Brief Life History of Ruhamah
When Ruhamah Lockwood was born on 22 January 1765, in Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States, her father, Ebenezer Lockwood Sr. - Major - Esq., was 27 and her mother, Hannah, Lockwood, Smith, was 22. She married Samuel Reed about 1785, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 3 October 1825, in Long Island, New York, United States, at the age of 60.
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- New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, U.S., United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949
- U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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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.
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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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