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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF MAINE
COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
GEORGE THOMAS LITTLE, A. M., Litt. D.
Librarian of Bowdoin College Vice-President Maine Genealogical Society
Member Maine Historical Society Honorary Member Minnesota Historical Society
Member American Historical Association Member of Council, American Library Association Author "Little Genealogy"
AND INCLUDING AMONG OTHER LOCAL CONTRIBUTORS
REV. HENRY S. BURRAGE, D.D.
State Historian
Chaplain of National Home, Togus AND
ALBERT ROSCOE STUBBS Librarian Maine Genealogical Society
VOLUME II
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The family under consideration in LORD this article has been distinguished by men and women of brains, has included scholars and divines, and is still con- tributing much to the progress of the nation along uplifting lines. It is undoubtedly of English origin, but the place of birth of the first ancestor or the exact time of his coming to America has not been discovered. It has been conspicuous in Maine and is still so.
(I) Nathan (I) Lord, born about 1603, is found of record in Kittery, Maine, as early as 1652, when he with others signed an agreement as follows : "We, whose names are underwrit- ten, do acknowledge ourselves subject to the government of Massachusetts Bay in New England." There can be no doubt that he was English, as that locality was settled at that time exclusively by English people. Nathan Lord was a planter and appears to have dealt in real estate. Previous to 1662 he was lo- cated in a district called Sturgeon's Creek, where he received a grant of land. This loca- tion is now in the town of Eliot, once a part of ancient Kittery. After 1662 Nathan Lord seems to have owned a homestead at or near what is now called Mt. Pleasant, in South Berwick. In 1676, with his son and namesake, he took possession of an estate of seventy- seven acres, on which was a house and barn, and this was held about five years in joint ownership when the father transferred his right and title to his son. This was located in the district known as Oldfields in South Ber- wick. Upon this place a garrison was main- tained during the Indian troubles and was oc- cupied as a residence as late as 1816. This was a unique and extensive edifice and had a door through which could be driven a yoke of oxen and cart. The door was surmounted by a carved figurehead, representing the prow of a ship, while many wood carvings on its interior added to its adornment. Nathan Lord died in 1733, and in his will bequeathed to his minister a gold ring, and he also left twenty pounds for the purchase of communion plate. His estate was valued at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six pounds, two shillings and twopence. He was twice married, his
first wife being Judith, a daughter of Abra- ham Conley, who made Nathan Lord executor of his will and gave to him the latter's land at Sturgeon's Creek. He married (second) No- vember 22, 1678, Martha, daughter of Will- iam and Margery Everett. She was born in 1640, and was living in 1723. Nathan Lord was a prominent citizen and held numerous offices. He died in 1690, aged eighty-seven years. Children : Nathan, Abraham, Samuel, Margery, Martha and Anne.
(11) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (I) Lord, was born about 1657 and died in 1733. He resided in Kittery and married, November 22, 1678, Martha, daughter of Richard and Judith (Smith) Tozier. Children: 1. Martha, born October 14, 1679; married, July II, 1702, Richard Chick. 2. Nathan, born May 13, 1681 ; married Margaret Heard. 3. William, born March 20, 1682-3 ; married Patience Ab- bott. 4. Richard, born March 1, 1684-5 ; mar- ried Mary Goodwin. 5. Judith, born March 20, 1687; married first, Benjamin, son of Nicholas Meads : second, Gabriel Hamilton, May 24, 1721; children by first marriage : Elizabetlı Meads, married Joseph Furbish, and Judith Meads, married first. William Lord; second, Skinner Stone. 6. Samuel, born June 14, 1789; married Martha Wentworth. 7. Mary, born July 20, 1691 ; married first, De- cember 1, 1709, Thomas Hodson ; second, June 16, 1720, Daniel Emery Jr. 8. John, born January 18, 1693; married Mary Chapman. 9. Sarah, born March 28, 1696; married, Sep- tember 20, 1716, Samuel Roberts, of Dover. IO. Anna, born May 27, 1697; married De- cember 18, 1718, Daniel Furbish. 11. Abra- ham, born October 29, 1699: mentioned be- low.
( III) John (1), fifth son of Nathan (2) and Martha (Tozier) Lord, was born January 8, 1693, in Kittery, and died in that town in 1761. He resided in that part of the town now known as Berwick, at "Rocky Hill." He married, December 26, 1716, Mary Chapman, who was probably a daughter of Nathan and Mary Wellborn Chapman, of Kittery. They were the parents of John, Lydia, Tobias, Tozer and Thomas.
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(IV) Tobias, second son of John and Mary (Chapman) Lord, was born 1723, at Rocky Hill, and baptized August 27, 1724, in Kittery. He married Jane Smith and settled in Arun- del, now Kennebunk, Maine.
(\') John (2), son of Tobias and Jane (Smith ) Lord, was born in Kennebunk, where he resided. He married Charity Curtis and they were parents of: John, Sally, Jacob, Betsy, Tobias, Phoebe, Mary, Hannah, John (died young) and John.
(VI) Betsy, third daughter of Jolin (2) and Charity (Curtis) Lord, was born June 25, 1780, married Jeremiah ( 1) Roberts ( sce Rob- erts VI).
( III ) Abraham (1), son of Nathan (2) Lord. was born in Kittery, October 29. 1699. He married Margaret Gowen, daughter of Nicholas and Abigail ( Hodson) Gowen. She died February II, 1775. His will was dated April II, 1772, proved April 20, 1779. Chil- dren : 1. Simeon, baptized October 11, 1719. 2. Benjamin Meads, baptized October, 1720, married ( first) Mary March ; ( second) Elean- or Dennet, widow. 3. Abraham, baptized July 15, 1722, mentioned below. 4. Nathan, bap- tized December 1, 1723, married Elizabethı Shackley. 5. Nichols, baptized September II, 1726, married, February 4, 1747, Ruth Hart. 6. Joshua, baptized May 5, 1728, died unmar- ried. 7. Jeremiah, baptized March 15, 1729- 30, married Saralı (Grant) Hamilton. 8. David, baptized April 30, 1732, married, De- cember 6, 1759, Phebe Coffin. 9. Solomon, baptized June 2, 1734. 10. Elisha, baptized May 17, 1741, married, April 27, 1762, Sarah Shackley; settled in Lebanon, Mainc. II. Margaret, born 1737, married, March 24, 1756, Ephraim Hanson. 12. Sarah, married Samuel Jellison.
(IV) Abraham (2), son of Abraham ( I) Lord, was born in Kittery, Maine, and baptized July 15, 1722. He married Phebe Heard, daughter of James and Mary ( Roberts) Heard. The first four children were baptized at South Berwick, the last two at the second parish of Kittery, now Eliot. He is said to have removed to Scarborough, Maine. Children : I. James, baptized September 25, 1743. 2. Nathaniel, baptized February 17, 1744-45, mentioned be- low. 3. Abraham, baptized November, 1748. 4. Isaac, baptized September 22, 175I. 5. Sarah, baptized July 26, 1753. 6. Jacob, bap- tized August II, 1756, married, March 28, 1771, Mary Huntress,
(V) Nathaniel, son of Abraham (2) Lord, was baptized at South Berwick, Maine, Feb- ruary 17, 1744-45, died in 1827. He married
Hannah Fields. He was a soldier in the revo- lution in Captain Jesse Dorman's company, Colonel James Scammon's regiment, in 1775; " also in Captain Thomas Romery's company, Colonel Stone's regiment, sent to reinforce Gates in 1777. Children born in Buxton or ',+ vicinity : Hannah F., Phebe, Daniel, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, mentioned below ; Betsey, Dor- cas, John, James, Nathaniel.
(VI) Isaac, son of Nathaniel Lord, was born in Buxton, Maine, November II, 1781, died August 12, 1826. He married Anna Holmes, born December 26, 1790, at Scarbor- ough, Maine, died April 6, 1870. Children born at Buxton: I. Ephraim H., October 5, 1808, mentioned below. 2. John A., August 20, 1813, died October 6, 1894. 3. William H., November 15, 1815, died July 11, 1870. 4. Arthur, March 19, 1819, died September 2, 1871. 5. Timothy H., September 9, 1822, died August 3, 1898.
(VII) Ephraim H., son of Isaac Lord, was born in Buxton, October 5, 1808, died June 26, 1889. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. When a young man he learned the trade of currier at South Danvers (now Peabody), Massachu- setts. He worked for a time for the York Manufacturing Company and then for Jason W. Beatty & Company, curriers, tanners and dealers in leather, in Saco. He held a respon- sible position with this concern throughout his active life. Four years before his death he retired. In politics Mr. Lord was a Re- publican. He was an attendant at the Uni- tarian church. He was a well-known and highly respected citizen of Buxton and Saco. He married, October 4, 1832, Hannah Lowell, born at Saco, May 31, 1813, died July 31, 1889, daughter of Samuel and Saralı (Ayer) Lowell. Children born in Buxton: I. Au- gustus, June 8, 1835, died July 8, 1907. 2. Ira H., April 26, 1837, died October 20, 1896. 3. John H., March 28, 1839, died February IO, 1907. 4. Samuel Lowell, mentioned be- low.
(VIII) Samuel Lowell, son of Ephraim H. Lord, was born in Buxton, January 4. 1841. He received his early education in the old brick schoolhouse at Salmon Falls in Bux- ton and then attended the grammar school at Saco, when Moses J. Haines was the master. In June, 1856, he left school and began to learn the apothecary business in the store of Tristram Gilman. In the spring of 1858 Mr. Gilman and Dr. John E. L. Kimball formed a partnership, buying the store formerly con- ducted by Dr. Charles Murch, and Mr. Lord
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worked in the new store until June, 1859, when the firm was dissolved and he again went to work for Mr. Gilman at the old stand. In May, 1860, his employer sold the store to Stephen F. Shaw, and Mr. Lord remained in Mr. Shaw's employ most of the time until 1869, when Augustus Sawyer became the owner of the drug store: Mr. Lord was re- tained. Mr. Sawyer died in December of that year and the business was sold to Warren C. Bryant, of Biddeford, and Mr. Lord became manager for the new owner, continuing until the store was destroyed by fire in 1873. For a few months he was employed at Rochester, New Hampshire, in the drug store of his former employer, Stephen F. Shaw. In July, 1874, he returned to Saco and prepared to embark in the apothecary business on his own account, opening a drug store in Saco, on what is called Factory Island, September 10 of that year and continuing with marked success to the present time. He is well known and great- ly esteemed in the city, especially by the busi- ness men and those who know him best.
Mr. Lord has been prominent in public life for the past thirty years. He cast his first vote in 1864 for Abraham Lincoln, again voted the Republican ticket, headed by Gen- eral Grant, in 1868, but in 1872 supported the nomination of Horace Greeley on the Demo- cratic ticket and has remained a steadfast Democrat ever since. He was elected alder- man of ward six in 1876 and defeated the year following, and in the same year met defeat as candidate for representative to the state legis- lature. In 1878-79 he was Democratic candi- date for mayor, and in both years his party was in the minority. In 1877 he was chosen a member of the Democratic city committee and elected chairman. He was president of the Tilden Club of Saco in 1876. In 1878 he was chosen a member of the Democratic coun- ty committee and became its secretary and treasurer, and in 1879 was elected chairman. IJe was re-elected in 1880 for two years mem- ber and chairman. In politics Mr. Lord was never discouraged by defeat. He held his party together at critical times by his courage and good nature, his persistency and hopeful- ness. In 1880 he was a candidate for alder- man and was defeated, and in 1882 was de- feated for the mayoralty again. In 1884 he was alderman for ward six and was re-elected in 1885. In 1884 he became a member of the first district congressional committee of his party, continuing until April, 1886, when he resigned. He also resigned from the Demo- cratic city committee in June, 1886, after nine
years of arduous service. In 1886 he was a candidate for postmaster of the city but failed of appointment. In May, 1891, he was ap- pointed by Mayor Enoch Lowell to represent the minority party on the registration board, which office hie resigned March 26, 1892. In 1888 he was on the state electoral ticket for Cleveland and Thurman. , He was again ap- pointed on the board of registration May I, 1893, resigning in 1896 to become a candi- date for mayor again. He was elected and re- elected the two years following. He was a popular and efficient mayor, and his admin- istration is reckoned among the best in the history of the city. He was Democratic can- didate for sheriff in 1896, but the county went Republican. He was Democratic candidate for governor in 1898 and with the rest of the ticket met the usual defeat in that rock-ribbed Re- publican stronghold. He was recognized as the foremost man of his party in 1899, re- ceiving the vote of the Democratic members of the legislature for the office of United States senator. He was city treasurer of Saco in 1903-04, and since 1905 has been chairman of the board of assessors. Mr. Lord is one of the most popular Democrats in the state. As a party leader he has the ability to win support and to preserve harmony, to win vic- tory for a minority party again and again, to maintain the loyalty of the party workers and keep the organization intact. In religion the Unitarian creed comes the nearest to his be- lief. Mr. Lord is unmarried.
(III) Richard, third son of Nathan (2) and Martha (Tozier) Lord, was born March I, 1684-85. He was four times representative to the general court. He married Mary, daughter of James and Sarah Goodwin, of Portsmouth. The names given to their chil- dren were: Richard, James, Moses, Aaron, Sarah, Adam, Mary, Amy, Keziah, Joseph, Meribah and Jabez. His estate was admin- istered in 1754, so it is supposed that was the year of his death.
(IV) James, second son of Richard and Mary (Goodwin) Lord, was born February 24, 17II, and lived in South Berwick, Maine. He chose for a wife Sarah (Stone) Libbey, and to this couple came : James, Sarah, Rich- ard, Lydia, Jeremiah, Annie, Jabez, Adam, Mary, Keziah and Daniel. His will was pro- bated in 1770.
(V) James (2), son of James (I) and Sarah Stone (Libbey) Lord, was born August 26, 1733, and lived in Lyman, York county, Maine. He married Mary Chick, and had a son Samuel.
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(VI) Samuel, son of James (2) and Mary (Chick) Lord, was born in Lyman, Maine, 1759, and married Sarah Chase, to whom were born : Polly, Sarah, Huldah, James and Pris- cilla. He married ( second) Sarah Drew, and the children of this union were: Samuel, Hi- ram, Lyman, Agnes, Aaron, Ada and Ivory.
(VII) Lyman, third son of Samuel and Sarahı (Drew) Lord, was born in Lyman, Maine, 1805. He received a common school education in his native town, and was a farm- er. lumberman, and mill owner in Bradford, Penobscot county, Maine, whither he removed. A Douglas Democrat, he was active and prominent in the councils of his party. He married, in 1827, Lydia Daniels, of Kenne- bunk, Maine, who was also born in 1805. These children were born to them: Lyman, Elbridge G., Ivory, Mary Eliza, Lydia A., Winfield and Eastman.
(VIII) Elbridge Gerry, second son of Ly- man and Lydia (Daniels) Lord, was born in Bradford, Maine, April 7, 1833. Educated in the schools of Charleston, Maine, Mr. Lord subsequently engaged in the lumber business in Aroostook county, Maine, emigrated to Ne- vada in 1858, and was engaged in the manu- facture of lumber on Lake Tahoe, situated six- teen miles from Carson City. Returning east in 1873, he located in Charleston, Penobscot county, Maine, where he bought a farm, on which he still resides. The Republicans, to which party he belongs, chose him representa- tive to the legislature in the years 1877-78, from Charleston, and he also served on the board of selectmen for several years. Mr. Lord is of membership in Olive Branch Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Charleston, and in religious belief favors the Baptists. He married, in 1873. Evelyn A., daughter of W. S. and Mary J. ( Foss) Place, of Charleston. Their children are : I. Alice J., born 1875, was educated in the Charleston schools and at the Castine Normal school, having taught both in Maine and Massachu- setts : she married, in 1905, Fred W. King, of Charleston, and has two children: Eleanor Evelyn, born 1906, and one born May 15, 1908. 2. Elbridge Blaine, born 1879, was edu- cated at Higgins Classical Institute at Charles- ton, and Bangor Business College ; is now en- gaged in agricultural pursuits with his father. 3. Dora Evelyn, born 1882, graduated at Hig- gins Classical Institute, and from the Maine General Hospital as a trained nurse ; she mar- ried, in 1907, Charles A. Hamm. 4. Clara Elizabeth, born 1884, graduated from Higgins Classical Institute, spent two years at the
School of Fine Arts in Boston, and is a grad- uate of Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, New York, class of 1908.
( IV) Captain Tobias Lord, youngest son of John Lord, was born at Berwick in 1724. In 1747 he settled in Arundel, erecting there a garrison house which he occupied for many years, and was noted for his energy, ability and progressive tendencies. During the revo- lutionary war he rendered efficient military service, commanded a company raised in York county for the defence of Falmouth on Casco Bay, and in the official list of seacoast officers he is credited with eleven months service in that capacity from January 1, 1776. In 1780 he was one of the prominent residents of Arundel, and his death occurred in 1809. He married Jane Smith and had a family of twelve children : Lieutenant John, Jane, Mehitable, Lieutenant Tobias, Lydia, Betsey, Nathaniel, Daniel, Dominicus, Jeremiah, David and Thomas.
(V) Lieutenant Tobias Lord, second son and fourth child of Captain Tobias Lord, was born at Arundel in 1748. In his youth it was his daily task for a considerable length of time to drive an ox team loaded with lumber from one point to another through the woods, where wolves were exceedingly numerous and troublesome, and as he was frequently obliged to beat them off with a club, his courage and strength were all that prevented himself and his beasts from being devoured. June 26, 1776, he was commissioned second lieutenant of Captain Morgan Lewis' twelfth ( Sanford) company, Colonel Ebenezer Sayer's first (York county ) regiment, Massachusetts militia ; was also second lieutenant of Captain James Little- field's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Storer's battalion, detached from the York county brigade by order of the general court, August 9, 1777, to reinforce the Northern army. The latter company was raised in San- ford and in the First Parish of Wells; served until October 23, 1777, and discharged at Quernan's Heights with allowance of fifteen days (three hundred miles ) travel home. Lieu- tenant Tobias Lord settled in Kennebunk. where he became a prosperous merchant, an enterprising ship-builder, and a prominent citi- zen, and although he suffered reverses his well- known integrity enabled him to recover. He died suddenly in 1808. He married (first) Mehitable Scammon, who bore him four chil- dren : Samuel, Nathaniel, Tobias and Mehita- ble. He married (second) Hepzibah Conant. of Alfred, and the children of this union were : Abagail, Hepzibalı, Mehitable, Betsey, George,
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Ivory, William, Lucy and Francis A. Samuel married Hannah Jeffords; Nathaniel married Phebe Walker ; Tobias married Hannah Per- kins ; Abigail became the wife of Charles W. Williams; Hepzibah became the wife of Rob- ert Waterston ; Mehitable and Betsey became wives of Francis Watts ; George married Olive Jeffords ; Ivory married Louisa McCulloch and Olive Bourne Emerson ; Lucy became the wife of Hercules M. Hayes; Francis A. married Frances Smith.
(VI) William Lord, third son and sixth child of Lieutenant Tobias and Hepzibah (Conant ) Lord, was born in Kennebunk, July 3. 1799, died there November 2, 1873. After concluding his attendance at the Limerick ( Maine) Academy, he went to Boston, where he acquired excellent business training as clerk in a mercantile establishment. Returning to Kennebunk he established himself in the dry goods and grocery trade, became prosperous and erected a business block. Having devoted a quarter of a century to mercantile pursuits, he relinquished them to engage in ship-build- ing, and in addition to constructing and own- ing numerous vessels sailing from Kennebunk he became president of the Mousam Manu- facturing Company, ultimately acquiring pos- session of its entire stock. In politics he was originally a Whig and later a Republican. He attended the Unitarian church. On October 23, 1820, he married Sarah Cleaves, who was born in Biddeford, November 30. 1801, died December, 1855. She became the mother of nine children : Sarah C., William C., Hartley, Robert W., George W., Daniel C., Henry C., Frederick and Mary C.
(VII ) Hartley Lord, second son of William and Sarah (Cleaves) Lord, was born in Ken- nebunk, June 23, 1825. He began his educa- tion in the public schools of his native town, continued it at Dr. Jefford's private school in Nashua, New Hampshire, remaining there one year. and the succeeding two years were spent in the English department of Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, Massachusetts, where his studies were concluded. After leaving school he began to follow the sea, and with the prac- tical knowledge acquired during a period of eight years in the merchant service engaged in the shipping and commission business in Boston, establishing his residence at Newton. Subsequent to the civil war he disposed of his shipping interests and entered into partnership with his brother George W. in the manufac- ture of netting twine in Boston, but later be- came associated with his brother Robert W. in the same industry at West Kennebunk, con-
tinuing in company with the latter until 1907, when their plants in Maine and in Boston were purchased by a New York syndicate ( sce Rob- ert W. Lord). From 1885 to the present time Mr. Lord has resided in Kennebunk and is now practically free from the cares of active business pursuits. In politics he acts with the Republican party. He is a member of the Unitarian church.
August 29, 1848, he married Sarah E. Hil- ton, daughter of Isaac Hilton, of Kennebunk, and a descendant on the paternal side of the original settlers of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1623. She died in March, 1871, and Novem- ber II, 1874, Mr. Lord married ( second) Julia M. Perkins, of Kennebunkport, daughter of Charles E. Perkins, one of the most promi- nent residents of that town. His first wife bore him three children, but one of whom is now living, George C. The others were Will- iam II. and Marguerite Elizabeth. Of his sec- ond union there was one child, who died in infancy.
(VII) Robert Waterston Lord, third son and fourth child of William and Sarah (Cleaves) Lord, was born in Kennebunk, April 14, 1828. From the North Yarmouth (Naine) Academy he entered Bowdoin Col- lege, but withdrew at the conclusion of his sophomore year to begin the study of mechan- ics upon practical lines, learning the machin- ist's trade and working in cotton manufactur- ing plants at Gloucester, New Jersey, and Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1849 the Cali- fornia gold fever attracted him to the Pacific coast, where he remained six years, and re- turning to Kennebunk he studied carefully the industrial outlook of the locality with a view of entering that field of usefulness. In 1860 he and his brother, George W. Lord, engaged in the manufacture of twine, equipping a mill for that purpose at West Kennebunk and lay- ing the foundation of what proved to be a profitable enterprise. Purchasing the interest of George W. Lord in the following year he subsequently became associated with another brother, Hartley Lord, and the business de- veloped into large proportions. The Lord brothers also acquired an interest in a twine and netting manufacturing plant in Boston and retained in connection with their West Kenne- bunk factory, which they continued success- fully for more than forty-five years or until 1907, when they disposed of both to new man- ufacturers. In 1877 Robert W. Lord became a director of the Ocean National Bank, Kenne- bunk, and from 1893 to the present time has served as its president. As a Republican in
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politics he has rendered able public services, having represented his district in the state legislature at Augusta for the years 1877-82- 87, and in 1891 was a member of the state senate. He is a master Mason and a mem- ber of York Lodge. His religious affiliations are with the Unitarians.
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