Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, financial records, daybooks, ledgers, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Tilghman family and their plantation in Queen Anne's County, Maryland (The Hermitage). References to noted members of the family, including Colonel Richard Tilghman and Matthew Tilghman, occur among the records. Also contained in the papers is a journal kept by Stedman R. Tilghman, describing his travels through the West in 1843, including detailed accounts of American Indian culture and...

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Correspondence concerning mercantile activities; letter of RT dated August 18, 1736, concerns the purchase of an enslaved boy for the recipient of the letter with comments on the ability of African-born people to learn English.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, financial records, daybooks, ledgers, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Tilghman family and their plantation in Queen Anne's County, Maryland (The Hermitage). References to noted members of the family, including Colonel Richard Tilghman and Matthew Tilghman, occur among the records. Also contained in the papers is a journal kept by Stedman R. Tilghman, describing his travels through the West in 1843, including detailed accounts of American Indian culture and...

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Correspondence fragments and receipts that include references to slavery, including the appraised value of part of an estate.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, financial records, daybooks, ledgers, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Tilghman family and their plantation in Queen Anne's County, Maryland (The Hermitage). References to noted members of the family, including Colonel Richard Tilghman and Matthew Tilghman, occur among the records. Also contained in the papers is a journal kept by Stedman R. Tilghman, describing his travels through the West in 1843, including detailed accounts of American Indian culture and...

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Diary of expedition out to Rocky Mountains, which began in Baltimore on April 8, 1843; travelled to St. Louis, April 19, 1843; August 5, 1843-October 11, 1843, part of Bill Sublette's expedition: description of topography, wildlife including snakes and buffalo. Discussion of encounter with Cheyenne, most often in racist language "savages," "Indians." Includes short listing of translated Indian phrases. References to Sublette's Black servants.

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"'Historic Hermitage': The Manor of Old Queen Anne's" Baltimore Sun, September 19, 1915. Includes family tree.

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2 gelatin silver prints of "Hermitage" Given to Francis Barnum, S.J.

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Daybook of plantation expenses; includes personal observations with some records of transactions; records of slave hiring, including people owned by the Tilghmans hired out to other employers and wages paid to enslaved people hired out by the Tilghmans. An entry dated January 9-11, 1825, notes the fate of an enslaved man Isaac who confessed to the murder of Nace Roberts and was subsequently imprisoned and sold to save trader Austin Woolfolk.