Matthew Tilghman
1718–1790
Here lived the planter and patriot called “Father of the Revolution in Maryland”
Speaker, Maryland Assembly, 1773–1774, President, Maryland Conventions and Chairman of Council of Safety, 1774–1776. Having headed each Maryland Delegation to Continental Congress, 1774–1776, he returned to Annapolis to preside over State Convention that wrote Maryland’s First Constitution.
Marker is on Rich Neck Road 0.3 miles from Maryland Route 451, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
