Richard LORD, Jr.

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He was Deputy in 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 inventory of his property amounted to L5,786, and was with one exception the greatest up to that time in Hartford.

Richard married Mary SMITH on 15 Apr 1665 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born on 07 Mar 1642 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 17 May 1702 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard LORD, III was born on 01 Feb 1669 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 29 Jan 1712 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried in Center Church Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.

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Captain Richard Lord, bapt. England, Jan. 5, 1611-12, came to America, ahead of his father, in 1632. He settled in Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass. In 1636, in company with his father and mother and brothers and sisters, he traveled with Rev. Dr.Hooker and their party through the wilderness and settled the town of Hartford, Conn. he became a patentee of Connecticut under charter of King Charles II and an Original Proprietor and first settler of hartford, his home lot in 1639 being next west to his father's......

Richard Lord was one of the most energetic and efficient men in the colony. When the first Troop of Horsemen was organized, he was chosen commander, March 11, 1658, and distinguished himself in the Indian Wars. He was constable in 1642, townsman in 1645 and 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 married, in 1635 Sarah (?). He became a very prominent citizen and addition to being captain of cavalry, was a ship owner in the carrying trade between New London and the West Indies. He found it necessary to have a home in New London, Conn., where he purchased a corner at main and Pearl Streets. He died in New London May 17, 1662, in the fifty-first year of his age, and his gravestone may still be seen there, with the following epitaph:

"The bright Starre of our Cavallrie lyes here;
Unto the State, a Counselour full Deare
And to ye truth a Friend of Sweet Content,
To Hartford Towne a silver Ornament.
Who can deny to Poore he was Reliefe,
And in composing Paroxysmes was Chiefe.
to Marchantes as a Patterne he might stand,
Adventring Dangers new by Sea and Land."

His inventory, taken May 10, 1662, amount to L1539.9.5. His widow died in 1676.

Richard married Sarah ? in 1635. Sarah died on 01 Sep 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah's maiden name is unknown. In her will, she refers to her brother George Graves, but she was not his sister. He had a sister Sarah who married a Mr. Deming. George Graves was a deacon, and in those days a deacon was usually referred to as "brother." If he was her brother-in-law, her maiden name would have been Ventris. In her will she refers to Priscilla Brackett (alias Reynolds) and Sarah Brackett (alias Shaw), as cousins, but the word cousins was more loosely used then than it is now. They may have been nieces ad, if such was the case, she might have been a sister of Peter Brackett, the father of these two "cousins," or a sister of one of his wives. There is no record that he had a sister Sarah Brackett and he is not mentioned in Sarah Lord's will. The connection between Sarah Lord and the two "cousins" is not apparent.