Fausley
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Fausley Birthplace of Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, Christmas Day 1744. Aide-de-camp to General George Washington, 1776-1783, and a participant in every major campaign of the main army in the American Revolution, he was entrusted to carry the official terms of the surrender at Yorktown to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Died, Baltimore, April 18, 1786. Buried, Oxford Cemetery. Talbot County Council Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland Historical Society of Talbot County, Inc. and Maryland Historical Society
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