Tatham, William 1752-1819
Author; born in Hutton, England, in 1752; settled in Virginia in 1769; served in the Revolutionary War as a colonel of Virginia cavalry.
After the war he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1784; settled in North Carolina in 1786; was in England in 1796-1805; then returned to the United States.
He was the author of Memorial on the Civil and military government of the Tennessee; An analysis of the State of Virginia; Two tracts relating to the Canal between Norfolk and North Carolina; Plan for Insulating the metropolis by means of a navigable Canal, etc. He died in Richmond, Va., Feb. 22, 1819.
Telfair, Edward 1735-1807
Patriot; born in Scotland in 1735; came to America in 1758 as agent for a mercantile house: resided first in Virginia, then in North Carolina, and finally settled as a merchant in Savannah in 1766.
An active patriot there, he was on the revolutionary committees, and was one of a party which broke open the magazine at Savannah and removed the gunpowder in 1775.
He served in the Continental Congress in 1778, 1780-83, and in 1786 and 1790-93 he was governor of Georgia.
He died in Savannah, Ga., Sept. 17, 1807.
Tilghman, Tench 1744-1786
Military officer; born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 25, 1744; was a merchant before the Revolution; became one of Mercer's Flying Camp as captain of a company of Philadelphia light infantry.
In August, 1776, he became Washington's aide and confidential secretary, and remained in that post until the close of the war, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel after April, 1777.
He was thoroughly patriotic, and much of the time while with Washington for five years he refused pay for his services.
He was in every action in which the main army was
Samuel J. Tilden. concerned.
He was chosen by Washington to bear to Congress at Philadelphia despatches announcing the surrender of Cornwallis.
In a letter to General Sullivan in Congress (May 11, 1781), he had highly commended Tilghman as deserving of great consideration.
He died in Baltimore, Md., April 18, 1786.
Todd, Thomas 1765-
Jurist; born in King and Queen county, Va., Jan. 23, 1765; served in the latter part of the Revolution with the Continental army; became a lawyer in 1786; was appointed clerk of the United States court for the district of Kentucky, and when it became a State in 1799 was made clerk of the court of appeals; became chief-justice of the court in 1806.
He was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme
Charles Scott Todd. Court, Feb. 7, 1826, but died in Frankfort, Ky., on the same day.
Trespass act.
Some of the States whose territory had been longest and most recently occupied by the British were inclined to enact new confiscation laws.
Such was the so-called trespass act of New York, which authorized the owners of real estate in the city to recover rents and damages against such persons as had used their buildings under British authority during the war. This act was passed before the news arrived of the terms of the preliminary treaty of peace (see treaties, Anglo-American). In 1786 the Supreme Court of New York, by the efforts of Hamilton, declared the trespass act void, as being in conflict with the definitive treaty of Paris.
See treaties, Franco-American.
Trimble, William A. 1786-
Legislator; born in Woodford, Ky., April 4, 1786; graduated at Transylvania College; admitted to the bar and began practice in Highland, O., in 1811; was adjutant of his brother Allen's regiment in the campaign against the Pottawattomie Indians in 1812; became major of Ohio volunteers in 1812, and major of the 26th United States Infantry in 1813; brevetted lieutenantcolonel in 1814 for gallantry in the engagement at Fort Erie; was transferred to the 8th Infantry in 1815; and resigned March 1, 1819.
He was United States Senator from 1819 till his death in Washington, D. C., Dec. 13, 1821.
an accurate sketch of the works around Boston in 1775, he attracted the attention of Washington, who, in August of that year, made him one of his aides-de-camp.
He became a major of brigade, and in 1776 deputy adjutant-general of the Northern Department, with the rank of colonel.
In February, 1777, he retired from the army, and went to London to study painting under West.
On the execution of Major Andre (October, 1780), he was seized and cast into prison, where he remained eight months. In 1786 he painted his Battle of Bunker Hill.
From 1789 to 1793 he was in the United States, painting portraits for his historical pictures (now in the rotunda of the national Capitol）—The Declaration of Independence; The surrender of Burgoyne; The surrender of Cornwallis; and the Resignation of Washington at Annapolis.
In 1794 Trumbull was secretary to Jay's mission to London, and was appointed a commissioner
John Trumbull. (1796) to carry the treaty into execution.
He returned to the United St
lege of William and Mary in 1772; studied law, but entered the public service at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, planning and assisting personally in the seizure of a large amount of stores in a fortification at Bermuda.
He commanded a regiment at the siege of Yorktown, where he was severely wounded.
After the war he became a Virginia legislator, a reviser and digester of the laws of Virginia, professor in the College of William and Mary, and member of the convention at Annapolis in 1786 which led to that of 1787 that framed the national Constitution.
He was a judge in the State courts nearly fifty years, and of the court of appeals from 1803 to 1811.
In 1813 he was made a judge of the United States district court. Judge Tucker was possessed of fine literary taste and keen wit, and he was a poet of no ordinary ability.
He wrote some poetical satires under the name of Peter Pindar; also some political tracts; and in 1803 published an annotated edition of Blackstone.
He die
coinage passed......August, 1786
Delegates from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, at Annapolis, Md., consider the condition of the nation, and request all the States to send delegates to a convention at Philadelphia in May following......Sept. 11, 1786
Connecticut makes a qualified cession to the United States of all territory south of 41° N. lat., and west of a line 120 miles west of Pennsylvania......Sept. 14, 1786
Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts......1786
Ordinance establishing a United States mint passed by Congress......Oct. 16, 1786
Twelfth Continental Congress adjourns; 362 days session......Nov. 3, 1786
Thirteenth Continental Congress meets at New York......Nov. 6, 1786
Arthur St. Clair, of Pennsylvania, chosen president of Congress......Feb. 2, 1787
Congress advises the States to send delegates to a convention in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, to meet May 14......Feb. 21, 1787
Congress by ordi
amenticus made into the town of York......1652
General court of elections at Boston admits for the first time two representatives from Maine: John Wincoln, of Kittery, and Edward Rishworth, of York......May, 1653
Wells, Saco, and Cape Porpoise declared towns......1653
English, under Major Sedgwick subdue Penobscot and Port Royal, 1654, and the whole Acadian province is confirmed to the English, who hold it for thirteen years......1655
Towns of Scarborough and Falmouth erected (see 1786)......1658
Quakers hold their first meeting in Maine, at Newichawannock, or Piscataqua......December, 1662
Ferdinando Gorges, grandson of the original proprietor, obtains from the King an order to the governor and council of Massachusetts to restore his province in Maine......Jan. 11, 1664
A part of the grant of the King of England to the Duke of York includes the territory between the St. Croix and Pemaquid and northward, variously called the Sagadahoc Territory, New Castle, and th
