Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Lockwood was born on 4 April 1762, in Pound Ridge, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States, her father, Ebenezer Lockwood Sr. - Major - Esq., was 25 and her mother, Hannah, Lockwood, Smith, was 19. She married Alsop Hunt on 16 February 1777. She died on 14 April 1848, in Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States.
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- Betsee Lockwood, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
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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.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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