Oswald Tilghman, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent, Map of Talbot County
Oswald Tilghman, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent, Map of Talbot County,
12 ½” x 11 ½”
This regional map reveals the immense areas of ownership that founding white families possessed on the Eastern Shore. The best pieces were carved out by their ancestors in the 17th and 18th centuries where they made great fortunes in tobacco and wheat through the ownership and exploitation of enslaved people.