Joseph Lloyd House

The Joseph Lloyd Manor house is a historic site and Literary Landmark in Lloyd Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, built between 1766 and 1767 on the Manor of Queens Village, a provisioning plantation established in the late 17th century on the ancestral lands of the Matinecock Nation. It was built for merchant Joseph Lloyd and remained in the Lloyd family for a century before being sold in 1876. The house is most significant today as the place where Jupiter Hammon, the first published Black American poet, was enslaved by the Lloyd family and wrote his best known works; it is now owned by Preservation Long Island and used to interpret Long Island colonial history and the history of enslavement on the estate.