Docketed on verso with a pencil annotation. Secretary of War Knox informs Tilghman that an order for the "sum of four hundred dollars to pay for the horse ordered to be presented to you by the resolve of Congress ..." In late October 1781, following Lt. Col. Tilghman’s ride to deliver the news of the American victory at Yorktown, Congress voted to award him "a horse properly caparisoned and an elegant sword." The funds for the horse were delayed until December 1785; the sword did not arrive, unfortunately, until after Tilghman’s death on April 19, 1786. The Society owns a letter written by Knox to Tilghman on December 2, 1785, telling him that he is looking into the funds for the horse; as well as Tilghman's Congressional presentation sword and the letter that Henry Knox wrote to Mrs. Tilghman conveying it to her (see MSS 1156 M MB)