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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The following partial excerpt from biographical notes for Edmund Lockwood (the immigrant) applies to the first generation of American Lockwood descendants of Robert. The quote is from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, for the full transcription, see the notes of Edmund: "Bibliographic Note: The 1889 Lockwood genealogy (Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, "Descendants of Robert Lockwood," "History of the Lockwood Family in America," [Philadelphia 1889]) was deservedly described by Jacobus as "a genealogical atrocity" [TAG 31:222]. By lumping all the descendants of the first Edmund under his brother Robert, the posterity of this family through eldest son Edmund was misplaced. Donald Lines Jacobus began to sort the family out properly in 1930, with further contributions made in 1955 [FOOF 1:380-81; TAG 31:222-24]. In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published detailed arguments for a rearrangement of the Lockwood families that would restore to Edmund Lockwood his children ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978), cited above as Lockwood Gen]."
2. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978:
"Foreword. Edmund Lockwood, The Forgotten Ancestor.
In 1630 two Lockwood brothers, 'Mr.' Edmund, aged 36 and Sergeant Robert, aged 36, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet. Both men were sons of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of Combs, co. Suffolk, England. (See Phi more and Blagg, 'Suffolk County Registers, Marriages,' 1:123 and Banks, 'Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' pp. 79, 80. Both brothers have many American descendants living today, those of Robert far more numerous than those of his brother, Edmund. Unfortunately, few of the Edmund Lockwood family acknowledge him as one of their forefathers, believing erroneously that they are descendants of Robert. The 'Edmund Lockwood Family Society' is today an exclusive group with a mere handful of members. How has this situation come about?
James Savage, who published his 'Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England' in 1860-2, recognized that Edmund Lockwood had progeny into the third generation. But in 1889, two unbelievably inept compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, threw together a thick tome entitled 'Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America.' This book, replete with multiple errors, assumes, as its title suggests, that all early American Lockwoods were descendants of Sgt. Robert Lockwood. His brother, Edmund Lockwood, is consigned to an appendix, which omits any mention of the records of Edmund's surviving son, Edmund Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut. Then, confronted with the six surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, the compilers divide them up and add them to the families of two sons of Robert Lockwood: Ephraim of Norwalk and Jonathan of Greenwich. The original errors are compounded in the Lockwood genealogy, tangling inextricably the lines of both Edmund and Robert Lockwood.
In 1930 Donald Lines Jacobus, who called the Holden and Lockwood compilation 'a genealogical atrocity' ('The American Genealogist,' 31:222 ff.), corrected the Connecticut Lockwood families through the first two generations in the 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.' Unfortunately, this work has only recently become widely available through a reprinted edition, is as yet unknown to many Lockwood researchers and does not 'come down' far enough on Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich lines to help identify later Lockwoods. Jacobus cautioned (TAG, 31:222), that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification.
Jacobus, using carefully studied probate records, showed that no Connecticut Lockwood of suitable age could have been father of Abraham Lockwood (c1670-1747) of Rhode Island (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 125) or of Richard Lockwood (1678-1757) of Delaware. The old Lockwood genealogy simply inserts Abraham and Richard into Connecticut families to which they clearly do not belong! The Delaware and Rhode Island Lockwoods are separate lines and must look elsewhere for their ancestry.
Additionally, two English Lockwood pedigrees are shown on preface pages xxiv and xxv of the Holden and Lockwood 1889 genealogy. Caveat! No connection to any American Lockwood has been proved or can be inferred.
The present compilation is limited in scope and does not attempt to correct more than a few of the errors in 'The Descendants of Robert Lockwood.' We have focused on retrieving the descendants of Edmund Lockwood, reworking the lineages. We have carried out all the male lines and a few females' families through five generations, insofar as they can be determined. Some have eluded us and we hope other researchers may provide us with the careers of more fifth generation descendants of Edmund Lockwood, from original material. We have included here a few sixth generation families, whose records have not been published heretofore. This book contains much new material, principally from original deeds.
Harriet W. Hodge, C. G.'
References:
Donald Lines Jacobus, 'History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,' vol. 1, pp. 380-85, 715-16; vol. 2, p. 1075. (N.B. In this work, Fairfield, CT Lockwood families are carried on, but not those of Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich.)
Donald Lines Jacobus, 'An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder,' 'The American Genealogist,' 31:222-28.
Charles Henry Pope, 'The Pioneers of Massachusetts,' pp. 289, 330.
Charles E. Banks, 'The Winthrop Fleet of 1630,' Boston, 1930, pp. 79, 80.
Robert Lockwood, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood, bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England, d. 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, m. Susannah, prob. dau of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She 2/m. Jeffrey Ferris. Children:
1. Jonathan, b. 10 Sep 1634 Watertown, MA, d. 12 May 1688 Greenwich, CT, m. Mary Ferris who 2/m. 1696 Thomas Merritt. Ch:
a. Robert, d. 1732/3 m. Mary ___.
b. Jonathan, died without issue 1689.
c. Gershom, d. 1757 m. Hannah ____.
d. Joseph, - n.f.i.
e. Abigail m. Thomas? Baxter.
2. Deborah, b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, MA, 1/ m. William Ward 2/m. John Topping.
3. Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1638, Watertown, MA, d. 1717, Fairfield, CT, 1/m. ___ Beacham, 2/m. Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream. Ch: (by 1/w.)
a. Robert, d. c1715, 1/m. ____, 2/m. Mary () Butler.
b. Susanna, 1/m. Nathaniel Burr, 2/m. Benjamin Rumsey.
c. John, d. 1736, m. Elizabeth Sarah, without issue
4. Daniel, b. 21 Mar 1640 Watertown, MA, d. 1691 Fairfield, CT, m. Abigail Sherwood. Ch:
a. Daniel, b. 1669 d. 1698, m. Abigail Burr who 2/m. Elnathan Hanford and 3/m. Nathaniel Sherman.
b. Abigail, b. c1674, m. Samuel Robinson.
c. Mary, b. c1681, m. Nathan Morehouse.
5. Ephraim, b. 1 Dec 1641 Watertown, MA d. 1685 Norwalk, CT, m. Mercy St. John. Ch:
a. John, b. 1665/6 died without issue1690/1.
b. Daniel, b. 1668 d. 1712, m. Sarah Benedict
c. Sarah, b. 1670, m. John Platt, Jr.
d. Ephraim, b. 1673, d.y.
e. Eliphalet, b. 1675/6, m. Mary Gold.
f. Joseph, b. 1680, d. 1760, 1/m. Mary Weed, 2/m. Hannah ___.
g. James, b. 1683, 1/m. Lydia Smith, 2/m. Mercy (Bushnell) (Bostwick) Gaylord.
6. Gershom, b. 6 Sep 1643 Watertown, MA, d.1718/9 Greenwich, CT, 1/m. ____ of Windsor, CT, 2/m. 1697 Elizabeth (/Townsend) Wright, 3/m. Elizabeth ___. Ch: (by 1/w.)
a. Gershom, d. by 1761, m. Ann Millington.
b. Hannah, 1/m. John Burwell, 2/m. Thomas Hanford.
c. Elizabeth, d. 1702, m. 1693/4 John Bates.
d. Joseph, d. 1748, m. ?Sarah Green.
e. Sarah, b. c1679, d. 1765, 1/m. 1699/1700 Nathaniel Selleck, 2/m. 1713/4 Benjamin Hickock, 3/m. 1755 Samuel Kellogg.
[KP: Note that there are no sons William and Abraham of Gershom as some have reported.]
7. John, d. 1677, unmarried.
8. Abigail, m. before 1681 John Barlow.
9. Sarah, d. 1 Mar 1650/1 Connecticut.
10. Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/2 Connecticut, ? m. Abraham Adams.
11. Mary, 1/m. Jonathan Husted, 2/m. Joseph Knapp."
3. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: In reference to father's (Gershom Lockwood, Sr.) will: "Adm'n granted, 1 Apr. 1719, to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The Inv. mentions 'about 30 acres of Land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife'. Agreement 28 Mar. 1719: Widow Elizabeth; Gershom and Joseph Lockwood of Greenwich, sons of Gershom; Hannah wife of Thomas Hanford of Norwalk and Sarah wife of Benjamin Hecox of Stamford, daus. of Gershom; and John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and David Bates, children of Elizabeth Bates of Stamford dec'd, one of the daus. of Gershom." Also "Hannah, m. (1) abt 1686, John Burwell (Will of John Burwell, last day of Apr. 1690; wife Exec'x; Child; if wife should be with Child; father Gershom Lockwood, and cousin John Browne of Newark, N.J., overseers.); m. (2) Thomas Hanford." Same book p. 258: "Will of Hannah, 21 Feb 1744/5, proved 14 Jan 1745/6..."
4. Per the book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia (see separate notes above about the general unreliability of this book):
"Hannah Lockwood, b. 1667, in Greenwich, CT, and died Dec. 28th, 1745, 78 years old...m., 1st (abt. 1686), John Burwell, soon after his arrival in America, from the parish of Bovington, Hemel Hempstead, England. He settled in Greenwich, CT. He died May 1st, 1690; m., 2d (abt. 1692), Thomas Hanford, (born 1668). He was schoolmaster in Greenwich, Feb. 21st, 1692, and received Ä1, 10s. per month for teaching. He was born born July 18th, 1668 (Hy. Norwalk, 187), and died 7 Jun, 1743, aged 75 years. Son Rev. Thomas and Mary Hanford, of Norwalk, CT. This may was the widow of Jonathan Ince, of New Haven, CT. Children from first husband: Hannah Burwell, born Mar. 30, 1687; m. John Betts; and a dau. died young. (Book has no record of children from second marriage.)" This same book has a lengthy story about Hannah who married John Betts or Beets who was to inherit a tremendous fortune in England. The story has alot of intrigue including disappearing gravestones and so forth. See hard copy file for complete story.
5. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), p. 243:
GERSHOM2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1), born Watertown MA 6 September 1643, died Greenwich CT 12 March 1719; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1659 Anne (?Millington) of Windsor CT, born probably England say 1639, died probably Greenwich before 1697, perhaps daughter of John1 and Sarah (Smith) Millington of Hartford CT; married (2) Oyster Bay LI 3 August 1697 Elizabeth Townsend, born say 1650, died after 1719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, married (1) there about 1670 (birth 1671) Gideon Wright, born say 1648, died before 1697; married (3) 2 October 1716 Elizabeth (___). He was in Greenwich 1672 (Torrey 470 and 842).
Children surname LOCKWOOD:
By first wife Ann ?Millington:
i. GERSHOM, born Fairfield CT about 1659; married Mary (___ not Weed), born say 1661.
ii. HANNAH3, born probably Greenwich CT say 1666, died probably there 28 December 1745; married there about 1686 JOHN3 BURWELL, born Milford CT about 1653, died Greenwich 1 May 1690, son of JOHN2 (JOHN1) and Mary (___) BURWELL; married (2) there 1692 Thomas2 Hanford, born 18 July 1668, died 7 June 1743, son of Thomas1 and his second wife Mary2 (Miles) Hanford (see Burwell Chapter) (Torrey 125 and 341).
iiI. ABRAHAM, born probably Greenwich CT about 1669, died Warwick RI 1747; married Sarah Westcott, born say 1671.
(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)"
MARRIAGE:
1. Marriage to Thomas Hanford had to be before 1700 since oldest daughter, Catherine, was married in 1719.
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