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Notes for Samuel Lord:
Samuel Lord, Luke Hill and John Wentworth, three well-remembered pioneers of Crawford County, were soldiers in Capt. Hart's Company, while about a dozen hardy frontiersmen accompanied the corps with the intention of settling in the vicinity of the fort (page 164).

The foregoing account of this event (my note, where Darius Mead was captured by two Indians in a field close to Fort Franklin) was taken principally from Mr. Alfred Huidekoper's "Incidents in the Early History of Crawford County." In the Van Horne manuscript a somewhat different account is given. It says that John Wentworth and Samuel Lord followed the trail of Darius Mead and the Indians from near Fort Franklin to the vicinity of Conneaut Lake, where they found the bodies of Mead and one of the savages. They continued on the trail of the remaining Indian whom they discovered in a dense thicket badly wounded. On seeing the two scouts the savage uttered a cry of despair. Wentworth deliberately drew his ken hunting knife, and approaching the Indian stabbed him to the heart, thus avenging the killing of Mead (page 186).
In an old cash-book kept at Fort Franklin from 1792 to 1798, William Reynolds, Esq., found the names of many of the first settlers of Crawford County, such as David Mead, John Mead, Samuel Lord, John Wentworth, Luke Hill, Jonathan Titus, Samuel and Andrew Kerr, Joseph Hackney, Dr. Thomas R. Kennedy, William McGrady, William Eachus, James Herrington (page 255).

Early Murders - The only murder ever perpetrated within the limits of Meadville was the killing of his squaw by a drunken Indian, at the door of Samuel Lord's store in 1805. This store was kept in a small one-story log building on the northwest corner of Walnut and Center Streets, where the cottage residence of John A. Sergeant now stands. Mr. Lord was an experienced frontiersman, spoke the Indian language and had a large share of their custom. Their principal purchases consisted of whisky, for which most of them possessed an intense and ungovernable appetite. When under the influence of liquor the Indians were regarded as very dangerous, and it was while in this state that the savage sunk his tomahawk into the brain of his inoffensive squaw. If punished for the deed, it must have been by his own brethren, as noting regarding it appears on the court records of that day (page 291).

On page 314, of the same section, in a list of County Commissioners:
Samuel Lord, October 1815 to October 1818
Samuel Lord, October 1830 to October 1833

An express arrived at Meadville from Harrisburg, September 14, 1812, with orders for Brigade Inspector Clark to call out his quota of 2,000 men, to be taken from the counties west of the Allegheny Mountains, Pittsburgh and Meadville being he places of rendezvous. The latter was selected as a convenient point at which to collect a force for service in the contemplated invasion of Canada. Accordingly instructions were issued to accepted companies of Pennsylvania volunteers to rendezvous at Meadville in early autumn, form a brigade, elect officers and await orders. Ground for the camp was offered by Samuel Lord, and accepted, and as the companies arrived they formed their encampment, beginning at the French Creek Road, now know as "The Terrace," and extending in crescent form to a point east of Allegheny College. These companies were from the western and central counties of the State, and several of them had been long organized and were well disciplined. Maj. Gen Tannehill was elected to the chief command, but several weeks elapsed before he arrived to assume control. Early in the fall of 1812, Meadville assumed a warlike appearance as the brave volunteers were rapidly answering the call to arms. The following officers were in command of companies encamped on the farm of Mr. Lord, now partly occupied by the beautiful grounds of Hon. William Reynolds: Capts. Sample, Miller, Warner, Thomas and Buchanan, of Washington County; Capt. Thomas Forster, of Erie; Capts. Vance and Patterson, of Green; Capt. McGerry, of Mifflin; Capt. Kleckner, of Center; and Capt. Samuel Derickson, of Northumberland. It was doubtless a cheering spectacle to the citizens of this county to behold such a body of freemen at the call of the nation, forsaking the comforts and ease of domestic life for the privations and hardships of the tented field, to defend the rights and avenge the wrongs of their beloved country (pp. 334-335). 172