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658 HISTORICAL ANNOTATION

branch, the Wye East River, about fifteen miles long, extends south and southeast
from near Wye Mills, along the borders of Talbot and Queen Anne Counties, to the
Wye River near its mouth. Footner, Rivers of the Eastern Shore, 294-308; Cohen,
Columbia Gazetteer, 3:3497.
32.34 "Swash,"] In the sense used here, swash is a body of water moving forcibly
or dashing against an object.
32.36 large sloop, the "Sally Lloyd,"] In 1819 Edward Lloyd V ordered the construction
of a new sloop to replace the aging schooner Elizabeth & Ann, which carried
his crops to markets in Baltimore and Annapolis and brought back supplies to his
scattered Talbot County farms. Thomas Auld had supervised the construction, in
Joseph Kemp's St. Michaels shipyard, of the replacement vessel named the Sally
Lloyd in honor of the colonel's daughter, Sally Scott Lloyd. Auld remained in Lloyd's
employment as the master of the Sally Lloyd, which was manned by a slave crew. The
latter gained celebrity status among the Lloyd slaves because of their contact with the
world outside the rural plantations and their ability to purchase small items in the cities
for resale to other slaves. Various account books and cash books, Land Papers--
Maintenance of Property, Land Volume 39, reel 10, Lloyd Family Papers, MdHi.
32.37 favorite daughter of the Colonel] Sally Scott Lloyd Lowndes, daughter of
Edward Lloyd V, was the namesake of her mother, Sally Scott Murray Lloyd. She
married Charles Lowndes, a U.S. Navy officer, on 24 May 1824. Colonel Lloyd purchased
an estate called the Anchorage on the Miles River as a gift for the couple. Their
son, Lloyd Lowndes, served as governor of Maryland from 1896 to 1900. Rossiter
Johnson, ed., The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans,
10 vols. (Boston, 1904). 7:67; Tilghman, Talbot County, 1:207; Preston, Young
Frederick Douglass, 47, 224.
33.1 Sevier] During the years 1809-12 and possibly thereafter, William Sevier
worked for Aaron Anthony, probably as an overseer on his farms. In 1820 he was
between twenty-six and forty years old. At that time Sevier occupied a small red
frame house on the east side of Wye House's Long Green, and was Edward Lloyd V's
overseer for the more than 150 slaves at the main plantation. Aaron Anthony Ledger
A, 1790-1818, folders 94, 19, Aaron Anthony Ledger C, 1809 27, folders 96, 1, 3,
13, 87, 119, 124, 177, 286, 291, both in Dodge Collection, MdAA; 1820 U.S. Census,
Maryland, Talbot County, 7; Preston, Young Frederick Douglass, 70-71, 222.
33.2 my old master's] Aaron Anthony resided in a two-story brick structure that
dated back to the 1660s. Anthony and the Lloyd family had split the cost of remodeling
the house in 1808, and it thereafter became popularly known as the "Captain's
House." The house had a wooden kitchen, slightly separated from the main dwelling
for safety considerations, where Douglass spent much time as a youth. Preston, Young
Frederick Douglass, 27-28.
33.15 the great house] Wye House. the principal residence of Edward Lloyd V,
located on the plantation of the same name, was built to replace the original house
destroyed by British troops during the American Revolution. Still standing, Wye