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acres and 3 lots in Ogle town, Queen Anne's
County.
TILGHMAN, RICHARD, JR. (1740-1809). BORN:
on April 6, 1740, probably in Queen Anne's
County; elder son. NATIVE: fourth generation.
RESIDED: in Talbot County, by 1761-death. FAM-
ILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: William Tilghman
(1711-1782), son of Richard Tilghman (1672/73-
1738/39). MOTHER: Margaret (ca. 1714-ca. 1785),
daughter of James Lloyd (1679/80-1723). UN-
CLES: Edward Tilghman (1713-1785); James
Tilghman (1716-1793); Matthew Tilghman (1717/
18-1790); and Robert Lloyd (ca. 1712-1770).
AUNTS: Mary Tilghman (1702-ca. 1736), who
married James Earle, Jr. (ca. 1694-1739); Hen-
rietta Maria Tilghman (1707-1771), who married
first, George Robins (1697-1742), and second,
William Goldsborough (1709-1760); Anna Maria
Tilghman (1709-1763), who married first, Wil-
liam Hemsley (1703-1736), and second, Robert
Lloyd (ca. 1712-1770); Henrietta Maria Lloyd
(ca. 1711-1748), who married Samuel Chamber-
laine (1698-1773); and Anne Lloyd (ca. 1723-
1794), who married Matthew Tilghman (1717/18-
1790). BROTHER: James (1742-probably ca. 1773).
SISTERS: Anna Maria (1737-1768); Margaret
(1744-1779); Henrietta Maria (1749-1787); and
Mary (1753-?). FIRST COUSINS: Michael Earle
(1722-1787); Richard Tilghman Earle (1728/29-
1788); Anna Maria Earle (1725-1795), who mar-
ried Thomas Ringgold (1715-1772); Henrietta
Maria Earle (1730-1767), who married William
Hemsley (1736/37-1812); Peregrine Tilghman (ca.
1741-1807); James Tilghman (1743-1809); Anna
Maria Robins (1732-1806), who married Henry
Hollyday (ca. 1725-1789); Margaret Robins (1734-
1808), who married William Hayward (?-1791);
Henrietta Maria Robins (1736-1791), who mar-
ried James Lloyd Chamberlaine (1732-1783); Wil-
liam Hemsley (1736/37-1812); Deborah Lloyd (?-
1810), who married Peregrine Tilghman (ca. 1741-
1807); 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); Henrietta Maria Lloyd (?-1822), who
married William Hayward, Jr. (ca. 1758-1834);
James Lloyd Chamberlaine (1723-1783); Samuel
Chamberlaine (1742-1811); Anne Chamberlaine
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(1734-1786), who married Richard Tilghman Earle
(1728/29-1788); and Jeremiah Nichols (1748-
1806). MARRIED on August 2, 1784, Mary (1766-
1790), daughter of John Gibson (?-1790) and wife
Elizabeth (?-ca. 1797). Mary was the niece of
Woolman Gibson (?-1786). Her brothers were John
Gibson III (?-1819); Woolman Gibson, Jr. (?-ca.
1798). Her sisters were Elizabeth; Anna. CHIL-
DREN. SONS: William Gibson (1785-1844), who
married in 1808 Anna (1788-1860), daughter of
Daniel Polk of Sussex County, Delaware; John
Lloyd (1788-?), who married in 1807 his cousin
Maria, daughter of John Gibson III (?-1819); and
Richard (1790-died young). PRIVATE CAREER. ED-
UCATION: literate. SOCIAL STATUS AND
ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1792; Esq., by 1804. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter; called himself a
farmer in 1799. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: 5th Convention, Talbot County, 1775.
MILITARY SERVICE: major, by 1783. WEALTH DUR-
ING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed value
£1,293.0.0, including 36 slaves, Talbot, Queen
Anne's, and Dorchester counties, 1783; 51 slaves,
Talbot County, 1790; ca. 57 slaves and 187 oz.
plate in Talbot County and at least 44 slaves in
Queen Anne's County, 1798; assessed value
£1,807.3.4, including 59 slaves, 223 oz. plate, Tal-
bot County, 1804. ADDITIONAL COMMENT: In 1783
Tilghman was also charged with personal prop-
erty valued at £1,984.10.0 (including 44 slaves and
108 oz. plate) as executor of his father's estate
and with 194 oz. plate valued at £80.16.8 for the
heirs of his deceased father-in-law, Charles
Goldsborough. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: none in
his own name. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: When his
father died in 1782, Tilghman received his own
portion of 284 acres in Queen Anne's County plus
the ca. 1,380 acres in the same county that had
been bequeathed to his brother James. He also
controlled his father's 700-acre dwelling plan-
tation in Talbot County before his mother's death
in 1785, at which time it reverted to him under
the terms of his father's will. Tilghman bought
229 acres in Talbot County in 1792 and imme-
diately exchanged it for another 300 acres in the
same county. By 1798 he had sold 230 acres and
purchased 934 acres in Queen Anne's County.
He bought an additional 352 acres in Queen Anne's
County in 1801 and resurveyed and patented the
remaining acreage of his brother's lands for a net
gain of ca. 31 acres, 1803. Tilghman had sold ca.
28 acres in Talbot County by 1804 and purchased
831
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