Thomas Lord (abt. 1585 - abt. 1644)

Born about 1585 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Bird) Lord — married 23 Feb 1610 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died about 1644 at about age 59 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony

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Thomas Lord migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 4, p. 331) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Name

Thomas Lord^[1] [Note: occasionally confused with his son also named Thomas Lord who was doctor.]

Birth

Thomas Lord, the son of Richard Lord, of Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, was born about 1585.^[1] Anderson gives no name for the mother of Thomas Lord.^[1] The surname of Thomas Lord's mother is not stated by Flagg, Lord, Crowell, Barbour, or Jacobus, who all state her given name is Joan. ^{[2][3][4] [5][6]} In the will of Thomas Lord's father Richard Lord, he names his wife Joan (no maiden name for her), and his son Thomas.^[3]

Marriage & Children

Thomas Lord married Dorothy Bird 23 Feb 1610/11, Towcester. Northamptonshire, England^[2][3][1]

Parish Register reads: Marriage: Name: Thomas Lorde [Tomas Lorde] Gender: Male Marriage Date: 23 Feb 1610 Marriage Place: Towcester, Northamptonshire, England Spouse: Dorithee Byrd. ^[7]

Thomas & Dorothy (Bird) Lord were the parents of at least nine children, all born in England.

Immigration to Boston, Massachusetts

Thomas Lord & Dorothy and their children Thomas, Ann, William, John, Robert, Amy and Dorothy, on 29 April 1635, "were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the ship Elizabeth and Ann.^[1][2][8][9]

They landed at Boston and joined Richard Lord, (the eldest son who went in 1632 to prepare the way for them), at Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[3] [Hotten 72; Lord Gen 1-6].

A Founder of Hartford, Connecticut

Thomas and his family joined Rev. Thomas Hooker's party in founding Hartford, Connecticut Colony in 1636.^[10] Thomas was an original proprietor of Hartford, Connecticut.^[2]

Residence

"In 1639 his home was on the highway on the bank of the Little River (Now Wells Street) and he owned eight other parcels of land; he was a man of Position and Influence."^[3]

Occupation

On the list for the Elizabeth and Ann, Thomas is shown as a smith.

Merchant, Mill Owner

Death and Burial

Death: "soon after 29 Jan 1643/4" at Hartford, Connecticut Colony ^{[2] [1][6]}

There is no record of Thomas's death, however he was given property by Hartford in February 1641/2, and his wife Dorothy sold property without his participation in March 1652/3. Anderson surmises that he died soon after January 29, 1643/4, when he was relieved on common work on the roads.^[11]

Thomas Lord, Sr.'s name is on the Founder's Monument in the Ancient Cemetery at Hartford, Connecticut, where he is buried.^[10]

Tombstone Inscription: Founder's Monument

IN MEMORY OF

MR. THOMAS LORD

BORN 1585. ONE OF YE

ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS

OF HARTFORD^[12]

Children^[1]

1. Richard Lord, bpt Towcester, Northamptonshire 5 Jan 1611/2; m. Sarah ___
2. Ann Lord, bpt Towcester, 18 Sep 1614; m. Thomas Stanton
3. Thomas Lord, bpt Towcester, 15 Nov 1616; m. Hannah Thurston
4. William Lord, bpt Towcester, 27 Dec 1618; m. (1) ___ ____; m. (2) Lydia Buckland
5. Robert Lord, bpt Towcester, 12 May 1620; m. Rebecca _____
6. John Lord, bpt Towcester, 21 Jan 1623/4; m. (1) Rebecca Bushnell; m. (2) Adrean Baysey
7. Amy Lord, bpt Towcester, 30 Nov 1626; m. John Gilbert
8. Dorothy Lord, bpt Towcester, 1 July 1629; m. John Ingersoll

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson, (2005), page 331-335
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, by Ernest Flagg, page 273
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord: an Original Proprietor and Founder of Hartford, Conn. in 1636 by Kenneth Lord, pp 1-7
4. ↑ New Englanders in Nova Scotia by F.E. Crowell at NEHGS, page 278, #394 LORD
5. ↑ Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, by Barbour, pp 371
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, by Jacobus, pp 281
7. ↑ Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 329P/255 accessed 4 Feb 2020 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9198/images/329P-255-1561-1741_00125?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=55c2ed754b6c0e6db3c7eb5f26f71b38&usePUB=true&_phsrc=IzZ6518&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=9660727
8. ↑ Elizabeth & Ann
9. ↑ Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. p. 72 see attached photo.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
11. ↑ Hartford Town Votes, Vol. I, Page 69
12. ↑ Find A Grave #11290361

See also:

• Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. Page 331-335 Thomas Lord

• Hartford Town Votes, Vol. I, 1635-1716, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. Vol. VI. Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1897. Internet Archive

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, editor. Compiled and published by N. Grier Parke II, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960 at Family search, pp 281-84 Source cited by Anderson in Great Migration.

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, at Ancestry.com, $, and printed by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp.371. Source cited by Anderson in Great Migration.

• Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, database online, Ancestry.com, Ernest Flagg, (Hartford, Connecticut, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1926), p. 273. also found at FamilySearch, free access. Source cited by Anderson in Great Migration.

• Kenneth Lord, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord: an Original Proprietor and Founder of Hartford, Conn. in 1636, (New York, 1946). also found as a database online at Family Search.org,, page 1-7, (includes verbatim wills of Richard Lord, Thomas' father, and Dorothy (Bird) Lord, Thomas' wife, and map of Hartford with his residence marked). Source cited by Anderson in Great Migration. Space:Genealogy_of_the_Descendants_of_Thomas_Lord

• New Englanders in Nova Scotia, Manuscript. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) by Fred E. Crowell, page 278, #394 Thomas Lord.

• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s - sailed from London, England in May, 1635 for New England on the Elizabeth & Ann

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, database online, entry for Thomas Lord

• "English Emigrants to New England" - Catalog # 929.1B226t3 and "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" catalog # 929.2F597, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, MO.

• The Founders Monument, Erected by the Society of the Descendants of The Founders of Hartford A. D. 1986, to Commemorate the 350th Anniversary of the City. This stone replaces the original sandstone monument of 1837 The Founders Monument

• The founders Monument

• The Descendants of William Lord, Sr., b. 1535, d. 1610, Yelvertoft or Towchester, Northampton, England, p. 1 & 2, James T. Lord, rev. through 2014, unpublished. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden

• Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Url: familytreemaker.GenealogyLibrary.com Publication: Name: F.A. Brown,, Hartford, 11/7/01, Original Date, 1856;

Please do not copy data from this FindaGrave memorial#11290361 - wrong facts as of 20 Jan 2018. Corrections and sources submitted to FindaGrave for editing. No marriage of Dorothy Bulkeley to Thomas Lord - all children from marriage to Dorothy Bird, see Great Migration source above.

See Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume I, page 346-348 entry for Edward Bulkeley and children:

• Find A Grave #11290361, entry for Thomas Lord, memorial no. 11290361, (Created by: Nareen, et al; Record added: Jul 04, 2005) Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut."