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Adamson Tannehill
Gravestone of Adamson Tannehill, Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 14th district
In office
March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815
Preceded bySeat newly established
Succeeded byJohn Woods
Personal details
Born(1750-05-23)May 23, 1750
Frederick County, Maryland
Died(1820-12-23)December 23, 1820
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Resting placeAllegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
SpouseAgness Morgan or Agness Maria or Agness Heth
ProfessionMilitary officer, politician, civic leader, and farmer
Military service
AllegianceUnited States of America
Branch/service
Years of service
  • 1775–1781
  • 1788–1812
Rank
Battles/wars

Adamson Tannehill (May 23, 1750 – December 23, 1820), an American military officer, politician, civic leader, and farmer, is representative of the United States’ founding generation whose members were active participants in the early military and political events of their country's establishment. Born in Frederick County, Maryland, Tannehill was among the first volunteers to join the newly established Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, serving from 1775 until 1781. He achieved the rank of captain and commander of the army's longest serving rifle unit of the war. After the war, Tannehill and members of his family settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his last military posting of the conflict. He was active in the Pennsylvania state militia, eventually rising to the rank of major general in 1811. Moreover, Tannehill served as brigadier general of United States Volunteers in the War of 1812.

He was an early leading citizen of Pittsburgh and a distinguished Pennsylvania politician who held several local, state, and national appointed and elected offices. These notably include one term as a Democratic-Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1813 to 1815 and president of the Pittsburgh branch of the Bank of the United States starting in 1817. He also served on the founding boards of several civic and state organizations.

Tannehill died in 1820 near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was buried at his Grove Hill home outside Pittsburgh and later reinterred in Allegheny Cemetery.

Early years

Adamson Tannehill was born May 23, 1750, in Frederick County, Maryland,[1][2] the oldest of nine children born to John Tannehill, owner of a tobacco plantation, and Rachel Adamson.[3] John Tannehill's great-great grandfather, William Tannehill, Sr., emigrated to Maryland from Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1658.[4] Adamson Tannehill's maternal grandfather took a special interest in the grandchild who bore his name, and he provided "such pecuniary assistance as to secure a fine education" for Adamson.[5] Little else is known of Adamson's earliest years. No known portraits of Tannehill exist; however, family records indicate that as an adult he “was six feet in height, well proportioned and of commanding appearance.”[6] At the age of 25, he enlisted in one of the first American military units to form when the war with Great Britain started in the spring of 1775.[7]

Revolutionary War service

Continental Army commission for Third Lt. "Adamson Tannehill, Gent[leman]" of Capt. Otho Holland Williams' Independent Rifle Company, dated January 1, 1776. Document is signed by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress and by John Hancock, president of Congress. Tannehill carried the commission throughout the war primarily to prove his officer status if taken prisoner

Tannehill served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, initially as a sergeant in Capt. Thomas Price's Independent Rifle Company[8] (later commanded by Capt. Otho Holland Williams), one of the original ten independent companies of riflemen from the frontier regions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia authorized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775.[9] He received his commission dated January 1, 1776, as a third lieutenant[10] while serving at the siege of Boston. In mid-June 1776 Tannehill and his company were incorporated into the newly organized Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment, at which time he advanced to second lieutenant.[11]

Later that year in mid-November, a large portion of his regiment was captured or killed at the Battle of Fort Washington on northern Manhattan Island.[12] However, those members of the unit not taken in the battle, including Tannehill, continued to serve actively in the Continental Army. They participated in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and the Forage War in late 1776 and early 1777, and in the spring of 1777 they were administratively attached to the 11th Virginia Regiment due to the diminishment of their rifle regiment.[13] Tannehill was promoted to first lieutenant on May 18, 1777,[14] and the following month he was attached to the newly organized, elite Provisional Rifle Corps commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan.[15] This regiment-size force played a major role in the Battles of Saratoga in late 1777 and a peripheral role in the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778.

Tannehill was detached from the Provisional Rifle Corps in mid-1778, and he then returned to the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment (his permanent unit) when Lt. Col. Moses Rawlings, the regiment's commander who had been exchanged from British captivity earlier that year, was marshaling the remnants of his unit and recruiting new members while stationed at Fort Frederick, Maryland.[16] In early 1779 Tannehill and the regiment were assigned to Fort Pitt of present-day western Pennsylvania where they supplemented other Continental forces engaged in the defense of frontier settlements from Indian raids.[17] The high mark of this effort was the 600-man Brodhead Campaign against hostile Mingo and Munsee Indians conducted in the late summer of 1779.[18]

Tannehill advanced to the rank of captain on July 29, 1779,[19] and by late 1780 he commanded the regiment and was commandant of Fort McIntosh located in western Pennsylvania northwest of Fort Pitt.[20][21] He was discharged from service on January 1, 1781, when his unit was disbanded as a result of Congress's major 1781 reorganization of the Continental Army.[22][23] At the close of the war, Tannehill received the brevet rank of major.[24] He was admitted as an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Maryland when it was established in 1783.[25][26]

Relocation to Pittsburgh

After his Revolutionary War service, Tannehill settled in the frontier area of Fort Pitt (settlement of Pittsburgh), as did many other Revolutionary War officers, including his younger brother Lt. Josiah Tannehill of Maryland, Col. John Neville of Virginia, and Col. Richard Butler of Pennsylvania, to name just a few.[27] He initially engaged in agricultural pursuits and was a tavern owner[28][29] and vintner.[30] He was also a significant landholder and a "large buyer" of land lots in early Pittsburgh — land purchased directly from the heirs of William Penn.[31][32] From 1784 until about 1792, Tannehill owned and operated the riverfront Green Tree Tavern (and inn) and resided in the adjacent house, both located midblock between Market and Wood Streets in Pittsburgh.[33][34] In about 1792, he moved to Grove Hill, a house on Grant’s Hill just northeast of early Pittsburgh, which was popular as a local center for political meetings.[35] A building on his Grove Hill property, known as "the Bowery," was also the site of large annual social gatherings where citizens of early Pittsburgh came together each Fourth of July ”to hail with joyful hearts the day that gave birth to the liberties and happiness of their country.”[36][37] Generally known as a "popular man and an astute politician,”[38] Tannehill lived at Grove Hill until his death in 1820.[39]

Later military and public career

Depiction of Fort Pitt about 1780 at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela (foreground) rivers, showing the early town development of Pittsburgh (right)

Tannehill was active in the state militia, serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Westmoreland County militia starting in 1788 by order of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.[40][41] On August 3, 1811, Pennsylvania Governor Simon Snyder promoted Tannehill to major general of the Pennsylvania militia division from Allegheny, Armstrong, and Indiana counties.[42] Soon thereafter during the War of 1812, Tannehill was elected brigadier general of a brigade comprising four infantry and rifle regiments of Pennsylvania volunteers in United States (federal) service.[43] His military duties during the conflict lasted from September 25 to December 31, 1812.[44]

Tannehill began public service no later than 1794 when the borough of Pittsburgh was established.[45] That year, he was appointed president of the Pittsburgh Fire Company[46] and elected one of three surveyors of Pittsburgh.[47] In March 1790, Tannehill had unsuccessfully solicited a public appointment in the administration of President George Washington by writing to Washington’s personal secretary, Tobias Lear, who had visited Pittsburgh and lodged with Tannehill at his inn four years before.[48] In his note, Tannehill mentioned that Washington "has some acquantance [sic] of me, which may probably have some weight,” referring to instances of direct interaction the two men had during the American Revolution.[49]

Sometime before 1794, Tannehill was appointed an Allegheny County justice of the peace.[50] In October 1800, Tannehill was temporarily removed from this office after being convicted of extortion related to an event that occurred five years before in which he was alleged to have charged two shillings more than was allowed by law for two probates.[51] Although he was quickly reinstated to office in January 1801 by Governor Thomas McKean, the former chief justice of Pennsylvania,[52][53] and subsequently held several prominent elected and appointed public offices, Tannehill believed the charges against him, likely born out of the contentious political conditions of the time,[54][55] had marred his reputation. He vehemently disclaimed any guilt for the rest of his life — his resentment toward "two of the most unprincipled scoundrels who ever appeared before a Court of Justice" and their "false swearing and vile slander" was still strong 15 years later when he reflected on the whole affair in his will.[56]

View of Pittsburgh in 1817, showing Adamson Tannehill’s estate, Grove Hill, on Grant’s Hill upslope of city (left-center). Lithograph based on contemporaneous sketch by Mrs. E. C. Gibson

Following these charges, he served as a founding member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania (first bank established in Pittsburgh and first one west of the Allegheny Mountains), starting in 1804.[57] He was then appointed by the Pennsylvania legislature as one of five turnpike commissioners for the state starting in 1811.[58] Tannehill was also chosen by the state legislature as an elector of the 1812 federal Electoral College for the state of Pennsylvania.[59]

Meanwhile, outside of political office, Tannehill, a Presbyterian, served as a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh starting in 1787.[60][61] He was also a member of the fraternal Tammany Society, which was founded after the American Revolution in various American cities, including Pittsburgh,[62] and which focused on the celebration of American identity and culture. Members of the society in its earliest years closely allied themselves with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson. Consequently, when Jefferson announced his intent to withdraw from public service in 1808, Tannehill, in his capacity as Grand Sachem (high official) of the Pittsburgh Tammany Society, wrote to "Brother" Jefferson, expressing "heartfelt regret" over his “resolution to retire from the duties of protecting thy children [of this tribe]."[63][64]

U.S. House of Representatives

Although Pittsburgh was a stronghold of the Federalist Party in the city's earliest years, between 1798 and 1800 the rival Democratic-Republican Party began to prosper under such men as Adamson Tannehill, who had become chairman of the city’s Republican party by 1800.[65] However, the high point of Tannehill's active political career was his election as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth U.S. Congress on October 13, 1812.[66] Tannehill was elected to serve Pennsylvania's newly established 14th congressional district with 48 percent of the vote, defeating Federalist John Woods and Democratic-Republican John Wilson, who received 39.3 and 12.7 percent of the vote, respectively.[67] Tannehill served from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815,[68] and as a U.S. Representative, Tannehill cast a total of 322 votes and missed 30.[69]

Tannehill ran for reelection on October 11, 1814, again as a Democratic-Republican. However, he lost his reelection bid, receiving 49.5 percent of the vote in his district; his opponent, John Woods, who he had defeated two years earlier, won with 50.5 percent of the vote.[70]

Following his tenure in Congress, Tannehill served as president of the Pittsburgh branch of the Bank of the United States starting in 1817.[71] Until the Panic of 1819, the first widespread financial crisis in the United States, the bank generally prospered under Tannehill's short period of leadership (ending with his death in 1820) and helped further advance Pittsburgh's business and industry.[72]

Death

Tannehill died at his Grove Hill home just outside Pittsburgh on December 23, 1820, aged 70 years and 7 months.[73][74] He was survived by his wife, Agness M. Tannehill,[75][76][77] and his ward, Sydney Tannehill Mountain.[78] Adamson and Agness Tannehill had no children.[79] Tannehill was interred at his Grove Hill home,[80] as specified in his will,[81] and reinterred in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh in 1849[82] when city road construction necessitated moving his grave.[83] His 1820 obituary relates that "his remains were accompanied to the grave by a large concourse of his fellow citizens and were interred with military funeral honors by two...Volunteer Corps" of the Pittsburgh area.[84]

Notes

  1. ^ "United States Congress". Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  2. ^ Coe, pp. 1–2.
  3. ^ Coe, pp. 1–2.
  4. ^ Tannehill, p. 5.
  5. ^ Coe, p. 3.
  6. ^ Coe, p. 6.
  7. ^ Maryland Historical Society (1927), v. 22, pp. 275–283.
  8. ^ Maryland Historical Society (1927), v. 22, pp. 275–283.
  9. ^ Ford, v. 2, pp. 89-90 Archived January 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ^ Adamson Tannehill Papers, 1776 commission. Third lieutenant was the lowest commissioned rank in Continental Army rifle units, whereas in infantry units it was ensign.
  11. ^ Ford, v. 5, p. 540 Archived January 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ^ Rawlings to Washington (August 1778).
  13. ^ Hentz, pp. 135–137 Archived November 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ^ Daniel Morgan General Orders (May 18, 1777).
  15. ^ Long’s Provisional Rifle Co. pay roll (July 1777).
  16. ^ Hentz, pp. 138-139 Archived November 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  17. ^ Ford, v. 13, p. 104 Archived January 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ^ Hentz, p. 140.
  19. ^ Ford, v. 14, p. 896 Archived January 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  20. ^ Return of the Maryland Corps (December 25, 1780).
  21. ^ Kellogg, p. 289.
  22. ^ Maryland Historical Society (1900), v. 18, p. 365 Archived July 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Wright, pp. 153-165.
  24. ^ Sons of the American Revolution, p. 92.
  25. ^ Metcalf, p. 304.
  26. ^ "American Revolution Institute". Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  27. ^ Foster, p. 16 Archived April 30, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  28. ^ Boucher, v. 1, p. 376 Archived April 30, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  29. ^ Dahlinger (1919), p. 18 Archived April 29, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  30. ^ Killikelly, p. 111 Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  31. ^ Evans, p. 126
  32. ^ Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, p. 169
  33. ^ Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, p. 169.
  34. ^ Darlington and others, p. 301 (map of Pittsburgh in 1795).
  35. ^ Mulkearn and Pugh, p. 28.
  36. ^ Mulkearn and Pugh, p. 28.
  37. ^ Miller, p. 26.
  38. ^ Dahlinger (1919), p. 18 Archived April 29, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
  39. ^ Chalfant, pp. 86-87 Archived April 27, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  40. ^ Adamson Tannehill papers, 1788 commission.
  41. ^ Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, p. 169
  42. ^ Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, p. 169.
  43. ^ Wilson, p. 401.
  44. ^ "United States Congress". Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  45. ^ Dahlinger (1916), p. 24
  46. ^ Dahlinger (1916), p. 130 Archived May 19, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  47. ^ Killikelly, pp. 114, 116.
  48. ^ Twohig, pp. 208-209.
  49. ^ Coe, p. 3.
  50. ^ Dahlinger (1916), p. 130 Archived May 19, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  51. ^ Dahlinger (1916), pp. 130-131 Archived May 19, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  52. ^ Dahlinger (1916), pp. 130-131
  53. ^ Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, p. 169.
  54. ^ Everett (1949).
  55. ^ Ferguson, pp. 193-194 Archived May 18, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  56. ^ Chalfant, pp. 86–88 Archived April 27, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  57. ^ Thurston, p. 251 Archived April 29, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  58. ^ Walkinshaw, v. 3, p. 65 Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  59. ^ "Pennsylvania 1812 Electoral College". Retrieved September 13, 2023.
  60. ^ Killikelly, p. 362 Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  61. ^ Harper, v. 2, p. 754 Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  62. ^ Baldwin (1937), p. 150.
  63. ^ Adamson Tannehill to Thomas Jefferson (January 13, 1808).
  64. ^ Ford (1916), pp. 157-158.
  65. ^ Everett, pp. 13, 37.
  66. ^ "United States Congress". Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  67. ^ "U.S. Congress, Pennsylvania 1812". Archived from the original on July 11, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  68. ^ "United States Congress". Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  69. ^ "Govtrack". Archived from the original on July 5, 2023. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
  70. ^ "U.S. Congress, Pennsylvania 1814". Archived from the original on July 11, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  71. ^ Killikelly, p. 263 Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  72. ^ Fleming, p. 289.
  73. ^ Coe, p. 3.
  74. ^ "United States Congress". Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  75. ^ Coe, p. 4. This source identifies Agness Tannehill's maiden name as "Morgan."
  76. ^ Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, p. 169. This source identifies Agness Tannehill's middle name as "Maria."
  77. ^ Sons of the American Revolution, p. 92. This source records Agness Tannehill's maiden name as "Heth."
  78. ^ Chalfant, p. 88 Archived April 27, 2023, at the Wayback Machine.
  79. ^ Tannehill, pp. 41-42.
  80. ^ Sons of the American Revolution, p. 92.
  81. ^ Chalfant, p. 87
  82. ^ "United States Congress". Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  83. ^ The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This article indicates that “after the big fire in 1845, when [the Pittsburgh city] council extended the city limits to take in the farms on what is now the Hill district…it was found that in extending Wylie avenue, Colonel Adamson Tannehill’s grave would be between the curbs…About 1851 [the] council decided to remove the colonel’s remains to Allegheny cemetery. The Tannehill family objected, but [then] agreed to make the transfer themselves.”
  84. ^ Coe, pp. 3–4.

References

Primary references (books)

  • Chalfant, Ella (1955). A goodly heritage: earliest wills on an American frontier. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. OCLC 541599.
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Primary reference (periodical)

  • Maryland Historical Society (1927). “A muster roll of Captain Thomas Price’s Company of Rifle-Men in the service of the United Colonies.” Maryland Historical Magazine 22(3). ISSN 0025-4258.

Primary references (archive documents)

  • Adamson Tannehill Papers: Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Adamson Tannehill to Thomas Jefferson (January 13, 1808), Thomas Jefferson collection, The Huntington Library: San Marino, California.
  • Coe, Letitia Tannehill (1903). History of John and Rachel Tannehill and their descendants [unpublished manuscript]. Fort Wayne: Allen County Public Library. Also published in limited edition (2004), OCLC 866319854.
  • Daniel Morgan General Orders (May 18, 1777): Virginia Historical Society, Orderly book of Major William Heth.
  • Long's Provisional Rifle Co. pay roll (July 1777): U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 93, microcopy M246, roll 133.
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  • Return of the Maryland Corps (December 25, 1780): Maryland State Archives, Maryland State Papers (Series A), Box 21, Item 119A, MSA No. S 1004-27.

Secondary references (books)

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  • Sons of the American Revolution (1903). Year book of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh: Spahr & Ritscher. OCLC 1018142189.
  • Tannehill, James B. (1940). Genealogical history of the Tannahills, Tannehills and Taneyhills. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., Inc. OCLC 1298766782.
  • Thurston, George. H. (1888). Allegheny County's hundred years. Pittsburgh: A. A. Anderson & Son. OCLC 62594199.
  • Walkinshaw, Lewis C. (1939). Annals of southwestern Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. OCLC 865591627.
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  • Wright, Robert K. Jr. (1983). The Continental Army. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History Publication 60-4-1, U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 8806011.

Secondary references (periodicals)

  • Evans, Henry O. (1944). “The Penns’ ‘Manor of Pittsburgh.’” The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 27(3-4). ISSN 0043-4035.
  • Everett, Edward (1949). “Jeffersonian democracy and the tree of liberty, 1800-1803.” The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 32(1-2). ISSN 0043-4035.
  • Hentz, Tucker F. (2006). "Unit history of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment (1776–1781): Insights from the service record of Capt. Adamson Tannehill." Military Collector & Historian 58(3). ISSN 0026-3966.
  • Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (1944). "Historical Society Notes." The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 27(3-4). ISSN 0043-4035.

Newspaper reference

  • The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (February 2, 1939). “Flashbacks from Post-Gazette files,” p. 6.

Web references


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