Box 1

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Undated items of correspondence

Receipts, account statements, and invoices in accounts

Account of wheat consumed, July 5, 1779