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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The following sources are now proven to be wrong in regards to this person being Elizabeth Townsend who was the widow of Peter Wright:
A. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
"GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643. He m. (1) 65 He m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright.(66)
Footnotes:
65. Holden and Lockwood claim that she was "Lady Ann Millington from England, daughter of Lord Millington," an unsupported and highly unlikely identification (Lockwood Family 16-17). In 1930 Jacobus called her "Ann [?Millington] of Windsor," but in 1955 he referred to her simply as "(first wife)" and gave to Gershom, son of this Gershom, wife Ann Millington (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:384-85; TAG 31:224). This latter Gershom had a son named Millington (TAG 31:226), which may be the origin of the proposed Millington connection.
66. John Cox, Jr., ed., "Oyster Bay Town Records," Volume I, 1653-1690 (New York, 1916), p. 515. In 1955 Jacobus argued that this Elizabeth died and that Gershom had a third wife, also named Elizabeth. In presenting the estate papers for Gershom, Jacobus states that "The prenuptial contract of Gershom with his widow was dated 2 Oct. 1716" (TAG 31:225-26). This prenuptial contract has not been found, but the will of Gershom Lockwood, dated 2 October 1716, refers to "what I have [given] to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth as in my deed of gift to her" (Fairfield Probate Records Case #3836). If Jacobus mistook this reference to a deed of gift as a prenuptial contract, then we have evidence for only one wife named Elizabeth."
B. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"Robert Lockwood...
Children...
vi. GERSHOM Lockwood, b. Watertown 6 September 1643 [NEHGR 7:283; WaVR 1:11]; m. (1) ___ ___ ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130]; m. (2) Oyster Bay 3 August 1697 Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright [Oyster Bay TR 1:515], daughter of John Townsend and widow of Gideon Wright ["Connecticut Ancestry" 47:130; FOOF 1:384-85]..."
C. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 384/5: daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend.
D. Per the book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: "Gershom Lockwood married Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. In the Townsend Memorial, pp. 87,88,91, and 131, I find the following: John Townsend died in 1668, and, as he died intestate, his widow according to a prevailing custom divided his estate. 'The 23d year of the reign of Charles II, King of England, and the tenth day of the fifth month 1671,' i.e., July 10th, 1671. In speaking of her daughter Elizabeth, she says: 'To my eldest dau. Elizabeth, although not above mentioned, yet she is to have with what she hath already received...' 'To the said Elizabeth or her husband, Gideon Wright, towards her portion, I give with what her father had before given her already...' 'Elizabeth, dau. of John Townsend 1st, married Gideon, son of Peter Wright, and had 8 children. After his death she married Gershom Lockwood, who came from Conn., and returned there after his marriage to her." (Note: See hard file for lengthier version of inheritance.)
2. The periodical "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," Vol. 131(April 2000), No. 2, "Three Elizabeth Ludlams of Oyster Bay," by Harry Macy, Jr., F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S.:
"Joseph2 Ludlam (William1) was born in England in 1646, spent his childhood at Southampton, Long Island, and by 1668 was in Oyster Bay where he died on Hog Island in 1698.[1] As shown below, he had children born circa 1684-1691 and by 1687/8 he had a wife named Elizabeth. Both of his sons also married Elizabeths.
The maiden names of these three Elizabeth Ludlams have long puzzled genealogists. In his notes, Oyster Bay's earliest known family historian, Dr. Peter S. Townsend (1795-1849), stated that Roberta and Henry3 Townsend (sons of Henry2-1) "had a sister who md one of the Ludlams of Hog Island," but he did not name the sister or her husband.[2] The 1865 Townsend genealogy quoted Dr. Townsend as saying that a daughter of Henry2 married one of the Ludlams, again leaving the couple unnamed.[3] Julia Parish Ludlam's 1896 Ludlam genealogy indicated that Joseph2 Ludlam married Elizabeth3 Townsend (Henry2),[4] and this was repeated in 1914 and 1916 by George W. Cocks[5] and in 1932 by Josephine C. Frost.[6]
However, Henry2 Townsend was not married until about 1676 and could hardly have had a Ludlam grandchild born eight years later.[7] In a letter to Clarence A. Torrey dated 29 April 1915 Cocks recognized this problem and concluded "There is no appearance on record of his [Joseph2 Ludlam] ever having m. an Elizabeth Townsend, the only eligible one being dau. of first Henry and she died unmarried Sept. 13, 1680." He then suggested that Joseph2 married Elizabeth Ryder of Southold, named in her father's 1699 will as the wife of Joseph Ludlam.[8]
Cocks' 1916 article does not reflect this change of thought, because he wrote to Torrey again only two weeks later, on 18 May 1915, saying that he had reconsidered the matter. Ignoring the conflicting dates, he re-asserted that "Joseph Ludlam's wife by tradition supported by competent evidence was Elizabeth Townsend, dau. of Henry Townsend 2d." On 19 October 1925 in a letter to John R. Totten, then editor of THE RECORD, Torrey pointed out the problem with this statement, commenting that it was made "before Mr. Cocks lost his mind but he was not, apparently, at his best" when it was made.
Cocks was 86 in 1915 and while his distinctive handwriting was as steady as ever, he apparently did have good and bad days. He had forgotten that in his notes there was another statement from Dr. Peter S. Townsend that clearly assigned the Ludlam-Townsend marriage to the next generation (see below). Torrey was, of course, also unaware of this statement. But he did have Cocks' April 1915 letter that correctly rejected the marriage for Joseph2, and he failed to mention this to Totten, giving himself full credit for the rejection ("I have shown, conclusively, that she was not a daughter of Henry2 Townsend …"). He told Totten that "It is quite likely that the problem will never be solved."[9] In 1937 he published his own version of the Joseph2 Ludlam family, concluding that Joseph2 "married Elizabeth, whose family name and ancestry are unknown."[10]
Ten years later, in 1947, there appeared an impressive article in which Waldron Phoenix Belknap revealed the solution that had eluded Cocks and Torrey.[11] Because this article was published in "The Art Bulletin," most genealogists have remained unaware of its existence, and even those who have read it may have missed the brief but crucial reference to the present problem. Belknap's subject was the identity of the noted colonial portrait painter Robert Feke of Newport, Rhode Island. He proved that Feke was the son of Robert and Clemence (Ludlam) Feke, making Joseph2 Ludlam the artist's maternal grandfather. Joseph's wife Elizabeth, he stated, was "probably the daughter of the first John Townsend and, at the time of her marriage, the widow of Gideon Wright."[12]
This was a totally new proposal. Elizabeth2 Townsend (John1) of Oyster Bay married Gideon2 Wright (Peter1), as shown by the settlement of her father's estate in 1671 where her mother (also named Elizabeth) refers to "my eldest daughter Elizabeth," and "her husband Gideon Wright."[13]
The dates of birth of Elizabeth and her eight Wright children are unknown, but she probably was born after 1645 and was recently married in 1671.[14]
Gideon Wright, "weak in body," made his will 14 May 1685, referring to his wife though not by name.[15] There is no record of probate of this will, but other records establish that he died between 29 May and 6 October 1685.[16] After his death there is no further mention of his widow in the records, suggesting that she either remarried or died.[17] According to genealogies of the Townsend, Wright, and Lockwood families, she next married Gershom Lockwood,[18] but Belknap concluded that these works were incorrect in this regard,[19] and the evidence for this conclusion is not hard to find. Gershom Lockwood did marry "the widdow Elizabeth Wright of Oysterbay," but this took place on 3 August 1697,[20] twelve years after Gideon Wright's death. A widow of Elizabeth's age, with young children, was not likely to remain unmarried for so long a time.
Furthermore, a 1700 agreement among the heirs of Nicholas1 Wright (Gideon's uncle) mentions "the home lot which belongs to William Wright whereon Gershom Lockwood now possesseth," and confirms "the Homestead whereon Gershom Lockwood lives upon William Wright." William3 Wright, born 1680, was the only son and heir-at-law of Caleb2 Wright (Nicholas1), who died in Oyster Bay 5 February 1695 [probably 1695/6].[21] This Caleb married Elizabeth (?Dickinson),[22] and no second marriage has been claimed for her. It is evident that she was the widow who, a little over a year after Caleb's death, married Lockwood and then lived with him in Caleb's homestead.
If Gideon Wright's widow did not marry Lockwood, what happened to her? No record explicitly states that she married Joseph Ludlam, but a deed and will made many years later mention Ludlam-Wright relationships which could not be satisfactorily explained before Belknap's article.
The 1896 Ludlam genealogy assigned Joseph2 two sons, Joseph3 and Charles, and their existence is well established by many records. For example, after Joseph2 died in 1698, his widow Elizabeth in 1700 signed an agreement which names her sons Joseph and Charles, both under 21.[23]
Cocks in his 1916 article added two daughters, Clemence the wife of Robert Feke (Feake/Feeks) and Sarah the wife of John Wright[24] This list of two sons and two daughters was repeated in 1932 by Frost.[25] In his 1937 article criticizing the earlier accounts, Torrey modified the list only to make the second daughter's first name unknown.[26]
Cocks noted that in 1720 Joseph3 and Charles Ludlam made a deed of gift to "our brother John Wright."[27] Like Cocks, Torrey felt that this deed proved the existence of a second Ludlam daughter. Cocks identified John Wright as the grandson of Gideon and Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright, but Torrey devoted some space to showing that John was actually Gideon and Elizabeth's son. He married Abigail Barker in 1708,[28] and Torrey assumed that Miss Ludlam was his second wife.
Torrey noted that the 1722 will of Gideon3 Wright, another son of Gideon and Elizabeth, appointed as overseers "my loving and trusty brethren, viz., John Wright, Charles Ludlam, Robert Feek."[29] Torrey argued that Charles Ludlam and Robert Feke were Gideon's "brethren" only through the wife of his brother John -- that is, they were his sister-in-law's brother and brother-in-law. He thought that this strengthened the argument that John Wright had married a Ludlam.
Belknap's identification of Joseph2 Ludlam's wife allows a much more likely interpretation of the 1720-22 documents. If the widow of Gideon2 Wright married Joseph2 Ludlam, then Gideon3 and John3 Wright would have been half-brothers of Joseph3 and Charles3 Ludlam and of the wife of Robert Feke. Gideon3 Wright would then have been referring to Robert Feke and Charles Ludlam as his own brethren and not merely "brethren" through his sister-in-law. Similarly, when Joseph and Charles Ludlam conveyed to "our brother John Wright" they would have been referring to their half-brother, and it would not be necessary to argue that John must have married their sister. It indeed appears that there was no such sister.
Elizabeth, the widow of Gideon Wright, does not appear on record after the date of her husband's will, 14 May 1685. By 18 February 1687 (probably 1687/8)[30] Joseph2 Ludlam had a wife Elizabeth. Their marriage most likely would have occurred a year or so after Wright's death.
This raises one problem -- Clemence Ludlam (later Feke) was probably born in 1684. Her gravestone reads "Hear lieth the body of Clemence Feke who died August ye 8th 1760 Aged 76 year," which would place her birthdate in 1683 or 1684 (if the inscription means "76 years") or 1684 or 1685 (if the inscription means "in her 76th year").[31]
While it is possible that the age on Clemence's stone is incorrect, and she was born say in 1686 or 1687, it may be more likely that she was not Elizabeth's child, that Joseph Ludlam had an unidentified first wife who died at or soon after Clemence's birth. Ludlam's marriage to Elizabeth did not take place until he was 40 years old, yet he had been in Oyster Bay since age 22 and had long had a useful trade and sufficient land to support a family. Given the customs of the time one would expect him to have married well before 1686. If he did, then he was himself a widower with a child (rather than a 40-year old bachelor) when he married the widow Wright with her eight children. Clemence would have been a stepsister of these children, raised by their mother, and Gideon Wright could still have referred to her husband as one of his "brethren."[32]
As for Joseph2's sons, the gravestone of Joseph3 at Hog (Centre) Island, reads "Here lieth the body of Joseph Ludlam Junr died Febr the 9th 1729/30 Aged 41 years,"[33] placing his birthdate in 1688-89. According to a family record Charles Ludlam died 1 November 1769 aged 78-7-5, giving him a calculated birthdate of 27 March 1691.[34] If Elizabeth (Townsend) (Wright) Ludlam was born in 1647, she would have been 44 in 1691.
Elizabeth, the widow of Joseph2 Ludlam, is buried in the family cemetery. Her stone reads only "E L Augus ye 2d 1723.[35] In that year she would probably have been about 76 years old.
It might be argued that Joseph2 Ludlam's wife Elizabeth could have married him earlier and been the mother of Clemence as well as his sons -- which would make it impossible for her to be the widow of Gideon Wright There is, however, one more piece of evidence which supports Joseph2 Ludlam's marriage to the widow.
In 1769 George Townsend (Richard3, George2, John1) of Norwich (now East Norwich), Long Island, in a letter to his cousin Christopher Townsend of Newport, Rhode Island, stated that their mutual great-grandfather John1 Townsend had three daughters, naming one as "Elizabeth Ludlam." This letter was published in the 1865 Townsend genealogy, the compilers adding a footnote that the daughter Elizabeth actually married Gideon Wright.[36] But re-examining the letter in light of Belknap's proposal, we can see that George Townsend, born in 1713, was writing about a great-aunt whom he would have remembered, as she did not die until he was ten years old. And she would have been known to him as (Aunt) Elizabeth Ludlam.[37]
To summarize: This writer agrees with Belknap that Elizabeth2 Townsend (John1) married (1) Gideon Wright, who died in 1685, and married (2), perhaps in 1686, Joseph2 Ludlam. She had eight known children by her first husband, and by her second husband was the mother of Joseph3 and Charles3. It appears likely, however, that Joseph2 Ludlam had a previous wife, still unidentified, who was the mother of his daughter Clemence.
TWO MORE ELIZABETH LUDLAMS
The first Elizabeth Ludlam's two sons both married women named Elizabeth, who have also been the subject of much speculation. In her 1896 Ludlam genealogy Julia Parish Ludlam gave these wives as Elizabeth ___.[38] The birthdate of Joseph3's Elizabeth is unknown, but he was born 1688/9 and she was probably the same age or slightly younger. For Charles3's wife Elizabeth, we have an age at death from Cocks' notes which indicates she was born 25 October 1692 or a year and a half after her husband.[39] Thus these two Elizabeths were about the same age.
In the 1912 Cocks genealogy, Cocks gave the wife of Joseph3 as the Elizabeth Ryder mentioned earlier,[40] but in the second (1914) edition of the same work[41] and in his 1916 RECORD article he made her a daughter of Henry3 (Henry2-1) Townsend.[42] Although he had placed a "?" by this marriage in his notes, it was omitted in these publications. In 1932 Frost repeated this identification.[43] Neither she nor Cocks noticed that Henry3 Townsend was much too young to be Joseph3 Ludlam's father-in-law.
In 1937 Torrey recognized this problem, and reverted to the Ryder identification.[44] This required that Joseph3 be married by 1699 (when Thomas Ryder made his will), and Torrey therefore had to push Joseph3's birth back to 1679, which we now know is almost ten years too early. Subsequently (in 1943) Conklin Mann showed that Elizabeth Ryder actually married another Joseph3 Ludlam (Anthony2, Williams of Southampton),[45] leaving the Oyster Bay Joseph3 without an identified wife.
As for Elizabeth the wife of Charles3 Ludlam, Cocks thought she might be the daughter Elizabeth named in the will of Job2 Wright (Peters). Again his notes contain a "?" which was omitted in his 1916 artide[46] Frost copied this idea[47] from Cocks, but Perrine's Wright genealogy shows no marriage for this daughter[48] and there does not seem to be any evidence for marrying her to Charles Ludlam, except her first name.
When Torrey determined that Joseph2 could not have been the Ludlam who according to tradition married a daughter of Henry2 Townsend, he began to look for another candidate for that marriage. Since he had married Joseph3 to Elizabeth Ryder, Torrey decided that it must have been Charles Ludlam who married Henry2 Townsend's daughter.[49] The present writer agreed with this conclusion in 1980,[50] but Mann's revelation that Joseph3 did not marry Miss Ryder requires that Torrey's conclusion be re-examined.
In his landmark 1947 article, Belknap could only conclude that Elizabeth, daughter of Henry2 Townsend, "may quite possibly have been the wife of Joseph Ludlam (Jr.) or of Charles Ludlam" (emphasis added)[51]
Did Henry2 Townsend have, a daughter Elizabeth? His brother John in his 1705 will referred to "my Brother Henrys four daughters,"[52] none of whom has been identified. These daughters had to be born between 1676 when Henry2 probably married, and 1698 when his wife Deborah died at age 39, so one of them could have been the wife of Joseph3 or Charles Ludlam. That one was named Elizabeth is likely, as Henry had a sister Elizabeth, and it was Deborah's mother's name as well.
Joseph3 Ludlam had only two known children, Joseph4 and Deborah. If he was the Ludlam who married Henry2 Townsend's daughter, this Deborah was named for her grandmother. Charles Townsend had no daughter Deborah; he did have a son Henry, which Torrey thought was significant, but that name is also found earlier in the Ludlam family.[53]
In 1912-16 George W. Cocks was apparently unaware that he had the answer to this puzzle in his own files. Pasted to the back of one of his notes on Joseph3 Ludlam is a paper in someone else's handwriting:
My grandfather Absalom when young lived with his uncle Joseph Ludlam on Hog Island -- J.L.'s wife being a sister of Henry III.
Appended to this in Cocks' hand is "per Dr. Peter Townsend." This entry has not been found in Dr. Townsend's papers (note 2 above), but there is record of him interviewing descendants of Absalom4 (Henry3-2-1) Townsend, who were his cousins (he was descended maternally from Absalom's brother Henry4). Absalom was about twenty years younger than Joseph3 Ludlam[54] and the latter is clearly the Joseph the entry refers to. Absalom was little more than an infant when his father died and his mother remarried, which would explain why he lived with his uncle. His grandchild may have heard this story from him directly, as he died at an advanced age in 1795 (also the year Dr. Townsend was born). In any case, this note clarifies Dr. Townsend's other statement quoted at the beginning of this article, and is probably the most reliable piece of evidence we will ever find on this subject. The present author therefore concludes that it was Joseph] Ludlam who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry2 and Deborah (Underhill) Townsend.
As for Charles Ludlam's wife Elizabeth, the names of their children can all be found among his own relatives except for two, Daniel and Susanna. Barbara Barth has suggested[55] that this Elizabeth might have been a daughter of Daniel2 Townsend (John1) and his wife Susanna Forman. This Oyster Bay couple are known to have had two sons, Daniel3 and Robert,[56] and it is quite possible that they also had a daughter, named for Daniel's mother. She and Charles Ludlam would have been first cousins, but there were other such marriages in Oyster Bay in this period. Robert Townsend sometimes appears on record with Charles Ludlam,[57] and Daniel3 may have had a son Charles, a name not previously used by these Townsends.[58]
It would be dangerous to give too much weight to first names in establishing relationships between English families in this time and place, but this is a possible explanation of the identity of the third Elizabeth.
It thus appears that two of the three Elizabeth Ludlams were born Townsends, and the third may have been as well.
Footnotes:
1 For Joseph's 9 Aug. 1646 baptism and his father's history see Conklin Mann, `William Ludlam of Southampton, Long Island," The American Genealogist [hereafter TAG] 20(1943):8-30, and Walter D. Ludlum, "William Ludlam of Southampton Some New Information," TAG 29(1953):91-98. Oyster Bay granted Joseph land 15 July 1668 (Oyster Beg Town Records, ed. John Cox, Jr., 8 vols. [1916-40], 1:204). Frequently mentioned in the town records as a cooper, he eventually settled on Hog (now Centre) Island. At the old homestead there George W. Cocks (1829-1922) found family papers which gave Joseph's 16 Mar. 1698 date of death (REC. 47:309; Cocks' Ludlam notes in Feake File, NYG&BS Manuscript Coll.). His widow Elizabeth executed a deed 6 Apr. 1698 (Oyster BD, Town Records, 2:193).
2 Peter S. Townsend, "Analytical and Chronological Genealogy of the Townsend Family in the United States of America," MS. volume at The New-York Historical Society, introduction dated 1827, p. 102. Papers of Dr. Townsend are also found at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Raynham Hall Museum, Oyster Bay Historical Society, and Townsend Society of America, including duplicates of at least some of the material in the NYHS volume.
3 [James C. and Charlotte A. Townsend,] A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend and Their Descendants (1865), p. 185.
4 Julia Parish Ludlam, A Genealogy the Descendants of William Ludlam of Southampton, L.I. (1896), p. 16.
5 George W. Cocks and John Cox, Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family, 2nd ed. (1914), p. 370; George W. Cocks, "Ludlum -- Correction," REC. 47(1916):308-11.
6 Josephine C. Frost, Underhill Genealogy, vols. 1-4 (1932), 2:86.
7 Although a primary source for the relationship is lacking, Henry2 Townsend's wife was almost certainly Deborah2 Underhill (Capt. John1). Frost says she was b. 1659, d. 1698, citing Quaker records, and m. Townsend 1677, but Deborah Townsend signed Quaker marriage certificates starting in 1676 (ibid., 2:63; William W. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 3 [1940], p. 320).
8 Cocks' letter in Feake file. Cocks had previously thought that it was Joseph3 Ludlam, Jr., who married Elizabeth Ryder, and Torrey subsequently had that same idea (see below).
9 The Cocks-Torrey and Torrey-Totten correspondence was given to NYG&BS by Mr. Torrey, and is included in the Feake file.
10 Clarence A. Torrey, "The Early Ludlam and Related Families of Oyster Bay, New York," TAG 14(1937):5-10.
11. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, "The Identity of Robert Feke," The Art Bulletin, 29(1947):201-07 (copy in Feake file).
12 Ibid., 203. Belknap indicated that he intended to give his notes on this matter to NYG&BS. Instead the notes are now at the Winterthur Museum, where they were examined in 1985 by Richard F. Reid, who kindly shared his findings with the present author.
13 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:64, also printed in A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, 88.
14 John Townsend had two sons (both named Thomas) baptized 1642 and 1645 while he was living in New Amsterdam (Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, NYG&BS Collections vol. 2 [1901], pp. 14, 19); His eldest son John was born before 1642 but Elizabeth was most likely born after 1645, say in 1647 or 1649. Her eldest son Peter first acted without the consent of his guardian or his father's overseers when he deeded land in Nov. 1690 (Oyster Beg, Town Records 1:602), and eldest daughter Elizabeth was married ca.1688 (ibid., 2:390), both suggesting births ca.1669-70.
15 Oyster Bay Town Records 1:290, also printed in Howland D. Ferrule, The Wright Family of Oysterbay (1923), pp. 71-72. Among overseers of his estate Gideon Wright named his brother-in-law James Townsend and cousin John Townsend at the Mill. James Townsend was Elizabeth's brother, but had also been married to Gideon's sister (now deceased). John2 Townsend at the Mill (Henry1) was a first cousin of Elizabeth but not a blood relation of Gideon so far as is known.
16 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:290, 315-16.
17 Gideon Wright left his wife his homestead, as long as she remained his widow. Numerous deeds by which Gideon's sons conveyed his lands mention neither the homestead nor their mother.
18 A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend 132; Perrine, Wright Family, 71; Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, History of the Lockwood Family in America (1889), pp. 17-18.
19 Belknap, "The Identity of Robert Feke," The Art Bulletin 29:203.
20 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:515.
21 Ibid., 3:137; Perrine, Wright Family, 143, 149.
22 For more than 100 years this Elizabeth has been identified as John Dickinson's daughter of that name, but a primary source for this identification cannot presently be found.
23 Ludlam, A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Ludlam, 17; Rodney Macdonough, Madonough-Hackstaff Ancestry (1901), p. 262.
24 Cocks' notes include a "?" before Sarah's name, but in the article (REC. 47:309) the `?" is missing, one of several such omissions (see below).
25. Frost, Underhill Genealogy, 2:86.
26 TAG 14:5-10. While no surviving primary source directly identifies Mrs. Clemence Feke as Joseph Ludlam's daughter, Torrey agreed with Cocks in this identification. It is supported by the 1722 will of Gideon Wright (see below), and Ludlam's mother also was named Clemence.
27 Oyster Bay Town Records, 5:554.
28 Perrine, Wright Family, 79.
29 Queens Co. Deeds liber C, wills section pp. 119-20, full text in Perrine, Wright Family, 77-78.
30 Oyster Bay Town Records, 1:390.
31 Cocks (in his notes and REC. 47:309) and Frost give this version, as does Mary Jane Layton Lippert, Underhill Burying Ground (Compiled for the Underhill Burying Ground, Inc., 1998), p. 13. An incorrect reading of the year of death as 1761 appeared in David H. and Francis J. Underhill, Underhill Bugling Ground (1926), p. 56 no. 46, and was copied by Torrey and also by George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family," REC. 87:109.
32 Both Cocks and Torrey were descended from Clemence, which explains their mutual interest in Elizabeth. Ironically, the resolution of Elizabeth's identity appears to have removed her from Cocks and Torrey's ancestor charts.
33 Peter L. Van Santvoord and Herbert S. Hale, "A Complete Transcript of Monuments in Private and Abandoned Cemeteries in Oyster Bay Town, North" (typescript, 1961, copy at NYG&BS), p. 12 The stone, made of "fine old black slate," was still clearly legible in 1961.
34 Cocks, Ludlam notes in Feake file; birthdate calculation does not reflect 1752 calendar change.
35 Ibid. The family record found by Cocks says she died 22 Aug. 1723.
36 A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, 232.
37 George Townsend also called his other great-aunt, Rose, by the name of her second husband, Hayden. He named a third great-aunt, Mary Wright, but she was actually the first cousin of his grandfather, being a daughter of Henry1.
38 Ludlam, A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Ludlam, 17, 41.
39 See note 34, above.
40 George W. Cocks and John Cox, Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family (published with The Cox Family in America, by Rev. Henry Miller Cox, 1912), p. 34.
41 Cocks and Cox, History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family, 2nd ed. (1914), 34 (corrected).
42 In the 1916 article (REC. 47:309) Cocks says "Dr. Peter Townsend says 'Joseph Ludlam's wife was a dau. of Henry (3rd) Townsend,'" but this appears to be a misreading of Townsend's statement.
43 Frost, Underhill Genealogy, 2:109.
44 TAG 14:6-7.
45 Mann, "William Ludlam of Southampton" (note 1, above), TAG 20:28.
46 Cocks, Ludlam notes in Feake file; REC. 47:309.
47 Frost, Underhill Genealogy, 2:109.
48 Perrin, Wright Family, 73; at pp. 73-74 Perrin gives the full text of Job Wright's will.
49 TAG 14:7.
50 Edwin R. Deats and Harry Macy, Jr., Underhill Genealogy, vols. 5-6 (1980), 5:64.
51 Belknap, "The Identity of Robert Feke," The Art Bulletin 29:203 n. 24.
52 Macdonough, Macdonougb-Hackstaff Ancestry, 314.
53 For the children of Joseph3 and Charles see Cocks, REC. 47:310-11.
54 He was born shortly before his father died in 1709 (A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, pp. 185,190). See also The Townsend Newsletter, Fall 1993, p. 2, and Winter 1999-2000, pp. 6-7,
55 Personal communications to the author, 1994, 1999.
56 A Memorial ofJohn, Henry, and Richard Townsend, p. 179, briefly mentions this family.
57 For example, Robert Townsend witnessed many deeds involving Charles Ludlam (Oyster Bay Town Record, 5:281, 554, 602; 6:398, 402).
58 Based on extensive research into the early Townsends of Dutchess and Putnam counties, the present author believes that Charles Townsend, b. say 1720, of Dutchess by 1747, was the son of Daniel3."
3. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), p. 243:
GERSHOM2 LOCKWOOD (Robert1), born Watertown MA 6 September 1643, died Greenwich CT 12 March 1719; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1659 Anne (?Millington) of Windsor CT, born probably England say 1639, died probably Greenwich before 1697, perhaps daughter of John1 and Sarah (Smith) Millington of Hartford CT; married (2) Oyster Bay LI 3 August 1697 Elizabeth Townsend, born say 1650, died after 1719, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, married (1) there about 1670 (birth 1671) Gideon Wright, born say 1648, died before 1697; married (3) 2 October 1716 Elizabeth (___). He was in Greenwich 1672 (Torrey 470 and 842).
Children surname LOCKWOOD:
By first wife Ann ?Millington:
i. GERSHOM, born Fairfield CT about 1659; married Mary (___ not Weed), born say 1661.
ii. HANNAH3, born probably Greenwich CT say 1666, died probably there 28 December 1745; married there about 1686 JOHN3 BURWELL, born Milford CT about 1653, died Greenwich 1 May 1690, son of JOHN2 (JOHN1) and Mary (___) BURWELL; married (2) there 1692 Thomas2 Hanford, born 18 July 1668, died 7 June 1743, son of Thomas1 and his second wife Mary2 (Miles) Hanford (see Burwell Chapter) (Torrey 125 and 341).
iiI. ABRAHAM, born probably Greenwich CT about 1669, died Warwick RI 1747; married Sarah Westcott, born say 1671.
(Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
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