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Nathan Lord was baptized at Kennington, Kent, England on 14 May 1599 and was buried at Rye, Sussex, England on 1 February 1633/4.[1] He was the son of Abraham Lord.[1] He is listed as a shoemaker of Rye.[1] He married first to Grace Millanes at Hope All Saints, Kent, England on 24 November 1621. Grace was buried in Kennington on 25 April [1622?]. He had no children with his first wife.[1] He married second to Ann (Unknown) before 16 Jul 1626 when their first child was baptized.[1] Ann married second to at Wittersham, Kent, England on 1 January 1634/5, Abraham Conley, a bachelor and clothworker of Wittersham.[1]
Children of Nathan and Anne(-) Lord:
JOHN LORD, bp. Rye, 16 July 1626, bur. there, 15 April 1632.[1]
MARY LORD, bp. Rye, 9 Nov. 1628, bur. Wittersham, co. Kent, 6 Jan. 1634/5,[1]
ABRAHAM LORD, possibly bp. between June 1630 and Feb. 1630/1 when there is a gap in the Rye baptismal register, bur. Rye, 22 Feb. 1630/1[1]
NATHAN1 LORD, bp. Rye, 1 Sept. 1633, d. Kittery, Maine, before 13 Feb. 1690/1,[1]
In the April 2010 issue of The American Genealogist [TAG], this author and Joseph C. Anderson II, FASG, examined the English origins of Nathan1 Lord of Berwick and Kittery.1 The article also provided an account of Abraham Conley, a man with whom Nathan was long associated in early Maine. The authors were successful in specifically identifying the English origins of both of these men, as well as their relationship to each other. This helped resolve many of the errors in earlier accounts of this family.
Nathan1 Lord was born on 1 September 1633 in Rye, co. Sussex, England, the son of NathanA (AbrahamB) and Anne (—) Lord. His father, a shoemaker, died within a year, and was buried on 1 February 1633/4.5 Nathan’s mother, Anne, married as her second husband, at nearby Wittersham, co. Kent, 1 January 1634/5, Abraham Conley, a 31-year-old bachelor and clothworker.6 Nathan first arrived in Maine in 1637 or 1638 as a small child his mother and stepfather, Abraham Conley. On 5 January 1638/9 Abraham Conley was in possession of a house and six acres in Kittery which he had purchased from John Ugrove.7 Nathan Lord and Abraham Conley had a lifelong relationship, with Abraham acting as Nathan’s de facto father from earliest memory.
5 Rye, co. Sussex, England, parish register [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #1,067,288]. The administration of the estate of Nathan Lord of Rye was granted to the relict, Anne Lord, 29 April 1634 (Act Book for the Archdeaconry of Lewes, Book B6 [FHL film #97,306]).
6 Marriage License Registers of the Diocese of Canterbury, v. 13, 1623–35, f. 151 [FHL film #1,836,332]. Also, Wittersham, co. Kent, parish register [FHL film #2,355,255]. 7 York County Register of Deeds, York Deeds, 18 vols. in 19 (Portland, 1887–1910), 5:183
