Born on Christmas Day 1744 on his father’s plantation at “Fausley,” just two miles from what is today Easton in Talbot County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Tench Tilghman was the eldest of ten children of James and Anne (Francis) Tilghman.

WBOC’s Chopper 16 flies over the Tench Tilghman monument and final resting place in Talbot County, MD.