LIFE 



OF THE HONOURABLE 



TTILLIAM TILG-HKAir, 



Late Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania. 



William Tilghman was born on the 12th day of 

 August 1756, in Talbot county, on the Eastern shore 

 of Maryland, upon his father's plantation near Eas- 

 ton, which is at present occupied by Col. liichard 

 Tilghman, one of the descendants of the family. 



His paternal great grand-father, Richard Tilghman, 

 was a European by birth, who emigrated to the then 

 Province of Maryland, from Kent county England, 

 about the year of our Lord 1662, and settled on the 

 East side of Chester river in Queen Ann's county. 



His Father, James Tilghman, was an eminent 

 lawyer in his day; and was particularly known and 

 respected by the profession of Pennsylvania, for the 

 accuracy of his judgment and superiority of his system 

 and method in effecting an arrangement, and business 

 like regularity in the various duties of the Proprietary 

 land office, during the period he officially occupied 

 that interesting department as Secretary, under the 

 Proprietor of Pennsylvania. 



