
18. 1847-1858 Elizabeth Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
19. 1847-1858 Maria Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
20. 1847-1858 William McMurtrie Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
21. 1848-1857 Anna Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
22. 1849-1856 Correspondence
23. 1852 Correspondence
24. 1854-1857 Correspondence, Anna Tilghman and Richard A.
Tilghman
25. 1861 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
regarding the Civil War
26. 1861-1865 Empty Envelopes
27. 1870-10-4 Memorandum
28. 1881 Richard A. Tilghman, Business with Church of the
Redeemer & Poems
25
Flat Box I Letterbook, Benjamin Tilghman and Richard Albert
Tilghman, 1903-1906; Letterbook, Benjamin Chew
Tilghman, 1906-11-20 to 1910-8-11
Series I; Subseries I (Boxes 22-25): Miscellaneous Tilghman Family Papers
Box 22
1. 1791-3-7 James Tilghman to Richard Tilghman and Matthew
Tilghman
2. 1791-3-31 James Tilghman to Richard Tilghman
3. c. 1795-1812 Incoming Correspondence, Colonel Richard Tilghman of
the Hermitage and his adopted son, Richard Cooke
Tilghman
4. 1798-1814 Accounts, Bills, Receipts, and Memoranda, Colonel
Richard Tilghman of the Hermitage
5. 1805-1809 Outgoing Correspondence, Colonel Richard Tilghman of
the Hermitage
6. Undated Richard Tilghman V, Biographical Note
7. 1811-1838 Correspondence & Accounts, Richard Cooke Tilghman
8. 1845 & 1859 Correspondence, James Earle and James W. Thompson
to Richard Cooke Tilghman, Survey of Farm
9. 1697-12-24 Abraham Tilghman to Richard Tilghman II
10. 1697-12-24 Abraham Tilghman to Richard Tilghman II [copy]
11. Undated Drawings of Tench Tilghman's Sword
12. Undated Tench Tilghman to Richard Tilghman
13. 1764-1786 Papers and Correspondence, Tench Tilghman
14. 1776 Letter—Prisoners of War to General Howe [R]
15. 1777-10-15 Letter from Tench Tilghman to Timothy Matlack
16. 1777-12 Tench Tilghman to James Allen
17. 1777-12-27 Tench Tilghman to Major General Armstrong
18. 1781-12-25 Tench Tilghman letter to Unknown
19. 1782-6-15 Tench Tilghman to Edward Tilghman
20. Undated, 1816-1847 Incoming Correspondence, Benjamin Tilghman
21. 1809-1836 Receipt, Journal, and Correspondence, Benjamin
Tilghman
22. 1809-1830 Financial Papers, Benjamin Tilghman
23. 1811-1848 Legal Papers, Benjamin Tilghman
24. 1812-1838 Outgoing Correspondence, Benjamin Tilghman
25. 1816-1817 Account Books, Benjamin Tilghman
26. 1824 Papers relating to the Lafayette Ball in Philadelphia
26
27. 1831-1840 William McMurtrie Tilghman to Benjamin Tilghman
28. 1836-1845 Legal Papers, Benjamin Tilghman
29. 1850-1862 Estate Papers, Benjamin Tilghman
30. 1774 Philemon Tilghman's "Compend of Rhetoric"
31. 1783 Bills, Philemon Tilghman
32. 1781-4-29 Matthew Tilghman to Governor Thomas Sim Lee
33. Undated Seals of Tench Tilghman, James Tilghman, and George
Washington [R]
34. 1749ff Private Tilghman/Chew Family Letterbook [R]
35. 1894-1901 Correspondence – Sir Henry Irving and Brahm Stoker to
Mary M. Tilghman, Brahm Stoker business manager of
Henry Irving, 1894-1896, 1901 [R]
36. Undated Old Stamps [R]
37. 1781-4-29 Matthew Tilghman to Governor Thomas Sim Lee [R]
Box 23
1. Undated Notes on Foxburg Estate
2. Undated Lithograph of General Sir Ralph Abercromby
3. Undated Photograph of Painting of Sir Ralph Abercrombie by Sir
Thomas Moore
4. Undated Helen Wilson to Miss Fox
5. 1745-1759 The Petition of Henry Middleton for Lots of Land,
Transcription, and Plat
6. 1802-11-22 Invitation for Mr. McMichael and two Visiting Cards of
Meta Andrews Shaw, and, Captain and Mrs. Ezio
Garibaldi
7. 1864-5-31 Memorial Tablet for Oliver Hering Middleton, Jr.
8. 1874-1877 Benjamin Chew Tilghman and his Parents regarding his
Activities at St. Paul's School, Concord, Hew Hampshire
9. 1884 Passport, Benjamin Chew Tilghman
10. 1885-6-15 J.M. Fox to Sam
11. 1886 Agnes Tilghman Packard to "Rickie"
12. 1886-1910 Ellen Terry to Mary M. Tilghman, Notes from Benjamin
Chew Tilghman IV
13. 1887-5-5 William T. Sherman to McMichael
14. 1887-1904 Benjamin Chew Tilghman, Range Finder and Sand Blast
inventions with Diagrams
15. 1888-1902 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to Mary M. Tilghman
16. 1888-1917 Mary M. Tilghman (Mrs. Benjamin Chew Tilghman II),
Biographical Correspondence
27
17. 1890-4-24 Harris to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
18. c. 1900 Correspondence about Fox Estate, mentions Benjamin
Chew Tilghman and Descendents
19. 1900 Susan Tilghman Lante to her Brother, Richard Tilghman
20. 1903-3-14 J. Barber to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
21. 1908 Correspondence, Photograph all related to Meteor Crater
22. 1912 Will of Meta Andrews McMichael
23. 1912-10-8 Meta A. McMichael to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
24. 1916-1950 Benjamin Chew Tilghman, World War I letters &
Biographical Correspondence
25. 1916-4-26 Wilson to Miss Fox
26. 1917-7-5 Aunt Nance Godey to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
27. 1919-1920 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to William Logan Fox
regarding inheritance of "The Hermitage"
28. 1924-1933 Correspondence, Eliza Middleton Fox Tilghman (Mrs.
BCT III)
29. 1927-1-26 Letter from Anna Shaw; two Empty Envelopes
30. 1928-1931 Incoming Correspondence, Aunt Charlie Robert, Palazzo
Sorbello, and Marchesa di Sorbello to Benjamin Chew
Tilghman
31. 1928-4-23 Charles B. McMichael to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
32. 1930 Academic Pamphlet, "Now and Then," Charles B.
McMichael to Mrs. Tilghman
33. 1931 Louis Estill Fagan to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
34. 1932-3-22 Invitational Correspondence between Lafayette College
and Mrs. Benjamin Chew Tilghman, Centennial
Celebration
35. 1932-8-11 E.R.C. to Benjamin Chew Tilghman, Newspaper
Clippings involving Nancy Hoyt
Box 24
1. 1933-1939 Correspondence, Benjamin Chew Tilghman
2. 1933-1940; 1961 Benjamin Chew Tilghman IV, Documents for St. Paul's
School
3. 1933-6-28 Harrison Tilghman to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
4. 1933-10-12 Eli Kirk Price III to Benjamin Chew Tilghman and Mrs.
Tilghman
5. 1934-12 Elizabeth Whitney Putnam to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Chew Tilghman
6. 1934-3-3 Louis Estill Fagan to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
28
7. 1934-3-13 Emory McMichael to Benjamin Chew Tilghman relating
to Family History
8. 1934 Mrs. H.M. Hoyt to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
9. 1934-11-2 John Morgan to Mr. Tilghman with regard to a Painting
of Dr. James Abercrombie
10. 1935-2-19 Newspaper Clipping- Morton McMichael, President of
the Park Commissioners- Tunnel Work in Fairmont Park,
Philadelphia
11. 1937-8-19 Harrison Tilghman to Tench Tilghman regarding Thesis
12. 1937-8-27 Harrison Tilghman to Rev. Charles Fox
13. 1937-1938 Harrison Tilghman to Capt. Benjamin Chew Tilghman
14. 1938-2-8 Stephen F. Tillman to Major Benjamin Chew Tilghman
15. 1938-2-17 Harrison Tilghman to Major Stephen F. Tillman
16. 1938-2-28 Stephen F. Tillman to Colonel Harrison Tilghman
17. 1938-3-1 Harrison Tilghman to Major Stephen F. Tillman
18. 1938-3-1 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to Stephen F. Tillman
19. 1938-3 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to Harrison Tilghman
20. 1942 Colonel Lloyd A. Cross to Benjamin Chew Tilghman;
Benjamin Chew Tilghman to Colonel Lloyd A. Cross
21. 1944-9-22 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to the Secretary of the Grocers
Company, London, in regard to Oswald Tilghman's
membership
22. 1944-1946 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to L. Hillman Barnes,
October; L. Hillman Barnes to Major Benjamin Chew
Tilghman
23. 1948-5-12 Benjamin Chew Tilghman from Unknown
24. 1949-5-5 James Bordley, Jr. to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
25. 1949 Carl Lindborg to Richard Tilghman; Benjamin Chew
Tilghman to Carl Lindborg
26. 1965-9-13 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to William Logan Fox
27. 1966-7-3 To Emily Read Cheston regarding Potential Buyer of
Foxburg Estate
28. 1966-8-26 Incoming Correspondence for Emily Read Cheston
Concerning Foxburg and Historical Society of
Pennsylvania
29. 1966 Land Record to Mr. Morgan Greenwood from William
Logan Fox
Miscellaneous Tilghman Family Papers
29
30. Undated Copy of Jo. Fisher's Will
31. Undated Benjamin Chew Tilghman—Maps
32. Undated Postcards & Advertisement
33. Undated Shaw to Mary McMichael Tilghman
34. Undated Silhouette
35. Undated Miscellaneous Tilghman Family Letters and Notes
36. Undated Miscellaneous Tilghman Family Fragments
37. Undated Extract upon Love by Margaret Allen Tilghman, Wife of
William, Son of James Tilghman
38. 1730-8-22 Clause in the Will of Cornelius Truax
39. 1734-1801 Court Documents
40. 1740-1752 Land Record and Receipt, William Tilghman to Daniel
Chester
39. 1770-7-15 Ralph Wormeley Jr. to Virginia Rosegill
40. 1757-9-5 Will of Lawrence Skeer
41. 1762 "The List of Schedule of Warrants Omitted to be Signed
by the Late Governor Morris"
42. 1762, 4-16 Notes by the Lower House of Assembly
43. 1763-12-14 Will of Edmund Badger
44. 1775, 1838, 1926 Tilghman Correspondence
45. 1786, 1828, 1848 Miscellaneous Correspondence; Journal
46. 1787 & 1791 Copy of Opinion of Mr. Jackson concerning Brother
William Bill
47. 1790-12-28 Doctor Johnson to Mr. Tilghman
48. 1791-9-27 Deposition of Samuel Rinker
49. 1793 Unidentified Poetry
Box 25
1. 1799-1810 Legal & Financial Documents
2. 1804-3-5 Jury List
3. 1823-1880 Wistar Parties
4. 1830 William Cooke, son of Elizabeth Tilghman born 1749,
Property Business "Graiden"
5. 1831, 1843 Business Correspondence—Estate of Ann M. Tilghman
6. 1837-5-4 Edward Shoemaker to Maria Tilghman; E. McMurtrie to
Maria Tilghman
7. 1847-12-30 Maria Tilghman—Family Correspondence
8. 1852-5-6 Fanny A. Tilghman to Sidney M. Van Wyck
9. 1853-7-18 Elizabeth Rawlins Barney to Sidney M. Van Wyck
10. 1870-4-16 Burial Site owned by Anna M. Tilghman
30
11.1872-1892 List of Loans and Stocks belonging to Estate of Anna M.
Tilghman
12. 1899-1914 Wills—R.A. Tilghman, Mary Tilghman, Meta Andrews
McMichael, Maria Tilghman, Elizabeth Tilghman, and
Benjamin Chew Tilghman
13. 1904-3-29 Agreement for Lease to Anna Tilghman
14. 1907, 1919 Susan Williams, Deed 1907; Benjamin Chew Tilghman
III, Deed 1919
15. 1908, 1936, 1946 Susan Williams and Benjamin Chew Tilghman—Legal
Correspondence for "The Hermitage" and Carpenter's
Island
16. 1917-1935 Susan Williams Correspondence and Book Inventory
17. 1921 Mrs. Benjamin Chew Tilghman—Recipes
18. 1935-1-18 Elizabeth Whitney Putnam to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
Flat Box K Commonplace Book, Philemon Tilghman; Letterbook of
Philemon Tilghman, 1777-1789
Series II (Boxes 26-28, plus one oversized, G-OS): Tilghman Genealogical
Materials (including the personal documents and genealogical research of
William McMurtrie Tilghman)
Box 26
1. Undated English Parish Records/Tombstone Inscriptions
2. Undated Genealogical Notes
3. Undated Genealogical Notes by Edward Tilghman, Jr.
4. Undated Baptismal Records and Coats of Arms
5. Undated Tilghman Family Pedigree and Arms
6. Undated Brass rubbing of Tilghman Arms
7. 1856 [copy] Patents to Richard Tilghman (1670); List of
Persons brought by him to Maryland
8. 1865-3-20 [copy] Inventory of the Estate of Richard Tilghman
9. 1931-5-12/13 Benjamin Chew Tilghman to The Curator of Documents,
The British Museum, London – Inquiry into Richard
Tilghman’s emigration to the colonies
Tilghman Family Genealogical Research Correspondence
31
10. Undated Obituaries – Chief Judge Tilghman, Hon. Richard Cooke
Tilghman, Henry Cooke Tilghman, Richard Cooke
Tilghman, Jr., John C. Tilghman, Stedman R. Tilghman
11.Undated Genealogical Notes & Correspondence
12. 1607-4-9 Note on Will of Charles Tilghman
13. 1772, 1787 Epitaphs for Thomas Ringgold, Michael Earle, and Mary
Earle
14. 1848, 1878 Genealogical Notes
15. 1850-10-16 Eliza H. Bard to Unknown
16. 1852-11-25 "Sketches of the Early History of Maryland" by Thomas
W. Griffith; Extracts from Griffith History
17. 1853-7-25 Tilghman Family Arms
18. 1855-3-3/31 Copy to the Register of Wills of Anne Arundel County—
William M. Tilghman
19. 1855-4-30 Copy of Certificate of Survey of the "Manor of
Tilghman's Fortune" for Captain Samuel Tilghman
20. 1856 Will of Philemon Lloyd and Captain James Neale
21. 1856-1-5 Epitaph of Abraham Tilghman sent by William H.
Tilghman
22. 1856-6-14 "Extract from London Illustrated Series" – Benjamin
Chew Tilghman
23. 1875-2-23 Genealogical Notes; Copy of "The County Families of
Great Britain"
24. 1885 Genealogical Journal of Richard Tilghman and Mary
Gabriella Cecilia de Polestad
25. 1921 Family Tree and History of Holloway Court found
among Susan Williams’s papers at "The Hermitage"
26. 1932-1934 Sketch of the Tilghman Family and Correspondence
relating to its Publication
27. 1938 Genealogical Notes on the Tillman/Tilghman Family
28. 1942 Tilghman/Chew Pedigree compiled by "Benjamin Chew"
and Eliza M. Tilghman
29. 1966-7-17 Genealogical Notes for Benjamin Chew Tilghman from
Emily Read Cheston
Other Families: Genealogy
Box 27
1. Undated Abercrombie Bible--Genealogical Notes
2. Undated Abercrombie Family Tree
32
3. 1923-3 Publication of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
in regard to James Abercrombie
4. Undated John Andrews, Family Tree
5. 1893 Robert Andrews—Andrews Family Book of Genealogy
6. Undated Family Tree—Aspden, Pucker, and Hartley Families
7. Undated McMichael Family Tree
8. 1934-4-13 Genealogy of the McMichael Family—Louis Estill
Fagan to Benjamin Chew Tilghman [1]
9. 1934-4-13 Genealogy of the McMichael Family—Louis Estill
Fagan to Benjamin Chew Tilghman [2]
10. 1934, 1947 Genealogical and Biographical Information about Emery,
Penn, Fagan, and McMichael Families
11. 1962-11-15 Middleton Family Tree and Genealogical Notes
12. 1758-3-3 Copy of the "Declaration of Thomas Penn, a Servant in
the Penn Family"
13. 1887-3-11 Obituary of Susan Binney, daughter of the Hon. Horace
Binney
14. Undated Biographical Information on Joseph Mickle Fox (1853-
1918)
William M. Tilghman & His Genealogical Research
15. Undated Excerpts from English Histories about "Snodland" copied
by William M. Tilghman
16. 1831-1832 William M. Tilghman to Maria Tilghman
17. 1831-1850 Accounts
18. 1831-1855 William M. Tilghman to Edward Tilghman
19. 1831-1891 Outgoing Correspondence
20. 1832-1877 Legal Papers
21. 1833-1890 Certificates and Licenses
22. 1834-1849 Incoming Correspondence
23. 1835-1849 Edward Tilghman to William M. Tilghman
24. 1835-1851 Benjamin Tilghman to William M. Tilghman
25. 1836-1899 Genealogical Notes
26. 1838-1-25 William M. Tilghman to P.A. Brown
27. 1843-1879 Bills, Receipts, and Memoranda
Box 28
1. 1840-1849 William M. Tilghman to Anna Maria McMurtrie
Tilghman
33
2. 1846-1849 Letterbook of William M. Tilghman
3. 1846-11-1 William M. Tilghman to Betsy Tilghman
4. 1850-1869 Incoming Correspondence—William M. Tilghman
5. 1850-1891 Expense Book
6. 1850-11-4 William M. Tilghman to Eli K. Price
7. 1851-8-29 RC McMurtrie to William M. Tilghman
8. 1852-12-13 William Arthur Tilghman to William M. Tilghman
9. 1852-12-19 William Arthur Tilghman to William M. Tilghman
10. 1854-4-7 William M. Tilghman to Richard A. Tilghman
11. 1855-1-8 William M. Tilghman to Edward Tilghman
12. 1868-1869 Leases, Checks, and Bookplates
13. 1870-1894 Incoming Correspondence
14. 1888 June Journal
15. 1899, 1916 Correspondence, Receipts, and Empty Envelopes
16. 1834, 1837 Two Commonplace Books, Catherine Ingersol Tilghman
(Mrs. William M. Tilghman)
17. 1834, 1837 Loose Items from Box 28: 16 such as Poetry
Box G-OS Oversized genealogical materials
Series III (Box 29; Flat Boxes M-O): Records relating to "The Hermitage"
Box 29
1. Undated Pencil Portraits of African Americans at "The
Hermitage"
2. Undated Hermitage Bill for Trees (Plat Lot bought by Colonel
Richard Tilghman III (Blakeford)
3. 1714 Deed
4. 1745-1833 Deeds
5. 1785-1789 Farm Account Book with Recipes and Remedies for
Treatment of Animal Diseases
6. 1786-1811 Farm Record Book
7. 1856 Copies of Hermitage Land Patents 1663, 1667
8. 1919 Hermitage Inventories
9. 1919, 1946-1953 Correspondence, Legal & Financial Documents, and Map
relating to "The Hermitage"
10. 1919-1969 Inventories and Appraisals
Flat Box M Account Book of Richard Tilghman and RCT, 1795-
1816; Miscellaneous Daybook and Accounts, 1796-1807
34
Flat Box N Bound Volume, Estate of H[enry] W[ard] Pearce, 1805
(husband of Anna M. Tilghman, sister of Richard
Tilghman IV); Property Book, 1814-1841 (includes
slaves); Ledger B of Richard Tilghman, 1801 (continued
by R.C. Tilghman)
Flat Box O Hermitage Linen Inventory, 1890; Account Book, 1930-
1931; Daybook of RCT I, 1830-1841 (with arithmetic
problems of son James)
Series IV (Boxes 30-31): Tilghman Ephemera
Box 30
1. Undated Clippings relating to "Lowe's Land"
2. c. 1850-1950 Clippings
3. c. 1850-1909 Assorted Pamphlets—Appellate Court Decisions,
Genealogical Materials, Justice Marshall's Statue,
Memoirs of R.A. Tilghman, Information about Queen
Anne's County, and Meteor Craters
4. 1847-1853 Clippings relating to the Mexican War
5. 1862-1863 Clippings relating to the Civil War
6. 1928-1931, 1941 Clippings relating to Tench Tilghman and Benjamin
Chew Tilghman
Box 31
1. 1781-10-25 Clipping with the Dispatches Washington sent to
Congress via Tench Tilghman
2. 1856-1966 Clippings
3. 1967 Calendar with Photograph of Fox Mansion
Series V (Box 32): Tilghman Photographs
Box 32
1. Undated Prints of Early Tilghmans
2. Undated Photographs of William M. Tilghman and Family
3. Undated Photographs of Locations
4. Undated Richard A. Tilghman and Susan Toland Tilghman and
Relatives
5. Undated Williams' Photographs
35
6. Undated Unknown Tilghman Relatives
7. Undated Unidentified Portrait
8. Undated Photograph of a Charcoal Portrait by Adolphe Borèe
9. Undated Assorted Prints
10. 1882 Lithograph of Edward Tilghman
11. 1861-1931 Benjamin II and Mary McMichael Tilghman
12. 1890-1953 Benjamin III and Eliza Fox Middleton and Family
13. c. 1893-1894 Benjamin Chew Tilghman II and Richard A. Tilghman
Series VI (Box 33): Papers relating to the Chew Family
Box 33
1. Undated Genealogy and Obituary by Benjamin Chew for his Wife,
Mary Galloway
2. Undated Obituaries, Catherine Chew and Elizabeth Chew
3. Undated Ann Chew to John Galloway
4. 1741-11-21 Observations on Dr. Chew's Excommunication
5. 1734-2-14 Benjamin Chew to John Galloway
6. 1774-2-23 Edward Tilghman to Benjamin Chew
7. 1744-7-23 Correspondence, Mary Chew
8. 1773-9-21 Benjamin Chew to Samuel Galloway
9. 1789-2-13 Outgoing Correspondence, Samuel C. Chew
10. 1816-5-21 Benjamin Chew to the Barclay Brothers, London
11. 1831-5-10 Inventory of Chew Estate
12. 1844-1-24 Benjamin Chew to William Tilghman
13. 1856 Chew Family Inventory
14. 1933-2-1 Harry Craig to Mrs. Harvey re Fox Family
Series VII (Boxes 33-34): Papers relating to the Lawrence and Allen Families
Box 33
15. Undated List of Accounts, Estate of Thomas Lawrence
16. Undated List of Deeds and Accounts, Estate of Thomas Lawrence
17. Undated Plat, Thomas Lawrence
18. Undated Margaret Allen to her Grandmother, Mrs. Lawrence
19. Undated List of Bonds, Mortgages, and Notes, Estate of Thomas
Lawrence
20. Undated Ann Penn to Mrs. James Allen and Nieces
21. Undated Plat
22. Undated Plat
36
23. Undated Plat
24. Undated Poem
25. 1707-1713 Legal Correspondence, Thomas Fairman, Daniel
Falckner, and Thomas Lawrence
26. 1710-4-20 Benjamin Furby in Rotterdam to Thomas Fairman
27. 1720-3-25 Lease for Sale/Bond for Performance, John Lawrence to
Samuel Okeson
28. 1723-1734 Benjamin Furby to Thomas Lawrence
29. 1726 May Thomas Sober to Thomas Lawrence, Bond for
Performance
30. 1729 Indenture, Conveyance of Land, Peter Sonmans to
Thomas Lawrence
31. 1729-6-28 Peter Sonmans, Deed to Thomas Lawrence
32. 1730-8-15 Benjamin Fairman, Deed to William Allen for
"Shackamaxun," Philadelphia
33. 1732-7-7 Benjamin and Susana Fairman, Deed to William Allen
for "Shackamaxun," Philadelphia
34. 1732-7-25 John Gerrard Keyser, Deed to Thomas Lawrence
35. 1732-7-25 Conveyance, John Gerrard Keyser to Thomas Lawrence
36. 1732-7-25 Power of Attorney from John Gerrard Keyser to Thomas
Lawrence
37. 1733 Indenture, Conveyance of Land, Peter Sonmans to
Lawrence
38. 1733-8-21 Peter Sonmans, Deed to Thomas Lawrence, New Jersey
39. 1735 December Peters Sonmans, Deed to Thomas Lawrence
40. 1737-7-15 Plat, Lot Belonging to Benjamin Furby in Delaware and
Pennsylvania
41. 1738-7-24 Augustine Constantine, Deed to William Allen, "New
Castle," Delaware
42. 1738-7-25 Augustine Constantine, Deed to William Allen, "New
Castle," Delaware
43. 1741 Thomas Lawrence, Manifest of Cargo to London to
Lawrence Williams
44. 1741-3-11 Conveyance of Land, Peter Sonmans
45. 1744 May Thomas Lawrence, Deed of Sale to Thomas
Montgomery, New Jersey
46. 1744 May Thomas Montgomery, Deed to Thomas Lawrence, New
Jersey
47. 1744-5-1 Thomas and Margaret Montgomery, Lease to Thomas
Lawrence
37
48. 1744-5-2 Thomas Lawrence, Deed to Thomas and Margaret
Montgomery, New Jersey
49. 1744-5-18 Peter and Mary Bard, Deed to Thomas Lawrence,
"Paquaesing," New Jersey
50. 1745-2-8 Jacob Duffield to Thomas Lawrence, Bill of Sale for a
Slave
51. 1746-2-19 Deed of Sale, John Furly and Thomas Fosster to Thomas
Lawrence
52. 1749-5-15 Thomas Lawrence and Johannes Fisher, Affadavit, Theft
of Lawrence's Property
53. 1750-4-20 Thomas Lawrence, Business Correspondence with
London
54. 1751-8-1 Joseph Morgan, Deed of Sale to Thomas Lawrence
55. 1751-8-9 Thomas Lawrence, Agent in London for Pennsylvania
Land Company
Box 34
1. 1751-8-20 Lease for Sale, Thomas Lawrence to William Powell,
Pennsylvania Land Company, London
2. 1752 May Benjamin Furby, Plat for "Liberty Land"
3. 1752-5-6 Thomas Lawrence, Deed of Sale to William Bishop
4. 1752-5-24 Benjamin Furby, Plats surveyed by William Parsons for
Furby Heirs
5. 1757-3-25 Lease from John Lawrence to John Wright
6. 1761 Conveyance of land, Mary Masters to John Lawrence
7. 1761-12-13 Deed of Sale, Thomas and John Lawrence to John
Hackett
8. 1762 April Thomas Lawrence, Plat and Record of Land Sale
9. 1762-1803 John Lawrence to William Tilghman
10. 1767-1804 Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence, Ledger of Household
Accounts, Servants, and Indentures
11. 1768-1792 Invoice Book of Mrs. John Lawrence with Record of
Expenses
12. 1769 Will of William Allen, Father of James Allen
13. 1769-3-10 Indenture, John Lawrence to Mrs. Mary Masters
14. 1769-3-11 Conveyance of Land, Mary Masters to John Lawrence
15. 1770-1779 Receipts and Notes, John Lawrence
16. 1770-4-21 Verses by James Allen to his Daughter, Peggy, for her
Birthday
38
17. 1774-8-3 Mortgage for Sale, John Lawrence to Thomas Foxcroft
and Joseph Galloway
18. 1775-7-8 Land Transfer, John Lawrence to Henry Linth
19. 1776-12-20 Certificate of Loyalty to the Colonies, James Allen
20. 1778-5-24 Certificate of Poor Health, James Allen
21. 1778 July-October Complaint of Poor Treatment, James and Elizabeth Allen
22. 1783-2-28 Legal Documents of John Lawrence
23. 1783-9-13 Isaac Howell, Elected a Justice of the Peace for
Philadelphia
24. 1785-1793 Mrs. Lawrence to her Daughters, Mary M. Allen and
Margaret E. Allen
25. 1789 Poems by Mrs. Lawrence to her Son, James Lawrence
26. 1790-1792 Items from the Account Book of James Allen
27. 1768-1793 Account Book of James Allen
28. 1791-6-3 Articles of Agreement, John Lawrence with Elizabeth
Allen, Land Transfer
29. 1792-9-24 Conveyance of Land, Anne Penn Allen to John Herster
and Daniel Wagener
30. 1793-7-17 Deed, John Penn to Andrew Allen
31. 1799-2-3 Letter to Mr. Allen in regard to Mr. Allen's Estate
32. 1807-1813 William Allen to William Tilghman re his Brother's
Estate
33. 1815-5-17 Obituary of James Allen by William Smith, Provost of
the University of Pennsylvania
Series VIII (Box 35): Papers relating to the Penn Family
Box 35
1. 1682-1770 Land Accounts of William Penn, Jr.
2. 1711, 1712 William Penn, Record of Estate
3. 1732-3-23 David Mitchell, Deed to Thomas Penn
4. 1732-5-10 Land Agreement, Charles Lord Baltimore with the Penns
5. 1735-12-16 Warrant for Survey requested by Benjamin Furley to
Thomas Penn
6. 1746-7-5 Will of Laetitia Aubrey
7. 1772 List of Jersey Deeds delivered by James Tilghman to
Richard Penn
8. 1774-7-10 Colonel Wilson to John Penn
9. 1785-10-7 Deed of Sale, Andrew, Abby, and William Hamilton to
John and Anne Penn
39
10. 1786-1-5 Outgoing Correspondence
11.1801-1-23 Sitgreave to Richard Penn
12. 1847-3-27 George Cadwalader for the Penns re Rent Transfer from
George Emlen to William B. Joans
13. 1680 Grant from William Penn to Francis Whitwell [R]
Series IX (Box 35): Allied Families (a catch-all for families not represented
well enough to fit into Series V-VIII)
Box 35
13. Undated Obituary of the Reverend Dr. John Andrews
14. Undated Empty Envelope addressed to General and Mrs. B.H.
Rutlege, North Carolina
15. Undated Lithograph of "Tulip Hill" built by Samuel Galloway
16. Undated Obituary, Mrs. Sarah Galloway
17. Undated Two Photographs of Two Paintings, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Galloway
18. 1785 Heirs of Ann Galloway, Deed of Sale to Samuel Hanson
19. 1769-1-12 Deed of Sale, Henry Andrews to Mary McMichael
Tilghman, The Six Nations of Indians
20. 1799-9-29 Rev. Dr. John Andrews to his son, John
21. 1812-8-3 Jury List, William McMurtrie and John Keyser
22. 1813-5-19 John Andrews to Robert Andrews
23. 1813-5-20 Memorial Tablet for the Reverend Dr. John Andrews, St.
John's Church, York, Pennsylvania
24. 1830 Estate of McMurtrie, Copy of Auditor's Report
25. 1831-1-29 Correspondence, Dr. Charles S. Abercrombie
Donnaldson
26. 1845 Jan. to Dec. Agreement between J.H. Willard to provide
Apprenticeship for Louisa, daughter of John Hamilton
27. 1853-11-29 John Hamilton to Mr. E. Bigelow
28. 1857-2-28 John Hamilton to the "Children"
29. 1867-5-9 Unknown Hamilton Letter
30. 1869-6-15 Receipt, William Tilghman's reception of payment from
Mr. McMichael
31. 1890 Correspondence, William Tilghman and Yates Snowden
32. 1900-8-29 Rosilla Hornblower to Eliza
33. 1926-6-11 Genealogy of the Fisher Family and Land Record of
"Wakefield Place" by Hannah Fox
34. 1926-1927 Henry White Anderson to Mrs. Tilghman
40
35. 1928-2-28 Invitation to Gala Concert by Royal Italian Ambassador
to the United States
36. 1931 June-July Extract of letter, Louis Estill Fagan to the New Jersey
Historical Society
37. 1729 & 1760 To William Koon from Mr. Bull, 1729-7-15 [R]
Flat Box L Scrapbook Belonging to Margaret (Abercromby) [Mrs.
John] Andrews, great-grandmother to Mary (McMichael)
Tilghman), ca. 1826? [note on inside cover reads "1826
from my grandmother's grandmother (maternal) down
the intervening generations to BC Tilghman (4th) in 1950
from BC Tilghman (3rd
)]
Series X (Boxes 36-38 & Land-OS): Land Records (includes Over-sized
materials, Boxes 37 & 38 OS)
Box 36
1. Undated Indenture
2. Undated William Boddington and William Robert, Plat and Land
Record
3. Undated List of Lands conveyed by M. Relfe to Sargent Ho
4. Undated Mortgage and Land Documents
5. 1683-8-10 Vincent Lowe, Deeds to "Lowe's Arcadia," Talbot
County [OS—[R]]
6. 1692-1787 Philadelphia Indentures, List of Lot Owners, Plat Plans
7. 1694-8-20 William Snowden, Deed to Matthias Holston
8. 1694-9-18 Lawrence Cock, Deed to Matthias Holston
9 1698-11-14 Thomas Ducket, Deed to Richard Canhrill
10. 1700 August Land Document, John Henry Sprogel and Daniel
Falckner
11. 1735-12-21 Indenture, Transfer of Land
12. 1739 November Thomas, Capt. John, and Jeremy Stone, Deed to Barford
Bramson
13. 1741-11-2 Aderis Andresen, Deed to Adrian Hegemann
14. 1750-2-19 Joseph Warrelle, Conveyance to James Deseuville
15. 1753-2-6 Thomas Lawrence, Deed to William and Thomas Cox
16. 1762-5-9 Deed of Sale, John Scott to Charles Tilden
17. 1762-9-4 Deed of Sale, Edward Coley to Charles Tilden
41
18. 1769-10-24 Copy of an Act of Assembly granting William Coursey
permission to sell Vincent Lowe's land
19. 1775-8-20 Frances Baker's Warrant, Survey of Land
20. 1779-10-4 Bond, Record of Payment, Edward and William
Tilghman
21. 1786-8-5 Deed, Edward Tilghman and Solomon Wright to Isaac
Cartwright
22. 1787-7-7 Board of Property Meeting, David Kennedy Jr.
23. 1791-2-23 A Supplement to an Act in Regard to the Regulation of
Land Exchange, William Bingham, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, Richard Peters, Speaker of the Senate
24. 1794-1795 James Wilson to George Eddy, Deeds
25. 1805-4-18 Ralph Bowie to Richard Peters
26. 1814-1823 Correspondence, Richard Peters, Titles "Belmont" and
"Mantua Farm"
Box 37-OS
1. 1680-9-13 Vincent Lowe, Deed to "The Beginning," Talbot County
[OS] [R]
2. 1682 Miscellaneous Land Documents, Kent County [OS]
3. 1694-6-12 Robert Tuner, Deed to Christopher Taylor, Chester
County, Pennsylvania [OS]
4. 1729 Plats [OS]
5. 1745-9-11 George and Lydia Howell, Deed to Thomas Collins [OS]
6. 1749-11-13 Conveyance of Land [OS]
7. 1786-5-5 Benjamin Say, Grant of Land in Harrison County,
Virginia, singed by Governor Patrick Henry [OS] [R]
8. 1787-4-25 Conveyance of Land signed by Edmund Randolph,
Governor of Virginia [OS] [R]
9. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for land near Philadelphia [OS]
10. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
11. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
12. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
13. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
42
14. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
15. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
16. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
17. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
18. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
Box 38 OS
1. 1794-5-23 John Robertson, Deed to John Douglass [OS]
2. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
3. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
4. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
5. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
6. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
7. 1799-9-24 Conveyance of Land from Committee of Pennsylvania to
Six Dutchmen for another plot of land [OS]
8. 1799-11-8 Wilhelm Willink, Deeds [OS]
9. 1807-7-10 Anne Pemberton, Deed to "Westbury" in Anne Arundel
County [OS]
10. 1819 Susanna V. Johnston to Charles H. Vanderen, Deed [OS]
11. 1819 December Susanna V. Johnston and others to Charles H. Vanderen
and others [OS]
12. 1819 December Susanna V. Johnston and others to Charles H. Vanderen
and others [OS]
13. 1819 December Susanna V. Johnston and others to Charles H. Vanderen
and others [OS]
14. 1833-7-30 Deed, John Marshall to John Pickoff
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Tilghman Family Descended from Colonel Richard Tilghman and Allied Families—Compiled by Robert Finch
Dr. Richard Tilghman I (1626-1675) of London m. Mary Foxley (d. c. 1699)
(1) Col. Richard Tilghman II (1672-1738) m. Anna Marie Lloyd (1676-1748)
(1) Mary/Maria (1702-1736) m. James Earle
(2) Philemon (b. 1704)
(3) Richard Tilghman III (1705-1768) m. Susannah Frisby (b. 1718-c.1776)
(1) Richard IV (1739-1810) m. Elizabeth Tilghman (1748-1767)
(1) Richard Edward (d. unmarried)
(2) Richard Cooke (ADOPTED from sister Elizabeth Tilghman Cooke) (1772-1850)
(3) Anna Maria m. Charles Goldsborough
(2) Peregrine (1741-1807)
(3) James (1743-1809)
(4) William (b. 1745)
(5) Edward
(6) Elizabeth (1749-1836) m. William Cooke (d. 1817)
(1) Richard Cooke (ADOPTED by Uncle Richard IV Tilghman) (1772-1850)
(7) Susanna (b. 1751)
(8) Anna Maria (1759-1834)
(4) Henrietta Maria (b. 1707)
(5) Anna Maria (b. 1707)
(6) William Tilghman (1711-1782) m. Margaret Lloyd (b. 1714)
(1) Anna Maria Tilghman Goldsborough Smith (1737-1768)
1st m. Charles Goldsborough (1744-1774)
2nd
m. Rt. Rev. Robert Smith (1732-1801)
(2) Richard (1740-1809)
(3) James (b. 1742)
(4) Margaret (b. 1749)
(5) Henrietta Maria (b. 1749)
(6) Mary (b. 1755)
(7) Edward Tilghman I (1713-1786)
m. 1st Anna Maria Turbett [Md Stat
(1) Anna Maria m. Bennett Chew (1733-1806)
(1) Edward Chew (b. 1800)
(2) Philemon Chew (b. 1800)
m. 2nd
(1747) Elizabeth Chew (b. 1720)
(2) Richard
(3) Benjamin
(4) Edward II (1750-1815) m. Elizabeth Chew (1751-1842)
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(1) Edward III (b. 1779)
(2) Benjamin (b. 1785) m. Anna Maria McMurtrie of Philadelphia
(1) Maria (d. unmarried)
(2) Elizabeth (d. unmarried)
(3) Edward (b. 1815)
(4) William McMurtrie (b. 1815) m. Catherine Ingersol (d. 1861)
(1) Emily
(2) Alice
(3) Richard
(5) Anna Maria
(6) Benjamin Chew II (b. 1823)
(7) Richard Albert (1823-1899) m. Susan Price Toland
(1) Benjamin Chew (1861-1953) m. Mary McMichael
(1) Benjamin Chew (1890-1953) m. Eliza Milddleton Fox
(1) Benjamin Chew (b. 1920)
(2) Richard Albert (b. 1920) m. Diana Disston
(3) Joseph Fox
(2) Edith Sarah
(2) Susan Toland (b. 1863)
(3) Richard Albert (b. 1865)
(4) Agnes (b. 1868) m. John Hooker Packard
(1) Jean Hooker m. 1st Richard Elliot
m. 2nd
George Henderson
(5) Angela (b. 1871)
(8) Emily
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Mary Anna (b. 1795)
(5) Paul (twin of Edward, b. 1750)
(6) Elizabeth (1748-1767) m. Richard Tilghman IV (1739-1810)
(1) Richard Edward (d. unmarried)
(2) Richard Cooke (ADOPTED Richard Tilghman's nephew)
(3) Anna Maria m. Charles Goldsborough
m. 3rd
(1759) Juliana Carroll (b. 1729) of Cecil County
(8) Matthew (b. 1760)
(9) Mary m. Richard Tilghman
(10) Benjamin (b. 1764)
(11) Susanna
(8) James Tilghman (1716-1793) m. Anne Francis (1727-1771) of Talbot County (Sister of Elizabeth Francis, wife of John Lawrence)
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(1) Tench Tilghman (1744-1786)
(2) Richard "East India Dick" (1746-1786) m. ? (daughter born out of wedlock)
(1) Elizabeth m. Major Hugh Sherwood
(3) James (1748-1796)
(1) Francis Elizabeth
(2) Anna Maria
(3) James (1792-1824)
(4) William (1756-1827) m. Margaret Elizabeth Allen (1772-1798)
(1) Elizabeth (d. 1817) m. Benjamin Chew
(1) William Tilghman Chew (b. 1817)
(5) Philemon (1760-1797) (Officer in British Navy) m. Harriet Milbank
(6) Thomas Ringgold (1765-1789)
(7) Anna Maria m. William Hemsley
(8) Elizabeth
(9) Mary
(10) Henrietta Maria m. Lloyd Tilghman
(9) Matthew Tilghman (1718-1790) "Patriarch of Maryland" m. Anna Lloyd (1723-1794)
The Chew Family
Samuel Chew (1693-1743) m. Mary Galloway (1697-1734)
(1) Sarah
(2) Ann
(3) Elizabeth (b. 1720) m. Edward Tilghman I (1713-1785)
(1) Richard Tilghman
(2) Edward II Tilghman (1750-1815) m. Elizabeth Chew (1751-1842)
(1) Edward III Tilghman (b. 1779)
(2) Benjamin (b. 1785) m. Anna Maria McMurtrie of Philadelphia
(1) Maria
(2) Elizabeth
(3) Edward (b. 1815)
(4) William McMurtrie (b. 1815) m. Catherine Ingersol (d. 1861)
(5) Anna Maria
(6) Benjamin Chew (b. 1823)
(7) Richard Albert (1823-1899) m. Susan Price Toland
(1) Benjamin Chew (1861-1953) m. Mary McMichael
(1) Benjamin Chew (1890-1953) m. Eliza Milddleton Fox
(1) Benjamin Chew (b. 1920)
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(2) Richard Albert (b. 1920) m. Diana Disston
(3) Joseph Fox
(2) Edith Sarah
(2) Susan Toland (b. 1863)
(3) Richard Albert (b. 1865)
(4) Agnes (b. 1868) m. John Hooker Packard
(1) Jean Hooker m. 1st Richard Elliot
m. 2nd
George Henderson
(5) Angela (b. 1871)
(8) Emily
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Mary Anna (b. 1795)
(3) Benjamin
(4) Elizabeth
(5) Anna Maria
(4) Benjamin (1722-1810) 1st m. Mary Galloway (d. 1755)
(1) Mary
(2) Anna
(3) Elizabeth (1751-1842) m. Edward Tilghman II (1750-1815)
(SEE ABOVE LINNEAGES) (4) Sarah
(5) Henrietta
2nd
m. Elizabeth Oswald in 1757
(6) Benjamin (1758-1844), m. Catherine Banning (1770-1855)
(1) Samuel
(2) Elizabeth
(3) Benjamin (1793-1864), m. Elizabeth Tilghman (d. 1817)
(1) William Tilghman Chew (b. 1817)
(4) Samuel
(5) John
(6) Elizabeth
(7) Henry
(8) William
(9) Anna
(10) Joseph
(11) Anthony
(12) Catherine
(13) Oswald
(7) Margaret
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(8) Joseph
(9) Juliana
(10) Henrietta
(11) Sophia
(12) Maria
(13) Harriet
(14) Catherine
(5) Ann
(6) Mary
(7) Samuel
(8) Samuel
(9) Henrietta
The Allen Family
William Allen (1704-1780) m. Margaret Hamilton [Chief Justice of PA, Mayor of Philadelphia and namesake of Allentown PA]
(1) John
(2) Andrew (1740-1825)
(1) Andrew Allen II (d. 1850)
(3) James (1742-1778) m. Elizabeth Lawrence
(1) Anne Penn Allen (b. 1769), m. James Greenleaf
(2) Margaret (Peggy) Elizabeth Allen (1772-1798) m. William Tilghman (1756-1827)
(1) Elizabeth (d. 1817) m. Benjamin Chew (1793-1864)
(1) William Tilghman (b. 1817)
(3) Mary Masters Allen (b. 1776) m. Henry Walter Livingston
(4) James Hamilton Allen (1778-1788)
(4) William
(5) Anne m. John Penn (Grandson of William Penn and Governor of Pennsylvania)
(6) Margaret
The Lawrence Family
Thomas Lawrence (1689-1754) m. ?
(1) Thomas Lawrence II
(2) John Lawrence (1724-1799) m. Elizabeth Francis (1733-1800) (Sister of Anne Francis, wife of James Tilghman)
(1) Elizabeth Lawrence m. James Allen (1742-1825)
(SEE ALLEN LINEAGE ABOVE)
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Tilghman/Lawrence/Allen Connection to Benedict Arnold
Tench Francis m. Elizabeth Turbett
(1) John (b. 1725)
(2) Anne (1727-1771) m. James Tilghman (1716-1793)
(1) Tench (1744-1786) aide-de-camp to Gen. George Washington
(2) Richard “East India Dick” (1746-1786)
(3) James (b. 1748)
(4) William (1756-1827) m. Margaret (Peggy) Elizabeth Allen (1772-1798)
(5) Philemon (1760-1797) m. Harriet Milbank
(6) Thomas Ringgold (1765-1789)
(7) Anna Maria m. William Hemslong
(8) Elizabeth
(9) Mary
(10) Henrietta Maria m. Lloyd Tilghman
(3) Mary (b. 1729)
(4) Tench (b. 1730)
(5) Elizabeth (1733-1800) m. John Lawrence (1724-1799)
(1) Elizabeth Lawrence m. James Allen
(6) Margaret (b. 1735) m. Edward Shippen (b. 1729)
(1) Elizabeth (b. 1754)
(2) Sarah (b. 1756)
(3) Mary (b. 1757)
(4) Edward (b. 1758)
(5) Margaret “Peggy” (1760-1804) m. Benedict Arnold (1741-1801)
(7) Rachael
(8) Turbutt
(9) Phillip