Family/Spouse: Dorothy. Dorothy died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant?: Y
• Historical Notes: REF GDMNH. He was sometimes refered to as Nathaniel. At death, his age is given at 87. However, this may be exagerated or he was much older than his wife. REF GENSERV:ARRR7DA. Shows place of birth as Kent, Eng. and father as John Lord. r. 1652, Kittery, ME«s34»
• Baptism: 1 Sep 1633, Rye, Sussex, England
• Migration: 1637

Notes:

Nathan came to New England as a small child with Abraham Conley, his step-father. His name first appears in the records when he signed the Submission to Massachusetts in 1652. He was granted sixty (60) acres of salt marsh land by the town of Kittery, York, Maine, on December 16, 1652. Nathan's first wife was Judith Conley, his step-sister, and they were married April 28, 1653 and had 2 sons, Nathan and Abraham.

After Judith died in 1658, Nathan married Martha Everett. In 1676, with his son Nathan, Jr., he purchased an estate called Old Fields near Mount Misery in South Berwick, York, Maine.

Nathan died in 1690 but, due to the Indian Wars, his will was not probated until 1697.

Nathan married Martha EVERETT in 1659 in Kittery, York, Maine. Martha (daughter of William EVERETT and Margery WITHAM) was born on 23 Jan 1640 in Eliot, York, Maine; died after 22 Feb 1729 in York County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Shoemaker

Notes:

According to legend, John left Wales as a youth and set out for London. He was accompanied by his friend, Abraham Conley, who was Irish. It was in England, before 1626, that John married Ann (surname unknown) and they had five children, including Nathan who was born about 1633.

When John died in 1633, his friend Abraham Conley married John's widow, Ann Lord. Later, when Abraham came to New England, he brought his step-son, Nathan, with him.
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The following is taken from a paper "Nathan Lord of Old Kittery", presented by Ernest C. and Judith H. Maby, at the 1992 meeting of The Sons and Daughters of Nathan Lord:
" We find a record of Nathan Lord's parents, Nathan Lord and Ann Lord, in Rye parish registers in Sussex, England, which show the baptism of five children, born between 1626 and 1633 to this couple. The same registers also record the burial of his father, Nathan Lord, shoemaker, February 1, 1633; the earlier deaths of three of the children; and the baptism of our Nathan Lord, September 1, 1633, seven months after his father's death. By February 1633, Nathan's mother, Ann, was a widow with two surviving children, Mary and Nathan.

On January 1, 1634, the widow Lord married Abraham Conley in Wittersham parish, Kent, England. Her daughter, Mary, died January 6, 1634, only a few days later. The baptismal records of Wittersham parish show a s/o Abraham Conley, baptized on November 5, 1636. It is not known whether this child survived infancy. Ann Lord, herself is thought to have died about November 1636, not long after.

Abraham came to America bringing his step-son, Nathan, with him. Whether or not Ann Lord Conley, Nathan's mother, and the little boy baptized in 1636 lived long enough to come with Abraham and Nathan, we do not know.

Abraham Conley's second wife was Elizabeth (surname unknown). She is known to have been alive as late as 1664, for in that year she was with him as a witness against Thomas Crawley. Abraham and Elizabeth had a daughter, Judith, born about 1637/1638, who eventually became Nathan Lord's first wife. So Abraham Conley was not only Nathan's stepfather but his father-in-law. Not only that, but Abraham Conley married once more after the death of Elizabeth, this time to Margery Everett Nash, and our Nathan's second wife was Martha Everett, Margery's daughter by her first marriage to William Everett, making Abraham Conley Nathan's father-in-law twice over."
(Above excerpts from the paper "Nathan Lord of Old Kittery" provided courtesy of
Cushman and Louise Gray.)

John married Anne MNU in 1626 in Rye, Sussex, England. Anne was born in 1605 in Rye, Sussex, England; died in Nov 1636 in Canterbury, Kent, England; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married Name: CONLEY
• Immigrant?: Y

Notes:

m1 Nathan LORD
m2 Abraham CONLEY

Other Events:

• Migration: 1652

Notes:

William Everett had land in 1650, formerly belonging to Isaac Nash; also land north side of the Great Pond near James Kid’s. He was admitted freeman at Kittery, 16 Nov 1652. No further mention of him at Dover. In 1716 land was laid out to Thomas Downes (his granddaughter’s husband), successor to William Everett, deceased.

Operated Everett’s Tavern in Kittery Maine.

William married Margery WITHAM. Margery (daughter of Thomas WITHAM) was born about 1618; died before 1678 in Kittery, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hari Lord was a resident of Stackpole Court in Co Pembroke in Wales. The Lords were a family of Norman descent. It is thought that the name was originally La Vorde or De La Vorde. Called the "marcher barons", they were granted small estates along the borders of Wales. Their purpose there was to help control the Welsh border.