Mary Lloyd Chew Paca died on January 15, 1774, after childbirth, according to the existing researched cause classification. She had married William Paca in 1763, and the couple had established their Annapolis house and garden during the following decade. Their son John Philemon was the only child of the marriage to survive to adulthood. The available account supports a connection between the death and a recent confinement but does not establish the precise complication, duration of illness, or treatments attempted. A specific diagnosis such as infection or hemorrhage would therefore go beyond the evidence assembled here. Mary's death preceded the Declaration of Independence and William's later governorship, so she did not live through the public events for which he became best known. Family and house records provide a setting for the loss but cannot recreate an undocumented bedside scene. Her final days remain briefly recorded: a young Maryland household, a death associated with childbirth, and surviving family members whose later prominence should not replace her own history.