Thanks to my very kind cousin Linda after my panic at having lost the information she sent me in my latest crash I was able to find the backup (whew sweating bullets there) She had the Thomas Lord Eleanor Oliver marriage. Thomases father was Lydia Lords first cousins [if my fingercounting was correct making the Truman Temperance pair fourth??] She married Stephen Ransom and they were the grandparents of Truman Ransom who married yes Temprance Colt Lord. Eliz 194. CAPT. ABNER7 LORD (THOMAS6, THOMAS5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, RICHARD2, FATHER1) was born March 20, 1732/33 in Lyme, CT, and died November 12, 1790 in Danbury, CT. He married TEMPERANCE COLT February 03, 1757 in Lyme, CT, daughter of BENJAMIN COLT and MIRIAM HARRIS. She was born February 27, 1735/36 in Lyme, CT, and died June 30, 1794 in Lyme, New London, CT. Notes for CAPT. ABNER LORD: Abner and Temperance lived in Marietta, OH and Vienna, VA. More About CAPT. ABNER LORD: Burial: Pleasantview Cemetery, Lyme, CT Military service: Capt. in John Ely's Regiment, 4th Battalion, Conn. State Troops under George Washington Notes for TEMPERANCE COLT: Temperance was the daughter of Benjamin Colt and Miriam Harris. Benjamins parents were John Colt and Sarah Lord. Sarah was the daughter of William Lord and Hattie Nickerson. More About TEMPERANCE COLT: Burial: Pleasantview Cemetery, Lyme, CT Marriage Notes for ABNER LORD and TEMPERANCE COLT: Early Connecticut Marriages Early Connecticut Marriages: Third Book Lyme New Haven Second Church page 136 Abner Lord & Temperance Coult, Feb. 28, 1757 Marriage: February 03, 1757, Lyme, CT Children of ABNER LORD and TEMPERANCE COLT are: i. REV. THOMAS8 LORD, b. December 29, 1757, Lyme, CT; m. ELEANOR OLIVER, 1776; b. October 18, 1757. More About REV. THOMAS LORD: Education: 1780, Yale More About THOMAS LORD and ELEANOR OLIVER: Marriage: 1776 418. ii. COL. ABNER LORD SR., b. August 24, 1760, Lyme, CT; d. May 02, 1821, Columbus, OH. 419. iii. MARY B. LORD, b. May 27, 1764, Lyme, New London, CT; d. 1841. LYDIA7 LORD (THEOPOLIS6, THOMAS5, WILLIAM4, THOMAS3, RICHARD2, FATHER1) was born March 19, 1727/28 in Lyme, Ct.. She married STEPHEN RANSOM, son of JOSEPH RANSOM and JANE UNKNOWN. He was born May 08, 1724. Children of LYDIA LORD and STEPHEN RANSOM are: i. DOROTHY8 RANSOM, b. 1756; m. THEOPHILUS LORD GATES, 1782; b. April 13, 1759. Theophilus [of many spellings] Ransom M Sarah Bryant, Mindwell Noyes and Sarah Wright Shepard died in 1823 and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery [with two wives and the last wifes last husband *G*] iii. ANNA RANSOM, b. 1764; m. SAMUEL BECKWITH, June 04, 1774; b. 1750.