Mary (Jones) Lloyd (1640 - 1683)

Born 1640 in Y Trallwng, Powys, Cymru (Wales)

Died Nov 1683 at about age 43 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Mary was a Friend (Quaker)

Birth: ca. 1640 in Y Trallwng, Powys, Cymru (Montgomeryshire, Wales)

Father: Roger Jones of Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Mother: Unknown

Marriage to Thomas Lloyd MD, b: 17 FEB 1640 in Dolobran, Mongomeryshire (Powys, Cymru), Wales ^[1]

Married: 9 SEP 1665 in Friends Meeting in Shropshire, England

10 Children: ^[2]

1. Hannah Lloyd b: 21 Sep 1666 in Wales
2. Rachel Lloyd b: 20 Jan 1668 in Wales
3. Mordecai Lloyd b: 7 Dec 1669 in Wales
4. John Lloyd b: 3 Feb 1671 in Wales
5. Mary Lloyd b: 27 Mar 1674 in Wales
6. Thomas Lloyd b: 15 Sep 1675 in Wales
7. Elizabeth Lloyd b: 1 Mar 1677 in Wales
8. Margaret Lloyd b: 5 May 1680 in Wales
9. Deborah Lloyd b: 1 Mar 1682 in Wales
10. Samuel Lloyd b: 1683 in Pennsylvania

Death Date: NOV 1683 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Burial: Mary (Jones) Lloyd was the first person to be buried in the Friends Burial Ground, at the corner of Fourth & Mulberry Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mary's husband, Dr. Thomas Lloyd, was a prominent Quaker physician and pastor and a personal friend of William Penn. They emigrated to Philadelphia in July 1683 to escape religious persecution in England. When William Penn returned to England in 1684, Dr. Lloyd became the President of the colony's Council. In the fall of 1691 William Penn named him as Deputy Governor of the province. He lived at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Dr. Thomas Lloyd died in Philadelphia on September 10, 1694, having remarried to Patience Wilson, 27 Dec. 1684 in Flushing, New York. They had no children together.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Kittle-Rupe-Gegner-Woodall Genealogy on RootsWeb - Mary Jones
2. ↑ Ancestry of Tom and Connie Lathrop on RootsWeb - Mary Jones
3. ↑ "Political Leaders of Provincial Pennsylvania," by Isaac Sharpless; New York, The MacMillan Company, 1919. Cited on: Ancestry of Tom and Connie Lathrop on RootsWeb - Thomas Lloyd

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Jones-28778 was created by Ronald Rideout through the import of Jones Family a-m 2014.ged on Oct 23, 2014.