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Subject: [GenConnecticut-L] LOCKWOOD/BAXTER possibility
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:08:03 EDT

In a message dated 7/20/00 9:03:17 AM,
writes:

<< I have already gotten some good leads, and I thank those who sent them.

Is anyone doing the surname of LOCKWOOD genealogy in CT who might have a
female from the Lockwood family who married a BAXTER from Westchester, CT,
in the mid 1700's? Trying to trace ancestry of LOCKWOOD BAXTER with the
possibility that his maternal roots are from the surname LOCKWOOD in CT.
Think that is where he received his given name of LOCKWOOD. A LOCKWOOD
BAXTER is listed on what appear to be Patriot muster rolls 1775-83,
Ancestry.com, but we have him in Nova Scotia taking a land grant which
would make him a Loyalist. This does not make sense. Any ideas will be
greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jean >>

Hello, Jean

I don't have anything conclusive, but LOCKWOOD is one of my core families of
Greenwich, Fairfield county CT. My lines stayed put in the area with the last
of my clan living there in the mid-1800s--so the core families weave in and
out as cousins over and over.

While the original 1889 LOCKWOOD genealogy compiled by Lockwood and Holden
was declared a "genealogical atrocity" in 1930 by Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG,
31:222 ff.), an attempt to clarify and untangle one branch of the LOCKWOOD
line was accomplished in 1978 by Harriet Woodbridge Hodges, C.G. Ms. Hodges
published "Some Descendants of Edmund LOCKWOOD (1594-1635) of Cambridge,
Massachusetts and his son, Edmund LOCKWOOD (c. 1594-1693) of Stamford,
Connecticut."

On page 6 is a chart showing (among other names) :

ROBERT 1 LOCKWOOD
Son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood
bp. 18 Jan 1600 at Combs, co. Suffolk, England.
d. 1658 at Fairfield Connecticut
m. Susannah, prob. daughter of Richard Norman of Salem, Mass.

[note: see Anderson, Robert Charles, FASG. "The Great Migration Begins:
1620-1633," (3 vols. pub. 1995) p. 1335, where Susanna is listed as Richard
Norman's third child, b. say 1615, m. by 1635 to Robert Lockwood "who refused
a Salem houselot grant "beyond his father Norman's" (Salem Town Records
1:47)--mp]

chart, continued:
Children:
1. Jonathan 2
b. 10 Sep 1634
Watertown MA
d. 12 May 1688
Greenwich, CT
m. Mary Ferris
who 2/m. 1696
Thomas Merritt.

Ch.
Robert, d. 1732/3
m. Mary ____
Jonathan, d.s.p.
1689
Joseph
n.f.i
Abigail, m. Thomas? BAXTER
Still John, d. 1757 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< My LINE
m. ___________

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I'm sorry that I don't have anything more on this supposed (and possibly
hypothetical BAXTER connection), but perhaps contacting the Historical
Society of the Town of Greenwich might help. I believe it was last year that
they produced an exhibition on the Revolutionary War in colonial Greenwich.
Perhaps some of the records collected there, in order to prepare the exhibit,
might have some clue to your Baxter Lockwood. Also, the Stamford Genealogical
Society Bulletin published some of Hodge's manuscripts on the Lockwood
Genealogy prior to her 1978 publication--so a check of their records might
have something--just a thought.

Good luck! Maureen Mead Pond

CTGenWeb CC: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi

Mead*, Anderson, Bush, Ferris, Feake, Gray, Hoyt, Hobby, Husted, Holmes,
Hardy, Knapp, Lyon, Lockwood, Mills, Mead, Norman, Palmer, Potter (or
Brown?), Rundle, Smith, Waterbury. Greenwich, Stamford, Fairfield Co. CT
1640-1840.

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