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- Andrew Foord was an early settler of Weymouth, Mass., where he was made freeman in 1654; he was also made freeman in Duxbury, Mass., that same year. He m. about 1649, Eleanor Lovell (dau. of Robert and Elizabeth Lovell), b. 1634; d. March 4, 1692, Hingham, Mass. Robert Lovell and his wife sailed from England, March 20, 1635-6, their dau. being called Ellyn on the, passenger list; she m. Andrew Foord under the name of Elleans, her name being given as Eleanor on the records of deeds in Plymouth, Mass. In 1651 the will of Robert Lovell was probated; in it he mentions his son-in-law Andrew Foord, and Andrew’s eldest son and youngest child, thus indicating that Andrew had at least two children at that time, and possibly three. Of the thirteen children of Andrew Foord, the births of three are not recorded on the Weymouth Vital Statistics, namely, Andrew, Mary and James, and it is possible to suppose that they were born previous to or near the year 1651. From the Town Records of Weymouth, we learn that Andrew Foord was one of the original purchasers of the Town and held large tracts of land, comprising 7 acres in the East Field, Lot No. 65 in the 2nd Division containing 18 acres, a large lot of land in the Great Cedar Swamp, a lot in the little Cedar Swamp, and 5 or 6 acres of common land. In the Plymouth Colony and Plymouth County Deed Books are found records of other large tracts of land belonging to Andrew Foord. Oct. 28, 1668, he with Lieft. John Hoibrook and James Lovell purchased of Constant Southworth and Cornett Robert Stetson,* both of Duxbury, consideration £3, a piece of land running two miles in length and three-quarters of a mile in breadth, being in the Plymouth Patent, near the line between the two jurisdictions of Massachusetts and Plymouth, and containing about 1,000 acres. Part of this land was sold by the owners in one-eighth part lots, each containing 125 acres, or given by Andrew Foord to some of his sons. A portion of it embraced the tract that was called in the Plymouth Colony records “Ffords farm,” and was afterwards incorporated into the town of Abington. Andrew Foord was also associated in other real estate transactions, and was a prominent man in the community. He removed late in life to Hingham, Mass., where he d. March ,1693. His will was dated Feb. 5, 1692-3, and was probated in March of the same year in Boston, Mass. The inventory of his estate was dated March 23, 1692-3, and mentions the tracts of lands he owned in Plymouth, also a right of land in Quinne Poge. Children: 13 (Foord), 8 sons and 5 daughters: -The New York Genealogical And Biographical Record. Devoted To The Interests Of American Genealogy And Biography. Issued Quarterly. Volume LIII, 1922
Andrew’ Ford, earliest mentioned in the will of Robert Lovell of Weymouth, 3 Apr. 1652; died at Hingham, 4 Mar. 1692-93. He married, before 1650, Eleanor Lovell, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Lovell of Weymouth, born in England near 1629; she died before 25 Feb. 1692-93. He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 3 May, 1654. He received seven acres “in the east field,” first granted to Mussacheill Barnard, and six acres in the First Division and eighteen acres in the Second Division, 14 Dec. 1663. (Weymouth Land Grants, 272, 282, 284.) Ellen Ford, the wife of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, deposed “aged about 38 yeeres,” 24 May, 1667. (Suffolk Court Files No. 815: paper 35.) Therefore she was born near 1629. “Andrew Ford, Sen’, late of the Town of Weymouth, now resident in Hingham, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, being under infirmities of age,” made his will as follows: Unto his son Israel Ford his dwelling house and about twenty acres thereunto belonging. To his son Jacob Ford eighteen acres in the Upper or Second Division in Weymouth. To his son Israel Ford his share in the late Colony of Plymouth. Unto his son Nathaniel Ford fifteen acres upon which his dwelling house and barn now standeth, also 200 acres at a place called “Quinne Poge.” Unto his son Andrew Ford 12d. with what he fonnerly received from me. To his son James Ford 200 acres at a place called Quinne Poge, near New Roxbury (Woodstock, Conn.) To the heirs of my son Joseph Ford, deceased, one shilling beside what said Joseph received in his lifetime. My son Ebenezer Ford 12d., with like condition. To son Samuel Ford 200 acres at Quinne Poge. To his daughter Mary Whitman 100 acres at Quinne Poge. To daughter Silence 100 acres at Ouinne Poge. To his daughter Prudence Lincoln, wife of Joseph Lincoln, one-half share of land, 50 acres in the late Colony of Plymouth, and 100 acres at Quinne Poge. To his daughter Elizabeth 100 acres at Quinne Poge. To his daughter Sarah 100 acres at Quinne Poge and to his five daughters abovemeneoned £25, his son Nathaniel . to pay one-third. Son Nathaniel and Israel to be joint executors, 25 Feb. 1692-93; proved 24 Mar. 1692-93. (Suffolk Probate Records, 13: 146-147.) Inventory £419 65.
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Abt 1620 - 1693 (~ 73 years)
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