Person:Thomas Lord (31)

Served in the Revolutionary War:

LORD, THOMAS, Athol. Sergeant, Capt. Ichabod Dexter's co., Col. Doolittle’s regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service to May 3, 1775, 18 days.
LORD, THOMAS, Athol. Lieutenant, Capt. Nathan Hamilton’s co., Col. Samuel Brewer’s regt.; service between Aug. 3, and Sept. 30, 1776, 1 mo. 25 (also given 2 mos. 2) days; also, same co. and regt.; pay abstract for travel allowance, etc., dated Brookfield, Feb. 17, 1777; 130 miles travel allowed said Lord; also, same co. and regt.; pay abstract for travel allowance, etc., home from Fort Edward. dated Brookfield, Feb. 6, 1777; said Lord credited with allowance for 8 days (160 miles) travel.
LORD, THOMAS, Athol. Captain, 13th co., Col. Nathan Sparhawk‘s (7th Worcester Co.) regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, dated March 24, 1776; ordered in Council April 6, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned April 5, 1776; also, Captain of a company in Col. Nathan Sparhawk's regt.; engaged Aug. 21, 1777; discharged Aug. 26, 1777; service, 10 days, including 5 days (96 miles) travel home; company marched from Athol to Bennington; also, Captain of a company in Col. Job Cushing's regt.; engaged Aug. 31, 1777; discharged Nov. 30, 1777; service, 3 mos. 11 days, at the time of taking Gen. Burgoyne, including 11 days (220 miles) travel home; company allowed travel from Tarrytown, N. Y., to Athol; also, pay abstracts dated Scaresdeal, Nov. 30, 1777, and sworn to in Worcester Co. [year not given], respectively, for retained rations due officers of Col. Job Cushing’s regt. in Continental service in Northern department; said Lord credited with rations from Aug. 31 [1777] to Dec. 10 [1777], 204 rations; also, list of men raised to serve in the Continental Army, as returned by said Lord, Captain, sworn to in Worcester Co., Feb. 17, 1778.^S3

1. ↑ Caswell, Lilley Brewer. Athol, Massachusetts, past and present. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985)
   p. 213.

   Thomas, born Jan. 17, 1736. ... Thomas Lord, the third son of Dr. Joseph Lord, married Leonard Smith, Oct. 18, 1760. He was one of the Athol minute men who marched to Lexington, being sergeant of the company, and was afterwards captain of a company that went to Bennington. He had eleven children...

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Find A Grave: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Athol, MA, in Find A Grave
   Captain Thomas Lord.

   Inscription: "Capt. Thomas Lord. Six yrs. a soldier in the French, and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. B. in Athol, 1736. D. 1810"
   
   Birth: Jan. 17, 1736
   Athol
   Worcester County
   Massachusetts, USA
   
   Death: Dec. 3, 1810
   Athol
   Worcester County
   Massachusetts, USA
   
   [Note: Find A Grave has a duplicate entry for Thomas Lord with less information and no photo]

3.   Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War: A compilation from the archives. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Wright and Potter Printing, 1896-1908)
   v. 9, p. 960.
4. ↑ Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Athol, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1910)
   p. 208.

   LORD, Capt. Thomas, a soldier in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, [died] ---, 1810, a. 84. GS1 [Dec. 3, a. 75, CR]
   [Note: as can be seen by reference to Find A Grave cited above, the age at death is not given on the monument, so the erroneous age of 84 was apparently inserted by the compilers, they apparently being guilty of bad math. Note, p. 57: LORD, Capt. Thomas, [born] ---, 1736. GS1]