An American Family History

Lloyd Ford

also spelled Foard

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Lloyd Ford was born about 1748 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was the son of Lloyd Ford and Mary Grant.

He married Mary.

Mary and Lloyd's children may have included:

James Ford (1776, married Cassandra),
Lloyd Ford (1784, married Nancy Jackson and Mary Branstetter),
Rebecca Ford (1788, married William Jackson),
Alexander Ford (1789, married Mary Ann Johnson),
Grant Ford (1792, married Ellen Griffith),
Benjamin Ford (1794),
Nancy J. Ford (1795, married William Jackson),
William Ford (1797, married Mary Johnson),
Enoch Ford (1800, married Elizabeth Grimsley), and
Thomas Ford (1802, married Elizabeth Chandler).

Lloyd also had children with a women he enslaved.

Peggy Ford (1810)
Rhoda Ford (1814)
Edward Ford
Lark Ford (1815)
John Ford

In 1779, Loyd was a member Captain Benjamin Talbott's company of the Baltimore County Militia.

The family moved to the Watauga Settlement after the American Revolution.

Lloyd started receiving a pension for his serice when he was 83 on on April 13, 1833.

Lloyd Ford, Jr. died at about the age of 96 in 1843.

After his death the family quarreled over a deed that Lloyd had made freeing his slaves and allowing them to use his land.

Baltimore County, Maryland was founded in 1659 and included most of northeastern Maryland. The original county included parts of Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Carroll, and Baltimore Counties.

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