Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Lockwood was born on 27 October 1771, in Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States, his father, Ebenezer Lockwood Sr. - Major - Esq., was 34 and his mother, Hannah, Lockwood, Smith, was 29. He married Sarah Maria Olmstead about 1792, in Pound Ridge, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 27 July 1811, in his hometown, at the age of 39.
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one of three places called Lockwood, one in Yorkshire, one in North Yorkshire and another in Staffordshire. The Yorkshire and Staffordshire placenames both derive from Old English loc ‘lock, enclosure, fold’ + wudu ‘wood’. The North Yorkshire placename derives from Old English loc + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’. The surname appears to have migrated to East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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