Lt. Gershom Lockwood, Sr.

Not the husband of Elizabeth Ludlum

One of the original proprietors of Greenwich, CT. The principal carpenter and builder in the town of Greenwich.

Three Elizabeth Ludlams of Oyster Bay, The April 2000 issue of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record -

The author shows that Joseph Ludlam, the first of that name in Oyster Bay, married, probably as his second wife, Elizabeth2 Townsend, daughter of John1 Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright. Previous claims that she was the widow Wright who married second Gershom Lockwood are incorrect.

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!administration granted to his widow, Elizabeth and son Gershom, 1 Apr 1719

!"The Families of Old Fairfield"

!"Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown Massachusetts", by Henry Bond, M.D. FHL 974.44 D2b Vol.1

!Sealing to Parents:Stamped archive sheet

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!LOCKWOOD FAMILY, HISTORY OF CONN. a leu

!LOCKWOOD FAMILY, HISTORY OF CONN. a leutenant in the British Army

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Resoded at Watertown MA and Greenwich CT

Resoded at Watertown MA and Greenwich CT. He was a carpenter.

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MARRIAGE:

1. Clarence Torrey; New Engla ===
MARRIAGE: 1. Clarence Torrey; New England Marriages Prior To 1700: LOCKWOOD, Gershom2 (1643-1719) & 1/wf [?Ann MILLINGTON?]; ca 1664; Fairfield, CT {McCormick-Hamilton 652; Fairfield Fam. 1:384-5; Miner Anc. 124; Noyes-Gilman 97; Seeley-Vail 130; Tingley-Meyers 257; Bennett etc. (1931) 31}

LOCKWOOD, Gershom2 (1643-1719) & Elizabeth (TOWNSEND) WRIGHT (-1719+), w Gideon; 3 Aug 1697; Oyster Bay, LI/Greenwich, CT {McCormick-Hamilton 652; Oyster Bay Rec. 1:515; Fairfield Fam. 1:385; Noyes-Gilman 98; Wright (1923) 71; Bennett etc. (1931) 31; CockS (ed. 2) 368, 369}

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!BIRTH: History & Genealogy of the Fa

!BIRTH: History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, p. 381, FHL Connecticut Ancestry, September 1984, p. 10, FHL

!DEATH: History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, p. 381, FHL Connecticut Ancestry, September 1984, p. 10, FHL

!MARRIAGE: History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, p. 381, FHL

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Unsure if he is Sarah Lockwood father at

Unsure if he is Sarah Lockwood father at this time. Most likely he is.

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!BIRTH: FATHER: Genealogies of the Early

!BIRTH: FATHER: Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Watertown,Mass. ;Henry Bond: 1855. Pg 353.

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Life Sketch

CAUTION: 2nd WIFE WAS ELIZABETH (DICKENSON) WRIGHT, WIDOW OF CALEB. PLEASE SEE HARRY MACY, JR. CORRECTION IN SOURCES. Did NOT marry Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, widow of Gideon who was still married to Joseph Ludlam at the date of Gershom's marriage which soon followed the death of Caleb Wright. Gershom Lockwood was born 6 Sep 1643 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts to Robert and Susan Lockwood according to his Boston county birth record.

His name, appropriately, is a reference to Exodus 2: 22 "And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land."

He was the principal carpenter and builder in the town of Greenwich and filled many offices of trust there (Mead's History of Greenwich, p.113). He was one of the twenty-seven proprietors of Greenwich, and was Lieutenant of Militia in 1692.

His likely married his first wife, who family tradition says was Lady Ann Millington, prior to 1684. With this first wife, he had five children: Gershom Jr., Hannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Sarah. There are some fanciful stories about Ann's origins that make for good storytelling, but are shrouded in mystery. Recent researches and other evidence suggest that Ann Millington was actually the wife of Gershom, Jr.

Gershom's first wife must have died prior to 1697, for in that year, he married his second wife, the widow Elizabeth Wright. WIDOW OF CALEB WRIGHT. On 11 Apr. 1719 Administration of Estate of Gershom Lockwood was granted to widow Elizabeth and son Gershom. The inventory mentions "about thirty acres of land at Windsor which came to him by his first wife."

He died the 12 of March, 1718/9, in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA, and was buried in the Tomac Burying Ground, of that same town. His headstone has held up well, and states: "Here lyes ye Body of Mr. Gershom Lockwood, aged 77 years, dec'd March ye 12th 1718-19."

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Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairf

Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/stamford/lockwood_data.htm