| Talbot Resolves | |||
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| Part of the American Revolution | |||
 Historic marker for Talbot Resolves | |||
| Date | May 24, 1774 | ||
| Location | Easton, Maryland, U.S. 38°46′18″N 76°4′14″W / 38.77167°N 76.07056°W | ||
| Caused by | Boston Port Act | ||
| Goals | To protest British Parliament's closing of the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party. | ||
| Parties | |||
| Lead figures | |||
Matthew Tilghman, | |||
The Talbot Resolves was a proclamation made by citizens of Talbot County of the British Province of Maryland, on May 24, 1774. The statement made by several prominent citizens was in support of Boston, Massachussetts, after the British Parliament decided to blockade Boston Harbor to punish the Province of Massachusetts Bay after the protest that became known as the Boston Tea Party.
Background
editIn 1774, the Province of Maryland was one of 13 British colonies located along the North American coast.
The Resolves
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The Talbot Resolves To preserve the rights and to secure the property of the subject, they apprehend is the end of government. But when those rights are invaded—when the mode prescribed by the laws for the punishment of offences and obtaining justice is disregarded and spurned—when without being heard in their defence, force is employed in the severest penalties inflicted; the people, they clearly perceive, have a right not only to complain, but like–wise to exert their utmost endeavors to prevent the effect of such measures as may be adopted by a weak and corrupt ministry to destroy their liberties, to deprive them of their property and rob them of the dearest birthright as Britons. Impressed with the warmest zeal for and loyalty to their most gracious sovereign, and with the most sincere affection for their fellow subjects in Great Britain, they have determined calmly and steadily to unite with their fellow subjects in pursuing every legal and constitutional measure to avert the evils threatened by the late act of Parliament for shutting up the port of Boston; to support the common rights of America and to promote the union and harmony between the mother country and the colonies on which the preservation of both must finally depend.[1] |
No record is known to exist of the men at the meeting that produced the Talbot Resolves. However, Matthew Tilghman chaired many similar meetings. On June 22, Tilghman, Edward Lloyd IV, Nicholas Thomas, and Robert Goldsborough IV represented Talbot County in a meeting at Annapolis.[2]
Aftermath
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On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved and signed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, which later became known in the United States as the Declaration of Independence. Tilghman voted for the declaration as a member of the Maryland delegation, but left Philadelphia before the signing.
Matthew Tilghman continued to represent Talbot County in the Lower House of the general Assembly of Maryland. He was Speaker of the House for the Assemblies of 1773, 1774, and 1775.[3] After the passage of the Boston Port Bill by the British Parliament in 1774, a convention was held in Annapolis as a first step in a formal opposition to the act. Tilghman was one of four men appointed to represent Talbot County in the convention, and he was chosen as chairman when the convention was organized. He then became a Maryland delegate in the First Continental Congress, which met beginning in September 1774. He was also chosen to be part of the delegation to the Second Continental Congress that met during May 1775 at Philadelphia.[4] He was also involved in forming a new government State of Maryland, and became one of the state Senators for the Eastern Shore of Maryland—which caused him to leave the Second Continental Congress before he could sign the Declaration of Independence. He resigned from all government activities in 1783 after the end of the American Revolutionary War, and died May 5, 1790.[5]
Notes
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edit- ^ Weeks, Bourne & Maryland Historical Trust 1984, p. 78
- ^ Tilghman & Harrison 1915, p. 61; Weeks, Bourne & Maryland Historical Trust 1984, p. 78
- ^ Tilghman & Harrison 1915, p. 424
- ^ Tilghman & Harrison 1915, pp. 426–427
- ^ Tilghman & Harrison 1915, p. 428; "Tilghman, Matthew 1718-1790". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Library of Congress. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
References
edit- Tilghman, Oswald; Harrison, Samuel A. (1915a). History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861, Volume I. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins Company. OCLC 1541072. Retrieved August 17, 2024.
- Tilghman, Oswald; Harrison, Samuel A. (1915). History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861, Volume II. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins Company. OCLC 1541072. Archived from the original on December 17, 2021. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
- Weeks, Christopher; Bourne, Michael O.; Maryland Historical Trust (1984). Where Land and Water Intertwine: An Architectural History of Talbot County, Maryland. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-80183-165-2. OCLC 10696846.
External links
edit- Sulphide Paperweights – Illinois State Museum
- Sulphide portrait plaque by Barthélemy Desprez - Bergstrom–Mahler Museum of Glass
- Side view of sulphide tumbler – The MET