James Tilghman signed Capias at Satisfaction issuing out of the Court of Queens County, Maryland, May 6, 1799, directed to the Coroner of said County to have the body of one, Henry Cortin, at the next county court to satisfy John Redgaway, of a certain judgement of fifteen pounds, five shillings, and nine pence, which the plaintiff had recovered against the defendant, as also four hundred eight etc., pounds of tobacco sustained as damages. This is an ancient writ in which the debtor could be imprisoned until the debt was paid. Money was so scarce and unreliable in those days that tobacco was used in Maryland, Virginia and other states as its equivalent. The writ is addressed to the coroner on account of death or disability of the sheriff. " James Tilghman, a lawyer by profession, who after removing from Talbot to Chestertown, in Kent, thence removed to Philadelphia in the year 1762. He was well known to the profession in Pennsylvania, where be became secretary to the Proprietary Land office, which department of the government " by the accuracy of his mind and the steadiness of his purpose he brought into a system as much remarked for order and equity as, from its early defects, it threatened to be otherwise."1 He was one of the commissioner for the province of Pennsylvania, appointed by Governor Penn, for settling the boundary line between the colonies and the Indian territory, at the treaty held at Fort Stanwix in October and November 1758. He was also a member of the governor's council, and private secretary of Julianna, the widow of the late proprietary. In the dispute between the colonies and the mother country, he espoused the cause of the latter. The adoption of the principles of a loyalist involved the resignation of his public trusts and the loss of his private business, so that not long after the outbreak of hostilities he returned to Chestertown in Maryland, where he spent the remainder of his days. Such was his moderation and discretion, that, although his opinions were obnoxious, he enjoyed the respect of his fellow citizens, and received the considerate notice of Washington himself." from wikitree.com. Document 6.5x8". From the HYatt Estate. Maryland