Maria Hallett Tallmadge
(1776-1838)
BIRTH
1776
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NAME
Maria Hallett
DEATH
1838
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FAMILY
HUSBAND
Benjamin Tallmadge
(1754-1835)
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Maria Hallett Tallmadge (1776–1838) was the daughter of Joseph Hallett and Elizabeth Hazard. She married Benjamin Tallmadge in 1808, as second wife of Washington’s former intelligence officer and a stepmother to his children. They had no children together. Litchfield Historical Society preserves family letters, some bearing Maria’s notes to her stepdaughter Maria Cushman. She survived Benjamin’s 1835 death and died at Litchfield in 1838.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Maria Hallett Tallmadge’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Maria Hallett Tallmadge 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Maria Hallett Tallmadge died in 1838. Maria Hallett Tallmadge was the daughter of Joseph Hallett and Elizabeth Hazard. She married Benjamin Tallmadge in 1808, as second wife of Washington’s former intelligence officer and a stepmother to his children. They had no children together. Litchfield Historical Society preserves family letters, some bearing Maria’s notes to her stepdaughter Maria Cushman. She survived Benjamin’s 1835 death and died at Litchfield in 1838. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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