Putnam patriot., 1915-08-13
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married in l759 Aithea Ripley, SIS. ter of Rev. David Ripley of Abingdon. The Ripley family were descendants Of Governor Bradford of Plymouth and May flower distinction and were prom. inent in the settlement and develop. the occasion Of pr. Lords marriage his father wrote the following: "Had l worldly substance to impart to you in setting up in tue world should freely impaGt Il, bat 1t hath pleased God so Co order my worldly circumstances that at present l am not able to do for my cSildren as would. All that l can do at present Is 10 commend my children to God and The care of that Providence that provides for man and beast. Be not desirous of grandeur and greatness Worldly greatness makes no man happy. In all things by prayer and suppieallon let your re. quest be made unto God and you shall never want what He sees you should have. Serve God with your house and you will be blessed of Him. :"
 Dr. Lord was q patriot and in l762 took the freeman's oath. In l775 was chosen with General Israel Putnam to represent the town of Pomfret in the General Assembly of Connecticut and in TIT took the oath of fidelity. It is traditional among some of his descend. 1 ants that he was surgeon in the Rev | olutionary army but no official record is found. lie was, however, one of ! committee for examining volunteers for the army.
 With saddle bags lthrown over his horses back he rode many weary mile over the rough roads and bridle paths 10 care for his patients. A paper printed in 1892 says, "Dr. Lord was praetieing physician in Abingdon over fifty years and is spoken of by the old, CT inhabitants as a remarkably pleas ant, sociable and humorous man. Only a few words but they reveal genial sympathetic nature often more potent for good in the sick room than the heroic medical treatment of that day. He was indeed the beloved | hysician He filled various offices of trust in the church and parish, was in leresled in schools and in town affairs. In the quaint phraseology of thai day he was good "inhahitant.'
 
 Mrs, fofd died in l762 in her twenty ifth year leaving one child, Elisha Gn ,b3 nr.Lord married Mrs. Tamasin (klmhalh eoit, widow Of Daniel Colt oi Plamtield Dr. Lord died in lS0a tn his nth year Mrs Lord in lSl2 in her 7lth year "the mother Of notable family of daughters Colt Geneal. egAt Four of their nine children died in infancy, 0i the live daughters, EN- pericuce Sas married to Dr. Nehemiah Cleveland, m eminent physician of Tops6ela, Mass. Alsthes, to Rev. Asahel Huntingdon of Tops field, Mass Mary, to Dr. Josiah Ful. Ter of PlmnHeld. sarah, to General JemeS banicison at hilllngly, Pameiis married first Mayor Douglas of Plainheld, second to Judge Eaton of Plainueld.
 One grandson of pr. Lord was Asahel Huntingdon, Jr,a prominent lawyer Of salem, Mass, another, Wm Hunt ington, NJ. D., of Lowell, Mass; and his son was lhe late Rev Dr. Mm. k. Huntington, rector of Grace Church, New York
 Dr. Elisha Lord Cleveland was mn. isteT for many years of the Third Congl church in New Haven. Ills full length portrait is in the Hartford Theological Seminary, John Cleveland was distinguished lawyer and law author in New York; and Nehemiah,