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Thomas Lloyd (about 1710–1792) settled on Marks Creek north of present Chapel Hill in the 1750s, sat as an Orange County justice of the peace and represented Orange in the Provincial Assembly from 1761 to 1768. In May 1768 he issued the warrant that committed the Regulator Herman Husband to jail. He stayed loyal to the Crown and was an enslaver.
Source: NCpedia: Lloyd (or Loyd, Loyde), Thomas
Also found in catalogs as Thomas Lloyd, Thomas F. Lloyd.
1715–1792 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Valerie Quinney's article on the Carrboro mill village, pages 98 to 109 of a 1980 publication, with illustrations and portraits. Topics include Carrboro history and mills and mill work, drawing on residents' recollections of life around the town's cotton mills. It also discusses mill owner Thomas F. Lloyd.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lloyd, Thomas F., 1736?-1792.
Numbered dispatches 59 through 67 from Governor William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, with enclosures about the Regulators, whose protests broke into riot at Hillsborough in 1770. Reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office CO 5/302. The papers touch on the council and assembly, naval stores and trade, oaths, militia and provincial troops, judges, sheriffs and juries, voting, currency, Cherokee affairs, clergy, quitrents and land, and name officials such as Richard Caswell, Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore and Hugh Waddell.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Lloyd, Thomas.
Betty Scanlan Collins followed Thomas Lloyd, about 1715 to 1792, from Brunswick County, Virginia into Orange County, North Carolina, and then traced descendants who settled in Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee and elsewhere. Published by G. E. and B. S. Collins at Silver Spring, Maryland in 2001, 417 pages.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Lloyd, Thomas, approximately 1715-1792 -- Family.
An eight page program printed for the sixth annual Lloyd clan convention at Carrboro on October 22, 1941, when the family unveiled a marker to Thomas F. Lloyd, who died in 1792. The program also concerns Adlai Osborne (1744-1815). Family gathering ephemera that also records the placing of a Lloyd memorial in Orange County.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lloyd, Thomas F., 1736?-1792.
Eugene Sugg's sketches of Major General Thomas Lloyd of Orange County, who lived from about 1736 to 1792, and of some of his descendants. A carbon typescript of 19 leaves made at Shelby in 1931, with a letter from P. C. Gardner tipped in and a four leaf bibliography.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lloyd, Thomas F., 1736?-1792.
Betty Scanlan Collins traced the descendants of Thomas Lloyd, who lived from 1715 to 1792 in Orange County, North Carolina, and followed the lines that moved on to Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee and points west. Compiled in 1998 and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Governor William Tryon's 1769 dispatches to the Earl of Hillsborough, ranging from quitrents, land surveys and timber to rice growing, housing, printing, a lottery, and the colony's enslaved people, women and children. Samuel Cornell, Benjamin Heron, Marmaduke Jones and Samuel Strudwick are among the names. Hillsborough was named for the earl, which is the local tie.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Lloyd, Thomas.
House joint resolutions of August 31 to September 6, 1780, passed in the weeks after the defeat at Camden. They include a poll tax exemption for John Vaughan of Orange County, allowances for wagon owners, and William Lee Davidson's appointment as brigadier general for the Salisbury District. 77 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Lloyd, Thomas, approximately 1715-1792.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Robert Bruce Cooke's 1962 letter explaining his work to tell apart two colonial men named Thomas Lloyd, one of Orange County and one of New Hanover County, with abstracts from New Hanover court minutes and from the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina covering 1757 to 1786. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.1256.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Lloyd, Thomas.
Eight items of Thomas F. Lloyd papers spanning 1757 to 1962, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 431-z. Lloyd lived from about 1736 to 1792, so the later material postdates him. Topics include families and genealogy in Orange County and the county's history.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lloyd, Thomas F., 1736?-1792.
A petition of 1770 from the inhabitants of Orange County, asking for unprejudiced juries and for the trial of various lawyers, clerks and sheriffs. Richard Henderson, Martin Howard, Thomas Lloyd and Maurice Moore are mentioned. Other subjects include taxes, warrants, voting and appeals. Cited to Colonial Office volume CO 5/314 part 1, North Carolina correspondence of the Secretary of State, September 1770 to August 1771.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Lloyd, Thomas.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Betty Scanlan Collins traced the descendants of Thomas Lloyd, who lived from 1715 to 1792 in Orange County, North Carolina, and followed the lines that moved on to Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee and points west. Compiled in 1998 and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
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