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James Lloyd (17691831)

Role

James Lloyd and Bushrod Washington were both Federalists.

Description

James Lloyd was born in December 1769 in Boston. After an education at Boston Latin School and Harvard College, he began a successful career as a merchant. Lloyd was also president of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the first major textile mill in the country. In 1809 he married Hannah ("Anna") Breck (17721846), the sister of a Pennsylvania congressman.

Citations

"Lloyd, James," in John Howard Brown, ed., Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States (Boston: Federal Book Company of Boston, 1903), Volume 5, 99.

Bushrod Washington to James Lloyd, 9 June 1824, Temple, Nelson, Lloyd, Vassall, and Borland Family Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"To James Madison from James Lloyd Jr., 21 March 1806 (Abstract)," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0328. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, pp. 414–415.]

"Breck, Anna (fl. 18031804) to Lucy [incomplete]," Gilder Lehrman Collection, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City.

James Lloyd at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

James Lloyd at Find a Grave.

U S Sen. James Lloyd at FamilySearch.