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Mercy Saint John

Female 1642 - Abt 1695  (52 years)


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  • Name Mercy Saint John 
    Born 8 Jun 1642  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Abt 1/01 Feb 1694/5  Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3277  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Ephraim Lockwood,   b. 1 Dec 1641, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 13 Jan 1685 to 20 Jul 1685, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Married 8 Jun 1665  Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1710  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Parents: Matthew Sention, Sr. or St. John and Sarah Hoyt.

      2. "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:
      "EPHRAIM Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641. He m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John,(63) daughter of Mathias St. John.(64)
      Footnotes:
      63. Norwalk Deeds 1:49.
      64. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:513."

      3. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "Robert Lockwood...
      Children...
      v. EPHRAIM Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641 [NEHGR 7:281; WaVR 1:9]; m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John [Norwalk LR 1:49], daughter of Mathias St. John [FOOF 1:513]..."

      4. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., p. 11:
      "EPHRAIM2 LOCKWOOD, son of Robert1 and Susannah (Norman) Lockwood, b. Watertown, MA 1 Dec. 1641, [VR]; d. Norwalk, CT in 1685.
      He m. Norwalk 8 June 1665, [VR], MERCY ST. JOHN, dau. of Matthew St. John (or Matthias Sention, the early spelling of the name). She d. in 1694.
      The will of Ephraim Lockwood of Norwalk, aged 43 yrs., was written 13 Jan. 1685, the inventory of the estate taken 20 July 1685. The will mentions: his wife; second son Daniel, a lot lying between Robert Steward and Samuel Sention "my brothers;" son Ephraim; eldest son John (to be executor with his mother); son Eliphalet; son Joseph; son James (who had estate by will of his uncle); dau. Sarah (to have her portion at age 18); Mark Sention and John Fitch, Overseers. Widow Mercy Lockwood made oath 2 Nov. 1685, [Jacobus, F.O.O.F., 1:384].
      Letters of administration on the estate of Ephraim's son John Lockwood were granted 3 Nov. 1691 to (his mother) Mercey (sic) Lockwood and her son Daniel. The inventory was taken 2 March 1690/1 and filed 3 Nov. 1691, [Mead, Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, hereinafter Mead, FF PR, orig. record 4:105, 123].
      On 12 March 1694/5, a court record of the estate of Ephraim Lockwood, late of Norwalk, states that "his widow Mercy Lockwood, son Ephraim Lockwood, Jr. (who died before coming of age) and son John Lockwood .are all deceased;" and the estate was ordered distributed to surviving children: Daniel, Eliphalet, Joseph, James and Sarah Lockwood, [Mead, FF PR, orig. 3:183,184; 4:123a].
      Children (LOCKWOOD), all b. Norwalk, [VR]:
      i JOHN3 b. 19 March 1665/6; d. 3 Jan. 1687/8 unmarried.
      ii DANIEL b. 13 Aug. 1668; m. SARAH BENEDICT.
      iii SARAH b. 3 Nov. 1670; m. May 1695 JOHN PLATT, Jr.
      iv EPHRAIM b. 1 May 1673; living in 1685; d.s.p. bef. 1695.
      v ELIPHALET b. 27 Feb. 1675/6; m. MARY GOLD.
      vi JOSEPH b. 1 Apr. 1680; m. (1) MARY WEED; m. (2) HANNAH
      vii JAMES b. 21 Apr. 1683; m. (1) LYDIA SMITH; m. (2) MERCY BUSHNELL."

      5. 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...
      v. EPHRAIM, born Watertown MA 1 December 1641, died Norwalk CT 1685; married there 8 June 1665 Mercy2 St. John, born probably Windsor CT say 1643, died probably Norwalk January 1694, daughter of Matthias1 and Mary1 (Tinker) St. John. He removed to Fairfield CT with his father in 1646, but later located in Norwalk, where he became freeman in October 1677. His will was dated 13 January 1685, and probated that same year (Torrey 470)...
      (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)"