Daniel Ladd ¹⁶⁴

   Ancestral File Number: 22B5-74.

  General Notes:

On March 24, 1633, took the "Oath of Supermacy and Allegiance, thus enabling him to leave London, England and take the Vessel "Mary And John" (Robert Sayres, Master). First mentioned in Ipswich town records in Feb. 1637; in Salibury, MA., Oct. 29, 1639, and was one of the first settlers of Haverhill, MA. On February 5, 1637 he was granted six acres of land on which he built a house. ..On October 29, 1639 and September 7, 1640, he had land granted to him in Salisbury. From Salisbury he removed to Haverhill where he died. His house in Haverhill was in the village, his planting lots were in two different locations while his meadows were located in seven different locations. In 1659 Daniel erected a sawmill with Theophilus Shatwell on the Spiggot (Spicket) River. It was built within the present limits of Salem, New Hampshire and was the first mill erected on that stream. An extensive account of Daniel Ladd is provided on pages 1 through 11 of "The Ladd Family" as well as on pages 12-21 of "Lest We Forget: A Family Saga"

From the NEHG Register, Vol 38, p. 345: "There is a tradition that Daniel Ladd came from Dartmouth, Devon, but it is more likely that he came from the county of Kent or Sussex, as there were Ladds in those counties as early as 1424, as we find in Berry's History of the County of Kent, page 342."

EXCERPTS FROM THE THOMAS MIFFLIN LADD BOOK
The name Ladd or Lade, both spellings belong distinctly to the same family, is essentially Kentish. The Estate of Bowick in the Hundred of Loningsborough was in very ancient times, the residence of the Ladds. The name traveled over the border into Sussex but all documents point to the existence of but one family of Ladds previous to the seventeenth century. So wrote Mr. E. de Vermont in 1886 in America Heraldic, the first major endeavor to regularize armorial bearings of American citizens. He included only those arms brought to the New World prior to 1800.

John Ladd, in his "Lest We Forget: A Family Saga" is quite specific (p. 12) in stating that Daniel was born on his family farm "near Deal in Kent County", that he had several brothers the name of only one of whom, Joseph, is known.

According to the record of the Quarterly Court of Essex County: "Daniel Ladd was accounted a man of good social graces." He held at one time the rank of Lieutenant.

Daniel married Mrs Ann Ladd in , Salisbury, Essex, MA. (Mrs Ann Ladd was born in 1617 in Newbury, Essex, MA and died on 9 Feb 1694 in , Haverhill, Essex, MA.)