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• Title	Dr.
  Birth	Abt 1585	Towcester,Northamptonshire,England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1678	Hartford,Hartford Co.,Connecticut
  Person ID	I110593	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2000 00:00:00
  Father	Richard LORD, b. Abt 1555, England
  Mother	Joan
  Family ID	F46377	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Dorothy BIRD, b. 25 May 1588, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England
  Married	23 Feb 1610/1611	Towcester,Northamptonshire,England
  Children	1. Richard LORD, c. 5 Jan 1611/1612, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England   2. Ann LORD, c. 18 Sep 1614, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England   3. Thomas LORD, Jr., c. 15 Nov 1616, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England   4. William LORD, c. 27 Dec 1618, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England   5. Robert LORD, c. 12 May 1620, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England   6. John LORD, c. 21 Jan 1623/1624, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England > 7. Amy LORD, c. 30 Nov 1626, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England   8. Dorothy LORD, c. 1 Jul 1629, Towcester,Northamptonshire,England
  Family ID	F46376	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Dorothy BUCKLEY
  Children	1. William LORD
  Family ID	F46327	Group Sheet

• Notes

  STANTON GENEALOGY, by William Stanton, page 12. Came to America April 29, 1635 in the "Elizabeth and Ann". Mrs. Lorddied in 1676, aged 87 years. She sealed her will with the arms of the"Lord alis Laward" family. Thomas was granted the first medical license in the New EnglandColonies. Death: ca 1644 GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND by Flagg, pgs 273-4 ca 1667 THE GENEALOGY OF JANE ELIZABETH WHEELER THOMAS by Bertha Jane Thomas Libby (1974) before 1648 ACKELEY-BOSWORTH GENEALOGY ELDRED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES, Researched by: Catherine Matson & ClariceMcNiven, Compiled by: Carol & Susan Matson, pp. 90, 91. Thomas was a man of means, position and influence and in 1632 hesent his eldest son Richard, then about 21 years of age to America.Richard settled in Newton MA which afterward became Cambridge. In 1633,Gov. Haynes and the Rev. Thomas Hooker, friends of Thomas sailed forAmerica with about 200 passangers important to the Colony, and it isthought possible that Richard was sent in advance in order to select aplace to settle. In 1636, with his entire family, Thomas joined the partyof Rev. Hooker and Mr. Stone and 100 men, women and children, which tookits departure from Newtown to form a new settlement on the ConnecticutRiver. "They traveled for more than 100 miles, through a hideous andtrackless 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 theheavens, and no lodgings but such as nature afforded. They drove withthem 160 head of cattle and subsisted by the way on the milk of theircows. Mrs. Hooker was borne through the wilderness on a litter. Thepeople generally carried their packs, arms and some utensils. They werenearly a fortnight on their journey. This adventure was more remarkableas many of the company were persons of figure, who in EN had lived inhonor, affluence and delicacy and were strangers to fatigue and danger.It was early in June when they reached their journey's end. Their fristlabor was to prepare their dugouts in the hillside and provide shelterfor their cattle. They had for some time been close friends and neighborsin Newtown, and were already organized as a church, had been members oftownships and were familiar, therefore, with action as a body. Theyagreed to purchase a territory jointly and afterwards parcel it out andso purchased a large area. Thomas Lord became an original proprietor andone of the first settlers of Hartford. The Hartford settlers were largelypeople of some culture cast into raw conditions, and there was a minglingof high breeding and rough life". There is a monument erected in Hartfordwith the names of the first members of the first church. Thomas Lord isnamed on it. ANCESTORS OF ALDEN SMITH SWAN AND HIS WIFE MARY ALTHEA FARWELL, byJosephine C. Frost, The Hills Press, New York, MCMXXIII, page 148. Thomas Lord sailed for New England in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann"from London, in 1635, aged 50 years, bringing with him wife Dorothy, aged46 years, and among other children their daughter Anne, aged 14 years. Hebecame one of the original proprietors of Hartford, CT, and his homesteadin 1639 was on what is now Wells Street, on the bank of the Little River.The date of his death is not known, but she died Aug. 2, 1676, and as shedoes not mention her husband in her will, he probably predeceased her. MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY, CONN. Vol. 1, page 248. SAVAGE HISTORY OF STONINGTON, CONN. by Wheeler.