Person:Unknown (26927)

  • HWilliam Lord1618 - 1678
  • WUnknown UnknownBef 1623 - Bef 1664
m. Bef 1643
  1. William Lord1643 - 1696
  2. Thomas Lord1645 - 1730
  3. Lieutenant Richard Lord1647 - 1727
  4. Mary Lord1649 - 1736
  5. Robert Lord1651 -
  6. John Lord1653 -
  7. Joseph Lord1656 -
  8. Sarah LordAbt 1658 - 1751
Facts and Events
Name Unknown Unknown
Married Name Unknown Lord
Gender Female
Birth[1] Bef 1623 England (probably)Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1643 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (William).
to William Lord
Death[1] Bef 3 Jun 1664 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (probably)Before date of husband's subsequent marriage.

Allegedly Hattie was the daughter of William Nickerson and Ann Busby. Savage does not name her. The Great Migration does not name her at all, leading me to believe that this information has not been proven.

Here is citation for article re: Hattie

"The Fictional Hattie (Nickerson) Lord," The Connecticut Nutmegger Volume 32, Number 2 (September 1999): 189-192.

Brief summary: William Lord came to America with parents (Thomas and Dorothy) in 1635 at age 12. He was one of the first settlers of Saybrook where he d. 17 May 1678. The name of his first wife is not on record, he m. (2) abt. Apr 1664 Lydia (Buckland) Brown, widow of John, d/o William. Several children by both. The name of the first wife being Hattie Nickerson is traced to article in Boston Evening Transcript, 5 Nov 1823. Subsequently, this story has been embellished with to the point that Hattie is inserted into William Nickerson's family, despite various objections similar to what is on the Talk page. No speculation is presented on what the name of the first wife is, nor is there any proof that it isn't Hattie Nickerson, but the article believes that the name Hattie Nickerson "appears to be pure fiction", but even if accurate, she does not belong to the Chatham Nickersons.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary


NICKERSON, WILLIAM, Boston, weaver, from Norwich, Eng[land]. aged 33, with w[ife]. Ann, eldest d[aughter]. of Nicholas Busby (who came in the same ship), aged 28, and four, ch[ildren]. Nicholas, Robert, Elizabeth and Ann, emb[arked]. at Ipswich, or Yarmouth, 8 Apr. 1637, arr[iving]. 20 June at Boston, proceed[ing]. with f[ather].-in-law, I presume, first to Watertown, where he might be allow[ed]. to join the ch[urch]. for in Boston there exist[ed]. nothing but contention among the memb[ers]. to drive out, and nobody was rec[orded]. until long aft. N[ickerson]. had been adm[itted]. freem[an]. 2 May 1638. But he is aft[er]. found at Yarmouth where he had Joseph, b[orn]. Dec. 1647; and Elizabeth m[arried]. Oct. 1649, Robert Eldred.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 William Lord, in Lord, Kenneth. Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord: an Original Proprietor and Founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636. (New York: The Compiler, 1946)
    71-72.