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NORWALK.
 

OF   JOSEPH   LOCKWOOD'st.   DESCENT.

Joseph,'*'- son of Ephraim Lockwood, the settler, had, as has been previously noted,
one of the ample and arable home properties of ancient times.    It embraced the entire
south front on the present Westport road from the Cameron corner (N. E. corner of New¬
town Avenue and the Westport road) to the Fairfield County Children's  Home,  and the
lot extended north quite towards the North  Centre School house of to-day.     The earl)'
Lockwoods made sage lands-choice, and  some of the later members of the family have
acted as wisely.    The fine W. B. E. Lockwood  North Avenue and  France  Street home,
garden and meadow grounds is convincing proof of the  statement.     On   the  prominent
Newtown Avenue site, now occupied by the old  Cameron  building, was, it is probable,
born, Joseph,"'^- son of Joseph'"'- and  Mary Wood  Lockwood.     His  Norwalk father and
Stamford mother brought up the lad to diligence and until he became of age to choose a
wife, whom he found in  Huntington, Long Island.     The young Joseph"''- was obliged to
make a home for himself as his father's house fell to his  (Joseph  Lockwood"''-) brother
Isaac, and frorn Isaac it went to Isaac's soldier son, Hezekiah (see note page 291).     Jos¬
eph"''- consequently went to "Sticky Plain," since " Pudding Lane," now Main Street, and
was the owner of a- large slice of that level  and well  laying land, through  a portion of
which the Centre Avenue of 1896 has been cut.    Joseph""^- and his  Rogers wife had ten
children, the oldest of whom Ebenezer,' married Ala)- 22,  1776, Alar)-, baptized Aug. 20,
1758, daughter of Lieutenant Nathan and Martha" (Couch) Godfrey, of Fairfield, and had
twelve children, the oldest of whom, Benjamin, born Sept. 18, 1777, married Feb. 9, 1803,
Elizabeth, daughter of Jarvis and  Hannah (Meeker)  Kellogg, and  had  five children, the
youngest of whom, LeGrand, (see page 188 and note page 213) born Aug.  14, 1820, mar¬
ried Anna Loufsa, born Aug. 17,  1823, daughter of Seth W^illiston and Fanny (Benedict)
Benedict, which Seth W, Benedict, a lineal descendant of Thomas,'*'-founder and father
of all the Benedicts of this town, was a Norwalk and  New York City resident of intelli¬
gence, integrit)- and influence.     He was at one time proprietor of the old and   honored
Nor7oalk Gazette, and his ancestral home, which it was his pleasure often   to visit, and
which his Lockwood son-in-law elected for the erection of his elegant country seat (see
page 213) holds his name in esteem.
 

There were three other own brothers (Samuel,
Abraham and Charles) of Rev. William Jarvis and
his four sisters.

'Sarah, sister of Ebenezer Lockwood, married
Ozias,.^t. (Capt.) boi-n Jan. 29, 1737, son of Matthew
and Elizabeth (Clark) Marvin. Mrs. Ozias Marvin'st.
was a daughter of Geo. and Deborah (Gold) Clark.
l).-borah Gold was a daughter of Nathan Gold, of
Fairfield. She married Ensij^n Geo., son of Geo.'st-
and  Mary Clark, of Milf,u-d, 1639.     Matthew Marvin
 

was the son of Samuel, w-ho was the son of Mat¬
thew,^J- who was the son of Matthew Marvin, the set¬
tler. Joseph Lockwood Marvin, born Dec. 31, 1772,
was the son of Capt. Ozias and Sarah (Lockwood)
Marvin. His son William, born Nov. 20, 1804, (see
page 152) was the father of Josiah R. and William E.
Marvin, of East Norwalk,^ 1896.

^This mother-in-law of Ebenezer Lockwood and
grandmother of Legrand Lockwood, of Norwalk, died
May 31, 1761, and her husband  married, second, the