Col. Philemon Lloyd (1646-1685)
Indian Commissioner & Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Maryland
He was born in Wales and came to Maryland with his father in 1650 and received his first settlement of land there from his aunt in 1654. He lived in Talbot County on the Wye River and in 1667 was commissioned a Captain of Horse and took part in an expedition against the Indians. He was appointed a Justice of Talbot County (1670), Member of the Maryland Assembly for Talbot County (1671), Speaker of the House (1678-85), Colonel in command of the Horse for the Counties of Talbot, Kent & Cecil (1681), and one of the Commissioners from Maryland sent to Albany, New York, to treat with the Northern Indians (1682). In 1668, he married Mrs. Henrietta (Neale) Bennett, daughter of Captain James Neale (1615-1684), of Wolleston Manor, Member of the Maryland Governor's Council and Commissioner of the Treasury, by his wife Anne Gill, Lady-in-waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I. They had ten children (listed) and he willed that, "all the lands upon the Great Island in Wye River" should pass to his son Edward in the event that his son Philemon should die without male issue.
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