Evening journal., 1899-09-01
TILGHMAN'S ISLAND.
1t is an Interesting Part oI
the Easte@ Shore,
POPULATION NOW OVER 1900
THE SETTLERS OF TILGHMAN's
ARE AMONG THE MOST THRIFT
TY, PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY
~ Ar rrArpo,r corrAfr,V

ARE AMONG THE MOST THRIFT
TY. PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY
IN ALL TALBOT COUNTY.
Easton, Md, Aug. S1.-when Ad-
miral Cockburns marauders ravaged
Tilghman's Island in 1914, during the
war between the United States and
Great Britain, they found a different
country than the Tilghman's Island Of
to-day. Then the white population
was less than fifty; now it is more
than 1900 There were not then
twenty dwellings on the island; Of
late years that many new ones are
built every year, until the upper, the
middle and the lower sections OF the
island look like three villages. all OF
which are connected by dwellings dot
ted along the highway between them.
Jacob Gibson probably had more
wealth I'm personal property on
Sharpe's Island than all the inhabit-
ants OF Tilghmans Island together
What there was OF cattle, sheep and
hogs in the field ard poultry in the
yards, Cockburn got. He burned sew
eral small houses and out buildings
and destroyed some timber. "Old
George" Tilghman slave, who after
ward belonged to the Harrisons. Of
Long Point. where in his old age he
had a comparable quarter and boy
to wait on him, was one OF the victims
Of Cockburn's marauders, and used to
tell how dem ar Britishers made me
run down me own hawg, and not on y
dat, my young master dey made me
kill i'm and skin i'm. dam umi" and
the old negro's heart would burn with
Indignation at the memory, Old George
lived to be a hundred, according to the
record OF his birth, kept by his roth
ers master. and lived in great comfort
In his old age. He died in 1856 on Ce-
dar Point farm. the home then OF his
last ihaster the late Theodore p. Har-
rlsOn, OF Baltimore.
PIONEERS OF PROGRESS.
AS in many other places, the saw
mill was the pioneer in the develop
ment and better civilization of the ISL
and. In 1910 General Tench Thigh
man. who died years ago in one OF
the rooms Of the annex to Barnuma
Hotel. now being demolished. was the
owner OF the most OF Tilghman's ISL
and. in connection with a Mr.. Roszell
who operated t. About this time also
General Tilghman established sawmilli
In the virgin forests OF other sections
OF Talbot county He once owned NOR,
land than any other man ever did il
Talbot county, except Colonel Edward
Lloyd, of Wye House. and was in man,
respects remarkable man. He wal
the promoter Of Talbots first railroa,
and president Of the company; h,
brought the first German and Irisl
immigrants in numbers TO the county
was the first grower OF peaches 70
market. and introduced on the East
ern Shore the process of fruit evapo
ration.
OWNERSHIP AND GROWTH.
The island extends from Knapp
narrows, separating \ from the Ba
hundred mainland, southwardly I
Black Walnut Point, four miles. Il
width varies, but it is always marrow
Who was Knapp who gave his nan
TO the narrows even tradition does nj
pretend to know. The name is
danger OF being corrupted into Nah
Narrows The first name of Tilgl
mans Island was Choptank Islam
when It was uninhabited. save by Il
aborigines. Sir Vincent Lowe afterwa
acquired It, and the Loves held II I
several generations. A fine body
farming land on the island is now ow
ed by Lowe descendants. Among [
earliest white settlers were the I
scendants Of Rowland Haddaway, II
grand old man" as historian ca
him There is extant a commission
the navy. such as it was during I
revolution, to Captain Oakley HadC
way. who commanded a barge a
helped patrol the Chesapeake. T.
family is still prominent on the
and. "A descendant Of Captain Oak
is Rev George W. Haddaway, an c
quent preacher of the Maryland O
ference. Methodist Protestant Chur
now stationed at crisheld. The Til
mans got their holdings IN the isll
before the revolution.
The rapid growth Of the island
wealth and population did not be
until after the close Of the civil '
and has been greatest in the last
years. Before 1860 the place was
tracing settlers from down the b
and the land had become much 1
diyided. but wheat, corn and pota'
we're the staples OF wealth. The b
ing business was small The oy