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JOHN LOYD (Henry Sr., David) There were several John Loyds (Lloyd) living in Frederick Co., Virginia. By a process of elimination this writer has c ome to the conclusion that the John Loyd who was a delegate to the first Baptist convention in Virginia was probably th e son of HENRY.This meeting took place Aug. 19, 1766 at the Ketocktin church at Short Hill in Loudoun County, West Va . JOHN MARKS was the preacher at Ketocktin and was also a delegate to this convention. He is buried in the church gra veyard. There are no records of Loyds being buried there. JAMES and RUTH LLOYD who lived next door to Henry, were members of this church and they had a son John. But this Joh n was only a boy at this time. There was also a John Lloyd who married Jan. 11, 1760 ELIZABETH BROOKS in Pa. Both of these people could have been fro m Va. and it is a possibility that this one could have been the delegate and the son of Henry Sr. It is another Lloyd- Brooks association.(b) Pvt. Rev, Pa(c) A JOHN MARKS later shows up in Huntingdon Co., Pa. as does JOHN GROVE, another Frederick Co. name in that part that bec ame Jefferson Co., W. Va. We remember too, that two daughters of Henry Loyd married two sons of JOHN GERRARD. And John Gerrard and John Loyd we re both delegates to the same convention, so with these connections in mind, we feel that this John was the son of Henr y. We know by Henry's estate settlement in 1802 in Pa. that his son John was deceased and had left two children unname d in the settlement. Since we have been speaking of the various associations of the Loyd family of Frederick Co., Va., it seems a good tim e to give a little of the religious background because it is here we meet the Gerrard family, and because HENRY and JUD ITH are listed as very early members of the Mill Creek Baptist Church in Frederick County, probably the first Baptist c hurch formed in Virginia. On Jan 18, 1983 Mr. LLOYD'BROMLEY sent the following note taken from "History of the Rise an d Progress of the Baptists in Virginia." by Robert B. Semple, and (revised and extended by Rev. G.W. Beale, 1894.) Th e Mill Creek Baptist Church was started, in 1743. When the French and Indian War broke out in 1755, Reverend JOHN GERR ARD left the Mill Creek Church, and went east over theBlue Ridge Mountains where it was safer. Here, probably in 1756 , he founded on Ketoctin Creek the Ketoctin Baptist Church. According to microfilm in the University of Pennsylvania library, (Virginia Baptists - Minute Books of the Baptist cong regation in 18th century Virginia) members of the Mill Creek Baptist Church signed a covenant dated May 25, 1761. Thi s may mean when the church was reconstituted after falling apart during the French and Indian War. There is a list o f names after this covenant which includes all those who joined the church up until the 1800's. Early in the list ar e the names. Henry and Judith Lloyd. Later are the names of ABNER GERRARD and MARTHA LLOYD. John Gerrard was Ministe r here until his death in 1787. His wife MEHETABEL was also a member of this church. Mr. Bromley added that in Semple 's History, John Gerrard was thought to have come from Pennsylvania, as the Mill Creek Church had close ties with the P hiladelphia Baptist Convention. JOHN LOYD"S name does not appear on this microfilm. The following article explains th e reason for the close ties. From "Legends of Loudoun" by Harrison Williams, p. 79. "Between 1750 and 1755 John Gerrard, a Baptist preacher of Maryland, is said to have gone to Berkely County and thenc e journeyed over the Blue Ridge into the present Loudoun "where he found the people ready to listen to the proclamatio n of the gospel." The first Baptist Church in Loudoun (and perhaps in Virginia as well) was built at Ketoctin in 175 6 or 1757, according to tradition.ooooooooooo" "Until 1765 the Baptist congregations in Virginia were united to the Philadelphia Association but in that year obtaine d their dismissal and set about the task of building their own association in Virginia. Their first convention was hel d "in Ketoctin inLoudoun," the old church there thus giving the first Baptist Association in Virginia its name. At tha t time the Colony had only four Baptist churches but all of them were represented at this first convention by the follo wing delegates: Ketoctin: John Marks and John Loyd Smith & Lynsville Creek: John Alderson Mill Creek: John Gerrard and Isaac Sutton Broad Run: David Thomas and Joseph Metcalf." Sources: (b) Pennsylvania Marriages before 1790, p. 153o (c) DAR Patriots Index p. 420