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1725-1789); Margaret Robins (1734-1808), who
married William Hayward (?-1791); Henrietta
Maria Robins (1736-1791), who married James
Lloyd Chamberlaine (1732-1783); William Hem-
sley (1736/37-1812); Richard Tilghman, Jr. (1740-
1809); Matthew Tilghman (1760-1801); James
Tilghman, Jr. (ca. 1748-1796); William Tilghman
(1756-1827); Anna Maria Tilghman (?-1817),
who married William Hemsley (1736/37-1812);
Elizabeth Tilghman, who married James Lloyd
(ca. 1756-1830); Margaret Tilghman (1742-1817),
who married Charles Carroll, Barrister (1723-
1783); Elizabeth Rousby (?-1789), who married
George Plater (1735-1792); William Fitzhugh, Jr.
(1761-1839); and Henrietta Maria Lloyd (?-1822),
who married William Hayward, Jr. (ca. 1758-1834).
MARRIED first, on January 19, 1767, Susanna (?-
1774), daughter of Dr. George Steuart (1700-ca.
1784) and wife Ann Digges (1718-1814). Her
brothers were George Hume; James; David (1750-
1814); Charles; and William (1754-1838). Her
sisters were Ann; Jane. Her first cousin was George
Digges (ca. 1742-1792). MARRIED second, on Feb-
ruary 7, 1778, Elizabeth, daughter of Kensey Johns
(?-1763) of Anne Arundel County and wife Su-
sanna Galloway (1723-1796). Her brothers were
Richard (?-1806), who married Sarah, daughter
of John Weems (1727-1794); John (?-probably
1822); and Kensey (1759-1848), chief justice of
the Delaware Supreme Court, 1799-1830, and
chancellor of Delaware, 1830-1832, who married
in 1784 Ann, daughter of Gov. Nicholas Van Dyke
of Delaware. Her sisters were Mary, who married
Samuel Harrison; Susanna, who married Richard
Harrison. Her first cousin was Richard Johns (1748-
1796). CHILDREN. SONS: George (1771-1792);
Frisby (1773-1847), who married first, in 1795,
Anna Maria (1772-1817), daughter of Thomas
Ringgold (1744-1776), and second, in 1819, Louisa
Lamar; Samuel (1781-1782); John (1785-?), who
married first, Anna Katherine Tilghman, and sec-
ond. Ann Tilghman; Charles Carroll (1788-1861),
who married Mary Lloyd Tilghman; and Pere-
grine (1790-1874), who married Harriet Had-
daway. DAUGHTERS: Susanna (1774-1849), who
married James Hollyday (1758-1807); Anna Maria
(1779-?), who married Peregrine Blake; and Mary
(1783-?), who married in 1801 Richard Tilghman
Earle (1767-1843), son of Richard Tilghman Earle
(1728/29-1788). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION:
literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican, St.
Paul's Parish, Queen Anne's County. SOCIAL STA-
TUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., by 1776; Hon., by 1809.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: Lawyer, admitted to the
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following courts: Provincial Court, April 1765;
Talbot County, June 1765; Frederick County,
August 1765; Anne Arundel County, by August
1765; Court of Chancery, by 1771; judge; planter.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conven-
tions, Queen Anne's County, 4th, 1775, 5th, 1775,
6th-8th, 1775-1776; Senate, Eastern Shore, Term
of 1776-1781: 1777 (declined to serve February
7, 1777); Lower House, Queen Anne's County,
1788 (Grievances), 1789. OTHER STATE OFFICES:
Councils of Safety, Eastern Shore, 2nd, 1776, 3rd,
1776, 4th, 1776, 5th, 1776 (declined to serve on
November 19, 1776); attorney general, 1777
(elected on August 7, 1777, to fill vacancy; re-
placed on January 6, 1778); Constitution Ratifi-
cation Convention, Queen Anne's County, 1788;
chief judge, second Judicial District, 1791-1809;
judge, Court of Appeals, 1804-1809. LOCAL OF-
FICES: St. Paul's Parish Vestry, Queen Anne's
County, 1789-1791; churchwarden, St. Paul's
Parish, Queen Anne's County, 1803. MILITARY
SERVICE: quartermaster, Lower Battalion, Queen
Anne's County Militia, appointed January 6, 1776;
colonel by November 1776. STANDS ON PUBLIC/
PRIVATE ISSUES: Tilghman was among those re-
quested by Gov. Robert Eden (1741-1784) to ac-
cept his parole not to leave Maryland, April 20,
1776. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: assessed value £1,664.5.0, including 30
slaves, 83 oz. plate, 1783; 50 slaves, 1790; wife
bequeathed £200.0.0 by her mother, 1796. LAND
AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 1,712 acres in Queen
Anne's County (ca. 1,700 acres inherited from
father, remainder by resurvey and patent), plus
a short-term lease on a house and outbuildings
in Annapolis. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES BETWEEN
FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: gave up the lease on
the Annapolis property, ca. 1775; had sold ca.
175 acres in Queen Anne's County by 1783; sold
200 acres in 1797, and 112 acres by 1798; pur-
chased ca. 100 acres by 1798, all in Queen Anne's
County. Assessed for 1,333 acres in Queen Anne's
County, 1798, with his dwelling house and out-
buildings valued at $1,000. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
ca. April 18, 1809, in Chestertown, Kent County;
estate probated in Queen Anne's County. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: TEV $22,317.33 (including 60
slaves, 97 oz. plate, books, and $2,954.70 in cash);
FB, $17,377.92. LAND: probably 1,333 acres in
Queen Anne's County.
TILGHMAN, JAMES, JR. (ca. 1748-1796). BORN:
on January 2, ca. 1748, in Talbot County; third
son. NATIVE: fourth generation. RESIDED: in Tal-
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