Joseph Lockwood (1666 - 1750)

Born 15 Mar 1666 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Ayres) Lockwood — married 19 May 1698 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Husband of Margery (Webb) Lockwood — married 10 Aug 1716 in Stamford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 15 Jun 1750 at age 84 in Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York

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Biography

Perhaps the most succinct, well researched and documented source for Joseph Lockwood, is found in Hodge's Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut.^[1]

[p 11] The children of Edmund² and Hannah (Scott) Lockwood were: . . .
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD, b. 1666, 1/m. 19 May 1698 at Stamford (V) ELIZABETH AYRES (AYERS); 2/m. 10 August 1716 at Stamford (V) MARGERY WEBB; 3/m. by 1740 SUSANNAH _______.
[In the probate records of Edmund Lockwood, there is an inventory dated 28 Feb 1692/3 which names the children of Edmund with their ages: Joseph, 22; Daniel 19; Edmund & Mary, 14; Abigail, 17, and Sarah 11. Probate Record This puts Joseph's birth 1670 or 1671).] [pp 13-16] JOSEPH³ LOCKWOOD, s/o Edmund² (Edmund¹) and Hannah (Scott) Lockwood, was “born in Stamford in the year 1666, came to Poundridge in the spring of 1743 and died 1750; was interred in the Old Burial ground, aged 84.” according to the journal of his great-grandson, Ezra Lockwood, p. 16. The journal continues: “left issue by his first wife (Ayres) four sons and three daughters, viz: Joseph, John, Israel, Hannah, Elizabeth, Mary and Reuben—and by his second wife (Webb) Nathaniel and James.”

Ezra⁶ Lockwood (Ebenezer⁵, Joseph⁴, Joseph³) wrote his journal in the late 1840’s and early 1850’s and had a hazy and erroneous version of his immigrant ancestry. Ezra’s uncle, Joseph⁵ Lockwood (Joseph⁴, Joseph³) (1731-1793) knew better, for on 26 July 1765 he, of Old Pound Ridge, N.Y., conveyed to Jonathan Scofield, 3rd of Stamford “16-0-0 in said property, part of right of Edmund and John Lockwood which descended to my grandfather Joseph Lockwood” (Stamford, Ct. deed G:404).

Joseph³ Lockwood 1/m. 19 May 1698 at Stamford (V) ELIZABETH AYRES, b. probably d/o Richard Ayres of Bedford, N. Y. She d. 16 December 1715 at Stamford (V) apparently in childbirth.
Joseph 2/m. 10 August 1716 (V—with error, 1715) at Stamford MARGERY WEBB, b. 4 October 1683, d. 2 January 1736/7 at Stamford (V), d/o Joseph and Hannah (Scofield) Webb.
Joseph 3/m. before 1740 SUSANNAH _______, Who was living in January 1742 (Stamford deeds D:188, D:191 & D:293, cited below).
Joseph was named in the probate records of his father and mother, Edmund and Hannah Lockwood in 1693 and 1707; and was administrator of his father’s estate in 1693, indicating that he had certainly attained his majority by that year. He and his brothers, Edmund and Daniel Lockwood 30 March 1734 appear on the list of freemen at Stamford (S). Joseph was named in the will of his brother, Edmund, 8 January 1739/40. No probate record for Joseph³ Lockwood can be found at either Stamford or Pound Ridge, N.Y., but there are numbers of deeds from Joseph to his children. The daughters Hannah and Elizabeth perhaps received their portions in movables at the time of marriage. Abstracts of Stamford, Ct. deeds: . . .
Joseph³ Lockwood had by first wife Elizabeth Ayres, first six recorded Stamford (V)
7. i. JOSEPH4 LOCKWOOD, b. 15 May 1699, m. SARAH HOYT.
8. ii. HANNAH LOCKWOOD, b. 24 March 1701, m. 17 September 1724 at Stamford (V) DAVID DANN.
9. iii. JOHN LOCKWOOD, b. 18 September 1703, m. 8 April 1737 at Stamford (V) SARAH SCOFIELD.
iv. NATHANIEL LOCKWOOD, b. 1 April 1706, d. 11 December 1715 (V).
10. v. ELIZABETH LOCKWOOD, b. 15 May 1708, m. JOB HOYT.
vi. ISRAEL LOCKWOOD, b. 4 June 1710, d. 1778 at Pound Ridge, N.Y. “of a camp distemper” as a Revolutionary War soldier. . . .
vii. MARY LOCKWOOD, b. about 1712 (not recorded Stamford, . . .
11. viii. REUBEN LOCKWOOD, b. about 1714 (no record Stamford, . . .
ix. A child, b. _____, d. 17 December 1715 at Stamford. (V). This was probably a newborn infant. The date is frequently used in error as the birth date of Reuben.
Joseph³ Lockwood had by second wife Margery Webb, all recorded Stamford (V):
12. x. NATHANIEL LOCKWOOD, b. 20 May 1717, m. 2 January 1742/3 at Stamford (V) MARY PATCH.
xi. NATHAN LOCKWOOD, b. 25 March 1719, d. 25 March 1730/1. (V)
13. xii. JAMES LOCKWOOD, b. 15 July 1722, m. 5 September 1741 at Stamford (V) MARY NORTON.

Sources

1. ↑ Hodge, Harriet Woodbury, C. G.

Bibliography

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002). Stamford Vital Records, pp 159, 161, 162.

LOCKWOOD, LAKEVOOD . . .

Joseph, m. Elizabeth AYERS, May 19, 1698. [cites] Book 1, p 104.

Joseph, m. Margary WEBB, Aug. 10, 1715, by Capt. Joseph Bishop, J. P. [cites] Book 1, p 119.

Margary, w. Joseph, d. Jan. 2, 1736/7 [cites] Book 1, p 31.

Elizabeth, w. Joseph, d. Dec. 16, 1715. [cites] Book 1, p 128.

• Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriages Before 1699 (Biblio Co., Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, 1926). pp 26, 144.

• Hodge, Harriet Woodbury, C. G. Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut. New York: Philip V. Lockwood, Publisher, 1978. pp. 8, 11, 13 - 16.

• Huntington, E.B., Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths ( Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., Stamford, Conn., 1874). p 67.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930). Vol. I, p 382.

• Stamford Office of Vital Statistics. Stamford, CT: City and Town Clerk's Office. Town Records. Vol. 1, 1630-1723. pp 104, 119. [Photographed 24 May 2010 by Robert Alan Haviland.]

• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985). p 470.

See Also

• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 (FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010). FHL Film Number 3161. [Is this our Joseph Lockwood?]

• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records (The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2001)

• The Family Puzzles - Demystified (Sort of). "Joseph Lockwood.” Accessed 5 Nov 2020.

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 02 November 2020), memorial page for Joseph Lockwood Sr. (15 Mar 1666–15 Jun 1750), Find A Grave: Memorial #207699270, citing Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Hannah Wilson (contributor 49861745). [Note: no gravestone photograph or sources.]

• Holden, Frederic. & Lockwood, E. Dunbar. Descendants of Robert Lockwood (Philadelphia, PA., 1889). p 25. [Note: This reference has incorrect parents and birth year for Joseph, and other errors.]

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder, The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, Oct 1955). Vol. 31, p 222.

• Reynolds, Cuyler Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1911), Vol. IV, p 1427. [Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD.] [Note: error in text.]

• Rootsweb contributors. "Joseph Lockwood.” Accessed 5 Nov 2020.

• Selleck, Charles. Norwalk (The Author, Norwalk, Conn., 1896). p 456.

• States, James Noyes. Genealogy of the Ayres Family of Fairfield County, Conn. New Haven, CT, 1916. p 30.

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2004). Source number: 483.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JC1.