Jabez
Lockwood
Sr
Born in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of John Lockwood
and Abigail (Morehouse) Lockwood
Brother of
Anna (Lockwood) Gray, John Lockwood, Abigail Lockwood, Samuel Lockwood, Ephraim Lockwood, Mary (Lockwood) Perry, Michael Lockwood, Elizabeth (Lockwood) Fitch, Esther Lockwood, Susanna (Lockwood) Dickson, Gideon Lockwood, Eleazer Lockwood and Albert Lockwood
Husband of
Sarah (Bennett) Lockwood
— married
17 Oct 1754 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Descendants 
Father of
Rhoda (Lockwood) Thorp and Jabez Lockwood
Died about
at about age 44
[location unknown]
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Biography
Jabez Lockwood, son of John Lockwood and wife Abigail.
Birth
- 6 Feb 1732 (Barbour Collection)
Marriage
- 17 Oct 1754 Sarah Bennett (Barbour Collection)
- He did not m. Martha Underhill (Jacobus)
Death
- bef. 19 Feb 1784
- This is the date of his father's will, where Jabez is reported as deceased.[1]
- 1777
- In 1804, Jabez Lockwood, Jr., son of Jabez Lockwood, Sr. and Sarah Bennett, filed a petition for a land grant in New Brunswick, Canada, based on his father's service in the British Army. In that petition, he states that his father "rendered essential services to His Majesty's army in the beginning of the late American Rebellion and who died in the King's service at New York in 1777".
Probate
His inventory was completed on 27 March 1781 and not recorded in the Fairfield town books until 1794. The estate was deemed insolvent. [3]
Sources
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Land petitions, 1783-1857, 1804 Nowland, Michael - 1805 Wiggins, John", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL6-Y3VH-8?i=386&cat=78954), FHL microfilm 008191403, images 386-389.
- ↑ “Probate Records, v. 24-25, 1787-1798”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-BFZN : 19 July 2022), FHL microfilm 007627289, image 438-439, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 25, 1792-1798, Pages 262-263.
- The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Fairfield, Page 67.
- Lockwood, Jabez, s. John & Abigail, b. Feb. 6, 1732 Vol. 1, Page 162.
- Lockwood, Jabez, s. John, m. Sarah Bennet, d. W[illia]m, Oct. 17, 1754 Vol. 1, Page 23.
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 2, Page 589.
- Holden, Frederic. & Lockwood, E. Dunbar. Descendants of Robert Lockwood (Philadelphia, PA., 1889) Page 192. Contains incorrect information.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jabez:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jabez:
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~0.78%
Burt Lockwood
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member BG_Lockwood
-
~0.78%
Patrick Lockwood :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lockwood272
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