Person:Joanna Leigh (1)

Research Notes

• Joanna Leigh, later Lloyd, was the co-heiress, along with her four sisters, of the rich merchant John Leigh of Northcourt House, Isle of Wight. She married Richard Bennett Lloyd of Maryland in 1775.

1.   Family Recorded, in Tilghman, Oswald. History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861: in Two Volumes. (Baltimore, Maryland: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1915).

   Vol 1, pp 175-176 -
   ... - Richard Bennett, who, going to England became a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, and married a celebrated beauty, Joanna Leigh of North Court, Isle of Wight, England. ...