Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The "Snodland Manuscript" was described by William McMurtrie Tilghman in his 1851 copy as thus: The following 204 pages contain a literal copy of an old M.S. volume, originally the property of William Tilghman, Esq. of Holoway Court in the parish of Snodland, Kent, which his grandson Richard Tilghman, brought with him from England, on emigrating to this country in 1661. From that time to the present, it has remained in the possession of his descendants, successive owners of his...