Anna Maria Tilghman
BIRTH
Jul 17, 1755
DEATH
January 13, 1843
FAMILY
FATHER:
Matthew Tilghman
(1718-1790)
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Tilghman, Anna Maria
(1755-1843)
Anna Maria Tilghman (1755-1843) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Tench Tilghman. Tench Tilghman was a military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Anna Maria Tilghman to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Anna Maria Tilghman in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
Anna Maria Tilghman was born on Jul 17, 1755. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Anna Maria Tilghman is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Anna Maria Tilghman died on Jan 13, 1843. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.