Capt Richard LORD, Sr.

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Captain Richard Lord, bapt. England, Jan. 5, 1611-12, came to America, ahead of his father, in 1632. He settled in Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass. In 1636, in company with his father and mother and brothers and sisters, he traveled with Rev. Dr.Hooker and their party through the wilderness and settled the town of Hartford, Conn. he became a patentee of Connecticut under charter of King Charles II and an Original Proprietor and first settler of hartford, his home lot in 1639 being next west to his father's......

Richard Lord was one of the most energetic and efficient men in the colony. When the first Troop of Horsemen was organized, he was chosen commander, March 11, 1658, and distinguished himself in the Indian Wars. He was constable in 1642, townsman in 1645 and represented Hartford in the General Court from 1656 until his death. He was the captain relied on, in conjunction with John Pynchon, for securing the persons of the regicides Goffe and Whalley, He married, in 1635 Sarah (?). He became a very prominent citizen and addition to being captain of cavalry, was a ship owner in the carrying trade between New London and the West Indies. He found it necessary to have a home in New London, Conn., where he purchased a corner at main and Pearl Streets. He died in New London May 17, 1662, in the fifty-first year of his age, and his gravestone may still be seen there, with the following epitaph:

"The bright Starre of our Cavallrie lyes here;
Unto the State, a Counselour full Deare
And to ye truth a Friend of Sweet Content,
To Hartford Towne a silver Ornament.
Who can deny to Poore he was Reliefe,
And in composing Paroxysmes was Chiefe.
to Marchantes as a Patterne he might stand,
Adventring Dangers new by Sea and Land."

His inventory, taken May 10, 1662, amount to L1539.9.5. His widow died in 1676.

Richard married Sarah ? in 1635. Sarah died on 01 Sep 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard LORD, Jr. was born in 1636 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 05 Nov 1685 in Lost at Sea.
2. Sarah LORD was born about 1638 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut; died on 15 Nov 1705 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut.
3. Dorothy LORD was born about 1640.

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He lived at Towcester from 1610 to at least as late as 1629. He sailed from London, April 29, 1635 in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann", with his wife and all his children except Richard the eldest who had preceded him. He was then fifty and his wife forty-six. After a year or more at Cambridge or Boston, he joined Hooker's party in 1636 and became an original proprietor of Hartford. His home lot was on the bank of the Little River, now Wells St., and hie owned eight other parcels of land. He was a man of position and influence and was given the prefix "Mr." His eldest son, Richard, came over some years before he did and was in Cambridge where he owned a shop. (Paige's Cambridge, P. 600.) but followed his father to Hartford, where he was Constable in 1643. He afterwards settled in New London, became a very prominent citizen and was mentioned in the Royal Charter.

Thomas married Dorothy BIRD on 23 Feb 1610/11 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy was born on 25 May 1588 in Towcester, England; died on 02 Aug 1675 in Hartford, Hartford Co. Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]