Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-04-11
THE LORDS OF ELLSWORTH.
Among the Earliest settlers on Union
River--Isaar Lord, 1873.
["wayfarer" in Bangor Commercially


["wayfarer" in Bangor Commercially
/ am at a disadvantage in writing OF.
this family as the records, town, church
and family, are few.
Isaac Lord came from Scarborough to
Union river about 1913. He married,
probably before coming, Abigail, daughter
OF Benjamin MilIiken, Sept. 20, 1773.
Benjamin OF Union river sold lot OF
land of five acres to Isaac Lord OF Scar
borough on the last site of Union river
for $50, bounded: beginning at pine tree
on the river, thence N. e. so rods, by
Thomas Milliken's land; thence s. e. ten
rods, from thence 8. W. to the river,
and from thence TO first bounds. This
was probably part Of the Jordan Peters
homestead, upon which the county build
ings are now situated. Lord bought two
OF her lots OF Thomas MiIliken in 1878
and 1881.
DR.. Calvin Peck, OF Ellsworth, in his
lecture 1887, says Mrs. Lord was the
first woman who came to Ellsworth. Her
father had a camp which was not far
from the river, and was behind the store
OF Samuel Dutton In later times. She
did the cooking for the men until the
house was built. This was probably in
1855. ! think Lord came east to work
for Milliken. l do not know where
Lords homestead was. Sometimes he
was called as OF Union river and again
OF Surry.
When her father left for Penobscot,
Csstine, and the British provinces in
1779, Lord and family moved into MILL
! ken's house and occupied 1t until Nathan
Jones made his levy on the estate June
II, 1884, as was proved in the great trial
wherein the landed proprietors attempted
to GUST the settlers in 1912 and 1913.
| After Theodore Jones bought out his
father, Nathan Jones, and took posses
| sion, Mr.. Lord moved over to the west
side OF the river, whether to what is
| now Surry or Ellsworth, know not. Mr..
Lord died Dec. 2, 1887, aged 81. Mrs.
Lord died May 10, 1888, aged So.
| have not been able to find much OF
| the family, but give what have, subject
| to correction.
have now before me Mcdonald Ross
aybook in which Isaac Lord was
charged with goods delivered "Heard,"
April 2, 1898; also goods delivered son
| Abraham.
| !. Abigail; married Donald Ross, about
| 1888. Ross died Nov. %, 1904, aged IS.
His widow, a most estimable woman, mar
ried (2) Porter sawyer, an innkeeper. She
died May 81. 1879, aged 60, as l copied the
| hare ia fu nf
,, Elias probably.
| 3. Abraham, probably.
4. Heard, probably.
| 5. Benjamin-the minister.
REV. BENJAMIN LORD.
He was son OF Isaac Lord, born in What
! is now Ellsworth, in 177S. He was one
OF the first Baptist ministers in the east
ern part of the state. He first entered
the ethodist religion in 1850, and WAS
n class leader. In 1901 and 1902 Rev.
John Trip, Baptist minister from He
bron, came to Surry, and under his preach
ing Mr. Lord WAS thoroughly converted
from Arminianism and Pedo- Baptism,
ana became Baptist. In 1903, Elder
Isaac Case (gr. fat her OF 1t. Col. John S.
/ Case, OF RoekIand,) came to them and
/ finished up the work. His labors were
/ blessed TO the conversion of several more
| from their errors. (Methodists. In 1907
Mr. Lord was licensed to preach and in
! 1910 was ordained pastor of the church
OF "Surry and Ellsworth. For thirty
years he sustained this relation Except
from 1914 to 1878, " hen he WAS at Columbia
with great profit to The church and pleas
ure to himself.
MiIlet's history OF the Bsptists, 1S45,
says: "the church had existed then thirty
seven years; had one pastor, no meeting
house; had four revivals, and yielded four
other churches, viz: Branch Pond, Reeds
Brook, Ellsworth Village church and
Third church in Trenton. 1t is now des'
titu.e (of mnister) with tifty-six mem
bers" The Ellsworth church was the
church where many notable men attended
in their youth and who have gone very
for off from the religion of their parents
Mr.. Lord was uneducated according to
the standard OF the schools. He was a.
a preacher fluent and rapid. He usually
preached a sermon from one hour to one
a I'd a half hours, two day.
He was the first representative to thu
first legislature of Maine from Ellsworth
1921.
He died sincerely mourned by the peo-
pie of Union River, Sept. 10, 1911.