C. C. LORD A HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF NA THAN LORD OF ANCIENT KITTERY, ME. COMPIL~D BY C. C. LORD ARRANGED FOR PUBLICATION BY GEORGE E. LORD THE RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD, N. H. 191~ PREFACE In the literary construction of this book I have endeavored to use my best knowledge of the subject. The material, in manuscript form, collected by my brother, C. C. Lord, I found to be in a disconnected shape, and in pre­ paring it for publication, I have endeavored to preserve my brother's intention. Owing to the incompleteness of ancient records there may be mistakes in the lineage of some of the branches of the Lord family. Whatever there is of merit in this book I want credited to my brother. Many thanks on my part are due the sons and daughters of Nathan Lord for the hearty support and encour­ agement given me in the pursuit of this enterprise, and also to the printer for his kindly courtesies to, and patience with, my inexperience in work of this kind. GEORGE E. LORD. Hopkinton, N. H., September 16, 1912. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS OF NATHAN LORD. l II. NATHAN LORD, 2ND, TRANSACTIONS IN REAL ESTATE, PETITION AND WILL.......................................... 5 III. ABRAHAM COULEY. 9 IV. ANCIENT KITTERY AND SUBSEQUENT DIVISIONS. 12 V. BERWICK, ME., AND KENNEBUNK, ME., TOWN AND CHURCH RECORDS............................................ 14 VI. LocAL AND PERSONAL HISTORICAL ITEMS. 25 VII. PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 28 VIII. LORDS OF LEBANON, ME.. 47 IX. OLIVE A. AKERMAN, HENRY STODDARD RUGGLE, ABRAM T. LoRD AND Lois LoRD . 50 X. DOWNES FAMILY. TRIBON RECORD OF LORDS. 62 XI. LORD. TRIPP, ANNABLE. 68 XII. HODGDON, PLUMER, PRAY, Foss, WATSON, BARRY, BOWMAN, BURDETT AND LORD FAMILIES. 73 XIII. GENEALOGICAL DATA WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 78 XIV. LORD ESCUTCHEON. ANTIQUITY OF NAME. ANCESTRAL BLOOD.............................................. 184 xv. !TEMS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST. 188 XVI. NOTES BY EDITOR...................................... 193 XVII. OBITUARY NOTICES..................................... 194 V LORD FAMILY HISTORY CHAPTER I REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS OF NATHAN1 LORD. HIS WILL Nathan Lord, 1st, from the County of Kent, England, settled in Kittery, Me. In 1652 he signed a convention acknowledging the judicial authority of Massachusetts in Maine. December 16, 1652, he received his first grant of land in Kittery, sixty acres 'lat ye heathy marsh," a location now in the center of Eliot, Me. At present the Boston and Maine railroad passes over this grant at a point between Kittery and Eliot depots. Rev. John Heard Lord of Berwick, Me., is the authority quoted in respect to this grant. The records of a writing in Kittery, Me., December 18, 1652, run as follows: "Granted unto Nathan Lord his heirs and assigns forever by the selectmen of Kittery, sixty acres of upland and meadow at the Heathy Marsh with the timber on ye said land, bounded wPh ye marked trees on ye east and also on ye west with ye marked trees untill the said number of acres be completed." This is said to have been the first grant of land Nathan1 Lord ever received. The land is said to have been located south of Sturgeon Creek in the present town of Eliot, Me. The Rev. Reuben Kimball, pastor of the first church in Kittery, Me., who was applied to by Melvin Lord for information concerning the early history of the Lords,, reported under date of November 29, 1848, as the result of his examinations that "no church record in Kittery extends farther back than 1714 and that he knew of no person by the name of Lord either on the church records which commenced at that date, •or now living in town," but that he had "examined the town records and found them to have commenced as early as 1650 and found mention made in several places in the ancient book, of Mr. Nathan Lord, in connection with grants of tracts of land which are not now included in that town, for all the terri:- 2 LORD FAMILY HISTORY tory now constituting the towns of Eliot, South Berwick, North Berwick and Berwick, reaching north to Lebanon was once called Kittery, the early records of all those towns being in Kittery. He adds "I find no Nathaniel Lord, but one Nathan Lord and if it should be of any service I will send you a copy of the first sentence in which his name is found bearing some resemblance to one or two others. It is under date of December 18, 1652, and is a record of the acts of the town at a public meeting the same day." The following are dates of some of the transactions of Nathan Lord, 1st, in real estate in ancient Kittery: September 7, 1662, John Neal sold to Nathan Lord twenty-five acres of land and a. house, on the northeast side of the Piscataqua river, one-half of the estate bought of Alexander Maxwell of York, by the said Neal and lying near Whites marsh. November 7, 1662, Nathan Lord, Senr. grantee by John Neale twenty-five acres and house and five acres marsh, near Whites marsh in Kittery. July 7, 1669. Sturgeon Creek. Bounds settled between Na­ than Lord and Nicholas Frost, by order of court; also between Richard Otis, and Nathan Lord, survivors of John Heard and Abraham Conley. • March 8, 1671-2. Abram Tilton conveys to Miles Thomson, Sr., and Israel Hodgdon, "all that tract of upland and meadow bought of Nathan Lord forty acres lying at the east end of the heathy marsh and which was granted unto Reginald Jenkins by the town of Kittery." The meadow was formerly in the possession of Jenkins. March I, 1674. Abraham Conley in his will gives to Nathan Lord his son-in-law, all the land that Nicholas Frost holds of him, besides all the other land, upland or marsh, he has or ought to have at Sturgeon Creek, besides (excepting) that lot as granted to Francis Small. June 28, 1678. Nathan Lord et ux. to Thomas Abbott and Jonathan Nason ten acres called Abraham Conley's marsh at Sturgeon Creek in Kittery. York Deed, B. III. Fol. 25. June 28, 1678. Nathan Lord et ux. to Thomas Abbot and Jonathan Nason, forty acres adjoining the ten acres of Conley marsh excepting Peter Withams lot. York Deeds, B. , III. Fol. 26. April 1, 1681. Nathan Lord, Sr., to Nathan Lord, Jr., all LORD FAMILY HISTORY 3 right, title, and interest in house and barn and three tracts of land bought of Abraham Conley of the town of Kittery. May 29, 1682. Stephen Jenkins and Jabez Jenkins depose and say that there was a difference between Nathan Lord, Sr., and Nicholas Frost in regard to a brook running into Sturgeon Creek occasioning much trouble between said Lord and Frost, etc. John Neal in his deed to Nathan1 Lord, dated May 22, 1683, conveyed-all my right, and title to a parcel of land and house, containing about twenty-five acres more or less, lying and being upon the north_east side of Piscataqua riveP, being the one-half of a tract of land which I the said John Neal bought of Alexander Maxwell of the town of York. The said five and twenty acres of land being upon the north side of the said tract of land with five acres of marsh ground lying and being near a place commonly called by the name of Whites marsh. The consideration was £80. March 26, 1686. The inventory of James Chadbourne, of Kittery, deceased, mentions "his house and land bought of Nathan Lord and joins to John Heard's farm at Sturgeon Creek." March 14, 1709. Benjamin Lord, grantor, to John Croud, three acres, part of sixty acres granted to Nathan Lord by the. Parish of Unity, in Berwick. This grant was in April, 1671. August II, 1712. Nathan Lord and Benjamin Lord grantors to Richard Lord, five acres near Whites marsh in Berwick. This conveyance included "all ye marsh and marsh ground that goes by ye name of Nathan Lord, Sen.,23 Island." March 30, 1713. Nathan Lord, grantor to John Cooper, Tobias Hanson and Moses Littlefield, his son-in-law, sixty­ seven acres of land, sixty of which were granted to Nathan Lord by the town of Kittery, December 18, 1652, an_d seven granted to Abraham Conley, September 28, 1653, with other land in Kittery. The administration on the estate of Nathan Lord was granted to Na than Lord, December 24, 1697: inventory accepted (i. e., filed) January 3, 1797-8. 4 LORD FAMILY HISTORY Inventory of The Estate of Nathan1 Lord, Sen., late of Berwick deceased. £ s d Wearing clothes . 6 o o Dwelling house, barn, house, lands at home, out lands and meadow in all about 200 acres ........... 100 o o 2 oxen, 3 cows, 3 yr. old steer, 2-3 yr. old heifers, 1-2 yr. old and two mares all appraised at ......... 23 0 0 4 swine ....................................... 2 8 0 8 sheep ....................................... 2 0 0 2 feather beds, 2 bolsters, 2 pillows, 2 mugs, 7 blankets I pr. sheets ................................ 14 0 0 5 pewter dishes, 4 small knives, and two spoons ..... I 0 0 I iron pot, I kettle, 1· skillet, a frying pan, I dripping pan, r spitt and a brass kettel ............... 2 0 0 I pr. of steel yards, I warming pan .............. I 7 0 Wooden trays, dishes, 3 earthern pots, 2 pans, a keeller, 2 knot bowls, 2 meal sieves, and a spinning wheel I 0 0 I trace chain, a paddle, a trammel, a beetle, 2 pr. hooks, a nebring, chain and 4 wedges .........