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John Topping

Male 1636 - 1686  (50 years)


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  • Name John Topping 
    Born 1636  Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 May 1686  Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I376  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Deborah Lockwood,   b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef Apr 1678  , Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F318  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY:
      1. See notes on wife wherein John Topping is noted "of Southampton, Long Island, (New York) in the book "Families of Old Fairfield".

      2. Ordinance index reports parents: Thomas Topping and Emma Aldridge.

      3. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
      "DEBORAH Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636. She m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew Ward.(58) She m. (2) by 1678 John Topping.(59)
      Footnotes:
      58. Fairfield Probate Records 1:43; Anderson, Great Migration Begins 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage).
      59. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, dau. of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")."

      4. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "Robert Lockwood...
      Children...
      ii. DEBORAH Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636 [NEHGR 7:159; WaVR 1:4]; m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew WARD {1633, Watertown} [GMB 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage)]; m. (2) by 1678 John Topping [FOOF 1:265, 645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, daughter of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")]..."

      5. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11:
      "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight...
      ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
      He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
      Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
      i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
      ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
      iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
      iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
      v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
      vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
      vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
      viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
      ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
      x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
      xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."

      6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43:
      "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263).
      Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635.
      Children, surname LOCKWOOD...
      ii. DEBORAH, born Watertown MA 12 October 1636, died after 1677; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1656 Ensign William2 Ward, born probably England 1631, died 1676, son of Andrew1 and Hester1 (Sherman) Ward; married (2) Southampton LI about 1677 as his second wife John1 Topping of there, born probably England 1636, died Southampton 1686 (Torrey 779 and 727)...
      (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"

      BIRTH:
      1. Per Ordinance Index.