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Edward Lloyd (Continental Congress)

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Edward Lloyd
Etching of Edward Lloyd by Max Rosenthal
BornDecember 15, 1744 Edit this on Wikidata
Talbot County Edit this on Wikidata
DiedJuly 8, 1796 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 51)
OccupationPolitician Edit this on Wikidata
ChildrenEdward Lloyd V
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Edward Lloyd IV (December 15, 1744 – July 8, 1796) was an American planter from Talbot County, Maryland. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Maryland in 1783 and 1784. From 1771 to 1774, he was a member of the General Assembly and in the Maryland State House of Representatives in 1780. In 1771 Lloyd purchased the Chase–Lloyd House in Annapolis, Maryland from Samuel Chase, and in 1790 he built Wye House on the family plantation near Easton, Maryland. The property is now on the National Historic Landmarks. He was a delegate to the Maryland State Convention of 1788, to vote whether Maryland should ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States.[1]

He married Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of Col John Tayloe II the wealthiest Virginia Planter of his time. Elizabeth's brother and successor to the wealthiest planter moniker, John Tayloe III, built The Octagon House in Washington, DC at the behest of George Washington. Their son, also Edward Lloyd, was later Governor of Maryland, and a U.S. Senator.[2]

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  1. ^ Secretary of State of Maryland (1915). Maryland Manual 1914–1915: A Compendium of Legal, Historical and Statistical Information relating to the State of Maryland. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: The Advertiser-Republican.
  2. ^ "To George Washington from Gustavus Scott, 16 June 1797". Founders Online. National Archives and Records Administration.
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