Samuel Lord II (abt. 1712 - 1774)

Born about 1712 in Kittery, York, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Shackley) Lord — married about 1733 (to 1774) in Berwick, York, Maine

Descendants

Died 7 Feb 1774 at about age 62 in South Berwick, York, Maine

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Biography

Samuel and Martha (Wentworth) Lord had children as mentioned in wills:

1. 199. John Lord; has wife Bridget and (besides two who died in infancy):

1. Nathaniel Lord, born 20 October 1738

2. Martha Lord, born 10 December 1739; married, 22 April 1762, Nahum Marshall of Somersworth, N.H. He removed to Berwick Maine about 1769 and was town clerk from 1770 to 1791. She died 6 September 1774, and he married 2d, 20 December 1780, Mary Tibbetts, and died 31 July 1791. Martha had (besides two who died in infancy):

1. Martha Marshall, born in Somersworth, N.H. 17 Oct 1766.

2. Thomas Marshall, born in Somersworth, N.H. 5 September 1768

3. Bridget Marshall born in Berwick, Me, 30 May 1771.

3. John Lord, born 20 September 1744; married 26 June 1766, Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Walton) Hight, born 18 July 1745. She was sister to the second wife of her uncle Ebenezer (203) Lord. He died 10 December 1768, and his widow married Dr. Ivory Hovey. John had:

1. George Lord.

2. 200. Nathan Lord [605]

3. 201. Abraham Lord [608]

4. 202. Samuel Lord

5. 203. Ebenezer Lord, born about 1720

6. 204. Mary Lord, who married ____ Grant. As her son Wentworth Steward was born in 1731, she must have been born about 1711, and have been the eldest. She married 1st. Joseph Steward of Well, Me., son of Samuel he died about 1734, and she was appointed to administer 23 July 1734; she married 2d, _____ Grand. "She, "Mary Grant, widow, of Berwick, Me.," 18 December 1766, conveyed ot son Wentworth Stewart all her interest in estate of her father Samuel Lord; witnessed by James Grant, Jr (perhaps named for his father), and Samuel Grant. She had by first husband, two children of whom she was appointed guardian 25 April 1735, viz. :

1. Wentworth Stewart, born (as by his own entry on the Gorham Me, town records) 10 October 1731 and was "of Berwick, Me.: 23 January 1753 as by deed from James Gilkey; purchased land in Gorham, Me. that year and lived there; was Town Clerk, Selectman, Representative in 1773 and '4; was lieutenant in 1757, in Capt. Joseph Woodman's company of six months' men raised in that vicinity for the French war; was Captain in the army of the Revolution, and died in Sewall's Point, Mass. He married, 4 February 1753, Susanna, daughter of Rev. Solomon Lombard, the first settled minister of Gorham, Me.; she was born 14 August 1734, and married 2d, 4 March 1779, William Wood, of Gorham, Me. Wentworth Stewart had:

1. Mary Stewart, born 20 January 1754; married. 3 July 1770, John Green
2. Susanna -Stewart, born 21 May 1757, died 4 January 1759
3. Joseph Stewart, born 3 April 1759; married 30 September 1779. Hannah Smalley.
4. Solomon Lombard Steward, born 13 February 1762; died 29 December 1763
5. Sarah Purrinton Stewart, born 25 February 1764 married 20 May 1871 Ebenezer Phinney.
6. Dorcas Stewart, born 8 June 1766; married 17 August 1787, ; married Peletiah McDonald.
7. Susanna Steward, born 1 April 1768; married 4 January 1786, Francis Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me.
8. Wentworth Stewart, born 17 August 1770; married, 4 November 1790, Hannah Shaw. A Wentworth Steward married Nancy, daughter of Isaac and Anna (Whitney) Hall, born 16 Oct 1798.
9. Solomon L. Steward born 24 February 1773
10. Anna Stewart, born 31 October 1775; married 17 November 1791, Nathaniel Stevens, Jr.

2. Dorcas Steward, born 1733 or 1734^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy comprising The Origin of the name, the Family in England and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant and of his descendants". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass. pg 139-140
2. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American" by John Wentworth, LL.D, 1878 Boston, Little, Brown & co. pg 242-243

• Lord, C. C.. A history of the descendants of Nathan Lord of ancient Kittery, Me.. Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1912.
• Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927, Old Kittery and her families, 1903.