biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1744–86)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Talbot Co, Maryland, USA. A Philadelphia merchant, he abandoned his business interests in 1776 to become a volunteer aide on George Washington's staff. Washington recognized Tilghman's contributions when he assigned him to carry news of Cornwallis' surrender to the Continental Congress (1781). |
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