Abner Lord

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Fought in the Revolution. One of the first settlers of Marietta, Ohio, and was a first proprietor of Vienna, Virginia, across the Ohio River from Marietta.

Abner married Mary Selden on 7 Nov 1782 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Col. Samuel Selden and Elizabeth Ely) was born on 22 Apr 1761 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died before 1801. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth "Betsy" Lord was born on 16 Jul 1784 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died on 14 Jun 1840.

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Said to have been a captain in the Revolution.

Abner married Temperance Colt on 3 Feb 1757. Temperance (daughter of Deacon Benjamin Colt and Miriam Harris) was born on 28 Feb 1738; died in 1799 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Esther Marvin on 28 Dec 1727 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Capt. Reinold Marvin and Phebe Lee) was born on 3 Apr 1707 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died on 3 Feb 1792 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Duck River Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1699

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Benjamin Colt (1698-1754) = Miriam Harris
Benjamin Colt = Lucretia Ely
Christopher Colt = Sarah Caldwell
Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor of the Colt revolver

TWK is a second cousin, five times removed, to Samuel Colt.

Deacon married Miriam Harris on 26 May 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Marah on 22 Dec 1693 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Marah was born between 1671 and 1672; died on 28 Feb 1735 in Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Duck River Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Mary.

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He was a deacon in Lyme's Congregational church, and represented Lyme in the General Court from 1701 to 1728.

Reinold married Phebe Lee in 1695. Phebe (daughter of Lt. Thomas Lee and Mary DeWolf) was born on 16 Apr 1677; died on 27 Oct 1707; was buried in Duck River Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 21 Oct 1707

John married Sarah Lord before Jan 1688. Sarah (daughter of William Lord and (Unknown first wife of William Lord)) was born before 1659 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died before 9 Sep 1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "Mary Lord" in The Descendants [By the Female Branches] of Joseph Loomis (citation details below) and other sources, incorrectly as far as we can tell.

William married (Unknown first wife of William Lord) before 1643. (Unknown died before 3 Jun 1664. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said in the genealogy section of the Boston Evening Transcript, 5 Nov 1923, to have been named "Hattie Nickerson." No such person appears in The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689, First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts, Parts I, II & III by Pauline Wixon Derrick with Gertrude James and Barbara E. Goward (Cape Cod, Massachusetts: The Nickerson Family Association, 1997), nor does William Lord.

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A large landowner, he represented Lyme in the General Court in 1670, and from 1672 to 1676.

Reinold married Sarah Clarke on 27 Nov 1663 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of George Clarke and Sarah) was born before 18 Feb 1644; was christened on 18 Feb 1644 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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One of the first settlers of Lyme, Connecticut, he represented it at a General Court at Hartford, 8 Oct 1685.

Thomas married Mary DeWolf on 13 Jul 1676 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Balthazar DeWolf and Alice) was born on 20 Oct 1656; died on 27 Oct 1724; was buried in Duck River Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1658-60 he was a servant of Joseph Mygatt, a Hartford weaver who had received a license to "sell strong liquors by retail."

John married Mary Skinner after Aug 1660. Mary (daughter of John Skinner and Mary Loomis) was born about 1633; died between 14 Jul 1663 and 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1639

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In 1999 Gale Ion Harris (citation details below) established that John¹ Colt married Mary Skinner, not her sister Ann as claimed by most prior sources.

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• Alternate death: Bef 29 May 1651

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Emigrated with his wife and children after 29 Apr 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann.

He was an original proprietor and one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut; his name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. After arriving in Massachusetts in 1635, the Lord family joined the party of the Rev. Thomas Hooker and about 100 other men, woman, and children, and set out from Newtown to form a new settlement on the Connecticut River.

"They traveled more than a hundred miles, through a hideous and trackless wilderness to Hartford. They had no guide but their compass; and made their way over mountains, through swamps, thickets and rivers, which were passable with great difficulty. They had no cover but the heavens, and no lodgings but such as nature afforded them. They drove with them one hundred and sixty head of cattle and subsisted by the way on the milk of their cows. Mrs. Hooker was borne through the wilderness on a litter. The people generally carried their packs, arms and some utensils. They were nearly a fortnight on their journey. This adventure was the more remarkable as many of this company were persons of figure, who in England had lived in honor, affluence and delicacy, and were strangers to fatigue and danger." [Trumbull's Memorial History of Hartford]

His death date is unknown, but has to have been before 29 May 1651, as on that date Dorothy Lord is shown selling land, and at the time in Connecticut a wife could not make contracts while her husband was living. He may have died as early as shortly after 29 Jan 1644, the date of his last appearance in Hartford town records.

Thomas Lord (1585-1667) = Dorothy Bird (b. 1588)
William Lord (1618-1678)
Hannah Lord (b. bet 1670 and 1678) = John Maltby (1670-1727)
Mary Maltby (1708-1793) = Gershom Lewis (1704-1766)
Nathaniel Lewis (b. 1740) = Esther Tuttle (b. 1747)
Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) = Isaac Hale (1783-1839)
Emma (Hale) Smith (1804-1879), wife of LDS founder Joseph Smith

Thomas married Dorothy Bird on 23 Feb 1611 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of Robert Bird and Amy) was born before 25 May 1588 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 25 May 1588 in St. Laurence, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; died between 8 Feb 1669 and 12 May 1675; was buried in First Church, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1675

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Emigrated with her husband and children after 29 Apr 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann.

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Also spelled Renold, Renald, Renall, etc. Overseer of Great Bentley parish, 1625 and 1637; churchwarden there, 1627, 1633, and 1634. Emigrated to New England in 1637 or 1638; first seen at Hartford in 1638. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.
He removed to Farmington in 1639 or 1640 and was afterwards to Saybrook.

At his death, only two of his nine children, Reinold and Mary, were still alive. The inventory of his estate amounted to over £800, well over $100,000 in today's money.

Reinold married Mary between 1617 and 1618. Mary died in 1661 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her death in 1661 led to accusations of witchcraft against Nicholas and Margaret Jennings.

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Called "Farmer" George Clarke to distinguish him from the other George Clarke who settled in Milford at about the same time. The other is called by genealogists "Deacon" George Clarke.

George married Sarah. Sarah died on 19 Jul 1689 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He died of smallpox on the voyage to New England. This voyage is frequently claimed to have taken place in 1641, but it seems much likelier to have happened in 1645 or later.

Thomas married Phebe Browne about 1639. Phebe (daughter of William Browne and Jane Burgis) was born before 1 Oct 1620; was christened on 1 Oct 1620 in Rusper, Sussex, England; died on 24 Dec 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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First recorded in New England on 5 Mar 1656, when he was one of those presented before a Hartford court for "smoaking in the street contra to law." As tradition has it, he was fined, paid his fine, and re-lit his pipe as he walked out of the courtroom.

While his clearly Continental given name has inflamed the imaginations of centuries of his descendants, nothing is in fact known of his origins, or of his exact date of death.

He was a Lyme town committeeman in 1677.

Balthazar DeWolf = Alice
Stephen DeWolf (1650-1711) = Hannah Jones (b. 1660)
Deborah DeWolf (1690-1748) = Aaron Huntley (168-1748)
Hannah Huntley (1708-1807) = Ebenezer Mack (1697-1792)
Soloman Mack (1732-1820) = Lydia Gates (1732-1817)
Lucy Mack (1775-1856) = Joseph Smith, Sr. (1771-1840)
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of Mormonism

Balthazar married Alice. Alice died after 5 Mar 1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her origins are unknown, and there exists no proof that her maiden name was Peck.

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• Alternate death: 1650

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In Hartford by 1639; his name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. Removed to Windsor at some point not known.

"It is not known when John Skinner removed from Braintree, Essex, England, but it is certain that he was the grandson of William Skinner and Margerie Trotter of Braintree, and that their daughter Anne married John Talcott, father of Hartford Founder John Talcott, whose sister Rachel married Hartford Founder John Steele, and whose sister Sarah married Hartford Founder William Wadsworth. That John Skinner was the son of John, son of William and Margerie, is uncertain. The will of Anne (Skinner) (Talcott) Wall (whose second husband was Moses Wall), shows that her brother Richard had a son John, and that her brother John had a son John. The will of William also specifies that he had a son Richard who had a son John, and that he had a son John who had a son John. It is through the naming pattern of the sons of Hartford Founder John Skinner that the probability of him being son of John arises: His first son was named John, the second Joseph, and the third was Richard. This does not constitute proof, but points in that direction." [Timothy Lester Jacobs at the Founders of Hartford site]

John married Mary Loomis. Mary (daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White) died on 19 Aug 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]