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Warner P. Lord
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William Lord (1618))
In 1678 Saybrook voted to build a new stone meeting house measuring 50 feet by 30 feet. William Lord was appointed to the committee to "consider the capacity of the town for erecting of a new meeting house".
William's son by his first marriage, Lt. Richard Lord, married Elizabeth Hyde of Norwich and settled in Lyme where his two sons became the progenitors of numerous Lord families of Lyme and his seven daughters married into leading Lyme families. Richard is not Ross Lord's ancestor so his family can only call the Lords of Lyme "cousin".
In 1650 Saybrook records tell us that William's share of the land division extended along the west side of Main Street from Capt. Morgan's Corner to where Mrs. Day now lives (1984). His house probably stood where Mrs. Bull now lives (1984). Ahh, William if you had only held on to that land and insured it passed to subsequent generations!
William's first wife died and he married Lydia Buckland Brown of Rehoboth, Massachusetts on June 3, 1664. William and Lydia had a pre-nuptial agreement in which William promised to double her estate which was valued at 85 pounds guaranteeing that on his death it would be worth 170 pounds. To confirm the deal he bound over to her two houses, 73 acres of land, 16 acres near Oyster River and 250 pounds worth of meadow land.
William and Lydia Lord had seven children in addition to the eight from his previous marriage. Their dates of birth are as follows: Benjamin 1666, James 1668, Samuel 1670, Dorothy 1672, Daniel 1773, Hannah 1675, and Elizabeth 1676.
In 23 years of marriage from 1643 to 1776 William fathered 15 children with two wives! Daniel, his thirteenth child and 10th son, is our ancestor. Aside from his busy schedule raising and producing children William was acquiring land. He purchased much of the land that later became the town of Salem and in April 1669 he received 8 square miles of land from Chapeto,a kinsman of Uncas. William was on good terms with Chapeto and Uncas.
The date of William's death is recorded as May 17 1678. He died in Saybrook but the location of this burial is not known. He died at age 60, young for a member for a member of the Lord family! Perhaps family life just wore him out.
Updated February 16, 2001