Richard Lockwood (1678)

Born 1678 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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• Holden, Frederick A. and E. Dunbar Lockwood, comp., Descendants of Robert Lockwood. Colonial and Revolutionary history of the Lockwood family in America, from A.D. 1630 'm(Vol 31(1954), Pgs 222-28) Philadelphia: S.P., 1889
• Firelands History Genealogy of the Lockwoods
• Early New England Families Robert Lockwood

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[Researcher Offers Contrary Opinion] What is known about Richard Lockwood of Maryland By Nancy Merrill January 22, 2008 genforum

In 1889, Frederick A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood published "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America".This body of work, as with many early genealogies, contains a number of genealogical errors.Several articles have since been written with corrections for some of these errors.Notably, Donald Lines Jacobus “An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder” an article published in 1956 in the journal, "The American Genealogist" regarding the line of Oliver Lockwood; and, Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut by Harriet Woodbury Hodge (NY 1978). The Lockwood book states that Richard Lockwood was “probably” the son of Joseph and _____(Beacham) Lockwood of Fairfield, Connecticut [p. 38].Joseph was the son of Robert who immigrated about 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts where six of his eleven children were born and recorded in the town records, one of them being Joseph Lockwood[p. 1].Children given to Joseph and ____(Beacham) Lockwood were:Joseph Lockwood, Jr., Robert, Susannah, John, Sarah, Richard born about 1678, and Judith Lockwood m. Daniel Maulstrom.There was no source or documentation given for this data other than the marriage of Judith.This differs from the research of Donald Lines Jacobus in History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield with respect to the children of Joseph (among other data).Jacobus sites two Wills as his source for the children of Joseph and ______(Beacham) Lockwood.(1) The Will of Robert Beacham 24 Nov 1689 in which Robert names his grandchildren as Robert, Susanna, John and Sarah Lockwood.Also mentioned, his beloved son-in-law Joseph Lockwood who he makes Executor of his estate.“Joseph Lockwood married _____Beacham, daughter of Robert, who apparently died before her father made his will” [p. 382].(2) Joseph Lockwood’s Will dated 17 June 1715 named Grandson Robert, son of Robert deceased, Grandson Daniel Lockwood, and daughter Susana’s children – Nathaniel, Ephraim, Sarah and Ann Burr.Thereby, Jacobus gives the children of Joseph (all by his first wife) as Robert, Susanna, John and Sarah.Jacobus surmises that Joseph married (2nd) after 1689, twice widowed Mary (Coley) Simpson Stream [p. 383].If Richard was born about 1678 as the Lockwood book suggests, he would have been about age 11 at the time Robert Beacham executed his Last Will and Testament.Surely, if Richard were his grandson, he would have been included in this Will with his siblings.The fact that Richard was not included in either of these documents and no other evidence has been found to support Holden and Dunbar’s data, it is evident that Richard was not a son of Joseph and ____(Beacham) Lockwood.No birth, immigration or marriage record has been found for Richard Lockwood in Maryland.Bob Lockwood (message #1347 this forum) states that he had found a record for Richard Lockwood serving as jury foreman 1684 in Lewis, Sussex Co., Delaware.While this is true, no connection has been found to this Richard and the Richard Lockwood who is first found in the Old Somerset County, Maryland records of 1705 on a list of debts owed to the estate of John Edgar.As mentioned above, no birth record has been found for Richard, so the date of 1678 seen everywhere on the internet (and in the Lockwood book) is not fact. Another issue within this family line is the widely accepted fact that Richard Lockwood of Maryland married the widow Mary (Aydelott) Blizard/Blizzard.This data appears in the research of George Carl Aydelott and published by the Aydelott Family Association after his death.It is stated that Mary Aydelott married (1) John Blizard and (2) Richard Lockwood.No dates or sources are given.The Lockwood book also gives a marriage between Richard Lockwood and Mary Aydlock or Aydlott stating that they settled in Worcester County, Maryland about 1700. John Blizard didn’t die until sometime before 3 March 1708 when William Pepper and Samuel Marchmon [sic] of Somerset gave bond for Administration of the estate of John Blizard late of Somerset. William Pepper was made Administrator [FHL#14530, JW No. 14, p. 100]. Benjamin Idolet [sic] Will 1704 (father of Mary) named his daughter Mary, wife of John Blizard. [Liber MH3, p. 54 Maryland Wills).“I also give unto a son that may be born of the body of my daughter Mary Blizard five hundred pounds of tobacco if God pleases”. In the accounting of John Aydelott, Executor of Benjamin Aydelott’s estate, 500 lbs. of tobacco was paid to John Blizard 13 Aug 1707 [JW15:317] indicating that John and Mary did have a son born by that date. In my research, I found nothing to indicate that Richard Lockwood married the widow Mary Blizard.The records that I did find suggest that Mary (Aydelott) Blizard may have married (2) William Pepper. Mary Lockwood was made Executor of Richard Logwood’s [sic] estate and she signed off on his Inventory dated 7 July 1738.Mary Lockwood widow is last found on the Somerset County Tax List in 1740. In summary, what we do know about Richard Lockwood is that he lived in Somerset County, Maryland as early as 1705 until his death in 1737. He left a Nuncupative Will dated 12 Nov 1737 naming sons Armwell (as his eldest son), Benjamin, John, Samuel; daughter Rachel Evans and granddaughter Elizabeth Russell. His wife was named Mary at the time of his death. ''''Richard Lockwood of Maryland was not the son of Joseph Lockwood of Connecticut and no record of his birth, immigration or marriage has been found to date.'''' Nancy Lockwood Merrill

Donald Lines Jacobus, “An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder”, The American Genealogist, 31 (1956) 222-224. Frederick A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630 (Philadelphia 1889), Family History Library [FHL] microfilm 1016926, Item 1. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 3 vols. (Fairfield, CT 1930; rpt. Baltimore: 1976, 1991). George Carl Aydelott, The History of the Aydelotte Family in the United States, (The Aydelott Family Association 1959?).