William Lord immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Origins
William Lord, son of Thomas Lord, senior and Dorothy Bird, of Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, was baptized 27 Dec 1618, Towcester, Northampton, England. [1][2]
Sailed on Elizabeth and Ann - 1635
William Lord immigrated at age seventeen, with his parents and six of his seven siblings, his eldest brother Richard having preceded the family to New England. The Lord family sailed from London on the ship Elizabeth & Ann, arriving at Boston, Massachusetts in 1635. [1][3]
Cambridge to Hartford - 1636
Thomas Lord first settled his family in Cambridge, [1] Massachusetts. They moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636 with the original founders, according to Anderson. [1] William's father Thomas, and his older brother Thomas Lord, Jr. are both on the list of Founders of Hartford, Connecticut. William Lord is not the original list of Hartford Founders, and not on the list of Founders recently discovered due to additional research.[4]
Death of his Father, Thomas Lord - 1643/4
William Lord's father Thomas died soon after 29 Jan 1643/4" at Hartford, Connecticut Colony.[1]
A Founder of Saybrook, Connecticut - 1643
By 1643 William Lord had moved his family to Saybrook, Connecticut,[5] a colony which began as a fort at the mouth of the great Connecticut River in 1635.[6] His eldest son, also named William Lord, was born at Saybrook in October of 1643, (see Vital Records of Saybrook). William Lord is on the List of Founders of Old Saybrook.
In 1648 he received a large tract of land in Saybrook.
William received a large tract of land in Lyme, Connecticut, when he negotiated a purchase of land from the Indians. In 1669 he purchased 8 square miles of Paugwonk land from the indian Chapeto, relative to Uncas who was the leader of the local Mohegans. This land later became the location of Salem, Connecticut. It is said that he had good relations with the Indians, even with Uncas himself, and that there was little warfare between the English of Lyme and the Indians because of their relationship.
Bequests from His mother Dorothy - 1675
Dorothy (Bird) Lord wrote her will 8 Feb 1669, [5] and the inventory of her estate was taken 12 May 1675.[1] Dorothy bequeathed real estate to her son William and his son Richard. She also gave each of them a fifth share in the moveables of her estate and of her cattle.[5][1]
Death at Saybrook - 1678
William Lord died 17 May 1678 [7], in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. [8][9][10]
Marriages and Children
William Lord married (1) by 1643 Unknown Unknown, [1] possibly in Boston, Massachusetts [5] William and his Unknown first wife had eight children: William; Thomas; Richard; Mary; Robert; John; Joseph[9]; and Sarah. Unknown Unknown died sometime between 1658 and 1664. All of William's children with his first wife, (except Sarah, the last one), were born in Saybrook and are found in Saybrook Vital Records, beginning with his son William born Oct 1643.
William's first wife's name is Unknown. Robert Charles Anderson stated in the Great Migration 1634-1635, Vol. I-L, that the name of William Lord's first wife is unknown.
The Nickerson Family Association states that Harriet Nickerson was not the wife of William Lord. Please read their pdf article: The Fictional Hattie Nickerson Lord, by Burton M. Derick, VP Genealogy, Nickerson Family Association. Note that Dorothy Nickerson was married to a different man, not William Lord.
Hattie Nickerson, shown by the Nickerson Family Association to be a fictional person, an artificial construct, was not his first first wife, and there is no documentation to prove such a marriage.
Location of his Grave - Unknown:
Donald Lines Jacobus and the Saybrook Vital Records both state that William Lord, Sr. died in Saybrook. They are both silent as to where he was buried. In the absence of primary sources, it is reasonable to suppose he was buried where he died, and where his first wife died (and was presumably buried -- in Saybrook. However that is merely supposition. It has been claimed (without a source) that he was buried in Lyme. That is also supposition. Best genealogical practices are to leave blank events for which support is not found.
↑ Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. p. 72 see attached photo.
↑The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, by Donald Lines Jacobus, pp 317-318 [digital], [282-283 paper]
Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. Page 331-335 Thomas Lord
Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, Pg. 97
Vital records of Saybrook, 1647-1834, by Deep River (Conn.); Connecticut Historical Society; Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. Connecticut Society, (Hartford 1952) pp 3
Jacobus, Donald Lines, Ancestry.com. The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Jacobus, Donald Lines,. The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960. pp 317 - 318 [digital] pp 282-283 in the paper version
Earnest Flagg, Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, database online, Ancestry.com, Ernest Flagg, (Hartford, Connecticut, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1926), also found at FamilySearch, free access. p. 273-274.
See also:
Lord, Kenneth, Compiler, Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636, Ancestry.com, [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Lord, Kenneth,. Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636. New York: unknown, 1946. pp. 71-74 (page 93 in the digital version). Available to borrow at Internet Archivehere.
New Englanders in Nova Scotia Manuscript. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) William Lord
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SRJ8-YG2 : accessed 2016-12-16), entry for William /Lord/.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:33RP-LJS : accessed 2016-12-16), entry for William /Lord/.
Early Families of New England. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) William Lord
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This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).
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Under research notes there's a section Location of William Lord's 2nd Marriage, that references a FindAGrave memorial that's been removed. :https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140750627
The current findagrave profile doesn't mention the marriage. Should the section be deleted, or just edited?
According to William Lord's profile at FindaGrave, William Lord married Lydia Buckland in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Their marriage is not found at http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Bristol/Rehoboth/. The record is also not listed in the Saybrook books.
Perhaps we should condsider keeping the fictional Hattie Nickerson as child of William marked "uncertain" or perhaps even as an unconnected person. She can be ppp as PGM adjunct.
thirteen years ago Anderson published The Great Migration, and showed William Lord, son of Thomas Lord, with his first wife "UNKNOWN".
Ten years later, Anderson published The Great Migration Directory in 1015. The only source for Thomas Lord is the original GM of 2005. So we still have no source for Hattie Nickerson being the wife of William Lord, except a report that was published in the Boston Transcript in the early 1800s, according to Kenneth Lord, compiler of Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636, published in 1946.
My question is this:
Are we correct to show Hattie Lord as first wife of William Lord, when we the one source ref is imprecise and hearsay, and all other sources show her as Unknown?
Richard, son of William Lord and his first wife, is my husband's 9x great-grandfather, so this is rather important to me. Thank you for any help.
The baptismal dates for William Lord and his siblings are given by Robert Charles Anderson in Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L, page 333. The Puritan Great Migration project goes by the information in Anderson's books unless there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Ship lists of the that era are notoriously unreliable in the estimated ages they put down for their passengers.
Thank you for posting additional sources, Jennifer and Rev Dan.
I have followed the course of Anderson's work for some years now, and it is rewarding to note that he and his large group of researchers are continually updating their knowledge of the early immigrants of our country (see the Great Migration Study Project).
Ship lists give us an approximation, baptismal records are primary sources.
An additional source is The Sterling Genealogy Albert Mack Sterling, Edward Boker Sterling The Grafton Press 1909: "Ancestry of Joseph Lord Thomas Lord, b. in England in 1585, came to New England in the ship Elizabeth Sc Anne with wife Dorothy, in May, 1635. Settled first in Newton, Mass., thence removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1636. His son William Lord, b. in 1623, settled at Saybrook, Conn. ; m. abt. 1642, Dorothy ; d. May 17, 1678....They had Thomas Lord, b. at Saybrook, Dec., 1645, who m. Dec. 22, 1693 Mary Lee, and d. at Lyme, June 27, 1730. Their son, Joseph Lord, b. in 1697; m. Abigail Comstock; he d. in 1736. Their son Joseph Lord, b. in 1730; m. Sarah Wade; he d. in 1788. Their son Joseph Lord, 3d..."
The William shown on the Elizabeth & Ann passenger list was (is shown as) 12 y.o. in April/May 1635, so his b. should be closer to 1623. Elizabeth & Ann
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The current findagrave profile doesn't mention the marriage. Should the section be deleted, or just edited?
According to William Lord's profile at FindaGrave, William Lord married Lydia Buckland in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Their marriage is not found at http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Bristol/Rehoboth/. The record is also not listed in the Saybrook books.
Is there a category for "fictional person" which we could add to Hattie's profile, and others like her?
Looks like that will be me:)
Ten years later, Anderson published The Great Migration Directory in 1015. The only source for Thomas Lord is the original GM of 2005. So we still have no source for Hattie Nickerson being the wife of William Lord, except a report that was published in the Boston Transcript in the early 1800s, according to Kenneth Lord, compiler of Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636, published in 1946.
My question is this:
Are we correct to show Hattie Lord as first wife of William Lord, when we the one source ref is imprecise and hearsay, and all other sources show her as Unknown?
Richard, son of William Lord and his first wife, is my husband's 9x great-grandfather, so this is rather important to me. Thank you for any help.
Ship lists of the that era are notoriously unreliable in the estimated ages they put down for their passengers.
Thank you for posting additional sources, Jennifer and Rev Dan.
I have followed the course of Anderson's work for some years now, and it is rewarding to note that he and his large group of researchers are continually updating their knowledge of the early immigrants of our country (see the Great Migration Study Project).
Ship lists give us an approximation, baptismal records are primary sources.