1To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 5 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...America. Washington had planned the trip of “Royal Gift” from Boston to Mount Vernon with all of the care and forethought that he gave to a military campaign, and had solicited the aid of such prominent individuals as Tench Tilghman, Robert Morris, Elias Boudinot, George Clinton, Jeremiah Wadsworth, and Thomas Cushing (
2To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...of my brother John D. Coxe of this city. He was during a number of years President of the first district of the Common Pleas of this state, which station has been filled by Chief Justices Shippen & Tilghman. He resigned that Station. He was bred in the states of Pennsa. & New Jersey, in the last of which he read two years to see the chancery practice, which was not known in Pennsa. till...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Tilghman, 21 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
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4From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, sealed in an undated envelope or wrapper, the recto of which is signed by GW and reads: “To His Excellency Governor Jefferson Richmond Virginia.” Underneath this address is the following statement in Tilghman’s writing: “Should the Governor not be at Richmond this letter is to be forwarded with the utmost dispatch to Majr Genl Baron Steuben.” Tilghman also wrote...
5From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote Jefferson on 21 Sept. with later intelligence regarding a British embarkation from New York (see
6From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s and Tench Tilghman’s writing, . Tilghman drafted only the postscript. The number “26” is written over “18” on the docket of the draft and indicates an earlier composition than its final date. Further support for this contention comes from the draft of
7From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 8 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, At this place in the draft, Tilghman wrote and then struck out “safe, while we had it in our power to reach them.”
8From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, At this point in the draft, Tilghman wrote and then cancelled: “You will also be pleased generally to give him what further assistance he may require.”
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 21 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
); in Tench Tilghman’s hand, signed by Washington; addressed to TJ at Richmond and franked by Washington; endorsed: “Genl Washingtons Letter Feby 21. 81 recd Feby 28. 1781.” : Washington Papers); also in Tilghman’s hand.
10To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 11 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
: Washington Papers); in hand of Tench Tilghman; endorsed.