Joseph Lord, son of Thomas and Alice (Rand) Lord, of Charlestown, was born June 30, 1672, grad. H. C. 1691. From 1692 till 1695, probably, he taught the school in Dorchester, Massachusetts. In the fall of '95, a church was gathered in Dorchester, with the design of removing to South Carolina, and Mr. Lord was ordained pastor. They arrived at their place of destination, on the Ashley river, about 18 miles from Charleston, Dec. 20th, and called the place Dorchester. On the 3d [sic] of June, 1698, Mr. Lord m. Abigail, dau. of Gov. Thomas Hinckley, by his second wife. He remained with his society in South Carolina upwards of twenty years, when he returned to Massachusetts. On the 15th of June, 1720, Mr. Lord was installed pastor of the church in Chatham. He died in 1748, after preaching in Chatham twenty-eight years. His children were,— Mercy, b. March 2, 1699; Mary, b. April 19, 1701; Thomas, b. Aug. 25, 1703, d. Nov. 1704; Joseph and Abigail, b. Sept. 27, 1704; Samuel, b. June 26, 1707; Robert, h. Feb. 28, 1711-12; Alice, b. March 26, 1714.
[Note: this is a footnote attached to a transcription of a letter written by Rev. Joseph Lord.]
