Joseph Lloyd Manor

 Joseph Lloyd Manor was completed in 1767 in Lloyd Neck. It was a 3,000-acre provisioning plantation. The Manor supplied the Boston-based merchant family with cider, cordwood, and clay among other inventory. It wasn't until 1711 that the first Lloyd, Henry, took up residence. The interior elements of the house were designed by Connecticut born carpenter Abner Osborn.  He was recommended by Joseph's brother James and worked on the project with four apprentices.  They completed the exterior sheathing of the house as well as the doors, windows and interior paneling and molding

Jupiter Hammon, one of the first published African American writers, was one of the many people of African descent enslaved at the site. With the encouragement of the Lloyd family, Hammon learned to read and write and at the age of forty-nine, authored his first published poem in 1760. During his lifetime, Hammon authored numerous essays and poems that reflect his intelligence, deep Christian faith, and views concerning the social and moral conflicts of slavery and freedom in the early United States. The British occupied Joseph Lloyd Manor during the Revolutionary War and it is where Hammon authored his most significant works about the moral conflicts of slavery and freedom in the early United States.

Henry Lloyd IV would be the last member of the Lloyd family to own Joseph Lloyd Manor. He struggled financially, and in 1876, sold the house to James C. Townsend of Oyster Bay to pay off debts. In 1882, Anne Coleman Alden purchased the house. Alden's estate was sold in 1900 to William John Matheson. His daughter Anna and her husband Willis D. Wood moved into Joseph Lloyd Manor in 1905. Mrs. Wood rented the Joseph Lloyd Manor house to a number of tenants, among them Charles Lindbergh, who lived there with his family from February 1940 until August 1941. Finally, Mrs. Anna Matheson Wood gifted Joseph Lloyd Manor to the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in 1968. Today, the Society is known as Preservation Long Island and continues to steward the house. The house was recognized as a Literary Landmark in 2020.

Sources:

“Joseph Lloyd House.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 June 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lloyd_House

 “Joseph Lloyd Manor.” Preservation Long Island, 13 May 2022, https://preservationlongisland.org/joseph-lloyd-manor

O'Connor-Arena, Melissa. “A New View - Lloyd Family Series (The Joseph Lloyd Manor).” Huntington, NY Patch, Patch, 12 Apr. 2010, https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/a-new-view-lloyd-family-series-the-joseph-lloyd-manor