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Edward Lloyd V were extensive. When Douglass first came to Wye Plantation in
1824, Lloyd reportedly held about 900 acres comprised of the plantation and a dozen
outlying farms. Each of the individual farms was operated by an overseer and
employed the labor of 18 to 47 slaves. At the time the slave population of the estate
was 181, including the 15 slaves held by Aaron Anthony. Preston, Young Frederick
Douglass, 48.
31.33 Tilghmans] In 1820 several male members of the Tilghman family, all of
whom lived in Talbot County, each owned large numbers of slaves. John owned fifty-
two; William H. had twenty-two; Robert owned forty-four; William G. held sixty-
nine; and James had thirty-five. 1820 U.S. Census, Maryland, Talbot County, 7, 22,
25, 50.
31.33 Goldsboroughs] The Goldsborough family was part of the antebellum
political, economic, and social elite of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Their colonial
ancestors had received large land grants from the Calverts, which had been parlayed
into a vast tobacco fortune. Located in Talbot County, the Goldsborough family estate
possessed twenty-eight slaves by 1790. The Goldsboroughs were active in the
Federalist and Anti-Jacksonian parties and exerted great influence over the recruitment
of potential leadership to local and national political offices. Judge Robert
Goldsborough IV (1740-98) served in the Maryland constitutional convention and
then the state senate. His son, Robert Henry Goldsborough (1779-1836), served as a
U.S. senator (1813-19) and cemented the family's hold over Talbot County politics.
Whitman H. Ridgway, Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840 (Chapel Hill,
N.C., 1979), 163-64; Tilghman, Talbot County, 1:408-14; Preston, Young Frederick
Douglass, 1, 10-11.
31.33 Loockermans] While the Loockermans resided in several Eastern Shore
counties, including Caroline, Talbot, and Queen Anne, their original plantation was in
Dorchester County, where Jacob Loockerman, a naturalized Dutchman from New
Amsterdam, settled about 1680 and soon began holding a series of prominent official
positions. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Loockermans played
important roles in Eastern Shore affairs. Jacob Loockerman (1759-1839) was the
clerk of court in Talbot County for many years and lived at Oak Hill, near Easton,
where by the late 1820s he owned twenty-two slaves and 1,210 acres of land. His son,
Theodore Richard Loockerman (1798-1851), a leading Easton lawyer, represented
Talbot in the state legislature and was president of the Branch Bank at Easton at the
time of his death. Ridgway, Community Leadership in Maryland, 333, 338; Tilghman,
Talbot County, 1:415, 480-81, 617; 2:21; Joseph S. Ames, "Genealogies of Four
Families of Dorchester County: Harrison, Haskins, Caile, Loockerman." MdHM,
11:193-202 (June 1916), 11:295-300 (September 1916).
31.33 Pacas] Also referred to as Peakers, a common, local corruption of their
name, the first Paca to appear in Maryland was Robert, who in 1660 was brought to
the Western Shore county of Anne Arundel as an indentured servant. The death of his
master soon after their arrival allowed Robert to marry his widow and inherit her sizable