THIS CHAPTER STILL UNDER CONSTRUCION
CHAPTER FIVE . THE LOCKWOOD LINE
Branches: Lockwood, Sellick.
The Lockwood and Mabie lines are not much farther along than when ATB first wrote about them. The first Lockwood ancestor that we are sure of is still John. Like ATB, we do not believe that his father was Henry Lockwood of Stamford. At present it is believed that his father was Sylvanus Lockwood; his mother was possibly Deborah Sellick.
SYLVANUS LOCKWOOD is listed in Pelletreau's History of Putnam County in a list of names found in Phillipston (which then included Putnam Valley)orecords between 1772 and 1782. He may have had two wives, Deborah Sellick and Laura Dan. He is also on the list for those who had land bounty rights from the Seventh Regiment of the Dutchess County, New York, Militia ,as is Peter Maybee. No probate, gravestone or land records have been found for him. He was listed in the 1790 census in Phillipstown, with one male over 16, three males under 16, and five females. In the 1800 Dutchess County census, he is listed as being over 45, with a female over 45 (thus both born before 1755), with two males 16-26, one male 10-16, three girls 10-16 , and two girls under 10. If we assume that Holden and Lockwood took a group of siblings and attributed them to Henry instead of Sylvanus, we can postulate the children of Silvanus as: Sellick, Dilevan, John, Jane, Mary, Deborah and Martha. That would give the three boys and four girls attributed to Sylvaus in 1790; the fifth girl listed in 1800 either died or was a servant. If we take the birth dates of John and Delevan as shown on their tombstones by their age at death, we can postulate that John was the eldest child and Delevan one of the youngest.
Assembling all the data, I have constructed a possible list of the children of Sylvanus, with the sources shown in italics.
Children of Sylvenus:1. i. JOHN LOCKWOOD, b. ca. November 1772; died Mar.30 1843, aged 70 years 5 mo. Tombstone in St. Peter's, Peekskill.
ii. SELLICK LOCKWOOD, b. ca. 1774.
iii. JANE LOCKWOOD, b. ca. 1784. (b. 4 Aug. 1784 to Sylvenus and Laura Ann Dan, m. Abraham O'Dell. Couch file.)
iv. MARY LOCKWOOD, b. ca. 1786. She married Moses Knapp. Holden and Lockwood.
v. DELAVAN LOCKWOOD, b. ca. Jan. 1787; died Sept 3, 1847, aged 60 yr.9 mo. Tombstone in St. Peter's churchyard, Peeekskill. He married Nancy Oakes, daughter of Solomon. Couch file.
vi. (?) DAUGHTER b. ca. 1789.
vii. DEBORAH LOCKWOOD, b. ca.1790. She married a German H and L.
viii. MARTHA LOCKWOOD, b. ca.1792.
1. JOHN1 LOCKWOOD was born about 1772 and was married about 1805 to BATHSHEBA MABIE at Yorktown, New York, they lived in Shrub Oak, New York. He died 30 March 1843 and was buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, Cortlandtville, NY, where his tombstone says he was aged 70 years and 5 months, which would make him born in 1772. (Horton). According to the Descendants of Robert Lockwood written by Holden and Lockwood in 1889 ( which is known for its inaccuracies) this John was the son of Henry Lockwood and Deborah Selleck; according to the historian Frederick Couch of Peekskill ("one of the best known authorities and writers of local history, genealogy and biography in Westchester County," says the Field Lubrary at Peekskill ) he was the son of Sylvanus Lockwood and Deborah Sellick. There are no records to correspond with either couple, and there seem to be age discrepancies with each. To date, it has been impossible to identify John's parents, but all authorities agree on his children. More detail on the Lockwood problem is given on the excellent web page of Susan Godlewski.
On 3 May 1835, John bought a small piece of land, in Phillipstown, Putnam Valley, of one and one-half acres, from John Berry. This was dispersed by the rest of the children to his son Elijah after the death of Bathsheba. Until then it is believed he was a tenant famer elsewhere in Putnam Valley.
Children of John and Bathsheba:i. HANNAH2 LOCKWOOD, m. JEREMIAH OGDEN of Poughkeepsie.
ii. ABRAHAM LOCKWOOD, b. ca. 1814 m .MARIA LOUNSBURY.
iii. HESTER ANN LOCKWOOD, m. DANIEL FIELDS.
iv. MARY LOCKWOOD, m. JOHN JACOB. WAGNER.
v. AMANDA LOCKWOOD, m. DANIEL OGDEN.
2. vi. JOHN ASHLEY LOCKWOOD, b. ca. 1821
vii. ELIZABETH LOCKWOOD, m. DAVID BIRDSALL.
viii. JANE LOCKWOOD, m. JOHN MUNSTERMAN.
ix. ELIJAH LEE LOCKWOOD ,b. May 1, 1825; m. (1) EMILY BIRDSALL; m.(2) ELIZABETH BIRDSALL.
x:SARAH.LOCKWOOD.
2. JOHN ASHLEY2 (John1) LOCKWOOD was born in Shrub Oak, New York about 1821, and died in Cumberland County, Tennessee 9 Mar 1895. He married in New York City 4 June 1844 , HANNAH ELIZABETH MOTT, who was born about 1828 and died in Mt. Vernon, NY 1902, daughter of Gilbert and Elizabeth ( Hawxhurst) Mott.
John left Shrub Oak as a young man to make his fortune in the City. He and Hannah were married by the Reverend Geissenhainer; he a grocer aged 23 years residing at 76 Clinton Street, and she, aged 16, residence 117 Essex Street. (Manuscript department, NY Historical Society). Later he branched out into a commission dry goods business on Canal Street, and had two mills for the making of linings. Although he was quite sucessful in business, making enough to get all his children well started on their educations, he was restless and wanted to make a fortune. In 1859 he bought a 17 acre estate near Peekskill for $1750 (Deed). In 1867 he sold this to his mother in law, Elizabeth Mott for $2000; she sold this back to her daughter Hannah Elizabeth in 1876. After the Civil War he decided to try something completely new,.and hearing that minerals had been discovered in the mountains of Tennessee, he decided to invest in these. So he sold his large estate near Peekskill, set up his wife and younger children in New York, and with his eldest son, John Junior and set off for Tennessee. As ATB put it:
Things went from bad to worse in the mountains, the railroad they had counted on left therm many miles in the lurch and he was never able to return to New York with the fortune he had dreamed of. He died down there March 9, 1895 and came home finally to New York only to be buried in Greenwood.
Curious behavior, that; mid-life crisis? It is not known to us whether or not he returned to visit his family during the last 20 years of his life; relations do not appear to have been broken off, his children married and went about their own lives. ATB said he "visited his descendants down there in 1911, and had a good time with uncle Johnny, then an old man, prospecting for coal." The details of his children given below are taken from the family Bible of William Jones, owned by Mrs. Haviland T. Wessel; it is on record with the the New York DAR.
Children of John Ashley and Hanna:i.LAVINIA DELEPHINE LOCKWOOD, b. 22 April 1845; m. BRADFORD JONES.
ii. JOHN ALONZO LOCKWOOD., b. 7 March 1847; m. in Tennessee ca. 1874 ELIZABETH (Lizzie). He stayed in Tennessee, raising his family, and died there.
iii. FRANK LOCKWOOD, b. 13 Jan. 1849; d. 13 Jan 1850, after 10 days of convulsions.
iv. MARY ELIZABETH LOCKWOOD, b. 2 March 1851, d. 1853.
v. ISABELLE ADELAIDE LOCKWOOD, b. 20 July 1852.
vi. INEZ BATHSHEBA LOCKWOOD, b. 2 Sept. 1853; m. HENRY JACKSON. "In the city Feb. 22nd, at the house of her father-in-law L.E. Jackson, after a brief illness, Inez B. Lockwood, wife of Henry W. Jackson, in the 25th year of her age. Called most unexpectedly in the full flush of health and vigor, to resign her life. She with great calmness gave her parting counsel to her husband and child and the members of the family circle and sang as the subsatance of her faith and hope "Jesus, lover of my soul". This hymn and another favoite, "Beyond the Smiling and the weeping I shall be soon" were sung at her funeral.
vii. FRANK LOCKWOOD, b.29 March 1855; m. 1881. BETTIE EVANS.
viii. ANNIE ELIZABETH LOCKWOOD, b. 15 Aug. 1856; d. 26 Aug. 1856.
ix. FREDERICK GILBERT LOCKWOOD, b. 27 March 1858 ; m. (1) CARRIE DECKER; m (2) 1893 CHARLOTTE OPHELIA (PHIPHE) JONES.
3 . x JESSIE IONIA HELENA THEODORA LOCKWOOD, b. 3 Feb.1860.
xi. HARRY C. LOCKWOOD, b. 21 July 1861, m. 1894 EMMA RICE.
xii. LOUIS EDGAR LOCKWOOD,, b. 20 March 1863.
xiii. GEORGE LEO LE GRAND, b. 16 June 1865.
xiv. WALTON LEROY, b. 2 Nov. 1869.
3. JESSIE4 IONA THEODORA (John Ashley3, John2, Silvanus1) LOCKWOOD was born in New York 3 February 1860, and died there 20 January 1945, daughter of John Ashley and Hannah Elizabeth (Mott) Lockwood. She married in New York ARCHIBALD TANNER BANNING, Sr.
She was one of the leaders of the Women's Rebublican group. She also opened up her home to the patients of the Mount Vernon Hospital, when the Hospital was closed temporarily.
