James Tilghman
(1716-1793)
BIRTH
1716
PLACE
The Hermitage, Talbot County, Maryland
DEATH
1793
PLACE
Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland
FAMILY
FATHER
Tench Tilghman
(1744-1786)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
LOYALIST
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MEMBER
AWARDS
James Tilghman (1716–1793) practiced law in Annapolis before moving to Philadelphia around 1760. He became secretary of the Penn proprietors’ land office in 1765 and joined Pennsylvania’s provincial council in 1767. During the Revolution he urged reconciliation, opposed the Boston Tea Party and was detained as a Loyalist until 1778. He also served as a College of Philadelphia trustee. His son Tench took the opposing side as an aide to George Washington.
EARLY LIFE
James Tilghman was born 1716. The external genealogical record identifies Richard Tilghman and Anna Maria Lloyd as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
The available external biographical record associates James Tilghman with the following work or social roles: politician. These labels provide the clearest documented basis for describing this person’s public or economic activity. James Tilghman died 1793. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
James Tilghman practiced law in Annapolis before moving to Philadelphia around 1760. During the Revolution he urged reconciliation, opposed the Boston Tea Party and was detained as a Loyalist until 1778. The available external biographical record associates James Tilghman with the following work or social roles: politician. James Tilghman died in 1793, in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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