Capt. Robert Lord

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lord-70

Robert Lord was christened 12 May 1621 Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, as a son of Thomas Lord and his wife Dorothy. Dorothy's surname is not stated on the Towcester parish register.[1][2]. He died 1676 or after, probably in England.

Robert Lord is named as a son of Thomas Lord and wife Dorothy Bird in R.C. Anderson's "Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635."[3] Accessible by subscription at AmericanAncestors.org or Ancestry.com.

Disambiguation

Not the son of Robert Lord

Robert Lord was not the father of Mary (Lord) Warne. This association was published in Mary E. Carhart Dusenbury, A genealogical record of the descendants of Thomas Carhart : of Cornwall, England (1880, p. 87), the result of mis-interpreting the profile of Robert Leach in John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829, p. 182). See the comments on Mary (Lord) Warne.

There has been much confusion about the parentage of wife Rebecca, who has sometimes been considered daughter of Christopher Stanley and Susanna (?) Stanley[3], based solely on ambiguous wording of Susanna's will. However, the most authoritative recent study[14], which connected English records to the Phillips family, demonstrated that Rebecca was the daughter of William Phillips and his first wife, Sarah Bishop. After the death of first husband Christopher Stanley, Susanna married William Phillips (the second marriage for both), and her will misleadingly referred to her step-children, born of Sarah Bishop, as her own children.

No death or burial record of Robert has been found. Savage [18] and Labaw[11] asserted that Robert died in Charlestown 13 Jul 1678, but that death record[19] gives the names of the deceased's parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (not Thomas and Dorothy); further examination of Charlestown vital records[20] shows one Robert Lord born to Samuel and Elizabeth 22 Nov 1675, so the 1678 death was that of a child. We must consider Robert's date and place of death unknown, and last record of him the 1676 deed cited above.

Family

Robert married Rebecca Phillips[8] before 26 Aug 1648, when he jointly made a land deed with her.[9]

Children

Robert and Rebecca Lord's first six children were well documented in a recent comprehensive study of American and English records of Rebecca's family:[14]

1. Robert Lord, born Apr 1651, Boston (died young)
2. Thomas Lord, born May 18 1653, Boston; died 6 Oct 1653, Boston
3. Rebecca Lord, baptized 20 Dec 1656, Stepney Chapel, Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England[13]
4. Robert Lord (again), baptized 6 Feb 1657/8, Stepney Chapel
5. Sarah Lord, baptized 28 Aug 1659, Stepney Chapel
6. William Lord, baptized 11 Jun 1661, Stepney Chapel

Two later children were reported by earlier authors, but their origins in this family are disputed.[15][10][11] See Research Note 3 and further discussion of evidence against this family attachment in the profile of Mary Lord.

• Mary Lord, born 13 Jul 1668, Cambridge, Massachusetts Colony
• Sarah Lord, date and place of birth unknown

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Likely this Captain Robert Lord:

From Literary Culture in Early New England, 1620-1730 By Thomas Goddard Wright et al :

In 1662 action was brought against Captain Robert Lord for bringing in Ann Coleman of the "cursed sect," who "came furnished wth many blasphemous & haeretticall bookes, which she had spread abroad."

Perhaps Quaker books....

Came over on the Elizabeth & Ann at age 9 in 1635 with (at least) his father and mother and 6 siblings (see his father's record).

Reportedly moved back to England:

Note: Robert was at this time (of his mother's death) living in England with his wife Rebecca Stanley [SIC: Phillips] and is reported to have been sued in London--Genealogical Dictionary, by Savage--by his nephew, Richard, in 1675)--

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Lord_(1)_
• Thomas Lord, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), [1]. but age 9 in 1635 passenger list.
• Lord, Kenneth. Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord: an Original Proprietor and Founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636. (New York: The Compiler, 1946), page 2. 'The Towcester Registers, 1561-1633, give the following baptisms ... Robert Lord, baptized May 12, 1620.'
• Labaw, George Warne. A Genealogy of the Warne Family in America; Principally the Descendants of Thomas Warne, Born 1652, Died 1722, One of the Twenty-four Proprietors of East New Jersey. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical, 1911. 57-59. Print. GoogleBooks Link
• page 7 of Suffolk Deeds, Volume 2 By Suffolk County (Mass.)