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- Captain Richard Lord, Cambridge, 1632; freeman, Mass., March 4, 1635 ; came to Hartford in 1636, an original proprietor ; his home-lot in 1639 was next west of his father's. He m. ab. 1635, Sarah -. He was one of the most energetic and efficient men in the colony ; when the first troop of horse was organized, he was chosen commander, March 11, 1658, and distinguished himself in the Indian wan. He was constable, 1642 ; townsman, 1645 ; represented Hartford in the General Court from 1656 until his death. He was the captain relied on, in conjunction with John Pynchon, for securing the persons of the regicides Goffe and Whalley. He d. in New London, May 17, 1662, in the 51st year of his age, and his gravestone may Still be seen there, with the following epitaph:
“The bright Starre of our Cavallrie Ives here Unto the State, a Counselour fall Dears And to ye Truth a Friend of Sweet Content, To Hartford Towns a silver Ornament. Who can deny to Poore he was Reliefe, And in composing Paroxysmes was Chiefe. To Marchantes as a Patterns he might stand, Adventring Dangers new by Sea and Land.”
His inv. taken May 10, 1662; amount, f1,539. 9. 5. His widow, Sarah, d. in 1676. -Ch. : i. Richard, b. 1636 ; m. April 15, 1665, Mary, can. of Henry and Ann (Pynchon) Smith, of Springfield ; deputy, 1669, and often afterward ; he was one of the wealthiest merchants of his time, made many trading- voyages, and was lost at sea, Nov. 5, 1685, aged 49, leaving a large estate to his widow and his only child ; the inv. of his property amounted to 15,786, and was with one exception the greatest up to that time in Hartford. His widow m. (2) ab. 1686, Dr. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, son of Rev. Samuel Hooker, of Farmington, died May 17, 1702, m. 58. His only child, Richard, b. 1669, m. Jan. 14, 1692, Abigail, dau. of William Warren and his wife, Elizabeth Crow, afterward Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson. She, too, inherited a large property, and together they were one of the wealthiest couples of that period. Richard Lord was Treasurer of the Colony at the time of his death, Jan. 29, 1712, and the heaviest and costliest monumental table in the old burial ground is his. His widow m. (2) Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, pastor of the First Church. Seven of Lord's ten children lived and married into prominent families. Asylum Hill was formerly called Lord's Hill, as a large portion of it was owned by the descendants of Elisha Lord, the oldest surviving son of Richard and Abigail. Their son Richard m. Ruth, dau. of Hezekiah Wyllis, Esq., - apparently removed to Wethersfield, and d. then ab. 1740. The youngest sons, Epaphras and Ichabod, removed to Colchester. iii. Sarah, b. 1638 (dau. of Capt. Richard, who d. 1662) ; m. ab. 1668, Rev. Joseph Haynes, of Hartford; d. Nov. 15, 1705, aged 67. iv. Dorothy, b. 1640.
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1611 - 1662 (50 years)