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William Lockwood

Male Abt 1669 - Bef 1719  (~ 49 years)


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  • Name William Lockwood 
    Born Abt 1669  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 1719  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1979  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Gershom Lockwood,   b. 6 Sep 1643, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12/12 Mar 1718/9, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Mrs. Gershom Lockwood,   d. Bef 1697, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1665  of, , Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F420  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The periodical “The American Genealogist,” 91(Jan. 2019):66-75, “Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan2 Lockwood,” by Capers W. McDonald:
      “Although some of the Lockwood families of Greenwich, Connecticut, prior to the Revolutionary War have been well identified, the relationships and activities of several Greenwich Lockwoods remain unresolved. In a short 1955 TAG article, "The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn.," Donald Lines Jacobus noted prevailing confusion over "double lines of Gershorn Lockwoods of Greenwich" living down to the end of the eighteenth century.[1] As an illustration and a correction, Jacobus sketched the following pedigree of seven Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich:
      Robert1 Lockwood
      -Jonathan2, d. 1688 = Mary Ferris
      -Gershom3, d. 1757 = Hannah -
      -Gershom4, d. 1787 = (1) Mary Sackett; (2) Ann -
      -Gershom5, 1753-
      -Gershom2, d. 1718/9 = -- --
      -Gershom3, d. bet. 1761 = Ann Millington
      -Gershom4, d. 1776 = Mary Ferris
      -Gershom, d. 1796 = Eunice --
      Jacobus then wrote, "study of the problems involved has been insufficient to enable us to write a definitive account" of the Gershoms. Instead, he simply presented "brief abstracts of some of the vital, probate and land records which must be used in any consideration of the problems involved."
      The earliest Lockwoods in Greenwich had first been described in print in 1857 by Daniel Merritt Mead in “A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., with Many Important Statistics.” They were brothers Gershom2 and Jonathan2 Lockwood (Robert1), listed by Mead among the "twenty-seven proprietors of 1672" who purchased Indian land across the Mianus River, west of the original colonial settlement of Greenwich.[2] Mead mentioned their respective sons-including the fact that each had a son named Gershom-but with little detail. Mead drew on earlier assertions to describe all the Greenwich Lockwoods as "probably descended from Edmund Lockwood ... of Cambridge, Mass."-which was incorrect.[3] The brothers were correctly identified as sons of Robert1 Lockwood, brother of Edmund1, in a full-length genealogy published in 1889, Frederick A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood's “Descendants of Robert Lockwood: Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America” (though unfortunately all of Edmund's actual children were incorrectly stated there to be sons of Robert1).[4]
      This 1889 Lockwood genealogy was the first to include a treatment of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) and some of his descendants. That account was followed by Spencer Percival Mead (1911),[5] William Richard Cutter (1912),[6] and subsequent authors.[7] Jacobus, who pointed out the "Gershoms" problem in 1955, had previously covered some of the Lockwoods in his 1930 initial volume of “History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield.”[8] There Jacobus had listed Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) only by name as a child of Jonathan2, with no subsequent information, and also briefly covered the family of Jonathan2 Lockwood's younger brother Gershom2. In none of these works have the children, landholdings, offices, and other evidence of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) been adequately described.
      Only by following Donald Lines Jacobus's 1955 guidance and assembly of "vital, probate and land records" has it been possible to produce a sound genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2). In this article, building on Jacobus's sketch pedigree and record abstracts, some of the several Gershom Lockwoods are disambiguated, with a focus on Gershom3 (Jonathan2). This Gershom settled in the part of Greenwich known as Cos Cob, and his descendants-including the left-hand column in Jacobus's chart-are traced here for two generations, including not only the Gershoms in this branch but their siblings. Among the probate records noted by Jacobus in his 1955 article was the 1733 will of Jabez4 Lockwood (Gershom3, Jonathan2), by which Jabez left land to his parents, Gershom and Hannah, to be distributed after their deaths to Jabez's five named brothers. It is Jabez's will which forms the foundation of the present genealogy of the family of Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob.
      A necessary first step to establishing the genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood (Jonathan2) is a review of the careers of his father and uncle, Jonathan2 and Gershom2 Lockwood, the first Lockwoods in Greenwich. Jonathan was the oldest, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, on 10 September 1634. Gershom, Robert1's sixth recorded child, was nine years younger, born in Watertown on 6 September 1643.[9] The two brothers migrated from Watertown to Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1646, with their father, Robert1 Lockwood.[10] These brothers were named among a total of nine children in Robert's estate inventory in Fairfield in 1658.[11] As young adults, Jonathan2 and Gershom2 settled further west in Greenwich. On 1 January 1656/7, Jonathan Lockwood, along with [his future father-in-law] Jeffrey Ferris,[12] signed an oath in East Towne, New Netherlands (later Westchester County, New York), along with "all the Inhabitants then present," to honor the Dutch "governor of the manatas [Manhattans] as our governor and obay all his magistrates and laws that ar[e] mad[e] a[c]cordin[g] to god so long as we live in his Jurisdiction."[13]
      Geography of Early Colonial Greenwich
      For the ensuing account of activities and landholdings of the Greenwich Lockwoods, some understanding of the physical geography and the Indian and colonial political geography is helpful. The "Main Country Road," which ran by Cos Cob, was a segment of the original King's Highway (called the "Post Road" once mail service was established) running mostly east and west through modern Greenwich,[14] while most waterways ran generally north-to-south. From west to east, the four significant local Indian territories in the area of Greenwich were known by the Indian names Poningoe, Petuckquapaug (including the village of Cassacubque, anglicized as Cos Cob), Asamuck, and Patomuck.[15]
      Furthest west, the Armonck [subsequently Byrarn] River marked what became the border between Connecticut and New York,[16] and defined the westernmost part of Greenwich, Poningoe. As implied by the 1657 oath respecting the Dutch governor noted above, the first colonial title to Poningoe came under a grant to the Dutch West India Company in 1640[17] Next to the east lay Petuckquapaug, between the Minamok[18] and Mianus rivers.[19] Part of Petuckquapaug was later called "Dumpling Pond,"[20] near where two sons of Gershom2 Lockwood built the first bridge over the Mianus River in 1688.
      The Indian village of Cassacubque, meaning "high rocks" or "a great ledge of rocks," lay near the principal western tributary of the Mianus River known as Strickland's Brook.[21] There, "on the west side of this brook, and close under a rather abrupt eminence … were built three rows of closely collected Indian huts made of bark ... stretching along under a high bluff covered with tall oaks which sheltered the town from the chilling northwest winds. ... On the plain, east of the hamlet and between it and Strickland's Brook, the wood and underbrush had been cleared away and the ground fitted for raising Indian corn."[22] The name was anglicized to "Cos Cob" by 1686/7, when a Greenwich town committee of Lt. Jonathan Lockwood and six other colonists purchased Horseneck Plantation (part of Poningoe, further west) from Indian proprietors.[23] The Second Congregational Church at Horseneck was founded in 1717,[24] and one of the Gershom Lockwoods became a member in 1729."[25]
      East of the Mianus River were the areas known by the names of their waterways, Asamuck Creek and Patomuck Brook. These areas saw the first English settlement in 1640, later referred to as "Greenwich Old Town."[26] Patomuck Brook became the coastal boundary between Greenwich and Stamford.[27] All of these place names are frequently referenced in the deeds; placing them is essential in differentiating the Lockwood families.
      Jonathan2 and Gershom2 Lockwood in Greenwich
      The earliest Greenwich record found for Jonathan2 Lockwood is from a town meeting of 6 May 1669, at which he and four others were appointed (as summarized in Mead's 1911 “Historie of Greenwich”) to assess "Horseneck and the lands thereabouts ... for the settlement of a township" west of the original settlement, between the Mianus and Byram rivers. On 6 February 1670[/1], a committee was appointed, consisting of "Mr. [John] Holley [of Stamford], Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood, John Mead, and Joseph Ferris" to lay out a township upon the land "near Horseneck Brook to the number of thirty lots, four acres to a home lot." A list of twenty-seven proprietors of the town of Greenwich in 1672 included Jonathan and Gershom Lockwood.[28] The original Indian deed for the "Horseneck Plantation" was a sale "unto Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood, Sergt. John Bowers, John Renalds, Senir, John Marshall, Joseph Mead, Senir, John Hubbe, Senir, and John Mead, Senir, which are the towne's committee." As part of the consideration, the Indian leaders received "planting land" which was "fenced in at Cos Cob Neck ... by estimation about thirtie acres" for their use "during their lives and the lives of the children being in number four, and then to be returned to the towne."[29] On 27 April 1675, Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood and six others "were appointed and fully empowered to lay out all the lands lying between the Mianus and Byram rivers, as it lieth below the Westchester Path [Post Road], and in May of the same year Angell Husted was appointed to draw the lots respecting each man's proportion" of these.[30]
      Jonathan2 Lockwood was among four men "Propownded for freemen of Greenwich" on 12 May 1670.[31] His earliest-known Greenwich land record is an agreement between the town of Greenwich and "Jonathan Lockwood, Sr." dated 19 [month illegible] 1669/70.[32] He was recorded as a deputy for Greenwich during the sessions for May and October 1671, May 1673, October 1674, October 1676, and May 1683.[33] A "Greenwich Properties List for the Year 1672 with the Drafts of the Lands on the Est[ate] List" includes brothers Jonathan2 Lockwood with an estate of £114 and Gershom2 Lockwood with an estate of £90.[34]
      On 9 May 1672, Jonathan Lockwood and three others were appointed "to measure on an east northeast lyne from Mamorenack River to the west bownds of Fayrefeild ... at the charge of the townes of Norwalke, Standford, Greenwich & Rye."[34] On 8 October 1674, "Lnt. Jonathan Lockwood" and three others were appointed "to runn the lyne between this Colony and the Colony of New York, from Momoronock River to Hudson's River.[36] On 12 May 1681, the Court at Hartford began the founding of Bedford, appointing Lieut. Jonathan Lockwood and three others "to manage, order and dispose of the affayres of that plantation."[37]
      What serves essentially as the will of Jonathan Lockwood was recorded on 9 May 1688 in the Greenwich land records as a "Deed of Gift." In it, he named his wife and children and distributed land to his children. Gifts were made to five sons, beginning with "son Jonathan being my eldest." "Unto my second son Robert" he granted "halfe my lands and meadows layd out or unlayed out below & above the Contrye roade lying on the west side of Myanos River;" "unto my third son Gershom the other halfe of the above s[ai]d lands & meadows." Others were his "fourth son Joseph" and "son Still John being my youngest."[38] Greenwich landowners listed on 21 May 1688 included Jonathan Lockwood, Jonathan Lockwood Jr., Robert Lockwood, and Gershom Lockwood.[39]
      Jonathan's widow, Mary (Ferris) Lockwood, married second, as his third wife, Thomas Merritt of Rye, New York. Documentation of her marriage settlement was included with papers relating to her estate, both of which give concrete evidence of her Lockwood children. In the marriage agreement, dated 5 June 1696, "Marah [Mary] Lockwood of Greenwich somtime wife to Leftenant Lockwood Deseased" mentioned her "severall Children by my first Husband namely Jonathan Lockwood: & severall of them being at present in there non age." Mary was dead by 26 January 1707/8, when the probate court in Greenwich ordered an inventory to be made with division of her estate to her [surviving] children "Rob Lockwood Gershom Loc[kwoo]d Joseph Loc[kwoo]d Abagail Backster [Baxter] Still John Loc[kwoo]d." The four sons signed acceptance of the inventory in Greenwich, 31 January 1707/8, as "Natural sonns unto Mrs Mary Merritt."[40] (The oldest son, Jonathan, had died on 9 November 1689.)[41] Jonathan2 Lockwood's children, therefore, were Jonathan, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, Abigail, and Still John Lockwood. They are listed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield,”[42] and treated more fully, though with errors, in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[43] Of the sons, Robert, Gershom, Joseph, and Still John Lockwood all had children in Greenwich. Only Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, this article's subject, is treated in the genealogy below.
      Gershom2 Lockwood, the only one of Jonathan2 Lockwood's brothers to settle in Greenwich with him, was chosen to fill Jonathan's seats on the various town committees when Jonathan2 died in 1688.[44] Gershom2 "was the principal carpenter and builder in the town."[45] Gershom died in Greenwich, 12 March 1718/9, "aged 77 years."[46] As he was nine years younger than his brother Jonathan, his earliest Greenwich land records are later: 1664/5 (age 21) and 1668.[47] After his brother's death, Gershom2 was the Lockwood patriarch in Greenwich, reflected in an assessment from the years 1694-95, at which his property, held in common with at least one adult son, was valued the highest of any estate in the town: "Gershom Lockwood & Son," at £153 15s.[48] During 1688, construction began on a bridge across the Mianus River at "Dumpling Pond," called "North Mianus" in 1911 by S. P. Mead. "This was the first bridge built in the Town of Greenwich, and was built by Gershom Lockwood and his brother William Lockwood," apparently the two eldest sons of Gershom2 Lockwood.[49] Gershom2 Lockwood's children were listed and discussed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield” as Gershom, Hannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Sarah.[50] William, who predeceased his father, was omitted from Jacobus's account, though all were noted in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[51] They also are not followed in this article, but a revised genealogy of that branch of the family is also needed.
      [The balance of the article is a biography and genealogy of Gershom3 Lockwood, son of Jonathan2 Lockwood, which is a line I do not follow nor transcribe from the article.]
      Footnotes:
      1. Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Gershom Lockwoods of Greenwich, Conn.," TAG 31 [1955): 224-28, at 224.
      2. Daniel M. Mead, “A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., with Many Important Statistics” (New York, 1857), 66-67, the list evidently based upon the original Green- wich town records, vol. 1 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #185372].
      3. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 313-14. The same claim had appeared in Robert Bolton Jr., “History of the County of Westchester,” 2 vols. (New York, 1848, 211, 530; and John Farmer, “A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England” (Lancaster, Mass., 1829), 181.
      4. 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), 24, 64-70. This book was criticized pointedly by Jacobus in print several times: in a "Lockwood Note," inserted in Lillian Lounsberry (Miner) Selleck [comp. Donald Lines Jacobus], “One Branch of the Miner Family” (New Haven, 1928), 121-24; in "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder," TAG 33(1955):222-24, immediately preceding his separate note on "The Gershom Lockwoods" [note 1], in which he also criticized Holden and Lockwood; and in another "Lockwood Note," TAG 32(1956):186, following up on points in "An Atrocious Lockwood Blunder." Further criticism of Holden and Lockwood is also found in Harriett Woodbury Hodge, “Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and His Son, Edmund Lockwood (ca. 1625-1693) of Stamford, Connecticut” (New York, 1978), and Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,” 3 vols. (Boston, 1995), 3:1194.
      5. Spencer Percival Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut … Being a Revision … and Continuation of the History of the Town of Greenwich Published in 1857 by Daniel M. Mead” (New York, 1911), 30-34, 47-48, 55-56, 465-67, 518-19, 607.
      6. William Richard Cutter, “Genealogical and Family History of Central New York,” 3 vols. (New York, 1912), 2:716-17.
      7. For example, Frank J. Doherty, “The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York,” 13 vols. to date (Pleasant Valley, N.Y., 1990-), 8:214, shows the lineage of Theophilus4 Lockwood as (Gershom3, Jonathan2, Robert1), perhaps based on Holden and Lockwood, Descendants of Robert Lockwood [note 4]; 24.
      8. Donald Lines Jacobus, “History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield,” 3 vols. (New Haven, 1930-32), 1:380-82.
      9. Robert Charles Anderson et al., “The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” 7 vols. (Boston, 2003-11), 4:312-13, citing Watertown vital records.
      10. Anderson, “Great Migration, 1634-1635” [note 9], 4:308-15 (Robert); Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins” [note 4], 2:1192-94 (Robert's brother Edmund1); Robert Charles Anderson, “The Winthrop Fleet, Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630” (Boston, 2012), 456-58 (Robert's brother Edinund1); S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 607.
      11. Jacobus, “Families of Old Fairfield” [note 8], 1:380.
      12. The date of Jonathan's (subequent) marriage to Mary Ferris is not known, though her father, Jeffrey Ferris, mentioned his daughter Mary's "husband Jonothon Lockwood" in his will of 6 Jan. 1664 (Anderson, “Great Migration, 1634-1635” [note 91, 2:519).
      13. E. B. O'Callaghan, “The Documentary History of the State of New-York,” 4 vols. (Albany, 1849-51), 3558-59. The qualifying phrase, "that are made according to God," had been negotiated and added to preserve autonomy.
      14. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5],” 47, 338.
      15. The native tribes in the area "were Siwanoys ... belonging to the great tribe of Mohegans, who were possessed of a great part of Quinnehtuqut (Connecticut)" (John C. Huden, “Indian Place Names of New England” [New York, 1962], 233). See also Bolton, “History of Westchester” [note 3], 1:ix, map at vi-vii; and the Jan Jansson map of 1651 in Philip D. Burden, “The Mapping of North America” (Rickmansworth, U.K., 1996), 390-91.
      16. Huden, “Indian Place Names” [note 15], 30; Claude Joseph Sauthier, "A Chorographical Map of the Province of New York" (London, 1779).
      17. Bolton, “History of Westchester” [note 3], 2:17. Native names for areas within Poningoe are described in William M. Beauchamp, "Aboriginal Place Names of New York," New York State Museum, Bulletin 108: Archeology 12 (Albany, 1907), 245, 248; Bolton, History of Westchester [note 3], 1:vii (map).
      18. Sauthier, "Chorographical Map of New York" [note 16]; Huden, “Indian Place Names [note 15], 114.
      19. "Mianus river: in Greenwich and Stamford; and transferred to a village at the junction of this river with Coscob cove. For Mayanno's' - as the river and neck of land were called, from the Indian proprietor, Mayanno or Mehanno, who was killed by Capt. Patrick, in 1643." (J. Hammond Trumbull, “Indian Names of Places Etc., In and On the Borders of Connecticut” [Hartford, 1881], 29).
      20. "Petuckquapaug: Dumpling pond, in Greenwich, a 'round pond' (Trumbull, “Indian Names of Places” [note 19], 51); also Huden, Indian Place Names [note 15], 185).
      21. "Cassacubque[:] an ancient village near Mianus, Fairfield County, Conn. Possibly Siwanoy, 'high rocks' (Cos Cob)" (Huden, “Indian Place Names” [note 15], 45); also Trumbull, Indian Names of Places [note 19], 8, 12).
      22. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 18-20; Bolton, “History of Westchester” [note 15], map; 1651 Janssen map in Burden, “Mapping of North America” [note 15], 390-91.
      23. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 31-34, 1 Feb. 1686[/7], rec. 31 July 1701 in "the town records: ... [sale by] Kowaconussa and Kouko, and Querrecqui and Peattun and Pakohchero and Rumppanus ... the true proprietors of all the land ... betweene Mianus River and Biram River."
      24. Benjamin Turnbull, "Extracts of Letters to Rev. Thomas Prince," Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, 1895), 3:313.
      25. Spencer P. Mead, "Abstract of Church Records of the Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut" (typescript, Library of Congress, 1913), 1:9 [digitized, archive.org].
      26. "The first settlement of the Town of Greenwich was made on the eighteenth day of July, 1640, when Captain Daniel Patrick and Robert Freaks, formerly of Watertown, Massachusetts, as agents for the New Haven Colony, landed at Greenwich Point" and purchased from the local Sachems several lands between Asamuck Creek and Patomuck Brook (S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 5, 7).
      27. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note a], zo.
      28. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 30-31.
      29. See note 23.
      30. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 34.
      31. J. Hammond Trumbull and C. J. Hoadly, eds., “The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, [1636-1776],” 15 vols. (Hartford, 1850-90), 2[1665-78]:126, 132.
      32. Greenwich, Conn., Deeds, 1:60.
      33. Public Records of Connecticut [note 311, 2[1665-781:146-47 (11 May 1671), 159-60 (12 Oct. 1671), 191-92 "Sargt" (8 May 1673); 235-36 "Lnt" (8 Oct. 1674), 286-87 "Lnt" (12 Oct. 1676); 3[1678-89]:114-15 "Lnt" (10 May 1683).
      34. Greenwich town records, vol. 1 [unpaginated] [FHL film #185372].
      35. “Public Records of Connecticut” [note 31], 2[1665-78]:168, 174.
      36. “Public Records of Connecticut” [note 31], 2[1665-78]:235, 242.
      37. “Public Records of Connecticut” [note 3[1678-89]:74, 83.
      38. Greenwich Deeds, 1:103, rec. 9 May 1688.
      39. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5]; 47-48.
      40. Fairfield, Conn., Probate Dist., Estate File Papers, #4202, includes the original marriage settlement [images, ancestry.com].
      41. Selleck, “Miner Family”, 123.
      42. Jacobus, “Families of Old Fairfield” [note 8], 1:382.
      43. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood’ [note 4], 8, 18-35.
      44. S. P. Mead, “Ye Historie of Greenwich” [note 5], 47.
      45. D. M. Mead, History of Greenwich [note 2], 113.
      46. Gravestone, Tomac Burying Ground (Old Cemetery at Sound Beach), Greenwich (photograph, findagrave.com, memorial #21447946; D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 113).
      47. Greenwich Deeds, 1:49, 23 March 1664/5; 1:83, 19 Dec. 1668.
      48. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 77-79.
      49. S. P. Mead, Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5], 47.
      50. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield [note 8], 1:385.
      51. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood” [note 4], 16, 50-61.”

      BIRTH:
      1. The following entry about the first bridge built in Greenwich is from the periodical “The American Genealogist,” 91(Jan. 2019):73-74, “Gershom3 Lockwood of Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, Son of Jonathan2 Lockwood,” by Capers W. McDonald. It notes that the Gershom2's sons Gershom3 and William3 built the bridge starting in 1688. Assuming that the elder son Gershom would be at least 21, then his birth would calculate to abt 1666 which dovetails just before his sister Hannah's proven birth in Dec. 1667. Considering that Gershom2 was born 6 Sep 1643, this would calculate to a marriage with his first unknown wife in 1665 at about 22. William 3, being younger than Gershom3 would have to dovetail in after Hannah with a birth calculated at about 1669 making him about 19 at the time of construction. This all assumes that S.P. Mead's quote about the bridge as noted in the following quote is accurate. It would make for better calculations if the two brothers were a bit older when they built the bridge, but the context does not allow for it; on the other hand, their father was the town's carpenter and the two boys would certainly have learned the trade from their father starting from a young age.
      The quote:
      "Gershom2 Lockwood, the only one of Jonathan2 Lockwood's brothers to settle in Greenwich with him, was chosen to fill Jonathan's seats on the various town committees when Jonathan2 died in 1688.[44] Gershom2 "was the principal carpenter and builder in the town."[45] Gershom died in Greenwich, 12 March 1718/9, "aged 77 years."[46] As he was nine years younger than his brother Jonathan, his earliest Greenwich land records are later: 1664/5 (age 21) and 1668.[47] After his brother's death, Gershom2 was the Lockwood patriarch in Greenwich, reflected in an assessment from the years 1694-95, at which his property, held in common with at least one adult son, was valued the highest of any estate in the town: "Gershom Lockwood & Son," at £153 15s.[48] During 1688, construction began on a bridge across the Mianus River at "Dumpling Pond," called "North Mianus" in 1911 by S. P. Mead. "This was the first bridge built in the Town of Greenwich, and was built by Gershom Lockwood and his brother William Lockwood," apparently the two eldest sons of Gershom2 Lockwood.[49] Gershom2 Lockwood's children were listed and discussed briefly by Jacobus in “Families of Old Fairfield” as Gershom, Hannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Sarah.[50] William, who predeceased his father, was omitted from Jacobus's account, though all were noted in Holden and Lockwood's 1889 Lockwood genealogy.[51] They also are not followed in this article, but a revised genealogy of that branch of the family is also needed.
      Footnotes:
      45. D. M. Mead, History of Greenwich [note 2], 113.
      46. Gravestone, Tomac Burying Ground (Old Cemetery at Sound Beach), Greenwich (photograph, findagrave.com, memorial #21447946; D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 113).
      47. Greenwich Deeds, 1:49, 23 March 1664/5; 1:83, 19 Dec. 1668.
      48. D. M. Mead, “History of Greenwich” [note 2], 77-79.
      49. S. P. Mead, Ye Historie of Greenwich [note 5], 47.
      50. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield [note 8], 1:385.
      51. Holden and Lockwood, “Descendants of Robert Lockwood” [note 4], 16, 50-61.”