1To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 26 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
P.S. I request the favor of Your Excellency to give the inclosed to My friend Mr Tilghman.The enclosure for GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman has not been identified.
2To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 28 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I also request if You have any commands which I can execute while I am in this quarter, that You will favour me with them. The Letter I have inclosed for Mr Tilghman, You will be pleased to deliver him.The enclosed letter from Harrison to GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman has not been identified.
3To Alexander Hamilton from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, [27 October 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
There must be something done with ⟨res⟩pect to our worthy TilghmanLieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman.
4Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 3 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
: Schuyler Papers; see also Harrison to Nathanael Greene, 3 Nov.; William Douglas to his wife, 7 Nov., in Douglas, “Letters,” 13:161–62; and “Trumbull Journal,” 207). On 5 Nov. Tench Tilghman wrote William Duer: “By two deserters who came from Rogers’ Rangers last night, the General [GW] was informed that Rogers intended to make an expedition early this morning to the Sawpits—General Parsons...
5Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 1 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 65–66). Twelve Waldeckers had been brought into the American camp on the morning of 27 Oct., and Tench Tilghman wrote William Duer later that date that they “are amazed at the kind treatment they receive, they say they were torn away from their own Country & will willingly remain among us—They say ‘if their fellow soldiers...
6Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 31 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
Tench Tilghman writes William Duer on this date: “The enemy, from their late movements, seem inclined to cross over to the ...of this move had been delayed by the frustratingly slow evacuation of essential military stores and baggage from the village and the necessity of constucting new defensive positions before abandoning the old ones under the noses of the enemy (see Tench Tilghman to...
7Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 29 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
...by a few regiments of militia levies, including Col. Eleazer Brook’s and Col. John Moseley’s Massachusetts levies, Col. Morris Graham’s New York levies, and probably Col. David Forman’s New Jersey levies (see Tench Tilghman to James Tilghman, Sr., 31 Oct., in Tilghman,
8Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 25 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 86–87). Tench Tilghman wrote William Duer on 27 Oct.: “When Genl Lee removed he was obliged to leave 80 or 90 barrels of provisions of all Kinds for want of Wagons” (: Trumbull Papers; Tench Tilghman to James Tilghman, Sr., 22 Oct., in
9Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John Hancock, 14–17 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
Tench Tilghman wrote Duer on 15 Oct. that he had returned to headquarters the previous evening from Eastchester and Westchester and “there was no Alteration in the Situation of the Enemy except that they had thrown up small Works upon Frogs...