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Hello,
I am a document trader & collector and recently purchased a large group of documents from the file of Tench Tilghman, Brigadier General of the Maryland Militia during the period of the Mexican War (1846/1847). Most of the items relate to the Maryland Counties of Dorchester, Caroline and Talbot.
The group contains several items that are related to Samuel Dexter Lecompte who was Captain of the Cambridge Volunteer Company and whose full biography is below. There is one letter signed by him and many related to him including letters signed by future Maryland governors.
I am looking for additional information on Captain Lecompte as well as any of the other people from the list below who are also connected in one way or another to the Tilghman file. I have read that he became a secessionist but I cannot confirm that. In exchange, I am glad to provide more information about the documents as well as pictures and possibly copies.
Thank you,
Joy Shivar
JustaJoy Historical Treasures
Cornelius, NC
William C. Adams
Thomas W. Anderson
Gardner Bagly
John Baker
Robert Banning
James Bartlett
Col. Bateman
Dr. alexander H. Bayly
Walter D.a. Bayne
Capt. Jno. Beachamp
John Beacham, Jr.
John B. Blades
John Boggs
John F. Bonn
Henry Bonsalte
Samuel C. Brannock
James L. Breeding
Thomas Bridges
Joseph Brooks
Col. Brooks
Captain thomas Bruff
Captain Thomas Burchenal
Dr. Thomas Campbell
Levin A. Campbell
Col. Carroll
Robert C. Carter
Thomas Casson
William Caulk
J.Bond? Chaplain
Caleb Clark
Thomas Clendemy
Robert Clendemy
Willian Clinch
William Cole
Levin Cook
Thomas Cook
James H. Cook
Joel Cornwell
Lt. Col. Cornwell
Samuel Culbreth, Jr.
Thrash Culbreth
Sargeant Curran
John W. Dail
Thomas I. Dail
Maj. Dale
William Dalisboy
william Davis
Alcaid Dawson
William S. Denny
L.P. dickinson
Robert H. Dobson
Alexander E. Dudley
Elisha Eaton
Joseph R. Eccleston
John J.(F.) Eccleston
H.L. Edmondson
Horace Edmondson
William H. Fairbank
J.M. Faulkner
John C. Fountain
Thomas J. Garriston
M.T. Goldsboro
R.L. Goldsborough
William T. Goldsborough
Robert Goldsborough
Dr. G.W. Goldsborough
Capt. Allen M. Goldsborough
Brigadier General B. Goldsborough
M.Tilghman Goldsborough
Dr. Griffin W. Goldsborough
Capt. Goldsborough
Martin T. Goldsborough
Major Goodman Goote
Edward Gostin
James Grace
Lt. Graham
Richard Geen
William Gren?
Andrew Griffith
Daniel L. Haddaway, Jr.
Samuel Hambleton, Jr.
Col. Hambleton
General Handy
George Handy (wife - Mary)
James Harring
George W. Harrington
John Harrington
Gideon Harris
William H. Harrison
William Haysward
William Hayward
General Hear
William Heard
Captain Hicks
Thomas H. Hicks
Robert H. Higueitt?
L.W. Hinatt
Col. Hodson
Surgeon Hodson
Jno. H. Hodson
Hooper D. Hutson
H.P. Hokins
C.N. Imes?
Captain Benjamin D. Jackson
Peter K. Jenkins
Dr. S.M. Jenkins
Whitely Johnson
Richard Jones
Lieutenant Charles B. Jones
Major Jump
John H. Jump
Abraham Jump
John Jump
Benjamin G. Keene
J.B. Ken
william B. Kers
Davis Knolls
Samuel Dexter Lecompte
William L.(T.?) Lee
Edward Lloyd
William Lookerman
George W. Lookerman
Joseph B. Low
John Lump
Hazlett C. Macky
William C. Mackey
Col. Mackey
General Mackey
David Marion
James D. Martin
Jno. W. Martin
James L. Martin
Capt. Martin
Major Martin
Joseph Marshall
William B. Massey
Captain W. McLean
Jas. K. McNeal
Samuel L.(I?) Meekins
William Mell?
Joseph E. Millington
Polish Mills
Robert L. Miur
Robert H. Muiz
William H. Muse
John Nicols
Capt. Nicols
Col. Nicols
H.E. Nicols
Thomas Ollartin
Capt. Onell
P. Daniel Oneill
D. Orrell
Capt. Orwell
William Orrell
Spedden Orem
Kennedy R. Owen
Col. Owens
Captain Partridge
Colonel Payne
John R. Platen
L.W. Potter
General Potter
J.R. Price
Thomas G. Pratt
John A.L. Radcliffe
Robert Rawley
William T. Rawlinson
James Richardson
Capt. Samuel Ridgaway
Jas. H. Ridgaway
Brigadier Major Ringgold
F. Robertson
George E. Robinson, MD
Levin W. Robinson
Major William Rose
William Ross
Robert H. Rouse
John R.T. Salisbury
James W. Salisbury
Thomas Saulsburg
G.W. Scott
General Sealt
Robert L. Seth
Captain Garrison Sewall
Col. Shamers
William A. Sherman
Chapman Sherman
Captain sherwood
George W. Sherwood
Solomon Sherwood
Thomas C. Singletary
Lt. Singleton
John R. Skinner
J.H. Slaughter
Tunbrill K. Slaughter
Nehemiah Smith
John R. Stack
Thomas Stanton
John Staplefort
Robert a. Stevens
P. Stevens
Capt. Stevens
Gowty Stevens
Lt. Col. Levin W. Stewart
Captain Alexander Stewart
Thomas B.(R.?) Stewart
John T. Stewart
Nicholas P. Sticbury
General Stiles
James G. Sundreth
T.W. Sweeny
James G. Sundreth
Sylvester C. Tall
Reuben Tall
L. Columbus Tall
Jenifer S. Taylor
Robert Thawley
William Thinby
R. Thomas
Col. P.F. Thomas
Robert H.? Tilghman
Charles Todd
Bennett Todd
Henry C. Towers
William Townsend
M.W. Watkins
John Webb
John Wilkinson
Capt. M. Wilkinson
Joseph Williams
William B. Willis
Arthur J. Willis
Richard Willis
Major Wilson
James B. Wilson
William H. Wilson
Thoms C. Wilson
Murry (Murray?) Winden (Winder?)
Richard H. Wright
Samuel Dexter Lecompte was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, on December 13, 1814. After attending Kenyan College in Ohio for two years, he graduated from Jefferson College in Pennsylvania in 1834. Afterward he studied law in Maryland and was subsequently admitted to the bar. He later practiced law in Carroll County, Maryland, and in1840 he was elected to the state legislature. Upon leaving the legislature he practiced law in Dorchester County, until 1854, when he moved to Baltimore.
Once the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, Lecompte found himself appointed by President Franklin Pierce as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Kansas Territory. At the time of his move to the territory, Lecompte brought with him his wife and five children. As an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party, Lecompte was seen by many as being a proslavery man and protector of the “peculiar institution.” Lecompte’s tenure as chief justice lasted until March 9, 1859. Upon leaving the high court, he moved to Leavenworth where he opened a private law office.
Lecompte’s personal business enterprises during the 1850s included involvement in the speculation of both real estate and railroads. He was the president of the Lecompton Town Company and actively promoted that city to become the state capital. Similarly, he sponsored a charter for the establishment of a medical college to be located there and worked with John Stringfellow to promote the establishment of a university of Kansas at Leavenworth. His railroad pursuits included the incorporation of the Kansas Central Railroad Company; the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company; and the Leavenworth and Lecompton Railroad Company.
At the end of the Civil War, he renounced his allegiance to the Democratic Party and became a Republican. He served four years as the probate judge of Leavenworth County. Then he was elected to the 1867 and 1868 state legislature. In 1874 he became the chairman of the Republican congressional committee of the first district. In 1887 he moved to live with his son in Kansas City, where he died on April 24, 1888.
Lecompte’s political career can be viewed as pragmatic: first coming to the territory of Kansas as a stalwart Democrat and then, once the Civil War had been decided, becoming a Republican Party convert. Politics played a major part in Lecompte’s professional career and the events in Kansas shaped his political fortune and future.
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