Judith (Lord) Hambleton (1687)

Born 29 Mar 1687 in Berwick, York, Maine

Ancestors

Wife of Gabriel Hamilton — married 24 May 1721 in Berwick, York, Province of Maine

Descendants

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Biography

Judith Lord was born at Kittery, Maine, on 29 Mar 1687, the daughter of Nathan Lord and Martha (Tozier) Lord.^[1]

Judith (Lord) (Mead) Hamilton died at Berwick, Maine, on 31 Jan 1775 and was buried there on 2 Feb 1775.^[2]

Marriages

(1) Judith Lord married Benjamin Mead, before 29 Jan 1716/17, when "Benjamin Mead of Berwick appeared in Court & Acknowledged himselfe Guilty of Comitting the act of fornication with Judeth Lord now his wife, Its Considered by the Court that they pay a fine of Thirty Shillings apiece to the King & fees of Court 5s apiece."^[3]

(2) Judith (Lord) Mead married Gabriel Hamilton (or Hambleton) at Berwick, Maine, on 24 May 1721.^[4] In her father's will, made on 6 Jul 1733, Judith was called his daughter Judith Hambleton.^[5]

From the Lord family genealogical notes of my great grandfather Isaac Purl Lord (1858-1942):

• The family of Hambleton was prominent in Church affairs at Berwick ME. Sometimes written "Hamilton" but erroneously. Some "later comers" at Sanford ME about the time of the Revolution wrote their names "Hamilton."

Parents and Siblings

"Martha Tozer, daughter of Richard Tozer, sen., is referred to in the following from Berwick, (Me.) records of marriages and births:

Nathan Lord married to Martha, daughter of Richard Tozer and Judith his wife, 22 November 1678.

1. Martha, born 14 October 1679
2. Nathan, born 13 May 1681
3. William, born 20 March 1682/3
4. Richard, born 1 March, 1684/5
5. Judith, born 29 March 1687
6. Samuel, born 14 Jun, 1689, married at Kittery, Me. 19 October 1710, by Rev. Jeremiah Wise, to Martha, born 9 February 1684, daughter of Paul and Catherine Wentworth.
7. Mary born 29 July 1691
8. John born 18 January 1693
9. Sarah, born 28 March 1696
10. Anne, born 27 May 1697
11. Abraham, 29 October 1699"^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Joseph Crook II, and Lois Ware Thurston, editors, Vital Records of Kittery, Maine, to the Year 1892 (Rockport, Me., 1991), 29
2. ↑ "The Diary of Master Joseph Tate of Somersworth, N. H.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 74:190 (1920)
3. ↑ Maine Province and Court Records, 5:192, citing Court of General Sessions, 29 Jan 1716/17, quoted in Priscilla Eaton in “The Descendants of Nathan[1] Lord of Kittery and Berwick, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist, 33:3-20, 71-88, 132-142 (2011), 14 (original spelling and capitalization retained).
4. ↑ Frost, John Eldridge, and Joseph Crook Anderson II, Vital Records of Berwick, South Berwick, and North Berwick, Maine (Camden, Me., 1993), 112
5. ↑ Eaton, Priscilla, “The Descendants of Nathan[1] Lord of Kittery and Berwick, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist, 33:3-20, 71-88, 132-142 (2011), 7
6. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy comprising The Origin of the name, the Family in England and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant and of his descendants". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass pg. 87