Origins (as posted on Wikitree.com)
William Lord, son of Thomas Lord, senior and Dorothy Bird, of Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, was baptized 27 Dec 1618, Towcester, Northampton, England. [1]
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] [2]
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.[3]
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,[4] a colony which began as a fort at the mouth of the great Connecticut River in 1635.[5] 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, [4] 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.[4] [1]
Death at Saybrook - 1678
William Lord died 17 May 1678 [6], in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. [7] [8]
Marriages and Children
William Lord married (1) by 1643 Unknown Unknown, [1] possibly in Boston, Massachusetts [4] William and his Unknown first wife had eight children: William; Thomas; Richard; Mary; Robert; John; Joseph; 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 married, (2) about 1664, Lydia Buckland daughter of William Buckland, and widow of John Brown. [1] William had seven more children with Lydia his second wife: Benjamin (b. 1666); Ensign James; Samuel; Dorothy; Daniel; Hannah Lord; and Elizabeth. [4]
Disputed Wife
William's first wife's name 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.
Robert Charles Anderson stated in the Great Migration 1634-1635, Vol. I-L, that the name of William Lord's first wife is unknown.
Research Notes
Location of William Lord's 2nd Marriage
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.
Location of his Grave
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.
Sources
? 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L by Robert Charles Anderson
? 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.
? Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
? 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636
? The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut
? Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, page 274
? Vital records of Saybrook, 1647-1834, (1952), page 3
? 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)
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
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge & Salisbury, Evelyn McCurdy. Family Histories and Genealogies (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1892) Vol. 1, Page 267-9
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKS-P5YG : 13 December 2015), William Lord, 1678; Burial, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States of America, Duck River Cemetery; citing record ID 32634077, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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