Capt. Richard LORD

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"He was named, it seems, for Richard Lord of Hartford, CT, the first of that name in New England, who at the age of twenty-one years sailed from the port of London, Eng., in 1632. He was made a freeman at Cambridge, MA, March 4, 1635. He settled in Hartford, CT in 1636.

He was commander of the first company of troopers in the Indian conflicts in that part of New England. He died at New London, CT, interred in the old burying ground. He was a brother of Robert Lord, mariner, of Boston, MA, who owned large tracts of land in York County, ME.

He was a "Representative to ye great and General Court at Boston, 1657-1661." He died May 17, 1762, aged 51 years."