Samuel H. Lloyd

Quick Facts

Significance:

Boston Vigilance Committee member, Daguerreotypist

Place of Birth:

New York

Date of Birth:

1822

Daguerreotypist Samuel H. Lloyd participated as a member of the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Born in New York in 1822, Samuel H. Lloyd worked as a daguerreotypist in Boston while participating in the local abolitionist movement. In 1849, he joined and donated to the Essex County Anti-Slavery Society. Additionally, Lloyd advertised his daguerreotype rooms on Tremont Row in the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.¹

In 1850, Lloyd continued working as a daguerreotypist at 91 Washington Street.² That same year, he joined the Boston Vigilance Committee, an organization founded in response to the passage of the new Fugitive Slave Law. The Boston Vigilance Committee assisted freedom seekers coming to and through Boston on the Underground Railroad. Aside from serving as a member, Lloyd’s direct contributions to the organization remain unknown.

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Footnotes

1. Lloyd is mapped at 91 Washington Street, Boston, where he worked as a daguerreotypist in 1850. “Saml H. Lloyd,” Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch, 1850 United States Federal Census - Ancestry.com; “Treasurer’s Report,” Liberator, October 15, 1849, 3; “S.H. Lloyd’s Daguerreotype Rooms,” Liberator, October 26, 1849, 4.
2. “Grand May-Day Festival!” Boston Evening Transcript, April 26, 1850, 2; Boston Evening Transcript, June 25, 1850, 3.
3. Austin Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive Slave Law Days in Boston, (Boston: Warren Richardson, 1880), 4.