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COLONEL TENCH TILGHMAN Lt. Colonel Tench Tilghman was the famous Revolutionary War Hero, who in 1781 carried the message of Cornwallis' surrender from Yorktown, Virginia to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He was 37 years old when he made this heroic ride a deed worthy of remembrance. The award of a horse and a sword, as a token of gratitude from Congress, reached his widow five years after his death. He was born in Talbott County, Maryland in 1744 and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1762. Col. Tench Tilghman died in 1786 and the hardships of his heroic ride are thought to have contributed to his early death. At his death Washington wrote: "He had as fair a reputation as ever belonged to a human being". The body of Tench Tilghman was moved in 1972 from St. Paul's Burial Ground, Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland to the family plot near Oxford, Talbott County, Maryland. On October 11, 1981, to commemorate the bicentennial of his historic ride, the Colonel Tench Tilghman Chapter NSDAR, placed a bronze plaque and granite footstone at the grave of Colonel Tench Tilghman. Additional Resources: Tench Tilghman: http://www.marylandtheseventhstate.com/article1010.html
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