Robert Lockwood

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1. [S9] William Howard Powers, Powers-Banks Ancestry: Traced In All Lines To The Remotest Date Obtainable - Charles Powers 1819-1871 and His Wife Lydia Ann Banks 1829-1919
   
   
   , page 193 - The Lockwoods - The wife of the second John Barlow was Abigail, the daughter of Robert Lockwood. Robert, according to Mrs. Schenck, came from England in 1630 and was made freeman 9 March, 1631, showing that he was one of the substantial men of the Massachusetts Bay. In 1635 he was in Watertown, executor on the estate of Edmund Lockwood, probably his brother. He married Susanna, said by Mrs. Schenck to be Susanna St. John, but of this there appears no other evidence, and Mrs. Schenck may have fallen into confusion because Ephraim married Mary St. John. Robert's children were: Jonathan, born 10 September, 1634; Deborah, 12 October, 1636; Joseph, 6 August, 1638; Daniel, 25 March, 1640; Ephraim, 1 December, 1641; Gershom, 6 September, 1643; all born in Watertown; and in Fairfield, John, Abigail, Sarah, Mary, and Deborah(?). He removed to Fairfield about 1645, was a freeman 20 May, 1652, a sergeant in May, 1657, and died 1658, John Banks making the inventory. His wife and children are listed in the will. His widow married Jeffrey Ferris of Stamford, who was the guardian of the minor children. Susanna died 1660, and Jeffrey Ferris in 1666; his will, dated 6 January, 1664, names Jonathan and Mary Lockwood. Abigail was probably born about 1647 and married John Barlow about 1667. The family appears to have been substantial and influential. Jonathan was a lieutenant, Joseph a sergeant and in 1685 a patentee of Fairfield; Joseph's family intermarried with the Burrs, as did also Daniel1 the next brother. Mrs. Schenck conjectures that Robert Lockwood was a kinsman of the Bulkeleys, founders of Concord, and the family names lend some color to the guess. Mrs. Lockwood, sometimes called Goody, figures, along with Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Ward, rather prominently in the famous trial of Roger Ludlow, 1654; her daughter Deborah, aged about seventeen, is also a witness. Witch interests may have been strong in the family; for Abigail, wife to John Barlow, was a witch searcher. Deborah Lockwood, born 12 October, 1636, in 1657 married Dr. William Ward. Thus the family has two lines of descent from Robert Lockwood.
   The Lockwood Family in America, 1889, gives some account of English Lockwoods but without establishing any connection with the American family. They have been known in London and elsewhere since 1392. In the Essex visitations are given six generations, in which the frequency of the name Robert suggests relationship with the American Robert. The History of Norwalk and also that of Stamford contain matter concerning the Lockwoods.
2. [S10] National Society of Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims, Lineage of Members of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims to January 1, 1929 - Compiled from the Original Applications in Philadelphia
   
   
   
   
   
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   OF THE PILGRIMS, page 362 - ... descent from Robert Lockwood, in England came to America in 1630, arriving in Salem, Mass., on the "Mary and John, " died at Fairfield, Conn., 1658.
   page 27 - Mary Ferris, dau. of Geoffrey Ferris of Stamford, was the wife of Jonathan 1st of Greenwich ... Robert and Edmund Lockwood, brothers, came over to America in Gov. Winthrop's fleet in 1630.
3. [S46] William Richard Cutter, New England Families, genealogical memorial; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths & the founding of a nation, Volume IV: page - (I) Jacintha Juliet Randall, mother of Abigail (Boland) Lyon, was descended from Robert Lockwood, a pioneer settler of Connecticut, who came to New England about 1630, and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a freeman, March 9. 1637, and was the executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposed to be his brother. He is recorded as a settler in Fairfield, Connecticut, as early as 1641; was admitted a freeman of that colony, May 20, 1652, and died 1658. He is said to have lived for a time in Norwalk, which is rather uncertain as he was appointed sergeant in Fairfield, May, 1667. His widow, Susannah, married (second) Jeffrey Ferris, and died at Greenwich, Connecticut, December 23, 1660. His children were: Jonathan, born September 10, 1634: Deborah, October 12, 1636; Joseph, August 6, 1638; Daniel, March 21, 1640: Ephraim, December 1, 1641; Gershom, mentioned below; John; Abigail, married John Harlow, of Fairfield; Sarah; Mary, married Jonathan Heusted. (II) Lieutenant Gershom Lockwood, fifth son of Robert and Susannah Lockwood, was born September 6, 1643, in Watertown, died in Greenwich. March 12, 1719. He was less than nine years of age when his parents removed to Fairfield and was fifteen years old when his father died. He became one of the twenty-seven proprietors of Greenwich, where he was the leading carpenter and builder and held many positions of trust. The plain blue slatestone which marks his grave is well preserved. He married (first) Lady Ann, daughter of Lord Millington, of England, who came to America in search of her lover, a British army officer. Failing to find him she engaged in school teaching until her marriage to Gershom Lockwood. In 1660 her parents sent her a large oak chest ingeniously carved and strongly built: tradition says that it contained a half bushel of guineas and many fine silk dresses. This chest is still preserved by descendants.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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   LOCKWOOD, Robert (d 1658), from Eng. in the
   "Mary and John," with Winthrop's fleet, to h Watertown, Mass., 1630; freeman, 1637; settled at Fairfield, Conn.; sgt. Fairfleld regt.; m Susan-
   nah -----.
4. [S45] Charles Edward Crowell, Partial Genealogy of the Ferris Family, page 2 - Jeffrey Ferries or Ferris, according to the following extract taken from the Probate record: Order of the Court of Probate.--Fairfield, on estate of Jeffrey Ferris, relative to marriage contract with his deceased wife Susanna, by which he agreed to pay certain legacies to children of Robert Lockwood, deceased, according to the administration entered in Courte 20th October, 1658, &c. ... will probated in Fairfield, as heretofore stated, January 6, 1664, &c. ... his will names his wife Judy, son James, son Jonathan Lockwood and Mary Lockwood, son Peter's three children and son Joseph's two.
5. [S2110] Robert Lockwood, page 308.
6. [S2110] Robert Lockwood, page 310.
7. [S2115] North American Family Histories: Descendants of Robert Lockwood of Waterown, Massachusetts - page 2-3.