Dr. Thomas Lord, Jr.

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Dr. Thomas Lord, Jr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: March 1662
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Lord, Sr. and Dorothy Lord
Husband of Hannah Wolterton
Father of Hannah Stanton; Mary Pemberton and Dorothy Lord
Brother of Capt. Richard Lord; Anna Stanton; William Lord; Capt. Robert Lord; John Lord, Sr. and 2 others

Occupation: Doctor, Physician, Surgeon
Managed by: Mark McCormack
Last Updated:
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Immediate Family

About Dr. Thomas Lord, Jr.

Thomas Lord, Jr., was one of those who owned lend “by the town's courtesie;” his home-lot was on what is now Wells St., next west of his brother, Capt. Richard Lord. Thomas Lord m. at Boston, Sept. 28, 1652, Hannah Thurston, perhaps this Thomas, but his wife is supposed to have been related to Gregory Wolterton, as the latter bequeaths in his will, July 14, 1674, to Dorothy, Hannah, and Mary Lord, dau'rs of Thomas Lord, dec'd, things “in the trunk, that was their mother's.” In 1652 he was engaged by the General Court “to continue his aboade in Hartford for the next ensuing year, and to improve his best skill amongst the inhabitants of the Townes uppon the River within this jurisdiction, both for setting of bones and otherwise.” He was to be paid a salary of f15; in addition to receive for visiting at any house in Hartford, 12d., in Windsor, 5s., and in Mattabeset (Middletown), 8e., Farmington, 6s., Wethersfield, 3s. He d. in 1662 ; called of “Wethersfield” in will dated Oct. 28, 1661 ; he names wife Hannah, and eldest dau. Dorothy ; leaves house and land in Hartford as well as in Wethersfield; inv. April 5, 1662; amount, f202. 18. His widow, whom Porter (8) calls Mary, m. Nehemiah Olmsted.-

Children:

  1. Dorothy, b. Aug. 17, 1653. Thomas Lord, in his will dated Out. 28, 1661, leaves his house and land in Hartford to “eldest dau. Dorothy, incapable of caring for herself.”
  2. Hannah, b. 1656
  3. Mary, b. 1659 (all mentioned in Gregory Wolterton s will)

Hannah and Mary Lord, dau'rs of Thomas Lord, sometime of Wethersfield, deed, wards of George Gardner, of H., convey, May 21, 1677, to Phineas Wilson, a lot of land, which was evidently their gr.f Thomas Lord's home-lot.
Savage says (vol. iv. p 188) that Joseph Stanton, b. 1848, son of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton, m. Hannah Lord, possibly this Hannah.

Source

http://www.foundersofhartford.org/founders/lord_thomas_jr.htm


Family notes

Ref: https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Lord_%285%29 “The reference to wife Mary appears to be a pure mistake by Savage. Jacobus (Ackley-Bosworth 282) and Anderson (The Great Migration, IV:333 acknowledge no wife but Hannah Thurston)

Will

Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06) 1:136.
'Lord, Thomas. Wethersfield. Invt. ... Taken 5 April, 1662, ... Will dated 28 October 1661. (Thomas Lord brother of Richard Lord) : ...'

  • Page 150 Name: Thomas Lord Location: Wethersfield
  • Invt. £202-18-00. Taken 5 April, 1662, by Richard Lord & Samuel Boreman. Will dated 28 October 1661. (Thomas Lord brother of Richard Lord):
  • I Thomas Lord of Wethersfield, being of perfect memory and understanding though weake of body, make this my Last will: And then considering the inability of my elder daughter Dorothy Lord in an ordianry way uncapable of ever carringe for it selfe in this world, seeing that extraordinary payns and Care must be taken with it, I, for the incouragement of my Dear and Tender wife to breed up and take the Care of my sd. Daughter, doe freely give my whole Estate during her natural life. I mean my house and Land at Hartford and all that part and portion of Goods and Chattells wch shall appeare to belong to me after the death of my Honoured and beloved Mother, and my house & Lott at Wethersfield, with all my Moveables & Cattell & Debts due either by Booke or Bill, my Just Ingagements being satisfied, trusting she will have a motherly Care of my Sweet Babes; and, if she can, Will dispose part to them that survive; and that She may Sell either of the houses for the supply of herselfe and children. Moreover I doe Intreat my beloved brother Capt. Richard Lord of Hartford and Mr. Samuel Boreman of Wethersfield to be Supervisors of my will, and to Assist, councill and act for my Loving wife Hannah Lord as her occasion shall require their helpe. Soe I comitt my spirit to God.
  • Not witnessed. (See File.) Thomas Lord.
  • Court Record, Page 69 (Vol. III)--29 October, 1667: Adms. granted to Gregory Wilterton on the Estate of Thomas Lord, Decd, according to the Will of the Deceased. Gregory Wilterton accepts.

Occupation: schoolmaster and bone setter

Burial: 28 OCT 1661 Hartford, Hartford County, CT, USA

Baptism: 15 NOV 1616 Towcester, Northhamptonshire, England


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Dr. Thomas Lord, Jr.'s Timeline

1615
November 15, 1615
Wethersfield, Essex, England, United Kingdom
1616
November 15, 1616
Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
November 15, 1616
Towcester, Northampton, England
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., Towchester, Northamptonshire, England
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Towchester, Northamptonshire, England
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Towcester, Northampton, England
November 15, 1616
Towchester, Northampton, England
November 15, 1616
Towcester, Northampton, England
November 15, 1616
Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom