Joseph Lord (1672 - 1748)

Born 23 Jun 1672 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Hinckley) Lord — married 2 Jan 1697 in Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Bethiah (Howes) Lord — married 16 Nov 1743 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1748 at age 75 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Joseph was born 1672 and died 1748. Graduate of Harvard 1691. Taught school at Dorchester. Became pastor of church on Ashley River 18 miles from Charleston, S.C., and called the place Dorchester. Married Abigail Hinckley, daughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley. Joseph remained with his society twenty years when he returned to Mass. where he was installed pastor of the Church of Chatham, at which place he preached 28 years. Died 1748 age 76.

THE STORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

"After William Hilton's 1662 exploration of the Cape Fear River, a small group of New Englanders decided to go check it out. In 1663, this small group attempted to establish a settlement on the south bank of the Cape Fear River, about 20 miles inland from the river's mouth. These folks loved the land, but they hated the climate, and apparently they did not like the local natives either. Within months, this settlement was abandoned and everyone went back to New England where the climate was much more to their liking.

"In 1695, a small church group in Dorchester, Massachusetts sent several of its members to Charles Town to "scout" for a suitable location to relocate their church. In 1696, the church was relocated west of Charles Town and the town of Dorchester was established "along the frontier" of Carolana - the second "permanent" town after Charles Town. This group managed to stay in Carolana for more than a few months and Dorchester was "thriving" at the time of "the Split."

"However, when Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia in 1733, the folks in Dorchester were tempted by the offer of more and better lands. In 1752, the congregation "up and moved" to the coast of Georgia, between the Medway and Newport rivers, in what is now Liberty County. What was once a thriving church community of Dorchester soon became a purely secular settlement that struggled to survive.

"About twenty-six miles from the city of Charles Town, on the north bank of the Ashley River and about six miles in a southwestwardly direction from the railroad depot in the present town of Summerville can be seen an old church tower with an overgrown disused graveyard around it, and some two hundred paces farther on - on the edge of the river - are the walls of an old fort, constructed of that mixture of shells in lime mortar formerly called "tapia" or "tabby" (often spelled "tapis" in early records). These two conspicuous objects, with some scattered and shapeless masses of brick at irregular intervals, marking the sites of former houses, are all that remains of the town of Dorchester, once a comparatively flourishing, hamlet in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. The site of the old village of Dorchester is on a neck or peninsula of land between the Ashley River and a creek now called Dorchester Creek. This creek was originally known as Boshoe, or Bossua Creek. It is now called Rose Creek, where it crosses the road from Summerville to Dorchester. The region about the mouths of these two creeks - especially about the peninsula between Dorchester Creek and Ashley River - was known by the Indian name or Boo-shoo-ee. The meaning of this Indian term is unknown save that the termination "ee" or "e" seems to have some connection with water - viz: Peedee, Santee, Wateree, Congaree, Co-pah-ee, etc.

"The high land or bluff on the river where the village was afterwards located was, at the time of its location and afterwards, an "old field" and probably the site of the first clearing and settlement of John Smith. John Smith, of Boo-shoo, died prior to December, 1682, as in December, 1682, his widow, Mary, married Arthur Middleton, and on the death of the latter, about 1684, married Ralph Izard. John Smith seems to have left no children, and in some way his grant for 1,800 acres must have lapsed to the state or the method of a new grant must have been adopted so as to confer a good title, for in the year 1696 this same 1,800 acres is re-granted to the settlers who were to confer upon it the name of Dorchester."

For more about this see source: https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/new_england_settlers_in_carolana.html

Sources

• https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/new_england_settlers_in_carolana.html
• FindAGrave #36176811
• Source: #S-899753593 Page: Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7221440&pid=1066949315 Source S-899753593 Repository: #R-899753595 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.