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1795 Tench Tilghman Letter
Letter opens door to
Oxford and early American history
The recent acquisition by the Museum of an innocent letter from
Spain
to Baltimore in 1785 raises intriguing questions about the role that
two famous Oxford contemporaries may have played in the formation of
the American Navy and its first major victories on foreign
shores. It will also challenge long-held assumptions about the
relationship between these men of different backgrounds: Colonel Tench Tilghman, scion of an early Talbot County planter family and
George Washington’s honored aide-de-camp, and Robert Morris Jr.,
unacknowledged son of prominent Oxford merchant Robert Morris and
the man called the “financier of the American revolution.”
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COMPLETE ARTICLE
researched and written by Board Member Larry Myers
THE ORIGINAL ENVELOPE--Note date of 1785!
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