Charles Tillinghast, II

• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A115478
• Service: NEW YORK Rank: CAPTAIN
• Birth: 1748 NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK
• Death: 9-17-1795 NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK
• Pension Number: *W16444
• Service Description: 1) ASST DEP QM GEN ASST COL HUGH HUGHES, 2) 1777-1780;ASST COL TIMOTHY PICKERING

Charles Tillinghast married to Catherine Lamb,daughter of General John Lamb and Catherine Jandine..

Mr. Tillinghast's house on Cherry Street in New York City.

Charles Tillinghast (1745 - 1795) Figured prominently in the Battle of Quebec of the Revolutionary War. At the close of the war he was Assistant to General Lamb in the office of Collector of the Port of New York City.In 1796 he contracted Yellow Fever and died suddenly.

Charles Tillinghast,Esquire Widow,Catherine 5 June 1800. From The New York Historical Society Collections,this 1906 volume features abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogates Office,City of New York,from 15 February 1796 to 14 January 1801. Bibliographic Information; Abstracts of Wills Volume XV 1796 - 1800,The New York Historical Society,1906.

Enlisted in 1776 as Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General,with the rank of captain,under General Hugh Hughes and later in the same capacity under General Timothy Pickering. Catherine (Lamb) Tillnghast,received a pension on claim filed in 1838 in Ontario county,New York. Source:The Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution,Lineage Books Volume 77,Page 128, Dar ID # 76339

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