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1. "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, FASG, (may be contacted at 2 Fenway, Deny, NH 03038, or at ). 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:
"GENEALOGICAL Summary
Robert1 Lockwood was almost certainly the child of that name baptized at Combs, Suffolk, on 18 January 1600[/1], son of Edmund and Alice (Cowper) Lockwood. He died, probably at Fairfield, between 21 May 1657 (when he was appointed sergeant at Fairfield) and 11 September 1658 (when his inventory was taken), and probably closer to the latter date. He married by 1634 Susanna2 Norman, baptized 31 July 1617 at Charminster, Dorset, daughter of Richard1 and Florence (___) Norman of Salem. Massachusetts.(54) After 20 October 1658 (when she was still referred to as "widow Lockwood"), she married (2) Jeffrey Ferris, and she died at Greenwich on 23 December 1660.(55) Robert Lockwood arrived in New England no later than 1633 (and perhaps as early as 1630). As a resident of Watertown he was granted by the town a full proprietary share, which he sold in 1646, at which time he removed to Stamford, where he purchased the proprietary share of Rev. Richard Denton, which he disposed of in 1650. By 1650 he had removed to Fairfield, where he purchased the proprietary share originally granted to Henry Gray.
Children(i-vi born Watertown(56)):
i. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Watertown 10 September 1634. He m. by 6 January 1664[/5?] Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris.(57)
ii. 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)
iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638. He m. (1) by an unknown date Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham.(60) He possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream.(61)
iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640. He m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood, daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield.(62)
v. EPHRAIM Lockwood, b. Watertown 1 December 1641. He m. Norwalk 8 June 1665 Mercy St. John,(63) daughter of Mathias St. John.(64)
vi. GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643. He m. (1) 65 He m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright.(66)
vii. JohnLockwood, b. say 1646. The inventory of the estate of"John Lockwood" was taken "by us as selectmen of the town of Norwocke in February last Anno 1675 [probably 1675/6]" (including a debt "from the country for wages as a soldier") and presented by Ephraim Lockwood; apparently unmarried.(67)
viii. Abigail Lockwood, b. say 1648. She m. by about 1668 John Barlow, son of Thomas Barlow.(68)
ix. Sarah Lockwood, b. say 1650; d. Fairfield 1 March 1650[/1].(69)
x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?].(70) She was living on 28 May 1661.(71) She may have married Abraham Adams.(72)
xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654. She m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan3 Huestis (Angel2, Robert1).(73) She m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp.(74)
Footnotes:
54. TAG 77(2002):102-3; Anderson, "Great Migration Begins," 2:1334-36.
55. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, "Volume 2, C-F (Boston, 2001), pp. 517-21 (cited hereafter as Anderson et al., Great Migration).
56. "Watertown Records: Vital Records," pp. 1:3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11; Register 6:380, 7:159, 160, 162, 281, 283.
57. Anderson et al., "Great Migration," 2:517-21; Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:382.
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").
60. In his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield Probate Records 4:36].
61. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:383.
62. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:383, 548-49 (in her will of 29 January 1691/2, widow Abigail Lockwood made brother Matthew Sherwood one of her overseers).
63. Norwalk Deeds 1:49.
64. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:513.
65. Holden and Lockwood claim that she was "Lady Ann Millington from England, daughter of Lord Millington," an unsupported and highly unlikely identification (Lockwood Family 16-17). In 1930 Jacobus called her "Ann [?Millington] of Windsor," but in 1955 he referred to her simply as "(first wife)" and gave to Gershom, son of this Gershom, wife Ann Millington (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:384-85; TAG 31:224). This latter Gershom had a son named Millington (TAG 31:226), which may be the origin of the proposed Millington connection.
66. John Cox, Jr., ed., "Oyster Bay Town Records," Volume I, 1653-1690 (New York, 1916), p. 515. In 1955 Jacobus argued that this Elizabeth died and that Gershom had a third wife, also named Elizabeth. In presenting the estate papers for Gershom, Jacobus states that "The prenuptial contract of Gershom with his widow was dated 2 Oct. 1716" (TAG 31:225-26). This prenuptial contract has not been found, but the will of Gershom Lockwood, dated 2 October 1716, refers to "what I have [given] to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth as in my deed of gift to her" (Fairfield Probate Records Case #3836). If Jacobus mistook this reference to a deed of gift as a prenuptial contract, then we have evidence for only one wife named Elizabeth.
67. Fairfield Probate Records 3:23-24.
68. Fairfield Probate Records 3:313. The eldest child of John and Abigail (Lockwood) Barlow was born about 1668 (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:29.
69. Edwin Stanley Welles, ed., Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford, 1898), p. 30 (cited hereafter as Welles, "Birth, Marriages and Deaths ... of Connecticut").
70. Welles, "Births Marriages and Deaths ... of Connecticut," p. 30.
71. Fairfield Probate Records 1:65, 67.
72. In a footnote to his account of Abraham Adams, son of Edward Adams of Fairfield, Jacobus reports that "Mr. Clarence A. Torrey of Dorchester, Mass., ... suggests from circumstantial evidence that the mother of the Adams children may have been Sarah Lockwood" (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:9-10). The "circumstantial evidence" was that Sarah Lockwood was available, that Abraham Adams used the names Deborah and Susannah for daughters, and that the children of Daniel Burr with his first wife (one of whom married a Lockwood) chose Adams as their attorney (letters from CAT to DLJ dated 18 and 19 December 1929, and letter of DLJ to CAT dated 20 December 1929, Folder #2, Correspondence of DLJ and CAT, Connecticut Historical Society.
73. Fairfield Probate Records 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5.
74. On 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the Town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relect of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich Deeds 2:85]."
2. 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]."
3. 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.
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."
4. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 382: "Son of Robert. Deputy for Greenwich, May and Oct. 1671, May 1673, Oct 1674, Oct. 1676, May 1683. Commissioner of New York boundary, Oct. 1674. Called Sergt. 1673, and Lt. 1674. Born at Watertown, Mass., 10 Sep 1634 [book later corrects this to 16 not 10) Sep 1634 per p. 21 of appendix], d. at Greenwich, 12 May 1688; m. Mary Ferris, dau. of Jeffrey. She m. (2) in 1696, Thomas Merritt of Rye, and d. at Greenwich 1707/8. Inv. 31 Jan 1707/8 of Marah Merrit of Greenwich. Her prenuptial agreement with Merritt was made 3 Jun 1696..."
5. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 160: "Mary, bc1637, d1708, m1 Lt. Jonathan Lockwood, m2 1696 Thomas Merritt."
6. Per Knapp Family website: 1670, freeman in Greenwich. In 1672, 1 of 27 proprietors of town. Represented town in legislature.
7. The book: "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692" by James Savage, published by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981, Baltimore, vol.3, p.104: "Jonathan, Stamford...was not long at Stamf. having sold his estate there 1665, and in 5 yrs. aft. is called of Greenwich..."
8. From FHL book 929.273-K727kaa: "The Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D.,1800 Columbia Terrace, Peoria, Illinois; 1947. Note the discrepancy from Susannah's supposed married date of 28 May 1661 and death date a year earlier 23 Dec. 1660:
'11-G-41. Robert Lockwood, son of 12-G-32. Edmund Lockwood & ?
B. At Combs, Co. Suffolk, England. Bapt. Jan. 18, 1600
D. 1658. No will. Inventory 9-11-1658, by John Banks. Wife, Administrator.
M. Susannah Norman. 11-G-42. (which see) First 6 children recorded in Watertown."
"11-G-42. SUSANNAH Norman, dau. of 12-G-33. Richard Norman & ? of Salem, Mass.
D. Dec. 23, 1660, at Greenwich, Conn.
M. 1st, Robert Lockwood. 11-G-41. (which see)
2nd, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich. Marriage contract signed 5-28-1661. He d. 1666. He was the guardian of Robert's children.
Robert and Susannah had:
1. Jonathan Lockwood, b. 9-10-1634.
2. Deborah Lockwood, b. 10-12-1636. m. 1st, before 10-2-1658, Ensign Williams Ward. 2nd, John Tapping.
3. Joseph Lockwood, b. 8-6-1638.
4. Daniel Lockwood, b. 3-21-1640. 10-G-44. (which see)
5. Ephraim Lockwood, b. 12-1-1641.
6. Gershom Lockwood, b. 9-6-1643.
7. John Lockwood, d. 1677. Single. Inventory about 1677.
8. Abigail Lockwood, m. John Barlow, Jr.
9. Sarah Lockwood, d. 3-1-1650/1. Perhaps 1st wife of Lieut. Abraham Adams.
10. Mary Lockwood, m. 1st, Jonathan Husted, 2nd, Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich, probably.
11. Deborah Lockwood, probably."
9. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes:
"Jeffrey Ferris...
Estate: ...On 28 May 1661, "Jeffery Ferries, by marriage with his wife Susanna, now deceased, stands engaged to pay certain legacies due to the children of Robert Lockwood, deceased, according to the administration entered in Court 20 October 1658" [Fairfield PR 1:65].
In his will, dated 6 January 1664(/5?] and proved 9 March 1666/7, "Jeaffrey Ferris" bequeathed to "my wife that now is, all the estate which she can make appear that she brought with her" and £l0; to "her four children, that is to say, those four boys which I brought up and kept," £10 apiece; "in case my wife that now is shall see cause to remain a widow alter my decease, ... I give for her use five acres of land that now is in till, the one half in my home lot and the other half at Tomuck," also "one of my allotments that is on Mihanoes Neck," also some household goods to "my son James Ferris," £20, some moveables, and "half my farm, that is to say, that land that I now gave him"; to "my daughter Mary Lockwood, that now is, twenty pounds besides the quarter part of my before mentioned jades I gave to her husband, Jonothan Lockwood"; to "my son Peter Ferris, his three children, one mare colt"; to "my son Josep[h]'s two children one mare colt"; residue to "be equally divided amongst all my children"; "in case God should please to give my wife a child born of her body whilst she remains my wife, that is to say, whilst I live, or if I leave her with child when I die," that child to have "the other half of my farm" and a young mare; "my loving friend, John Holly, now in Stamford, and my son Peter Ferris" to be executors [Fairfield PR 2:20-21].
The inventory of the estate of "Jeffrey Ferris, deceased," taken 23, 24, 26 and 29 November 1666, totalled £493 6-¼d., of which £170 was real estate: "house and lands," £170 [Fairfield PR 2:29-32]. Appended to the inventory is a division of the estate, dated 22 March 1666/7: to "brother Jonathan Lockwood"; to "brother James Ferris"; to "brother Joseph Ferris"; and to "brother Joseph Ferris" [Fairfield PR 2:32] (perhaps one of the entries for Joseph Ferris is intended for one of the other brothers).
On 21 June 1687, "Peter Ferris & Jonathan Lockwood & Joseph Ferris & Jeames Ferris, being administrators of the estate of our deceased father, Jeffere Ferris," agreed "that all lands that are dividable that were formerly our foresaid deceased father's, ... that any or each person of us do possess, that he or they shall have ... the said land ... as his own proper right" [Greenwich LR 1:124].
On 16 July 1705, "John Ferris, inhabitant of Westchester, ... son unto Jeffre Ferris of Greenwich," gave a receipt for his share of his father's estate from "my brother[s] Peeter Ferris & Joseph Feris & James Feris & Jonathan Lockwood, ... as they were administrators of the estate of my deceased [father] Jeffere Feris" [Greenwich LR 1:173]...
Death: Greenwich 31 May 1666 [Gillespie Anc 118, source not cited].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1629 ___ ___. She died at Stamford 31 July 1658 (TAG 10:45, citing Stamford TR 1:20].
(2) About 1659 Susanna (Norman) Lockwood, daughter of Richard Norman {1626, Salem} [GMB 2:1334-36] and widow of Robert Lockwood {1634, Watertown} [Fairfield PR 1:65]. She died at Greenwich 23 December 1660 (recorded at Stamford) [TAG 10:118, citing
Stamford TR 1:98]. [KP: Susanna was both the step-mother of Mary Ferris and the mother of Mary's husband Jonathan Lockwood.]
(3) By about 1662 Judith (Feake) Palmer, daughter of James Feake of London and widow of William Palmer...
Children:
With first wife...
iii. Mary, b. say 1636; m. (1) by an unknown date Jonathan Lockwood, son of Robert Lockwood {1634, Watertown); m. (2) soon after 3 June 1696 Thomas Merritt [Gillespie Anc 128, citing prenuptial agreement, location not stated]..."
10. 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 [Caution! See notes in separate note above about the unreliability of this book):
"Lt. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Sep. 10th, 1634, in Watertown, Mass; d. May 12th, 1688, in Greenwich, CT, in his 54th year...He signed a paper Jan 1st, 1657, at Easttowne, in the N. Netherlands, promising allegiance to the Dutch governor 'so long as we live in his jurisdiction'; was of Stamford, CT, Oct 16th, 1660, and resided there until 1665; when he sold his estate there and removed to Greenwich. He there became a freeman in 1670; was assistant in May, 1671, and in 1672, one of the 27 prorietors'. He became a prominent citizen (Hy. Stamford, pp.31,56), and represented the town in the Legislature four years. Up to 1688 Lt. Lockwood had been a leading influential man in the town. This year he died, and the people met in town meeting and passed resolutions deploring the loss of so valuable a citizen (Hy. Greenwich, p. 69). His wife was Mary Ferris (sometimes call Marah), dau. of Jeffrey Ferris." From Vol. 2, from Boundaries of the State of Nw York, Pratt, p232 (Conn.): "Oct. 8, 1674, 'This Court appoynts Mr. John Bankes, Ln't Jonath. Sillick, Ln't Jonathan Lockwood and Ln't Joseph Orton, or any three of them, forthwith to runn the lyne between this Coolony ann the Colony of New York from Momoronock River to Hudson's River (Conn. Pub. Rec., p. 242)." Also: "Mary Lockwood, of Greenwich, widow of Lt. Jonathan Lockwood, about to marry Sgt. Thomas Merritt, of Rye, on the 5th day June, 1696, made provision for her children by Jonathan Lockwood. Thomas Merritt agreed to this on the 18th day of June, 1696." Note: see hard file for several pages of civil records concerning this individual as copied from this book.
11. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Robert Lockwood...
Migration:1633.
First Residence: Watertown.
Removes: Stamford 1646, Fairfield 1650...
Estate: ...On 20 October 1658, "the widow Lockwood" presented her husband's inventory, and the court appointed "the widow Susanna Lockwood to be administratrix"; "the deceased having left no will, the Court orders as followeth: that the widow shall have a third part of the state and the rest of the children being nine in number, their names are Jonathan, Joseph, Daniell, Epraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah and Mary, shall have the rest of the estate divided amongst them as followeth, the eldest son Jonathan is to have a double portion only that estate which the said Jonathan received of his father before his death being here made to appear to be fifty-seven pounds, twelve shillings, is to be reckoned to be part of his double portion, and ... the rest of the estate is to be divided among the rest of the children only each of the sons are to have a third part more than [each] of the daughters ...; Deborah being married hath received her portion of her father before his death" [Fairfield PR 1:43]...
On 28 May 1661, "whereas Jeffery Ferris by marriage with his wife Susanna now deceased stands engaged to pay certain legacies due to the children of Robert Lockwood deceased according to the administration entered in court 20 October 1658 and whereas he sayeth that Joseph & Daniell hath received their portions already as also that they have received the portions of Epraim & Gershom & that they are to stand engaged to see it paid according to the court order and that he intends at the first opportunity to clear himself thereof at a court and whereas John & the three daughters portions are still in his hand, he having removed out of this jurisdiction and security being demanded, he doth by these presents bind over all his housing and accommodations that he hath in Greenwich that the legacies shall be truly paid" [Fairfield PR 1:65, 67].
On 1 December 1681, "Jonathan Hewsteed of Greenwich having marrying Mary Lockwood the daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood" acknowledged having received his wife's portion of her parents' estates from "Daniell Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and Will[ia]m Ward administrators upon the estate of their father and mother" [Fairfield PR 3:314]. On 28 December 1681, "John Barlowe of Fairfeild," noting that "there was a portion due out of the estate of my father-in-law Robert Lockwood deceased and of the estate of my mother -in-law Susanna Ferris deceased unto she that is now my wife Abigal their daughter, and whereas that my brother-in-law Will[ia]m Ward in his lifetime and my brother-in-laws Joseph and Daniel Lockwood were appointed by the court to administer on the abovesaid estate," acknowledged having received his wife's portion [Fairfield PR 3:313]...
Children:
i. Jonathan Lockwood, b. Watertown 10 September 1634 [NEHGR 6:380; WaVR 1:3]; m. by 6 January 1664[/5?] Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris [GM 2:2:519-20].
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")].
iii. Joseph Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 August 1638 [NEHGR 7:160; WaVR 1:5]; m. (1) by an unknown date ___ Beacham, daughter of Robert Beacham (in his will of 24 November 1689, "Rob[er]t Beacham of Maxemas Farms in Fairfeild" included bequests to "my grandchild Robert Lockwood," "my grandchild Susana Lockwood," "my other two grandchildren John and Sarah Lockwood," and made "my loving son-in-law Joseph Lockwood" sole executor [Fairfield PR 4:36]); possibly m. (2) after 1689 Mary (Coley) (Simpson) Stream, widow of Peter Simpson and John Stream [FOOF 1:383].
iv. Daniel Lockwood, b. Watertown 25 March 1640 [NEHGR 7:162; WaVR 1:8]; m. by about 1669 Abigail Sherwood (eldest known child b. about 1669 [FOOF 1:383]), daughter of Thomas Sherwood [FOOF 1:383, 548-49].
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].
vi. GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643 [NEHGR 7:283; WaVR 1:11]; m. (1) ___ ___ ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130]; m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright [Oyster Bay TR 1:515], daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130; FOOF 1:384-85].
vii. John Lockwood, b. say 1646; the inventory of the estate of "John Lockwood" was taken "by us as selectmen of the town of Norwocke in February last Anno 1675 [probably 1675/6]" (including a debt "from the country for wages as a soldier") and presented by Ephraim Lockwood [Fairfield PR 3:23-24]; apparently unm.
viii. Abigail Lockwood, b. say 1648; m. by about 1668 John Barlow (eldest known child b. about 1668), son of Thomas Barlow [Fairfield PR 3:313; FOOF 1:29].
ix. Sarah Lockwood, b. say 1650; d. Fairfield 1 March 1650[/1] [CTVR30].
x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?] [CTVR 30]; she may have married Abraham Adams [Connecticut Ancestry 47:130; FOOF 1:9-10].
xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654; m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan Huestis [Fairfield PR 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5]; m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp (on 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relict of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich LR 2:85; FOOF 1:317-18]).
Associations: ...in the grants of land in the Beaverbrook Plowlands and the Remote Meadows, which were based on household size, Robert Lockwood received six acres. At the date of these grants, in late 1636 and early 1637, the immediate household of Robert Lockwood was four persons (himself, his wife, and his two eldest children)...
Comments: ...Although Robert Lockwood created no surviving records during his residence at Stamford, we place him there from 1646 to 1650 for two reasons. First, he left Watertown at the same time that others of that own, especially Nicholas Knapp, made the move to Stamford [GMN:8]. Second, in 1650, when he was already at Fairfield, he sold land in Stamford which had been the proprietary share of the Rev. Richard Denton [Stamford TR 1:41], who had left Stamford prior to 1646. This and would have been the residence of Robert Lockwood during his sojourn at Stamford.
In 1654 two members of the family of Robert Lockwood became embroiled in the witchcraft trial of Goody Knapp. On 13 May 1654, "Susan Lockwood, wife of Robert Lockwood," and "Deborah Lockwood, of the age of 17 or thereabout," gave depositions of events on the day of Goody Knapp's execution [NHCR 2:82-83; Witchhunting 74-86].
Bibliographic Note: In 1889 Frederic A. Holden and F. Dunbar Lockwood compiled a genealogy of the descendants of the Lockwood brothers ["Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," Philadelphia 1889)].
In 1927 Clarence A. Torrey identified the wife of this immigrant NYGBR 58:395-96]. Donald Lines Jacobus treated Robert Lockwood and his descendants in the course of his work on the families of Fairfield [FOOF 1:380-87]. In 1978, building on the work of Jacobus and correcting the "Lockwood Family," Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the immigrant Edmund Lockwood, thus correcting earlier accounts of Robert Lockwood ["Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York 1978)]. In 1984 Harriet Woodbury Hodge published an account of the agnate descendants of Ephraim Lockwood, son of this immigrant ["Connecticut Ancestry" 27:9-18, 64-70, 141-47].
In 2004 Robert Charles Anderson published a study of this immigrant, concentrating on his English origin, his landholding and the marriages of his children ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:119-30]."
12. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 43: "p. 53 [1:44]" shows the record of a deed dated "[Sept. - Dec.] 1658 between Henry Desbrow to Jonathan Lockwood. The land is then deeded over to Abraham Frost on 29 Jan., 1600/1. Part of the land is bounded by the "widow [Unice] Brown.
13. The book "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich with Genealogical Notes …," by Spencer P. Mead (Camden, Maine; Picton Press), p. 289, (those with asterisks are in my database):
"The militia generally has been considered in Chapter IX. As regards the military forces in Greenwich, a company was organized soon after the town was first settled, and Captain Daniel Patrick was the first military commander. After his death in 1644, he was succeeded by William Hallett, who was banished in 1648, for the commission of the act of adultery with Mrs. Elizabeth Peaks. The next leading citizen was Richard Crab, who seems, to have removed from Greenwich about 166o. The following were his successors:
1669 to 1688, Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood.*
1689 to 1695, Lieutenant John Bowers.*
1696 to 1725, Lieutenant James Ferris.
1726 to 1735, Captain Caleb Knapp.*
1736 to 1739, Captain James Reynolds."
14. The book "History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868…," by Rev. E. B. Huntington (A Corrected Reprint of the 1868 Edition, 1979), pp. 56-7:
"Lockwood, Jonathan, was here in 1659, as appears from his testimony in court, at Fairfield, Feb. 24th of that year. He is reported as then 24 or 25 years of age. This corresponds with the presumption that he was son of Robert Lockwood, of Fairfield, and that he is the son born in Watertown, Sept. 10, 1634. His children were Jonathan, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, and John. He sold his estate here in 1665, and was afterwards a prominent citizen of Greenwich, representing that town in the state legislation for four years."
15. The book "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I," by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930; reprinted 1991), pp. 380-81:
"Lockwood, Robert. Sergt., Fairfield Trainband, May 1657.
Came to America about 1630, brother of Edmund; settled in Watertown, Mass.; freeman of Mass. Bay, Mar. 1636/7. Removed to Fairfield about 1646; freeman of Conn., May 1652.
Married Susannah, prob. dau. of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
Inv. 11 Sept. 1658. Widow Susanna to administer; nine children: eldest son Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, Ephraim, Gershom, John, Abigail, Sarah, Mary; Deborah, being married, hath rec'd portion.
Jeffrey Ferris agreed to pay portions to the children, and mention was made of what he shall pay William Ward and Joseph and Daniel Lockwood on account of the children.
Children, first six recorded at Watertown:
Jonathan, b. 10 Sept. 1634.
Deborah, b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) before 20 Oct. 1658, Ens. William Ward; m. (2) John Topping, of Southampton, L. I.
Joseph, b. 6 Aug. 1638.
Daniel, b. 21 Mar. 1640.
Ephraim, b. 1 Dec. 1641.
Gershom, b. 6 Sept. 1643.
John, d. in 1677, unm. Inv. abt. 1677, presented by Ephraim Lockwood.
Abigail, m. John Barlow, Jr. He receipted, 28 Dec. 1681, for the portion of his wife Abigail in Est. of father-in-law Robert Lockwood and mother-in-law Susannah Ferris.
Sarah, d. 1 Mar. 1650 [1650/1] (Col. Rec.).
Sarah, b. 27 Feb. 1651 [1651/2] (Col. Rec.); possibly she was the first wife of Lt. Abraham Adams.
Mary, m. (1) Jonathan Husted, of Greenwich, who receipted for her portion, 1 Dec. 1681; m. (2) Joseph Knapp, of Greenwich."
16. 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."
17. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 51, no. 1 (Aug 2008), " Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (Continued), by Frederick C. Hart, Jr., CG, FASG, pp. 2-6:
"...JEFFREY1 FERRIS was born in England say about 1610...
Children of Jeffrey Ferris and his (still unknown) first wife:[24]
i. PETER2 FERRIS, b. say 1633, m. (1) ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, m. (2) MRS. RUTH (___) WEED.
ii. JOSEPH FERRIS, b. say about 1635, d. between 9 Jun and 24 Jul 1699, m. at Stamford 20 Nov 1657 RUTH KNAPP,[25] b. 6 Jan 1640/41 at Watertown, MA, dau. of Nicholas and Eleanor Knapp.[26]
iii. MARY FERRIS, b. abt. 1638, d. bef 31 Jan 1707/08 at Greenwich, m. by 6 Jan 1634(/35?) [author's typo for 1664/5?] (1) LT. JONATHAN LOCKWOOD, b. 10 Sep 1634 at Watertown[27] and d. 12 May 1688 at Greenwich, son of Robert Lockwood and Susanna Norman,1281 m. (2) 1696 SGT. THOMAS MERRITT of Rye, Westchester County, NY, having a prenuptial agreement dated 3 June 1696.[29]
iv. JOHN FERRIS, b. abt. 1640, d. betw. 9 May 1715 and 25 Feb 1716,[30] m. (1) MARY JACKSON, dau. of Robert Jackson, m. (2) the widow GRACE (___) PAWLING,[31] who d. 31 Dec 1716 at Flushing, Long Island, NY. Not mentioned in his father's will but proved by his receipt in the Greenwich Land Records referring to his deceased father Jeffrey Ferris of Greenwich and naming, his brothers Peter, Joseph and James Ferris and Jonathan Lockwood.[32]
v. JAMES FERRIS, b. abt. 1642, d. possibly abt. 1706,[33] married and had children including James3 who m. Mary ___.[34]
Footnotes:
24. All information from Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 127-9 unless otherwise noted.
25. Stamford Town Records, 1: 74.
26. "Watertown Records Comprising The First and Second Books of Town Proceedings..." (Watertown: The Historical Society, 1894), 8. Some references give this date as 5 Jan 1641.
27. Anderson, "Robert Lockwood" (note 11), 129
28. His mother was therefore later to become Mary Ferris' stepmother. For another reliable treatment of the Lockwood family see Harriet Woodbury Hodge, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut" (New York: Philip V. Lockwood, 1978), 6.
29. Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 128.
30. Based on the dates of making his will and its proving. The Ferris Genealogy gives an exact date of 5 Feb 1716 at Flushing, NY.
31. Her surname was given by Capt. Jim Ferris, but not by Paul Prindle, who left it blank. Jim Ferris also states that she had been his (John's) housekeeper. This probably indicates that Prindle was unaware of Jim Ferris' work, which was probably in progress when Gillespie Ancestry was written in 1976, but was not generally available (in typescript form) until 1980.
32. Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 128, citing Greenwich Land Records, 1: 173. The receipt was dated 16 July 1705.
33. A date of death of 6 Nov 1726 is often given for this James Ferris, including by Prindle. But Capt. Jim Ferris pointed out, based on original research by Harriet Scofield, that this date most likely applies to the death of another James Ferris, namely this James' son. See Harriet Scofield, "James Ferris of Greenwich, Conn.," "The American Genealogist," 26: 230-2.
34. This information also comes from the same TAG article about James Ferris, just cited (note 33). Here again, Prindle was misled into thinking that Mary was the wife of James` Ferris, and appears to have been unaware of the earlier work by Ms. Scofield."
18. 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:
i. Lt. JONATHAN, born Watertown MA 10 September 1634, died Greenwich CT 12 May 1688; married Stamford CT 6 January 1664 his step-sister Mary2 Ferris, born probably Watertown about 1636, died 1708, daughter of Jeffrey1 and Mary1 (___) Ferris, married (2) Greenwich 5 June 1696 as his third wife Thomas1 Merritt, born probably England about 1634, died 1725, married (1) Wethersfield CT 3 December 1656 Jane2 Sherwood, born Stratford CT 1636, died 1685, daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1, (Seabrook) Sherwood, married (2) Rye NY before 20 October 1688 Abigail2 Francis, born 1660, died before 5 June 1696, possibly daughter of Robert and Joan1 (Sipperance) Francis (Torrey 470, 505, 671 and 282). Jonathan signed a paper 1 January 1657 in Easttowne, New Netherland, promising allegiance to the Governor. He moved to Stamford 16 October 1660, and returned to Greenwich in 1665, where he became freeman in 1670, an assistant in 1671, and in 1672 was one of twenty-seven proprietors. He became a prominent citizen of Greenwich, and represented the town in the Legislature four years (Torrey 470 and 505).
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).
iii. JOSEPH, born Watertown MA 6 August 1638, died Fairfield CT 1717; married (1) Stamford CT after 1666 (___2), the only child of Robert1 and Isabel1 (___) Beacham), born Ipswich MA say 1642, died 1689; married (2) after 1689 as her third husband Mary2 Coley, born Milford CT 1651, died 1705, daughter of Samuel1 and Ann2 (Prudden) Coley, married (1) there say 1671 Peter1 Simpson, born probably England say 1640, died Milford 1685, married (2) there after 1685 John2 Stream, born there 1657, died there 1689, son of John1 and Martha (Beard) Stream (Torrey 470, 675, 718 and 54).
iv. DANIEL, born Watertown MA 21 March 1640, died Fairfield CT 1691; married there about 1668 (birth 1669) Abigail2 Sherwood, born probably Boston MA say 1642, died 1692, probably daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1 (Seabrook) Sherwood. He was in Fairfield in 1667, a freeman there in 1669 (Torrey 470).
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).
vi. GERSHOM, born Watertown MA 6 September 1643.
vii. JOHN, born Fairfield CT say 1645, died 1677; unmarried.
viii. ABIGAIL, born Fairfield CT say 1647; married there about 1667 John2 Barlow, born there say 1630, died there 1691, son of John1 and Ann1 (___) Barlow (Torrey 42).
ix. SARAH, born Fairfield CT say 1649, died there March 1651.
x. SARAH, born Fairfield CT 27 February 1652; married there about 1677 as his first wife Lt. Abraham Adams, born there 1650, died there 1729, probably son of Edward1 and Mary (___) Adams (Torrey 3).
xi. MARY, born Fairfield CT say 1654; married (1) Greenwich CT by 1681. Jonathan2 Heustad, born there say 1650, died there 1706, son of Robert1 and Elizabeth1 (Miller) Huestad; married (2) there after 1706 Joseph3 Knapp, born there 1664, son of Joshua2 (Nicholas1) and Hannah (Close) Knapp (Torrey 399 and 443).
(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)"
19. 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:
i. Lt. JONATHAN, born Watertown MA 10 September 1634, died Greenwich CT 12 May 1688; married Stamford CT 6 January 1664 his step-sister Mary2 Ferris, born probably Watertown about 1636, died 1708, daughter of Jeffrey1 and Mary1 (___) Ferris, married (2) Greenwich 5 June 1696 as his third wife Thomas1 Merritt, born probably England about 1634, died 1725, married (1) Wethersfield CT 3 December 1656 Jane2 Sherwood, born Stratford CT 1636, died 1685, daughter of Thomas1 and Alice1, (Seabrook) Sherwood, married (2) Rye NY before 20 October 1688 Abigail2 Francis, born 1660, died before 5 June 1696, possibly daughter of Robert and Joan1 (Sipperance) Francis (Torrey 470, 505, 671 and 282). Jonathan signed a paper 1 January 1657 in Easttowne, New Netherland, promising allegiance to the Governor. He moved to Stamford 16 October 1660, and returned to Greenwich in 1665, where he became freeman in 1670, an assistant in 1671, and in 1672 was one of twenty-seven proprietors. He became a prominent citizen of Greenwich, and represented the town in the Legislature four years (Torrey 470 and 505)...
(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)"
20. The periodical “The American Genealogist,†91(Jan. 2019):66-75, “Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan2 Lockwood,†by Capers W. McDonald:
“Although some of the Lockwood families of Greenwich, Connecticut, prior to the Revolutionary War have been well identified, the relationships and activities of several Greenwich Lockwoods remain unresolved. In a short 1955 TAG article, "The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn.," Donald Lines Jacobus noted prevailing confusion over "double lines of Gershorn Lockwoods of Greenwich" living down to the end of the eighteenth century.[1] As an illustration and a correction, Jacobus sketched the following pedigree of seven Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich:
Robert1 Lockwood
-Jonathan2, d. 1688 = Mary Ferris
-Gershom3, d. 1757 = Hannah -
-Gershom4, d. 1787 = (1) Mary Sackett; (2) Ann -
-Gershom5, 1753-
-Gershom2, d. 1718/9 = -- --
-Gershom3, d. bet. 1761 = Ann Millington
-Gershom4, d. 1776 = Mary Ferris
-Gershom, d. 1796 = Eunice --
Jacobus then wrote, "study of the problems involved has been insufficient to enable us to write a definitive account" of the Gershoms. Instead, he simply presented "brief abstracts of some of the vital, probate and land records which must be used in any consideration of the problems involved."
The earliest Lockwoods in Greenwich had first been described in print in 1857 by Daniel Merritt Mead in “A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., with Many Important Statistics.†They were brothers Gershom2 and Jonathan2 Lockwood (Robert1), listed by Mead among the "twenty-seven proprietors of 1672" who purchased Indian land across the Mianus River, west of the original colonial settlement of Greenwich.[2] Mead mentioned their respective sons-including the fact that each had a son named Gershom-but with little detail. Mead drew on earlier assertions to describe all the Greenwich Lockwoods as "probably descended from Edmund Lockwood ... of Cambridge, Mass."-which was incorrect.[3] The brothers were correctly identified as sons of Robert1 Lockwood, brother of Edmund1, in a full-length genealogy published in 1889, Frederick A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood's “Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America†(though unfortunately all of Edmund's actual children were incorrectly stated there to be sons of Robert1).[4]
This 1889 Lockwood genealogy was the first to include a treatment of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) and some of his descendants. That account was followed by Spencer Percival Mead (1911),[5] William Richard Cutter (1912),[6] and subsequent authors.[7] Jacobus, who pointed out the "Gershoms" problem in 1955, had previously covered some of the Lockwoods in his 1930 initial volume of “History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.â€[8] There Jacobus had listed Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) only by name as a child of Jonathan2, with no subsequent information, and also briefly covered the family of Jonathan2 Lockwood's younger brother Gershom2. In none of these works have the children, landholdings, offices, and other evidence of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) been adequately described.
Only by following Donald Lines Jacobus's 1955 guidance and assembly of "vital, probate and land records" has it been possible to produce a sound genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2). In this article, building on Jacobus's sketch pedigree and record abstracts, some of the several Gershom Lockwoods are disambiguated, with a focus on Gershom3 (Jonathan2). This Gershom settled in the part of Greenwich known as Cos Cob, and his descendants-including the left-hand column in Jacobus's chart-are traced here for two generations, including not only the Gershoms in this branch but their siblings. Among the probate records noted by Jacobus in his 1955 article was the 1733 will of Jabez4 Lockwood (Gershom3, Jonathan2), by which Jabez left land to his parents, Gershom and Hannah, to be distributed after their deaths to Jabez's five named brothers. It is Jabez's will which forms the foundation of the present genealogy of the family of Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob.
A necessary first step to establishing the genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) is a review of the careers of his father and uncle, Jonathan2 and Gershom2 Lockwood, the first Lockwoods in Greenwich. Jonathan was the oldest, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, on 10 September 1634. Gershom, Robert1's sixth recorded child, was nine years younger, born in Watertown on 6 September 1643.[9] The two brothers migrated from Watertown to Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1646, with their father, Robert1 Lockwood.[10] These brothers were named among a total of nine children in Robert's estate inventory in Fairfield in 1658.[11] As young adults, Jonathan2 and Gershom2 settled further west in Greenwich. On 1 January 1656/7, Jonathan Lockwood, along with [his future father-in-law] Jeffrey Ferris,[12] signed an oath in East Towne, New Netherlands (later Westchester County, New York), along with "all the Inhabitants then present," to honor the Dutch "governor of the manatas [Manhattans] as our governor and obay all his magistrates and laws that ar[e] mad[e] a[c]cordin[g] to god so long as we live in his Jurisdiction."[13]
Geography of Early Colonial Greenwich
For the ensuing account of activities and landholdings of the Greenwich Lockwoods, some understanding of the physical geography and the Indian and colonial political geography is helpful. The "Main Country Road," which ran by Cos Cob, was a segment of the original King's Highway (called the "Post Road" once mail service was established) running mostly east and west through modern Greenwich,[14] while most waterways ran generally north-to-south. From west to east, the four significant local Indian territories in the area of Greenwich were known by the Indian names Poningoe, Petuckquapaug (including the village of Cassacubque, anglicized as Cos Cob), Asamuck, and Patomuck.[15]
Furthest west, the Armonck [subsequently Byrarn] River marked what became the border between Connecticut and New York,[16] and defined the westernmost part of Greenwich, Poningoe. As implied by the 1657 oath respecting the Dutch governor noted above, the first colonial title to Poningoe came under a grant to the Dutch West India Company in 1640[17] Next to the east lay Petuckquapaug, between the Minamok[18] and Mianus rivers.[19] Part of Petuckquapaug was later called "Dumpling Pond,"[20] near where two sons of Gershom2 Lockwood built the first bridge over the Mianus River in 1688.
The Indian village of Cassacubque, meaning "high rocks" or "a great ledge of rocks," lay near the principal western tributary of the Mianus River known as Strickland's Brook.[21] There, "on the west side of this brook, and close under a rather abrupt eminence … were built three rows of closely collected Indian huts made of bark ... stretching along under a high bluff covered with tall oaks which sheltered the town from the chilling northwest winds. ... On the plain, east of the hamlet and between it and Strickland's Brook, the wood and underbrush had been cleared away and the ground fitted for raising Indian corn."[22] The name was anglicized to "Cos Cob" by 1686/7, when a Greenwich town committee of Lt. Jonathan Lockwood and six other colonists purchased Horseneck Plantation (part of Poningoe, further west) from Indian proprietors.[23] The Second Congregational Church at Horseneck was founded in 1717,[24] and one of the Gershom Lockwoods became a member in 1729."[25]
East of the Mianus River were the areas known by the names of their waterways, Asamuck Creek and Patomuck Brook. These areas saw the first English settlement in 1640, later referred to as "Greenwich Old Town."[26] Patomuck Brook became the coastal boundary between Greenwich and Stamford.[27] All of these place names are frequently referenced in the deeds; placing them is essential in differentiating the Lockwood families.
Jonathan2 and Gershom2 Lockwood in Greenwich
The earliest Greenwich record found for Jonathan2 Lockwood is from a town meeting of 6 May 1669, at which he and four others were appointed (as summarized in Mead's 1911 “Historie of Greenwichâ€) to assess "Horseneck and the lands thereabouts ... for the settlement of a township" west of the original settlement, between the Mianus and Byram rivers. On 6 February 1670[/1], a committee was appointed, consisting of "Mr. [John] Holley [of Stamford], Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood, John Mead, and Joseph Ferris" to lay out a township upon the land "near Horseneck Brook to the number of thirty lots, four acres to a home lot." A list of twenty-seven proprietors of the town of Greenwich in 1672 included Jonathan and Gershom Lockwood.[28] The original Indian deed for the "Horseneck Plantation" was a sale "unto Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood, Sergt. John Bowers, John Renalds, Senir, John Marshall, Joseph Mead, Senir, John Hubbe, Senir, and John Mead, Senir, which are the towne's committee." As part of the consideration, the Indian leaders received "planting land" which was "fenced in at Cos Cob Neck ... by estimation about thirtie acres" for their use "during their lives and the lives of the children being in number four, and then to be returned to the towne."[29] On 27 April 1675, Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood and six others "were appointed and fully empowered to lay out all the lands lying between the Mianus and Byram rivers, as it lieth below the Westchester Path [Post Road], and in May of the same year Angell Husted was appointed to draw the lots respecting each man's proportion" of these.[30]
Jonathan2 Lockwood was among four men "Propownded for freemen of Greenwich" on 12 May 1670.[31] His earliest-known Greenwich land record is an agreement between the town of Greenwich and "Jonathan Lockwood, Sr." dated 19 [month illegible] 1669/70.[32] He was recorded as a deputy for Greenwich during the sessions for May and October 1671, May 1673, October 1674, October 1676, and May 1683.[33] A "Greenwich Properties List for the Year 1672 with the Drafts of the Lands on the Est[ate] List" includes brothers Jonathan2 Lockwood with an estate of £114 and Gershom2 Lockwood with an estate of £90.[34]
On 9 May 1672, Jonathan Lockwood and three others were appointed "to measure on an east northeast lyne from Mamorenack River to the west bownds of Fayrefeild ... at the charge of the townes of Norwalke, Standford, Greenwich & Rye."[34] On 8 October 1674, "Lnt. Jonathan Lockwood" and three others were appointed "to runn the lyne between this Colony and the Colony of New York, from Momoronock River to Hudson's River.[36] On 12 May 1681, the Court at Hartford began the founding of Bedford, appointing Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood and three others "to manage, order and dispose of the affayres of that plantation."[37]
What serves essentially as the will of Jonathan Lockwood was recorded on 9 May 1688 in the Greenwich land records as a "Deed of Gift." In it, he named his wife and children and distributed land to his children. Gifts were made to five sons, beginning with "son Jonathan being my eldest." "Unto my second son Robert" he granted "halfe my lands and meadows layd out or unlayed out below & above the Contrye roade lying on the west side of Myanos River;" "unto my third son Gershom the other halfe of the above s[ai]d lands & meadows." Others were his "fourth son Joseph" and "son Still John being my youngest."[38] Greenwich landowners listed on 21 May 1688 included Jonathan Lockwood, Jonathan Lockwood Jr., Robert Lockwood, and Gershom Lockwood.[39]
Jonathan's widow, Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, married second, as his third wife, Thomas Merritt of Rye, New York. Documentation of her marriage settlement was included with papers relating to her estate, both of which give concrete evidence of her Lockwood children. In the marriage agreement, dated 5 June 1696, "Marah [Mary] Lockwood of Greenwich somtime wife to Leftenant Lockwood Deseased" mentioned her "severall Children by my first Husband namely Jonathan Lockwood: & severall of them being at present in there non age." Mary was dead by 26 January 1707/8, when the probate court in Greenwich ordered an inventory to be made with division of her estate to her [surviving] children "Rob Lockwood Gershom Loc[kwoo]d Joseph Loc[kwoo]d Abagail Backster [Baxter] Still John Loc[kwoo]d." The four sons signed acceptance of the inventory in Greenwich, 31 January 1707/8, as "Natural sonns unto Mrs Mary Merritt."[40] (The oldest son, Jonathan, had died on 9 November 1689.)[41] Jonathan2 Lockwood's children, therefore, were Jonathan, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, Abigail, and Still John Lockwood. They are listed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield,â€[42] and treated more fully, though with errors, in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[43] Of the sons, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, and Still John Lockwood all had children in Greenwich. Only Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, this article's subject, is treated in the genealogy below.
Gershom2 Lockwood, the only one of Jonathan2 Lockwood's brothers to settle in Greenwich with him, was chosen to fill Jonathan's seats on the various town committees when Jonathan2 died in 1688.[44] Gershom2 "was the principal c
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1634 - 1688 (53 years)