Matthew Tilghman
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Matthew Tilghman 1718-1790 Here lived the planter and patriot called "Father of the Revolution in Maryland." Speaker, Maryland Assembly, 1773-1774. President, Maryland Conventions and Chairman of Council of Safety, 1774-1776. Having headed each Maryland delegation to Continental Congress, 1774-1776, he returned to Annapolis to preside over State Convention that wrote Maryland's first constitution.
St. Michaels Bicentennial Commission and Maryland Historical Society
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