Gershom Lockwood (1676 - 1752)

Born 1676 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Priss) Lockwood — married 1700 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 1 May 1752 at about age 76 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Note of Caution re. "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder"

An 1889, the genealogical work about this family, Descendants of Robert Lockwood. Colonial and Revolutionary history of the Lockwood family in America, from A.D. 1630, by Holden and Lockwood, contains major mistakes and has lead to problems in understanding the lineage of the Lockwoods in America. ^[1] Apparently the surviving children of Edmund Lockwood, brother of the subject of this profile, were assigned to Robert instead of Edmund. Donald Lines Jacobus wrote an article "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder" published in 1954 in "The American Genealogist" vol 31 p 222. Unfortunately not everyone has been informed, even now, about the problems in the 1889 book. The errors have been repeated and propagated in many other works, and now are infecting many of the databases available online. Jacobus cautions us with a "warning against accepting the statements of this book as authentic without thorough investigation and verification." This is an appropriate warning in regards to any secondary source in genealogy, but it is especially essential in regards to the Lockwoods.

Biography

Gershom Lockwood born in Greenwich, Connecticut, son of Jonathan & Mary (Ferris) Lockwood.

Gershom married Hannah ---- unknown surname.

Children:

1. Jabez born 18 Jan 1702/3, a bachelor
2. Nathan born 28 Jul 1704 married Sarah ---
3. Hezekiah born 9 Jun 1706 married Ruth ---
4. Libni born 30 May 1708
5. Hannah born 20 Sep 1710
6. Mary born 6 Nov 1712
7. Gershom born ---- married twice
8. Theophilus born --- married Hannah Close
9. David born ----

Birth

1676 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut^[2][3]

Marriage

22 Mar 1702 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

Wife: Hannah UNKNOWN

Sources

1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/descendantsofrob00hold
2. ↑ AGBI
3. ↑ Yates

• Holden , Frederic. & Lockwood, E. Dunbar. Descendants of Robert Lockwood (Privately by the family, Philadelphia, PA., 1889) Page 24
• Capers W. McDonald, "Gershom³ Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan² Lockwood," The American Genealogist, Vol. 91, No. 1 (January 2019), 66-78.
• AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)
• American Genealogical Biological Index
• North America Family Histories, 1500-2000
• US Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783