Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Hugh LLOYD
Hugh Lloyd, youngest son of Richard and Hannah (Sellers) Lloyd, born near Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1741-2, was brought to Darby township by his parents when less than a year old, and was reared in that township, at the Darby mills which he inherited jointly with his brother Isaac and assisted in operating until 1766. In the latter year he purchased a mill property on Crum Creek in Ridley township, now Delaware county, where he carried on the milling business during the Revolutionary war, with the exception of the period when Philadelphia was occupied by the British army, when, by orders of General Washington the millstones of that and other mills within reach of the British lines, were removed and secreted to prevent them from being pressed into use to supply flour for the enemy. Hugh Lloyd was one of the committee of thirteen selected at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Chester county, held at Chester July 13, 1774, to confer with representatives of the other counties of the state and arrange for concerted action in an effort to obtain redress for the grievances of the American Colonies, and was one of the deputies to the Provincial conference held at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774, when it was decided to establish a continental congress of deputies from all the colonies. The first Continental congress held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, as a result of the above mentioned conference, having recommended the
appointment of a Committee of Safety and Observation, in each county of the state, the inhabitants of Chester county again assembled at Chester, December 20, 1774, and Hugh Lloyd was one of the Committee of Safety and Observation then selected, and continued a member of that body during the whole
Revolutionary struggle, when these county committees and their representative in the state committee constituted the governing body of the state. He was a delegate to the Provincial convention of January 23, 1775, when it was decided to "meet force with force" and "at every hazard to defend the rights and liberties
of America." Hugh Lloyd was selected by the officers of the several companies composing the Third battalion of Chester county Associators, organized in accordance with the resolves of the Continental congress, as colonel of that battalion, at a meeting of these officers held July 21, 1775. He was also selected
by the Committee of Safety as a member of its Committee of Correspondence, October 23, 1775. He was again a delegate to the Provincial convention at Carpenter's Hall, June 18 to 25, when it was decided to "sever all allegiance to the English Crown." He was selected at this convention, as one of the judges to hold elections for delegates, to the constitutional convention of July 15, 1776. He continued active in measures for carrying on the war for independence, and on the organization of the new county of Delaware, in 1789, was elected one of its first representatives in the General Assembly and re-elected in 1791. April 24, 1792, he was commissioned one of the associate justices of Delaware county, and he continued to fill that position for 33 years, tendering his resignation when the infirmities of age demanded that he relinquish the active duties of the position. At about the time of the close of the Revolution, Hugh Lloyd erected a house on his plantation, on the east side of Darby road, near the Blue Bell Inn, in which he resided until the death of his wife in 1825.
It was one of the notable early mansions of the neighborhood of Philadelphia and is described in detail by Townsend Ward, in a paper published in the Pennsylvania Magazine in 1879. He died at the residence of his daughter, Hannah Browne, in Kensington, March 20, 1832, at the age of ninety-one years. Hugh Lloyd was active in his support of a number of local institutions. He was a life-long share-holder in the Darby Library of which his father Richard Lloyd was one of the founders, and was secretary of the Library Company for two
considerable periods and active in the effort to secure the erection of a new building in 1795. He was also one of the active members and supporters of the Library Company of Chester, founded in 1769. Hugh Lloyd married, at Darby Friends Meeting House, June 4, 1767, Susanna (b. Darby, Sept. 22, 1746, d. there, April 17, 1825) daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Blunston) Pearson and granddaughter of Thomas and Susannah (Burbeck) Pearson, who came from Darby, England and were among the first settlers of Darby township, Chester county. Her maternal great-grandfather, John Blunston, was a purchaser of 1,500 acres of land of William Penn, before coming to Pennsylvania, where he arrived in 1682, and settled in Darby township, being one of its first settlers. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly, 1682-1702, a member of the Provincial
Council 1690-1709, and speaker of the Assembly, 1696-1700. Hugh and Susannah (Pearson) Lloyd, had seven sons and one daughter, the latter, Hannah, the wife of John Coates Browne, at whose house in Kensington he died. The sons were Thomas, David, (d. young), Richard P., Charles, Samuel, Robert and Hugh Pearson Lloyd.
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