General Notes

Note: The following information was extracted from "The Memorial
History of Hartford County [CT] --- The Original Proprietors"
published by the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of
Hartford.
Thomas Lord, smith, embarked 19 Apr 1635, in the "Elizabeth and Ann"
from London, aged 50, with his wife, Dorothy, aged 46.  Seven of their
children were with them:  Thomas, 16; Ann, 14; William, 12; John, 10;
Robert, 9; Ayme, 6; and Dorothy, 4.
From Kenneth Lord's "Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord ...",
New York, 1946, the following was extracted:
In 1636, with his entire family, Thomas Lord joined the party of Rev.
Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone and one hundred men, women and children,
which took its departure from Newtown to form a new settlement on the
Connecticut River.  [He then quotes, from Trumbull's Memorial History
of Hartford]: "They Traveled more than a hundred miles, through a
hideous and trackless wilderness to Hartford.  They had no guide but
their compass; and made their way over mountains, through swamps,
thickets and rivers, which were passable with great difficulty.  They
had no cover but the heavens, and no lodgings but such as nature
afforded them.  They drove with them one hundred and sixty head of
cattle and subsisted by the way on the milk of their cows.  Mrs.
Hooker was borne through the wilderness on a litter.  the people
generally carried their packs, arms and some utensiles.  They were
nearly a fortnight on their journey.  This adventure was the more
remarkable as many of this company were persons of figure, who in
England had lived in honor, affluence and delicacy, and were strangers
to fatigue and danger.  Gov. Haynes and some others did not appear in
the colony until 1637."
It was early in June;ne when they reached their journey's end.  Their
first labor was to prepare their dugouts in the hillside and provide
shelter for their cattle.  They had for some time been close friends
and neighbors in Newtown and were already organized as a church, had
been members of townships and were familiar, therefore, with action as
a body.  They agreed to purchase territory jointly and afterwards
parcel it out, and Mr Samuel Stone and Mr William Goodwin were
appointed, in behalf of the proprietors, to treat for land with the
tribe of Suckiage Indians, of whom at this time Sequassen was the
Chief Sachem.  In this they were successful and soon purchased a large
area.  It is not known what they bartered -- probably cloth, axes,
knives, etc.  . . .  As soon as acquired, the land was distributed to
the new proprietors.
Thomas Lord th;us became an original proprietor and one of the first
settlers of Hartford.  He lived on the north side of the highway on
the bank of the Little River (now Wells Street), a near neighbor of
Gov. Haynes, Rev. Mr Hooker, Mr Goodwin, Gov. Wyllys and others of the
prominent inhabitants.  His sons, Richard and Thomas, had the lots
next to his.  [His son William, would have been about 13 when he
travelled with his parents from Newtown to what was to become
Hartford, CT.  When his father aquired the lot on what is now Wells
Street, William would have been about 16 years old, and would have
been living with his parents].
William married first, about 1642, to Hattie Nickerson [her name is
not known for sure, but the The Boston Transcript of Nov. 5, 1923,
stated that Hattie Nickerson was her name].  They settled in Saybrook,
CT in about 1645.  He was there in at the division of lands in 1648
and became a large landowner in Saybrook and also in Lyme. He bought a
large tract from the Indians in Lyme, which land was subsequently
exchanged with the town for various other parcels by his sons Thomas
and Richard.  . . ..
William Lord obtained for the town of Lyme the tract of land that
afterwards made the town of Salem.  In April, 1669, Chapeto, a kinsman
of Uncas, gave to William Lord of Lyme, eight miles square.  This
tract was subsequently