Edward Lloyd I (1602-1696)

He was a Welshman who settled first in Virginia where he was a Justice and a Member of the House of Burgesses but was banished from the colony for his puritanical beliefs. He joined a Puritan colony in Maryland and in 1650 was given a grant of 570-acres in Anne Arundel County before establishing himself at "Wye House" on the Eastern Shore in Talbot County. He was appointed commander of the Anne Arundel County Militia (1650), Commissioner to treat with the Susquehanna Indians (1652) and a Member of the Maryland General Assembly (1654) from Providence, Anne Arundel County, supporting the Bennett-Claiborne commission. In 1658, he was elected as a Member of the Provincial Council for Maryland, serving until 1668 when he returned to England, first living at Stepney and then moving to Whitechapel in 1681. He was married four times but was survived by just one son and he was buried styled as "a freeman from Blackwell Ally in Petty Cote Lane ye Right hand, of the Parish of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, County Middlesex, late planter of Maryland." He devised "Wye" to his grandson, Edward.