Lloyd, Henry

Person

Dates

Existence: 1709 - 1795

Biography

Henry Lloyd (1709-1795) was a Loyalist merchant in Boston. He engaged in consignment sales and shipping ventures to Canada, the West Indies, England, and Europe. Among the goods marketed or traded by Lloyd included whalebone, mahogany, lumber, fish, potash, and coffee. After the outbreak of the American Revolution, Henry Lloyd moved to Halifax in 1776. He eventually relocated to London, where he died in 1795 at the age of eighty-six.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Boston and Newport merchants

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School

Collection Identifier: Mss:732 1732-1790 B747

Overview:

This collection consists of four volumes of collected and bound correspondence of merchants engaged in trade of commodities like spermaceti and whale oil, rum, and molasses in Boston, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island, dated from 1732 to 1790. The bulk of the letters are addressed to Newport merchants Aaron Lopez (1731-1782) and Christopher Champlin (1731-1805) from Boston merchants Henry Lloyd (1705-1795), John Powell, and others.

Henry Lloyd letter book

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School

Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1765-1767 L793

Scope and Contents: Copies of correspondence of Boston merchant Henry Lloyd relating to his business ventures and trade in the West Indies and England, dated 1765-1767. Lloyd imported, exported, and sold on commission an assortment of commodities, among them dry goods, oysters, rice, wheat, lumber, potash, whalebone and oil, mahogany, indigo, coffee, cocoa, sugar, molasses, grain, and kettles. Lloyd was also engaged in supplying the British army in Halifax, and there are a number of letters to the agent and...