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1. The following entry about the first bridge built in Greenwich is from the periodical “The American Genealogist,†91(Jan. 2019):73-74, “Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan2 Lockwood,†by Capers W. McDonald. It notes that the Gershom2's sons Gershom3 and William3 built the bridge starting in 1688. Assuming that the elder son Gershom would be at least 21, then his birth would calculate to abt 1666 which dovetails just before his sister Hannah's proven birth in Dec. 1667. Considering that Gershom2 was born 6 Sep 1643, this would calculate to a marriage with his first unknown wife in 1665 at about 22. William 3, being younger than Gershom3 would have to dovetail in after Hannah with a birth calculated at about 1669 making him about 19 at the time of construction. This all assumes that S.P. Mead's quote about the bridge as noted in the following quote is accurate. It would make for better calculations if the two brothers were a bit older when they built the bridge, but the context does not allow for it; on the other hand, their father was the town's carpenter and the two boys would certainly have learned the trade from their father starting from a young age.
The quote:
"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 carpenter and builder in the town."[45] Gershom died in Greenwich, 12 March 1718/9, "aged 77 years."[46] As he was nine years younger than his brother Jonathan, his earliest Greenwich land records are later: 1664/5 (age 21) and 1668.[47] After his brother's death, Gershom2 was the Lockwood patriarch in Greenwich, reflected in an assessment from the years 1694-95, at which his property, held in common with at least one adult son, was valued the highest of any estate in the town: "Gershom Lockwood & Son," at £153 15s.[48] During 1688, construction began on a bridge across the Mianus River at "Dumpling Pond," called "North Mianus" in 1911 by S. P. Mead. "This was the first bridge built in the Town of Greenwich, and was built by Gershom Lockwood and his brother William Lockwood," apparently the two eldest sons of Gershom2 Lockwood.[49] Gershom2 Lockwood's children were listed and discussed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield†as Gershom, Hannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Sarah.[50] William, who predeceased his father, was omitted from Jacobus's account, though all were noted in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[51] They also are not followed in this article, but a revised genealogy of that branch of the family is also needed.
Footnotes:
45. D. M. Mead, History of Greenwich [note 2], 113.
46. Gravestone, Tomac Burying Ground (Old Cemetery at Sound Beach), Greenwich (photograph, findagrave.com, memorial #21447946; D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich†[note 2], 113).
47. Greenwich Deeds, 1:49, 23 March 1664/5; 1:83, 19 Dec. 1668.
48. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich†[note 2], 77-79.
49. S. P. Mead, Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5], 47.
50. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield [note 8], 1:385.
51. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood†[note 4], 16, 50-61.â€
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