John Lockwood (1713 - bef. 1785)

Born 1 Jul 1713 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Morehouse) Lockwood — married 8 Feb 1731 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died before 17 Jan 1785 before age 71 in Norfield Parish, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

John Lockwood, son of John, married Abigail Morehouse, daughter of Gideon, on 8 February 1731/2 in Fairfield, Connecticut.^[1]

John's father John died in 1735 or '36, and in the 1739 distribution his real estate, John, the proband, received 100 acres at Saugatuck River, 6 acres in the "homelot down the farms", 2+ acres of salt meadow, 2 acres of salt meadow at City of Troy, 9+ acres adjoining his brother Joseph at Long Lot, 12+ acres in the Great Pasture, 1+ acre in the New Pasture next to the Great Pasture, a partial right in the old barn, and 1/3 of 2/3s part in the upper division of Applegate's Long Lot & also of the commonage.^[2]

Children of John and Abigail (Morehouse) Lockwood, all born in Fairfield:

• Jabez Lockwood, b. 6 February 1732/3
• Anna Lockwood, b. 18 April 1734
• John Lockwood , b. 12 October 1736
• Abigail Lockwood, b. 7 November 1738
• Ephraim Lockwood, b. 4 January 1741/2
• Mary Lockwood, b. 20 January 1743/4
• Michael Lockwood, b. 2 October 1744
• Elizabeth Lockwood, b. 13 March 1748/9
• Esther Lockwood, b. 9 February 1749/50
• Susannah Lockwood, b. 2 January 1752
• Gideon Lockwood, b. 23 October 1753
• Eleazer Lockwood, b. 27 August 1755
• Albert Lockwood, b. 10 July 1757
• Samuel Lockwood

John Lockwood of the town and county of Fairfield executed his last will on 13 February 1784, as witnessed by David Coley, Rhoda Lockwood and Hezekiah Lyon. He made bequests to:^[3]

• wife Abigail
• to his living children, and grandchildren of his children deceased:
  • children of son Jabez of Fairfield, deceased
  • John Lockwood Junr.
  • children of Ephraim, deceased
  • Michael
  • Gideon
  • Albert
  • Samuel
  • daughter Anne
  • daughter Abigail
  • daughter Mary
  • children of daughter Elizabeth, dec'd
  • Susannah

Wife Abigail to be executor.

The will was proved on 17 January 1785.^[3][4]

John Lockwood will

No mention is made of children Eleazer and Esther, living or dead, thus they must have predeceased their father without heirs.

His inventory was completed on 24 January 1785.^[5]

John's remains were reputedly interred at the Colonial Cemetery, a.k.a. Lower Greens Farms, in Greens Farms, Westport, Connecticut,^[6] though no stone for him has been found in the listings of the Hale Collection.^[7]

John's estate papers provide some further information about his children. The estate had at least three administrators -- Abigail, the widow, Nathaniel Wheeler

In 1801, Albert Lockwood petitioned to be appointed executor of the estate with the will annexed, and a resulting summons was ordered for some of the heirs, including Anna Gray, widow of Eben'r Gray dec'd.^[8]

A distribution of the real estate of John Lockwood was approved in Fairfield Probate Court on 23 April 1803, but was appealed to the Superior Court, on the matter of accounting for advancements the testator had made in his lifetime, and the distribution was thus set aside, until sd. advancemets be known by the probate court. Therefore, on 26 August 1804, the sheriff was ordered to notify John Lockwood, Anne Gray, Job Lockwood, Esther Lockwood, Eleazer Lockwood, Gideon Lockwood, Ebenezer Lockwood, Albert Lockwood and Nathan Wheeler Esq., all of the town of Weston, and Eli Perry & his wife Mary of Brookfield, Billy and Susan Finch his wife of Norwalk, to appear on 1 October next for discovery to the court of advancements made by the dec'd to his legatees and devisees.^[9] Job, Esther Eleazer and Ebenezer must be grandchildren. The relatioton to Nathan Wheeler isn't clear, but he was the final executor of the estate with the will annexed.^[10]

A resulting accounting of advancements to the heirs, recorded 9 October 1804 names Jabez Lockwood, now dec'd, John Lockwood, Ephraim Lockwood dec'd, Michael Lockwood, Samuel Lockwood dec'd, Gideon Lockwood dec'd, Albert Lockwood, Abigail Patchin, Anna Gray, Mary Perry, Elizabeth, and Susanna.^[11] Since Abigail had not been summoned, she may have been deceased before the summons.

The distribution of 23 April 1803 is not found in the probate record (it may have escaped into the records of the Connecticut Superior Court), but scattered inventory records show that he held:

• 30 acres in the homestead where he last dwelt with a barn^[12]
• 6 acres at a place called [Fern?] Hill^[12]
• 4 acres on the plain at the south end of the farm, given to John Lockwood son of said dec'd by deed of gift^[13]
• 21:3:0 acres in Applegate's Long Lot -- 2 acres deeded by Abigail as executor to David Coley Jr. on 26 March 1798, 1 acre north of the third crop highway deeded by her to Albert Lockwood on 23 July 1787, 1 acre south of the third crop highway deeded by her to Albert Lockwood on 23 July 1787, 7:1:0 acres deeded by her to Albert Lockwood on 27 March 1789, 0:2:0 acres deed by her to Albert Lockwood on 27 March 1789, 9 acres deeded by her to David Coley Jun'r on 17 April 1790.^[14]
• 20 acres mortgaged by dec'd to Nath. Marsten, lying west of Albert Lockwood's (this seems likely also to be in Applegate's Long Lot, though it is not stated as such)^[14]
• 6:2:0 acres on the plain adjoining Adams^[14]

There is controversy regarding some particulars of the Lockwood ancestry. Understanding the changes, if any, that needs to be made for this "Lockwood" line is necessary.

John was born in 1713. He passed away in 1784.

Sources

1. ↑ "Fairfield Vital Records 1639-1850," pp 82-3, citing Fairfield 1:162; White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002; Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
2. ↑ Division of real estate, 1739. Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3854, 1736. Hartford Probate Packets, Lewis, N-Lyon, Abigail, 1648-1880,images 775-777.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. Fairfield County Will Book 21:58-9; Ancestry.com. "Fairfield Probate Records, Vol 21-23, 1781-1847," image 39, Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
4. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 21-23, 1781-1847”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-Y29P  : 6 July 2022), FHL microfilm 007627288, image 39, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 21, 1784-1847, Pages 58-59.
5. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 21-23, 1781-1847”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-Y2QY : 10 July 2022), FHL microfilm 007627288, image 323, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 23, 1785-1788, Pages 168-169.
6. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 13 August 2018), memorial page for John Lockwood (1 Jul 1713–1784), Find A Grave Memorial no. 136606404, citing Colonial Cemetery, Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by William DeCoursey (contributor 46613311).
7. ↑ Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol. 56, "Lower Greens Farms Cemetery," 422-3, pp. 72-90; The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library; Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
8. ↑ Summons in re: Albert Lockwood petition to be appointed executor with the will annexed, 19 January 1801; Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 806.
9. ↑ Summons in re: discovery of advancements made before testator's decease, 26 August 1804; Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 800-1.
10. ↑ Nathan Wheeler, admr. with the will annexed, accounting of debts due from the estate as contracted by Abigail Lockwood dec'd, 26 July 1802. Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 794.
11. ↑ Account of advancements, 9 October 1804; Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 798.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Inventory, 27 February 1801. Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 833.
13. ↑ Addition to inventory, 20 August 1801. Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 837.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1 14.2} Addition to inventory, 14 September 1801. Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, image 835-6.

• Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. Probate Packets, Lewis, N-Lyon, Abigail, 1648-1880, [images 783-Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
  • Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3854, 1736, images 770-782;
  • Estate of John Lockwood, No. 3855, 1785/1821, images 783-842.
• Holden , Frederic. & Lockwood, E. Dunbar. Descendants of Robert Lockwood (Privately by the family, Philadelphia, PA., 1889) Page 81
• Jacobus, Donald L., "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder." The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-, 31(1954):222-228.
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Name: John Lockwood

SAR Membership: 90269

Birth: 1 Jul 1713 Fairfield, Connecticut

Death: 1787 Norwalk, Connecticut

Father:

Spouse: Abiagail Morehouse

Children: John Lockwood

• Mather, Frederic Gregory. The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut (J.B. Lyon Co., Albany, NY, 1913)
  • Page 456: He is the son of Joseph Lockwood
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Fairfield, Page 73.
  • Morehouse, Abigail, d. Gideon, m. John Lockwood, s. John, Feb. 8, 1731 Vol. 1, Page 162