Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9522, for Tench Tilghman, Maryland
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Continental Tilghman, Tench Anna Maria W9522 B.L. Wt. 1158-450 Ma
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Maryland 614                                                                                                                     Let to T. Tilghman May 8 1843.
Anna Maria Tilghman                                                                                                     M. Tilghman Goldsborough, 
widow of Tench Tilghman                                                                                            Oct. 30 /58
who died on the 18. April 1785
of Talbot Co. in the State of Maryland
who was a Lt. Colonel in the                           commanded
by Captain                       of the Army commanded
by Genl. Washington on the Penn.
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 600 Dollars __________ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of March
1837 and sent to Col. Tilghman
                                             Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 73          3600.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep    300.00
                                                                     $3900.00
                                               {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                               {Act July 4, 1836,          }
                                               {Section the                   }
Recorded by D. Brown          Clerk,
Book ----- Vol. 1. --- Page 185
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1315
claim Anna Maria
Tilghman, widow of
Tench. Act 4 July '36,
3 [illegible]
Maryland

Hon. J. A. Pearce
H.R.
Mar 2d
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State of     }
Maryland }  se.

On this Twenty fourth day of February Eighteen
hundred & thirty seven, personally appeared before the Orphans Court of
Talbot County, Maryland, Anna Maria Tilghman, a resident 
of the County of Talbot and State of Maryland, aged eighty one
years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her 
oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits
of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836:
That she is the widow of Tench Tilghman deceased, who was a 
Lt. Col. in the Pennsylvania line and an Aid de Camp to General
Washington, and served from January 1st 1777 to Nov 3rd 1783;
as by reference to the records in the Bounty land and Third
Auditors offices will more fully appear.  She further declares 
that she was married to the said Tench Tilghman on the
ninth day of June, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty
three; that her husband, the aforesaid Tench Tilghman, died
on the eighteenth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and 
eighty six; and that she has remained a widow ever since
that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the certifi-
cate of the Third Auditor and the affidavit containing the proof 
of the marriage etc hereto answered.
                                                                                Anna Maria Tilghman
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before
W. Hayblek   Solo: Dirkinson.  Saml. Mackey  } justices of the
                                                                                              Orphans court
                                                                                              for Talbot County
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State of Maryland }
Talbot County se. }
I, James Price, Register of wills of  Talbot County,
in Maryland, do hereby certify  that Solomon Dickinson,
William Hayblete & Samuel Mackey, whose names
are respectively subscribed to the written Declaration
are the three Judges of the Orphans Court of Talbot 
County aforesaid & of a Court of Record, duly commission
& qualified and were such [illegible], as aforesaid, at the
time of their subscribing names as aforesaid [illegible] the
time of the making the said Declaration.
[illegible] Witness whereof I have hereto set my
hand and the Seal of my Office
affixed this 24th day of February
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and
thirty seven. - Ja. Price, Regt;
of Wills for Talbot County.
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State of Maryland       }
Talbot County to wit  }     Be it remembered that on this eleventh
day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
thirty seven, personally appears before me the subscriber,
one of the Justices of the Peace of the state of Maryland, in
and for Talbot County Mrs. Henrietta Maria Francis, of
the county aforesaid, aged eighty two years; and being first
duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God deposeth
and saith as follows to wit; that she was well acquainted
with Col Tench Tilghman of Baltimore City, deceased; that
she was first acquainted with him in or about the year
seventeen hundred and eighty; and afterwards, during
his life; that he was reputed and understood to be one
of the Aids of General Washington during the Revolutionary 
War; and this deponent has been well acquainted with
Mrs. Anna Maria Tilghman, the widow and relict of the
said Col Tench Tilghman and daughter of the late Hon.
Matthew Tilghman from her youth; and that this de-
ponent recollects that the said Col Tench Tilghman
and Anna Maria Tilghman were married in the month
of June seventeen hundred and eighty three as was uni-
versally understood and known at that time; that the
said marriage of Col Tench Tilghman and Anna Maria
Tilghman has been from the month of June 1783 seven
teen hundred and eighty three always universally recieved
and considered an unquestionable fact.
This deponent further saith that she intermarried with
Philip Francis, the Uncle of the said Col Tench Tilghman
in the year seventeen hundred and eighty; and in the 
year seventeen hundred and eighty three was living ne at
Eden Park, near the town of Wilmington, in Delaware;
and that she said Col Tench Tilghman just before his
marriage, and in the month of March seventeen hundred
and eighty three, made a visit to the deponents husband,
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at the residence aforesaid, and then and there spoke
of his intended marriage; and that the said Col Tench 
Tilghman died about three years after his marriage
with the said Anna Maria Tilghman, leaving her a 
widow with one daughter and that she had a second
daughter after his death _ and that the said Anna
Maria Tilghman has remained a widow ever since
that period.
                                                       Henrietta M. Francis

Taken and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid
before me the subscriber, a justice of the Peace
of the state of Maryland in and for Talbot County -
                                                       Robert T.G. Thomas
I do hereby certify that the [illegible] deponent to the above 
instrument of writing is a lady of undoubted credibility
and of the highest reputation for character and general
respectability.
                                                     Robert T.G. Thomas
Maryland Talbot County to wit.
I James Parrott Clerk of Talbot County Court
do certify that Robert T.G. Thomas, Gentleman, is a Justice of
the Peace as above mentioned; and that the above signatures,
purporting to be his Signatures, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office
this thirteenth day of March in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty seven.
James Parrott Clk of
Talbot County Court

[missing seal]
Cert & seal 25
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Ellenboro near Easton MA October 23d 1858
To the U.S. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Dr Sir,
You will oblige
me and others interested in a legal controversy now pending, by sending me at your earliest convenience, an official statement of the [...] of Pension which was paid to Mrs. Anna Maria Tilghmann, widow of the late CH Tench Tilghmann of the Revolution, specifying the dates of the commencement of exceeding of the payments.
She died in the year 1843.
With great respect
[...]
M. Tilghmann Gordstopacyk(?)
Adm. of [...]
A grandson of CH. Tench &
Anna Maria Tilghmann Decd.
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State of Maryland
County of Talbot 88.
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, for said County, Elizabeth Goldsborough and made oath, in due form of law, that she is the daughter and heir at law, of Colonel Tench Tilghman late a soldier[crossed out] lieutenant colonel in the regiment of    and that the said Tench Tilghman died leaving the said Elizabeth + Margaret Tilghman who has since(?) died no heirs at law
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 6th day of December 1825 Will Harrison J.P.
Elizabeth Goldsborough
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the aforesaid County, Piny(?) Benison and Emmalls(?) Martin credible and disinterested witnesses, and made oath, in due form of law, that they are acquainted with the above mentioned Elizabeth Goldsborough and that she is the reputed daughter of Tench Tilghman who died in 1786 leaving [...] said Elizabeth + Margaret Tilghman who has since died her heirs at law
6th day of December, 1825 P. Benison Ennalls(?) Martin
Note.---If the person died without leaving child or children, &c. it must be so stated.

The State of Maryland, Talbot County to wit:
I, Jacob Loockerman Clerk of the County Court, do certify, that William Harrison Jr. Before whom the above Affidavits were taken, was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County. Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this Sixth day of December 1825.
Jacob Loockerman of Talbot County
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Department of War.
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:
State of Maryland
County of Talbot
I Elizabeth Goldsbourough heir at law of Lieut Colonel Tench Tilghman do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Mr. Tinch Tilghman did engage(?) in[crossed out] 1776, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No.    under the command of Colonel     of the Pennsylvania line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the war as aid de camp to the commander in chief.
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to [...] Tench Tilghman on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore
Know all men by these presents, that I, Elizabeth Goldsbourough aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Tench Ringgold of the C[...] of Washington to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest. Will Harrison Elizabeth Goldsbourough
Personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Goldsborough subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his(?) free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest Will Harrison Justice of the Peace. Talbot County [...]
In testimony that the abovewritten William Harrison Jr was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Maryland at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal and subscribed my name and quality, at Easton, this Sixth day of December 1825.

Jacob Loockerman Clerk of Talbot County Court
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Warrant No. 1158 issued to Elizabeth Goldsborough daughter to to[?] of Lieut. Colo. T. Tilghman Penn. Line Jany: 24th. 1826-

Delivd. to Jonah Ringgold
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWF/eel
May 3, 1929
Mrs. Charles H. Bowen
Box 22, Hemington
Virginia

Madam
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.9522, it appears that Tench Tilghman served from January 1, 177, to November 3, 1783, as Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army and Aide-de-Cam to General Washington.
He died, April 18, 1786.
The soldier married, June 8, 1783, Anna Maria Tilghman, daughter of Honorable Matthew Tilghman. She was allowed pension on her application executed February 24, 1837, at which time she was a resident of Talbot County, Maryland, aged eighty-one years.
She died, January 13, 1843.
They had two children Margaret and Elizabeth.
Elisabeth married --- Goldsborough, of Talbot County, Maryland; Margaret died and left a son Tench Tilghman, the name of her husband is not shown.
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A grandson, M. Tilghman Goldsborough, is referred to in 1858.
There are no further family data.
Respectfully,
M. W.Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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1894, Dec. 11 "[...]iet to Elizabeth Tench Smyth
New Britain, Conn.
1929- May 3 Hist(?) to. Mrs. Chas H Bowen Amy(?)

Recy(?) Widow, &c.
File No. 9522
Anna Maria Tilghman
Wid. of Tench Tilghman
Lt. Col. Pa. line 36
M Page 275
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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[round stamp] [illegible, faded] May 6 Md

Col J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

May 8 43.
[scribble] 
May be [illegible] to adm. for [illegible] Mr Chil[illegible] of Pew 

Anna Maria Tilghman
No [illegible] 36
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Plimhimmon near Easton Md
May 3rd 1843

Col J. L. Edwards

Sir,

In the year 1839 I obtained from your office a pension of $1100 for Mrs Anna Maria Tilghman of the State of Maryland widow of Tench Tilghman who was a Lieutenant Colonel in the War of the Revolution in aid to the Commander in Chief.
This venerable lady whose house had been the house of Genl Washington during his visits to the City of Baltimore after the close of the Revolution departed this life on the 13th of January last in the 88th year of her age-
Her heirs are Mrs E. J. Goldsborough of Talbot county who is her youngest child and was born after the demise of her husband and myself as the son of her eldest daughter.
Having taken out letters of administration on her estate I have to request that you will do me the favor to inform me to whom the balance on her pension properly belongs and will thank you if your convenience permit to address me at _____ in Baltimore where I expect to be on the 10th & 11th

Very respectfully 
Your obedient [?]
Tench Tilghman

Col. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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War Department
Pension Office
March 2. 1837

Sir, 
The papers in the case of Mrs. Anna Mariah Tilghman, widow of Col. Tench Tilghman decd. have been examined, and they are herewith returned, the evidence not being sufficient to establish the claims. It is indispensably necessary under the regulations adopted under the act of July 4. 1836, that some proof other than the claimants own statement as to the time when the marriage took place should be produced. Enclosed are the printed rues of evidence for her guidance. As second evidence of the marriage cannot be had in this case, second evidence as to the age of his eldest cjild may be important to show that she was married as far back as June 1783.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obed. Servt.
J. L. Edwards


Hon. James A. Pearce
House of Representatives
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It appears from the Revolutionary records on file on file in this office, that Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman of the Pennsylvania line (and who appears to have been an Aide De Camp to General Washington) has been paid for his services from the 1st. of January 1777 to the 3rd of Novemebr 1783 - and also for his ____of five years free pay in the lieu of staff pay for life -

Treasury Department
3rd Auditors Office
13th February 1837.

To.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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not i.
T. R
New Britain Ct
NOv 19th 1894
Wm Lockum
Dear Sir
please send no love as Convenient - the military History of Col. Tench Tilghman ,Gen. Geo - Washingtons "aid"-
Born Dec. 25th 1744 - 
was present at the "Surrender of Cornwallis,
Direct reply to Miss Elizabeth Tench. [illegible]., City
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[circular stamp] PENSION OFFICE U S NOV 21 1894

[square stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY NOV 23 1894 FILES, P. B.

[scribbling at bottom of page]
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Remington, Va.
Oct 9th 1928

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please inform me whether John Cottingham, of Worcester County Maryland, a soldier in the A. Revolution under Capt. John Watkins in 3rd Md. Independent Company, is on the Gov. pensions list there? Is so, do I have his record correct, and is there any other information about him, as to who his father was, or his son, or to whom he was married?
This John Cottingham was my great grandfather, and if I have the data correct, I would like to join the D.A.R. thru his record.
Is there a record on your files of any other Cottingham?
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so will you please send this to me too? Also I should like to inquire into the record of Gen. Tench Tilghman, who I believe also to be my ancestor. My grand father, Levin Cottingham (who I believe served in the War of 1812) married Mary Ann Tilghman of Maryland, and I should like very much to know something of my Tilghman ancestors. Being the youngest in my family, and having lost my parents early in life, I know so little of my ancestors and should you be able to help me to gain information, I should deem it a great favor. 

Thanking you, I am,
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Charles Hay Bowen
Box 22
Remington, Virginia -

(Grace Tilghman Cottingham Bowen)