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EPHRAI.M    LOCKWOOD.

On the crest of the Earle's Hill of 1896, and embracing the structure known as the
Earle summer residence, stood the home-lot of, first, Jonathan Alarsh, the early Xorwalk
miller, and after Jan. 30, 1664, the hearthstone of Ephraim Lockwood. Air. Alarsh seems
to have hailed from New Haven. He " ran," probably with intermittent success, Norwalk's
original mill, but does not appear to have long been an incumbent of the position. Of his
Norwalk residence there is no extended record. He, it is quite possible, removed, anon,
from the town and " left no sign." He, in 1664, sold a portion of his property, his house
and about one acre, to Ephraim Lockwood, who thenceforth tenanted the property, and
there, the next year, founded the cradle of all the Xorwalk Lockwoods.

Ephraim,' born Dec. i, 1641, son of Robert Lockwood, of Watertown, Alass., mar¬
ried, in  Norwalk, June 8,  1665, Alercie, daughter of ATatthias  St. John, settler, and  had :
John, born Alarch 19,   1666.
Daniel, born .Aug.  13,  1668.
vSarah, born Nov. 3,  1670, (Airs. John Platt-^i.
P^phraim, born Ala)- i,  1673, (died -'before he came of age")
P^liphalet,'-'- born Feb. 27,  1675.
Joseph,""- born April i, 1680,
James,'"'- born .\pril 21, 1683.'
 

'Ephraim Lockwood was the fifth child and
fourth son of Robert and Susanna Lockwood, of
Watertown, Mass., in 1630, and of Fairfield, Conn.,
in 1646. His father died in Fairfield, in 1658, and his
mother, who married, second, Jeff rey Ferris, of Green¬
wich, Conn., died in this latter town, Dec. 23, 1660.

-^Jolin Platt,-''• who married. May 1695, ■'^arah,
daughter of Ephraim Lockwood, was born June ist,
1664, and was the son of John'st. „nd Hannah (Clark)
Platt, which John Platt'»t- was the son of Richard
Platt,■>'• of Milford, and his wife (Mrs. John Platt'st.)
was the daughter of George Clark, of Milford.

,?James Lockwood'st. was the founder of the so-
called "Lockwood District," of New Canaan. His
father-in-law. .Samuel Smith, owned, in 1722-3, ninety
acres on the south part, east side, of Smiths Ridge,
which parcel was bounded, east, by land of his son-
in-law, James Lockwood'st. (Norwalk Town Records,
\'ol. \'). James Lockwood and Lydia Smith were
married Oct. 23, 1707. Sam'l. Smith married Rachel,
born Dec. 30, 1649, daughter of Matthewist. and Eliz¬
abeth Marvin, so that Mrs. James Lockwood'st- was a
grand-daughter of the Norwalk Marvin progenitor.
'J'he children of James Lockwood'^'- were:

Lvdia, born Dec.  17. 1710. died June iS, 1712.
 

Hannah, born Oct. 2^, 1713-

James,-^'1. (Rev.) hum Dec. 20. 1714.

Lydia,2<i. born Jan 10, 1716-17.

Job. Is'- born July 13, 1718, died May 30, 1761.

John, born Feb. 8, 1719-21).

Samuel, (Rev.) born Nov. 30, 1721.
Hannah, second child of James Lockwood,i-'-
married Dr. L'riah Rogers (see page 179). Her bro
ther James, married, Nov. 4, 1742, Mar\ , born Aug.
iS, 1721, daughter of Rev. Moses and Martha Dickin¬
son, of Norwalk, and had six sons and six daughters.
This family lived in Wethersfield. Saml., the young¬
est child of James Lockwood,'st. uas also a clergv-
man. He married Annie, daughter of Hezekiah and
.\nne (Stillman) May. of Wethersfield, but had no
children of his own. His foster son was William
(Rev.), son of Re\. James Lockwood, his brother.
Job Lockwood,'St. born 1718, son of James,ist. had a
son, James, born Oct. 25, 1746, died Oct. 30, 1833,
who married, Dec. 30, 1767, Phoebe, born June 21,
1748, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca ( Rogers )
Lockwood, and had three children, Job, born Sept.
13, 1768, James, born May i, 1770, and .Asa. born Feb.
10, 1772. The last two died young, but Job lived to
marrv, Jan.   12.   I7<)i.  Sarah   Hickox,  and   had   three