Person:Sarah Unknown (2343)

Research notes

• cos1776 note: Sarah's will suggests that her maiden name was also Lord. Although it was common practice at the time to refer to in-laws as brothers and sisters, her bequest to "Richard Lord, ye sonne of my Brother Richard Lord" indicates that her actual brother's name really was "Richard Lord", the same name as her husband? The only other explanation would be that either she or her husband had a sister who also married a man named "Richard Lord".

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Richard Lord, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:1200.

   'MARRIAGE: By about 1636 Sarah ____; she died at Hartford between 2 August 1676 (date of will) and 7 September 1676 (probate of will).'

2.   Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:216-217.

   [V PROBATE RECORDS. VOI,. Ill, 1663 TO 1677.]
   Page 160.
   
   Lord, Sarah, Hartford. Will dated 2 August, 1676.
   
   I Sarah Lord of Hartford doe make this my last Will & Testament : For ye Continuance of Love & Peace amongst my Relations, dispose of my Outward Estate as followeth:
   - My Wearing Apparrel I doe give unto sundry persons hereafter mentioned.
   - I give unto my daughter Haynes my silk Gown, my Mohaire Petticoat and my red Parragon Petticoat.
   - I give to my daughter Lord my best Broad Cloth Gown and my Red Broad Cloth Petticoat.
   - I give unto Dorothy Ingersoll (alias Phelps) my Coat & Wastcoat of Black Serge.
   - I do give to Hannah Ingersoll (alias Kelsey) my dark Cloth Gown, my Haire Tamy Petticoat, and my green Apron.
   - The rest of my Clothes I give for ye Use of Dorothy Lord Jun.
   - I do give unto my Cousin Priscilla Brackett (alias Renolds) of Boston £10, to be paid at ye End of 5 years next after my Decease.
   - I do give unto my cousin Sarah Brackett (alias Shaw) f 10, to be paid at Hartford within 5 years after my Decease.
   - I give unto my Kinsman William Chapman £12, to be remitted him of ye Debt he oweth.
   - I give unto my Cousin Margaret Ingersoll, when she is 18 years of age, one Cow.
   - I do give unto Mary Lord (alias Olmsted) two Eues.
   - I doe give unto Sarah Lord, the daughter of my brother William Lord, 2 Eues.
   - I do give unto Mary Lord, the daughter of my Brother Thomas Lord, at ye age of 18 years, 2 Eues.
   - I do give unto Richard Lord, ye sonne of my Brother Richard Lord, £4, to be paid him at the end of 6 years after my Decease.
   - All which Legacies are to be paid at Hartford out of my Estate.
   - I do give unto my daughter Sarah Haynes and her children ye sume of £80.
   - I give unto my daughter Haines and her Children ye sume of £50 more, in all £230.
   - Lastly, I doe give unto my sonne Richard Lord the whole remaining Estate, both Real & Personal, and appoint him sole Executor, ordering him to discharge all and every of ye Legacies above mentioned, as also to maintain and take ye Care of Dorothy Lord, daughter of my Brother Thomas Lord, Decd, during her natural life, yt she be comfortably and decently provided for.
   - I request my honoured & respective friend Capt. John Allyn and Brother George Graves to be Supervisors.
   Witness : Joseph Haynes, Sarah X Lord. Ls.
   George Graves.
   
   Court Record, Page 154 — 7 September, 1676: Will exhibited, and Mr. Richard Lord accepts Executorship.