Col. Edward Lloyd III (1711-1770)
of "Wye" Talbot Co.; Merchant & Member of the Maryland Governor's Council, etc.
He was a planter and a merchant who with his brother and brother-in-law (Richard Lloyd and William Anderson) owned ships that transported wheat and tobacco from Maryland to London, trading between the West Indies, England, and New England. He was a Member of the Lower House of the Maryland Assembly for Talbot County (1738-41), Colonel of the Militia, Member of the Governor's Council (1743-69), Treasurer of the Eastern Shore (1747-66), Naval Officer at Oxford (1747-53), Rent Roll Keeper of the Western Shore (1753-68), Agent and Receiver-General (1753-68), and one of the comissioners to run the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1760. When he died, his estate consisted of 43,000-acres spread across five counties in Maryland, 174-slaves, several mills and drying houses, 5-schooners, £10,961 in household furnishings, £11,462 in bills owed to the estate, and £8,200 in cash. In 1739, he married Ann, daughter of John Rousby of Calvert Co., Maryland, and they had four children (listed).
