Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader
(1742-1776)
BIRTH
1742
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth Lloyd
DEATH
1776
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
John Cadwalader
(1742-1786)
CHILDREN
Maria Cadwalader Ringgold
(1776-1811)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Betsy
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader married Philadelphia merchant John Cadwalader in 1768. She was the daughter of Edward Lloyd of Maryland, whose introduction brought her husband into contact with George Washington. Charles Willson Peale painted Elizabeth, John and their daughter Anne in 1772. Her purchases of British clothing continued amid colonial boycotts. She had three daughters and died in 1776, shortly after the birth of the youngest.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Cadwalader’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Cadwalader is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Cadwalader died in 1776. Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader married Philadelphia merchant John Cadwalader in 1768. She was the daughter of Edward Lloyd of Maryland, whose introduction brought her husband into contact with George Washington. Charles Willson Peale painted Elizabeth, John and their daughter Anne in 1772. Her purchases of British clothing continued amid colonial boycotts. She had three daughters and died in 1776, shortly after the birth of the youngest. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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