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Fausley was the birthplace of Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman on Christmas Day 1744. He served as aide-de-camp to General George Washington from 1776 to 1783 and took part in every major campaign of the main army during the American Revolution. He was entrusted to carry the official terms of the surrender at Yorktown to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He died in Baltimore on April 18, 1786, and was buried in Oxford Cemetery.
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