Tench Splits The Family
Tench Tlighman split his family, even if he didn't want to. Eventually he became a Patriot, the first in his family to join the Revolutionary cause. Most of the Tilghman family served the King as did many other rich families at that time: Tench's father James was the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, his brothers Richard and Philemon served in the military. Tench's brother William Tilghman desired to study law in England creating a professional conflict for Tench.
Tench's letter to his brother William denying his request for a passage to England, June 12, 1781:
- I am placed in as delicate a situation as it is possible for a man to be. I am, from my station, a master of the most valuable secrets of the Cabinet, and the master of the field and it might give cause of umbrage and suspicion at the this critical moment to interest myself in procuring the passage of a brother to England.
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