Robert Lord

• General Notes
  • Robert Lord (II)  Robert Lord, son of Robert Lord, the first settler, was a blacksmith. He was probably born  in England in 1634 just before his parents embarked for the new world.  He married Hannah Day in 1657 in Ipswich.  He was appointed Sherriff of the Ipswich Court 1660 ( 'History of Essex County' (1888) p 628) and appointed a deacon of the church in 1682. He was Selectmen, and often chosen for town affairs, and was Marshal of the Court ten years.' (Felt, Joseph B. History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton (1834)) He had a share in Plum Island,  1664. He was a voter in Town affairs, 1679. He was one of twenty four of 'the young generation' who joined the church by taking the covenant, between January 18 and February 1, 1673. He was Marshal of the Court, as early as 1669; and is usually designated as Marshal Lord.  He had sons, Robert, John, Thomas, James, Joseph, who removed to Cohanzey, N. J. and Nathaniel, who removed to the Isle of Shoals.   He died November 11, 1696; and left a widow Hannah, who possessed the rights of commonage, and had horses on the common 1697. His sons were: