SAMUEL LORD, b. say 1661, and before 1665, as he was of age when he purchased land from Henry Childs, 18 March 1686/7,22 d. Berwick, 20 Nov. 1689.23 He likely operated a sawmill, as on 18 March 1686/7, he purchased 40 acres of land from Henry and Sarah Childs in exchange for £5 and 31,000 “merchantable” [saleable] feet of pine boards.24 On 15 July 1690 a jury of inquest investigated the “untimely death of Samuell Lord of Barwick, Robert Houston of Dover, and Thomas Litlefeild of Wells who were drowned in Barwicke.” Court records refer to fees for jurors, coroner, and constable to be paid from the respective estates of the deceased.25 Administration of Samuel’s estate was granted 4 March 1689/90 to his “brother Abraham,”26 with no mention of a wife or children. The sale of Samuel’s estate to his nephew William Lord, son of his brother Abraham, by his Lord heirs helps to confirm the second generation of the Kittery and Berwick Lords, as the grantors included [Samuel’s mother] Martha Lord and [siblings] Nathan Lord Sr., Benjamin Lord, John Cooper [husband of Sarah Lord] of Kittery, Moses Littlefield [husband of Martha Lord] of Wells, Thomas Downes [husband of Mary Lord], William Frost [sic: Fost, husband of Margery Lord], and Tobias Hanson [husband of Ann Lord] of Dover.27
19 Martha was about 42 years old in a 23 Jan. 1682 deposition (York Deeds, 4:136).
20 Torrey and many undocumented internet sources assert that Margery was the daughter of Thomas Witham of Kittery, but this has not been verified by the present author (Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [Baltimore, Md., 1985], 255).
21 Martha Lord of Berwick, widow, and Benjamin Lord of Berwick, son of Martha Lord, sold
15 acres to [her son-in-law] John Cooper (York Deeds, 14:165–66).
22 York Deeds, 5:117.
23 Maine Province and Court Records, 3:290; Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts, introductory material, p. 13.
24 York Deeds, 5:117
25 Maine Province and Court Records, 3:290.
26 Maine Province and Court Records, 3:288. Stackpole speculated that Samuel may have been the first husband of the widow Dorothy Lord, who m. Dover, N.H., 18 Oct. 1689, William Rackliffe (Stackpole, Old Kittery, 587). However, Samuel’s date of death is given as 20 Nov. 1689 (Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts, introductory material, p. 13) and there was no mention of a wife in the administration of Samuel’s estate.
27 York Deeds, 8:92.
