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becca Tilghman (?-1725), who married Simon
Wilmer (ca. 1656-1699). Her brothers were Ed-
ward Tilghman (1713-1785); James Tilghman
(1716-1793); William Tilghman (1711-1782);
Matthew Tilghman (1717/18-1790); Philemon
(1704-ca. 1724); and Richard (1705-1768). Her
sisters were Mary (1702-ca. 1736), who married
James Earle, Jr. (ca. 1694-1739); Henrietta Maria
(1707-1771), who married first, George Robins
(1697-1742), and second, William Goldsborough
(1709-1760). Her first cousins were Lambert Wil-
mer (1682-1732); Simon Wilmer (1686-1737);
Edward Lloyd (1711-1770); Richard Lloyd (ca.
1717-1786); Dorothy Blake, who married Charles
Carroll (1691-1755); Henrietta Maria Lloyd (?-
1766), who married second, Daniel Dulany (1685-
1753); Robert Lloyd (ca. 1712-1770); Henrietta
Maria Lloyd (ca. 1711-1748), who married Sam-
uel Chamberlaine (1698-1773); Margaret Lloyd
(1714-ca. 1785), who married William Tilghman
(1711-1782); and Anne Lloyd (ca. 1723-1794),
who married Matthew Tilghman (1717/18-1790).
Her nephews were Richard Tilghman (1740-1809);
Matthew Tilghman (1760-1801); James Tilghman,
Jr. (ca. 1748-1796); James Tilghman (1743-1809);
Peregrine Tilghman (ca. 1741-1807); William
Tilghmani 1756- 1827); Michael Earle (1722-1787);
and Richard Tilghman Earle (1728/29-1788). Her
nieces were Margaret Tilghman (1742-1817), who
married Charles Carroll, Barrister (1723-1783);
Anna Maria Tilghman (?-1817), who married
William Hemsley (1736/37-1812); Elizabeth
Tilghman, who married James Lloyd (ca. 1756-
1830); Anna Maria Earle (1725-1795), who mar-
ried Thomas Ringgold (1715-1772); Henrietta
Maria Earle (1730-1767), who married William
Hemsley (1736/37-1812); Anna Maria Robins
(1732-1806), who married Henry Hollyday (ca.
1725-1789); Margaret Robins (1734-1808), who
married William Hayward (?-1791); and Hen-
rietta Maria Robins (1736-1791), who married
James Lloyd Chamberlaine (1732-1783). CHIL-
DREN. SON Richard (probably died young). STEP-
SONS Philemon Hemsley (1728-1752); William
Hemsley (1736/37- 18 12). DAUGHTERS: Deborah,
who married Peregrine Tilghman (ca. 1741-1807);
Anna Maria, who married William Tilghman
(1745-1800). STEPDAUGHTERS: Anna Maria
Hemsley (1726-1790); Henrietta Maria Hemsley
(1730-?); and Mary Hemsley (1733-ca. 1750).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES Gent., by 1737; Esq., by 1747; fourth
generation legislator. Described by Thomas Jef-
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ferson in 1766 as "a little old man dressed but
indifferently with a yellow queue wig on ....."
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant by 1749;
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Talbot County, 1738, 1739-1741
(Accounts 3), 1742-1744 (Laws 1, 2), 1745 (Laws),
1745/46-1748 (Laws Cv 1, 1-3, 4), 1749-1751
(Laws Cv-3), Queen Anne's County, 1754-1757
(Laws 1-4; Bills of Credit 6), 1757-1758 (Ac-
counts 1, Cv, 2; Bills of Credit 1, Cv, 2; Public
Offices 1, Cv, 2), 1758-1761 (Elections 2, 3, Cv
3; Grievances Cv 1, 1, Cv 2, 2, 3, Cv 3; Bills of
Credit Cv 1, 1, Cv 2, 2, 3; Public Offices Cv 1,
1, Cv 2, 2, 3, Cv 3), 1762-1763 (Grievances 1,
2; Bills of Credit 1, 2), 1765-1766 (Speaker),
1768-1769 (Speaker 1, 2; died before the third
session of the 1768-1770 Assembly). LOCAL OF-
FICES: St. Michael's Parish Vestry, Talbot County,
1735-1738; St. Paul's Parish Vestry, Queen Anne's
County, 1739-1742, 1753-1756; visitor, Queen
Anne's County Free School, in office 1738/39,
1759; justice, Queen Anne's County, 1740-1749,
1754-1756 (quorum 1741-1749, 1754-1756);
trustee, charity school, St. Peter's Parish, Talbot
County, in office 1750; churchwarden, St. Paul's
Parish, Queen Anne's County, 1760. MILITARY
SERVICE: colonel, by 1766. STANDS ON PUBLIC/
PRIVATE ISSUES: wrote to the Hon. Joseph Hol-
lyday on October 20, 1755: "The French and In-
dians are nibbling at our frontiers and no one
seems to have resolution enough to set the dogs
at them." WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: ca. 4,100 acres in Talbot County and
1 lot in Wye Town, Talbot County (all inherited
from his father, including ca. 1,900 acres devised
by his grandfather Robert Grundy to James Lloyd
(1679/80-1723) for life and then to Robert and
his brother James). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: Upon his
marriage to Anna Maria Tilghman Hemsley, Lloyd
gained control of her father's lands devised to her
(554 acres in Queen Anne's County) and to her
Hemsley children (650 acres in Queen Anne's
County), as well as to ca. 3,800 acres in Queen
Anne's County and 1,346 acres in Talbot County
to which the Hemsley children were heirs through
their father and grandfather. Lloyd divided his
father's lands with his brother James in 1743; and
sold 300 acres in Talbot County in 1744. Between
1751 and 1770, as the various Hemsley heirs came
of age, Robert lost control of their acreage in
Queen Anne's and Talbot counties. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED, on July 16, 1770. Family tradition
states that his horse bolted and Lloyd was thrown
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