Maria Elizabeth Tilghman (b. circa 1775 - d. circa
1845)
MSA SC 5496-051256
Property Owner in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Biography:
Maria Elizabeth Gibson married John
Lloyd Tilghman on December 27, 1807.1 They had at least
five children: John Lloyd Jr., William, Horatio, Samuel Ogle, and Mary
E.2 Her husband had died by 1832. That year, Maria advertised
for the payment of her late husband's debts. She also advertised to rent
a farm "about two miles from Queenstown, or 5 or 6 miles from Centreville."
The farm was the Hermitage, and included "a good Apple orchard and Timber
sufficient for Rails and fire wood," and was "Quite convenient to get fish
and oysters."3 It was located at Tilghman's Creek, as it later
appeared in J.G. Stong's 1866 map.
Maria was living at Bennett's
Point at the time that she placed the ad.
In 1832, the slave Henry
Gross fled, and Maria placed a runaway advertisment in the Centreville
Times.4 In January 1834, she advertised for the capture
of four more fugitive slaves: Jacob,
Peter,
Sam,
and Charlotte.5
Maria Tilghman owned twenty-nine slaves in 1840. The 1840
census for Queen Anne's County recorded her age as between sixty and
seventy.6 She had passed away by 1846.7 The inventory
of Tilghman's estate named eight slaves, including William Gross, who shared
the same surname as the slave who had fled in 1832.8
1. Robert Barnes, Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973) 185.
2. QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY
COURT, (Land Records), Liber JT 5, Folio 0120, [MSA CE 143-41], Mary E.
Tilghman and Maria E. Tilghman, to Samuel Ogle Tilghman and wife, May 20,
1846.
2.
Stephen F. Tillman,
Tilghman-Tillman Family, 1225-1945 (Ann Arbor,
MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1946) 80.
2.
Bruce Harrison,
The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort
(Kamuela, HI: Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc., 2005) 976.
3. "A Farm to Rent." Centreville
Times and Public Advertiser September 1, 1832: 3.
3.
"Pursuant to This Order." Centreville Times September 1, 1832: 3.
4. "$100 Reward," Centreville
Times and Public Advertiser 28 April 1832: 3.
4.
Holland 21, 137.
5. "$150 Reward!" Centreville Times 4 January 1834: 3.
6. U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Maria E. Tilghman, 1840, Queen Anne's County, District 4, Page 125, 2nd line from bottom [MSA SM61-115, M 4723-2].
7. QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Estate Docket), [MSA C1338-5], Estate of Maria E. Tilghman, November 17, 1846.
8. QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY
REGISTER OF WILLS, (Inventories), Liber LR 2, Folii 53, 101, [MSA C1412-34].
November 21, 1846.
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