Editing Francis Scott Key (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Mary Tayloe Lloyd (Mrs. Francis Scott Key).jpg|thumb|Mary Tayloe Lloyd, early 1800s]]
{{Stack|[[File:Coat of Arms of Francis Scott Key.svg|175px|thumb|right|Coat of arms borne by Key's uncle Philip Barton Key]]}}
[[File:TerraRubra.jpg|thumb|right|[[Maryland Historical Society]] plaque marking Key's birthplace]]
Key was born into an affluent family.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Francis Scott Key {{!}} American lawyer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Scott-Key |access-date=2023-05-18 |website=Britannica |language=en |archive-date=July 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706154116/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Scott-Key |url-status=live }}</ref> Key's father [[John Ross Key]] was a lawyer, a commissioned officer in the [[Continental Army]], and a judge of English descent.<ref name="Key Smith">{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40066994|title=A Sketch of Francis Scott Key, with a Glimpse of His Ancestors|first=F. S.|last=Key Smith|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.|year=1909|volume=12|pages=71–88|jstor=40066994|access-date=June 24, 2021|archive-date=May 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522053511/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40066994|url-status=live}}</ref> His mother Ann Phoebe Dagworthy Charlton was born (February 6, 1756 – 1830), to Arthur Charlton, a tavern keeper, and his wife, Eleanor Harrison of Frederick in the colony of Maryland.<ref name="Key Smith" /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_8HvAfI0LoC&dq=francis+scott+key+ann+phoebe+charlton&pg=PA58 |title=Key and Allied Families |first=Julian C. |last=Lane |publisher=Genealogical Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8063-4977-0 }}</ref>

Key grew up on the family plantation [[Terra Rubra]] in [[Frederick County, Maryland]], which is now in [[Carroll County, Maryland|Carroll County]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-f3caYlJTw0C&dq=Francis+Scott+Key+John+Ross+Key&pg=PA8 |title=Francis Scott Key: Patriotic Poet |first=Susan R. |last=Gregson |publisher=Capstone |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7368-1554-3 }}</ref> He graduated from [[St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)|St.{{nbsp}}John's College]], [[Annapolis, Maryland]], in 1796 and [[Reading law|read law]] under his uncle [[Philip Barton Key]] who was loyal to the British Crown during the War of Independence.<ref name="Hubbell 300">{{cite book |last=Hubbell |first=Jay B. |title=The South in American Literature: 1607–1900 |location=Durham, North Carolina |publisher=Duke University Press |year=1954 |page=300 }}</ref> He married Mary Tayloe Lloyd on January 1, 1802, daughter of [[Edward Lloyd (Continental Congress)|Edward Lloyd IV]] of [[Wye House]] and Elizabeth Tayloe, daughter of [[John Tayloe II]] of [[Mount Airy Plantation|Mount Airy]] and sister of [[John Tayloe III]] of [[The Octagon House]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Tayloe |first=Walter Randolph |title=The Tayloes of Virginia And Allied Families |location=Berryville, Virginia |page=5 |year=1963 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066361866&view=1up&seq=23&q1=key |archive-date=May 22, 2021 |access-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522051310/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066361866&view=1up&seq=23&q1=key |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebeaconnewspapers.com/becoming-mr-and-mrs-francis-scott-key/|title=Becoming Mr. And Mrs. Francis Scott Key|date=October 2, 2014|work=The Beacon|first=Carol|last=Sorgen|access-date=September 13, 2021|archive-date=November 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103174803/https://www.thebeaconnewspapers.com/becoming-mr-and-mrs-francis-scott-key/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Scott-Key |title=Francis Scott Key &#124; American lawyer |date=July 28, 2021 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |first=Marc |last=Leepson |access-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827105420/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Scott-Key |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple raised their 11 children in their [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] residence, the [[Key House]].<ref name=children>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDFkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202 | title=What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life | publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group | author=Leepson, Marc | year=2014 | pages=26, 222 | isbn=9781137278289}}</ref>