Jonathan Lockwood (1634 - 1688)

Born 10 Sep 1634 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Ferris) Merritt — married 6 Jan 1664 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 12 May 1688 at age 53 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

Warning

In 1889 Frederic A. Holden and F. Dunbar Lockwood were the first to make public their researches on Robert¹ and Edmund¹ Lockwood when they compiled Descendants of Robert Lockwood. Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630, which was "Printed Privately by the Family" at Philadelphia. As indicated by the title the bulk of this volume presents the descendants of Robert Lockwood, but a ten-page appendix presents information about Edmund Lockwood. This appendix also includes a brief treatment of John, son of Edmund, but completely loses Edmund, son of Edmund. In 1955 Jacobus characterized this book as "so poorly put together that twice in working on Lockwood lines for descendants the present writer has found their male lines of descent given erroneously. Many descendants of Edmund Lockwood are included among those of Robert."^[1]

Donald Lines Jacobus directed his attention to the Lockwood family at least three times during his career. In 1928, as part of his work on the family of Thomas Miner, he prepared a brief treatment of the family of Edmund Lockwood. He noted that a number of descendants of Edmund had been erroneously placed as grandchildren of Robert Lockwood, and so included also a summary of that man's life and Children.^[2] In 1930, when he published his three-volume study of the early families of Fairfield, Jacobus included in his first volume separate entries for Robert¹ Lockwood, his five sons who married, three grandsons, and Edmund² Lockwood (Edmund¹). Finally, in 1955, Jacobus published two articles on specific problems in the Lockwood family, An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder (which corrects the history of a fifth generation descendant of Robert) and The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn.^[1]

In 1978 Harriet Woodbury Hodge, building on the work of Jacobus and correcting Lockwood Family, published an account of the immigrant Edmund Lockwood and his son of the same name.^[3] This volume has limited information on Robert Lockwood. In 1984 Hodge published an extended article setting forth the agnate descendants of Ephraim² Lockwood (Robert¹).^[4] The Great Migration Study Project sketch of Edmund Lockwood relies heavily on the work of Jacobus and Hodge.Anderson, Robert Charles (1995). The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. 3 Vols. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. 2:1192-94.

Jacobus cautioned that no one should accept the 1889 Lockwood genealogy without extensive verification.

One of the errors made in The Descendants of Robert Lockwood is that it took Sarah, daughter of Edmund Lockwood, out of her family and placed her in Jonathan's family. Jonathan did not have a daughter named Sarah, at least not one who was living in 1708/9 when Marah Merritt's estate was ordered to be distributed.

Biography

Jonathan Lockwood was born the 10th day of the 7th month, 1634 [Sept 10, 1634] at Watertown.^[5] He was a son of Robert Lockwood and Susanna Norman.^[5][6][7][8]

Note: The 1894 reprint of the Watertown Records lists Jonathan's birth date as 16th day of the 7th month, 1634. Possibly the number "0" was mistaken for a "6," or the writing was difficult to interpret.^[9]

LOCKWOOD^[10]

"(II) Lieutenant Jonathan, son of Robert Lockwood, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, September 10. 1634, died May 12, 1688, in Greenwich, Connecticut, in his fifty-fourth year. He married Mary, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris, who married, late in life, Mrs. Susannah Lockwood, widow of Robert Lockwood, and Jonathan's mother. Jonathan signed a paper in January 1, 1657, at Easttowne, in the New Netherlands, in which he promised allegiance to the Dutch governor as long as he lived within his jurisdiction. He lived in Stamford, Connecticut, October 16, 1660, and in 1665 he sold his estate there and moved to Greenwich. He was made a freeman here in 1670. He was assistant in May, 1671, and in 1672 was "one of the twenty-seven proprietors." He represented the town in the legislature for four years. At his death, the people met in town meeting and passed resolutions deploring the loss of so valuable a citizen, and he was greatly mourned. He was deputy to the general assembly several times. He was appointed by the court, with three others, to determine the boundary line between Greenwich and the colony of new York, from Mamaroneck river to Hudson river. On May 9, 1688, he made a deed, a division of property, and name his wife and children. This was three days before his death. His wife, after his death, made provision for her children, when about to marry Sergeant Thomas Merritt, of Rye, June 5, 1696. Children: Jonathan, born about 1663; Robert; Gershom; Still John, about 1674; Joseph, mentioned below; Sarah; Abigail."

Family

Jonathan married by 6 January, 1664/5 to Mary Ferris, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris and Mary Anne Milton [GM 2:2:519-20]^[5][11] Mary's father married Jonathan's widowed mother, and so was Jonathan's father-in-law and step-father.^[7]

Children of Jonathan and Mary

1. Jonathan Lockwood, Jr.^[7] (1663-1689) died without issue
2. Robert Lockwood^[7] (c1664-1731 or '32)
3. Gershom Lockwood^[7] (c1667-1757), m. Hannah.
4. Joseph Lockwood^[7]
5. Abigail Lockwood,^[7] m. Thomas Baxter^[12]
6. Still John^[7] (1674-1758)

Note: as mentioned above, there is no evidence that Jonathan had a daughter named Sarah. He certainly did not have a daughter named Sarah who was living in January 1708/9, as per the below probate record. Sarah Lockwood, who married Michael Lounsbury in Stamford, was a daughter of Edmund and Hannah Lockwood of Stamford.

Jonathan Lockwood died on 12 May 1688 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; he was 53 years old.^[7][13] Find A Grave: Memorial #159345594. His widow, Mary remarried in 1696 to Thomas Merritt.

On 26 January 1708/9, Jonathan's son Jonathan having died without heirs in the interim, the estate of Mary "Marah" (Ferris) (Lockwood) Merritt was ordered to be divided "equally between the children of the sd. dec'd, namely Robert Lockwood, Gershom Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood, Abigaile Backster and Still John Lockwood.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Jacobus, D. Lines. (1955). The American Genealogist, vol. 31. New Haven, Conn.: D.L. Jacobus. p. 222.
2. ↑ Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry Miner; Jacobus (1928). One Branch of the Miner Family with Extensive Notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and Fifty Other Allied Families of Connecticut and Long Island. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus. p. 121-24.
3. ↑ Hodge, Harriet Woodbury (1878). Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut. New York: P. V. Lockwood.
4. ↑ "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut". InConnecticut Ancestry, vol. 27, no. 1 (1984). p. 9-18, 64-70, 141-47.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Anderson, Robert C. "Robert Lockwood" Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. Pages 312 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) accessed online May 15, 2014
6. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. (2011).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8} F. A. Holden; E. D. Lockwood; J. Lockwood. Descendants of Robert Lockwood : colonial and Revolutionary history of the Lockwood family in America from A.D. 1630. Philadelphia. 1889. p. 8, 35. Available at FamilySearch.org.
8. ↑ Fritz-Gilbert Waters, Henry (1995). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. vi, 1852. Boston, MA: Thomas Prince, Printer and Publisher. p. 380.
9. ↑ Historical Society of Watertown Watertown records comprising the first and second books of town proceedings with the lands grants and possessions, also the proprietors' book and the first book and supplement of births and deaths and marriages First Book, Pg 3 (at the end of the book in this printing) Watertown, Mass: Fred G. Baker Pr., 1894, accessed online May 15, 2014
10. ↑ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed. (1911). Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, vol. iv. New York. p. 1426-27. Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, Maryland (1999).
11. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. (1985). New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 470.
12. ↑ Mitchell, Cornelius von Erden (1967). Ancestry of William Spingler Mitchell, Cornelius von Erden Mitcher, John Van Beuren Mitchell. unknown: unknown. p. 330.
13. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2004). p. 470.
14. ↑ Estate of Marah Merritt. Order for division, 26 January 1708/9. Connecticut. Probate Court (Fairfield District). "Probate records, 1648-1916. Probate records v. 1-5 1648-1750." FamilySearch, film # 7,627,300, page 5:125 / image 664.

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