Joseph Lord
Minister, ordained 1695 at Dorcester, MA
"min. for 20 yrs. at Dorchester, S.C. aft at Chatham, Mass" -- Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
"grad. H.C. 1691; minister (1) at Dorchester, S.C.; (2) at Chatham, Mass;
--Charlestown Genealogies and Estates
The following is from: Historical and Genealogical Register, a publication of the New England Historical Society, October 1859 page 299
REV. JOSEPH LORD
(copy of a letter from Rev. Joseph Lord to Judge Samuel Sewall, of Boston, from the original in possession of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.)
Honoured Sir,
This comes wth thanks for ye letter I received from you, bearing Date, Feb. 6th 1705/6, & for ye prints you sent me; all we received, except ye Elegy in Obitum Crucis, we I cannot find among ye other Papers, The Books inititled, Baptistes, I suppose to be exceeding usefull for ye recovery & settlemt of such as are wavering in that point. Mr Adams being in Charlestown wn I received ym of Capt Belcher, I delivered those wc yor Honor so ordered to him presently; & soon heard, an enquiry aftr those books concerning Baptism was made by some yt had been staggering, who say some of them yt I had delivered to him we has occasioned ye Dispersion of almost half ye Hundred already.