SAMUEL LOCKE was born in Hampton, NH on 28 Jul 1740, the son of Samuel and Jerusha (Shaw) Locke. He died in Raymond, NH on 22 Oct 1818 [Hist. of Raymond, pg 332].

He was married first, on 14 Dec 1762 (presumably in the Parish of Brentwood, NH), to DEBORAH VEASEY/VEAZEY. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Deborah (Blake) Veazey, and died 17 Jan 1768, aged 35 [Annals of Brent Cong. Ch., pg 32]. He married secondly, on 14 Aug 1768 in Brentwood [also listed in Kensington as 15 Aug], to ESTHER DOW, likely the daughter of Ezekiel and Abigail (Robie) Dow [see Note 1]; she died after 1778. He married a third time [see Note 2], to SARAH "SALLY" JAMES, on 16 July 1797 in Kensington, NH. The latter wife was probably the "Widow Locke" who died in Nov., 1839, aged 81 [Hist. of Raymond, pg 338], so born ca. 1758.
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The residence of Samuel following his first marriage to Deborah was on the Veasey property in Brentwood, a portion of which was willed to her by father Benjamin Veasey. The land bordered on the cemetery of the same family name, located on Middle Road. His first wife is likely buried there, though no marked stone shows where. Second wife Esther may very well be there as well.  

I first find mention of Samuel Lock in the Brentwood Town Records on 7 Dec 1762 [Vol. 1, pg 166], when he and Jonathan Veasey appraised the value of a stray horse. His father in law, Benja Veasey Esq., was a Justice of the Peace at the time (and a selectman). The town records show him, in 1765 and 1766, voted in as a tything man. In 1771, he was a hayward, and was a juror in 1774. His name was among those who had voted against hiring someone, by way of taxes, to fill the constable position, at the 17 Mar 1777 town meeting. In 1776, he had signed the Association Test for Brentwood.

He was not seen in Brentwood records again until 1787, when he was sworn in as a hayward in March, and was a petit juror in Oct of same year. Perhaps he was living elsewhere, or he was serving in the war.

​The 1790 Brentwood census shows Samuel's household with 1 male under 16, 2 males 16+, and 2 females. In both the 1800 and 1810 censuses for Brentwood, Rockingham, NH, Samuel's household had only himself (aged 45+) and Sally (aged 45+), with all of his children now grown. On 11 Nov 1811, Samuel and son John Weare Locke purchased 110 acres in Raymond [as "Lock", Rock. Deed: Vol. 221, pg 12], they both being "of Brentwood" at the time. On the 23rd of Dec. of that same year, they both (with their wives relinquishing dowers) sold the 18-acre Brentwood property to neighbor Jabez Smith [Rock. Deed: vol. 197, pg 71], and probably then made their move to the new homestead in Raymond. 
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From the 1857 map of Rockingham County, N.H., the property where Samuel and his son had settled can be seen, marked as "S. Locke". This land (though some acreage had been sold off) was now in possession of Samuel Locke, the son of John W. Locke, and grandson of Samuel (b.1740). Samuel would sell his (Step) Grandmother, Sarah Locke, 19 acres down the road from the original land, in 1835. She sold (or mortgaged) the same to Daniel Bagley, seen as "D.B. Bagley" on map, who owned the lot after her death.

From the Brentwood Town Records, 1742-1841 (pg 720), the following family record can be found for Samuel Lock and his first two wives. There are only a couple of differences between this source and the Locke Genealogy. Samuel didn't have any children by his third wife Sally.

Children by first wife, Deborah (Veasey):
i. BETSEY LOCKE, born 2 Oct 1763; marr 1st, 16 Apr 1783, COFFIN PAGE; Marr 2nd, 13 Jan 1806, his brother NOAH PAGE.  
ii. BENJAMIN VEASEY LOCKE, b. 12 May 1765; d. 18 Jan 1810. Marr 27 Nov 1790, OLIVE ROBINSON
iii. DEBORAH LOCKE, b. 12 Jan 1768; d. 12 Sep 1848, Bridgewater, NH. Marr. ABRAHAM SMITH, on 26 Nov 1789 [Fremont Town Rec, Vol. 1, pg 561].
Children by 2nd wife Esther (Dow):
iv. LUCY LOCKE, b. 3 Jun 1769; d. 17 Jun 1769, aged 14 days
v. MIRIAM LOCKE, b. 23 May 1770; d. 26 Dec 1846, Danville, NH. Perhaps married first, a LOVERING [see Note 3]. Marr. (2nd?), as his 2nd wife, Capt. ELISHA HOOK, on 5 Apr 1809 in Kingston, NH [Locke Gen, pg 42]. Her will [Rock. Probate, file #15240] mentions dau. Sarah (marr. Nathaniel Webster) and 5 grandchildren. See Find a Grave entry in Old Meeting House Cem., Danville.
vi. LUCY LOCKE, b. 29 Oct 1771; Marr 15 Dec 1794 in Kingston, NH [both "of Brentwood"; NH VR], NICHOLAS MARSH.
vii. JOHN WEARE LOCKE, b. 26 Dec 1773; d. 11 Mar 1825 [Hist. of Raymond, pg. 334]. Marr 14 Oct 1798, ANNA JAMES [NH VR]. She died, as the "widow Locke", in April 1832 [Hist. of Raymond, pg. 336].
viii. SAMUEL LOCKE Jr, b. 23 Mar 1778; Marr 1st, SALLY GOODWIN; 2nd. ABIAH HARDING  

​Notes:
1. There is an Esther Dow, born 5 Apr 1734 in Kensington, NH, who was the dau. of Ezekiel and his 1st wife Abigail Robie. She was unmarried at the time he wrote his will on 17 Sept 1766 [NH State Papers, Vol. 38, pg 335-337]. Her older sister, Lucy Dow, was married to John Weare in 1760 (his will, dated 10/05/1773, was presented to court on 30 Dec '73; Rock Probate, file 4072). With Esther (Dow) Locke naming two of her children Lucy and John Weare, it looks probable that this is the correct person.  
2. NH VR has a Samuel Locke marrying Hannah Magoon on 25 Jan 1771 in Kensington. The History and Genealogy of Capt. John Locke, pg 42, lists this marriage as the third for the above Samuel Locke. Brentwood records shows differently. This marriage belongs to a different Samuel, likely the Samuel b. 1744, son of Samuel [Locke Gen, pg 23-24].
3. No marriage was found for a Miriam Lock(e) and a Loverin(g). Her dau. Sarah had Lovering for a maiden name when she married. Miriam was a LOCK, "single woman and spinster" of Poplin (Fremont), when she bought land in Hawke (Danville) from Elisha Hook on 3 Apr 1809 [Rock. Deed, vol. 195, pg 275]. She married him two days later [actual marr rec not yet found; not in Kingston VR book]. VR of Danville says this person was Miriam Jones, d/o Ephraim Jones.

Links:
Fullonton, Joseph. History of Raymond, N.H. Dover, NH: Morning Star Printing, c1875.
New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers: Vol. 30, pg 20 (Brentwood Assoc. Test)

​REMEMBER ALLERTON was my 10th Great-Grandmother, the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton, and was just a young child when she traveled on the Mayflower with her parents to America. She had been born in Leiden, Holland circa 1614-15.
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​Children [bapt. dates from NEHGR, Oct. 1942, pg 359-360; Salem VR]:
i. Rebecca, bapt. 7 Aug. 1639
ii. Mary, bapt. 14 Feb 1640/1
iii. Abigail, baqpt. 12 Jan 1644/5
iv. Elizabeth, bapt 7 Nov (or 3 Dec) 1646
v. Samuel, bapt. 19 Dec 1647
vi. Elizabeth, bapt. 30 Sept 1649
vii. Remember, bapt 12 (or 17) Sept 1652 - my 9th Great-Grandmother, who married Edward Woodman.

NOTES/LINKS:
Mayflower 2020 [on American Ancestors site]
Wicked Local: Marblehead. 2011 web article on Moses' 400th birthday, noting local tours around Marblehead. 
Allerton, Walter S. A History of the Allerton Family in the United States. Chicago, IL: Samuel Waters Allerton, c1900 [book on internet archive]. This source errs in mixing up Remember and her sister as husb. of Moses Maverick.
Roads, Samuel Jr. The History and Traditions of Marblehead. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1880. On Internet Archive [here]. Many mentions of Moses Maverick, Remember's husband.

Though it ended up being a very cold and wet trip, I took time during my vacation in October 2019, and made a day-trip up to Somerset County, Maine, where many of my maternal ancestors had lived and where many of their burial places can still be found.
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The first location was about three hours from home, and was the grave of my 5th Great-Grandmother, Abigail (Whitcomb) Steward. I had just recently found out that she was buried in St. Albans, in a plot with her son Randall Steward, so made this one a priority.

I went north from here, to visit a Civil War soldier from the 27th Maine, who had settled in Dexter, Maine and was buried there in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. I then traveled southwest to Athens, Maine, making a stop at Mount Rest Cemetery.

While I probably have direct ancestors buried there, including perhaps my 5th Great-Grandparents, Philip and Mary (Pike) Leavitt (and possibly my 4th Great-Grandparents), there are no stones to mark their resting places. I did photograph all of the Leavitt stones there, some two dozen cousins. I have placed them on a cemetery page at the National Association of Leavitt Families (NALF) website, which can be viewed at:
https://www.nalfinc.org/cemeteries---athens-maine.html

Next on my list was the Jewett Cemetery in Madison, on Rt 43 (Horsetail Hill Rd). Two sets of 6th Great Grandparents awaited me there: Henry and Sarah H. (Tuttle) Wyman, and James and Emma (Tarbell) Shattuck. Henry's daughter, Sarah Wyman, would marry Lovell Shattuck, the son of James and Emma.

Slightly north of this location is the South Solon Burial Ground. I have several relatives buried here without stones, including my 2nd Great Grandfather, Charles Leavitt and his parents, Joseph and Lucy Ann (Brown) Leavitt. Charles' wife is here, as are Lucy's parents, Joseph and Lucy A. (Shattuck) Brown.

​I drove west to get onto Rt 201, taking the road south back to Madison. I made a quick stop at Blackwell Cemetery to see another 27th Maine veteran (George A. Taylor, who also served w/ the 32nd ME). There were two other ancestors that I did need to by-pass, Sarah (Wyman) Shattuck in Solon Village Cemetery, and Thomas Steward in Sunset Cemetery, North Anson, as the day was passing by too quickly, and I REALLY NEEDED to reach that Dunkins in Skowhegan!

​My last stop was the Old Bloomfield (or Bloomfield Weston) Cemetery in Skowhegan. The earliest settlers of "Old Canaan" are buried here, the spot where the meeting house once stood.

For my Irish immigrant ancestors, on their holiday. While I've been able to document their lives following their arrival in the States, the place of origin is not yet known for several of them, so the research continues on.

One Irish branch settled in the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They were: 
My 2nd Great-Grandparents,
JOHN CONDON (b. abt March 1833 Cappoqiun, Waterford - d. 30 June 1884, Portsmouth, NH)
ELLEN GRIFFIN (abt 1834 IRE - 17 July 1894, Portsmouth, NH)

​My 3rd Great-Grandmother,
ELLEN (BOWLES) GRIFFIN (abt 1800 - 17 Dec 1889, Portsmouth, NH)

There is a stoneless plot at Calvary Cemetery in Portsmouth that bears the name of Condon and Mulligan on its concrete border, the latter being the married name of my 2nd Great-Aunt Margaret. Cemetery records do not show who lies in the other graves, but it is probably John and Ellen, and possibly her mother Ellen.

Gloucester, Massachusetts was where another line of my Irish families settled.
My 3rd Great-Grandparents,
DENNIS HESSIAN (11 Aug 1827  Bruff, Limerick - 17 Mar 1882, lost at sea, George's Bank)
MARY WALDRON (abt 1825 Killham, IRE (unk location) - 14 Sep 1857 Gloucester, MA)

The results from my autosomal DNA tests varied greatly when it came to calculating my Irish ethnicity. Some of the companies even combined Ireland and United Kingdom into a single percentage value. The highest return came from AncestryDNA, at 31%.
Note: these test numbers have changed over the years [see blog entry from Nov 2016: It's in my DNA]

DUNCAN STEWART was my 9th Great-Grandfather, and lived in the towns of Ipswich, Newbury, and Rowley, Massachusetts. He was living in Ipswich, in the service of George Hadley, when he married ANNE WINCHURST, also a servant, in 1654. They moved to Newbury, Mass in 1659, and resided there for 30 years before going to Rowley, MA [Stewart Clan Magazine, Dec 1923]. 

​A deposition by Duncan in 1698 said he was about 75 years old (so born ca 1623), though his death notice in 1717 (see below) claims it was thought he was about 100 yrs.

​​Duncan and Anne had 12 known children, as given in the Stewart Clan Magazine, Dec 1923 (Vol 2, pg 69), a clip of the page shown here:

Above image from the "Copy of the record of deaths of the First Church in Rowley, Mass" (pg 27)

The children (and bio) of Solomon and Martha, as given in the Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts [page 361: archive.org]

See also:
Worcester County Probate: Series A, Case #56063 "Solomon Steward", 1758
Stewart Clan Magazine, Jan 1924 (Vol 2, No. 7)

DANIEL STEWART/STEWARD
born 21 Nov 1734 in Salem, MA
died 2 Jun 1802 in Fitchburg, MA
Married in Lunenburg on 14 Mar 1757, MARY IRELAND

The children of Daniel and Mary (Ireland) Stewart [Stewart Clan Magazine, Vol 2, No 9, pg 82]

The following was printed in the article "Fitchburg Soldiers in the Revolution" [Proceedings of the Fitchburg Historical Society, Vol. 4, pg 230]. This service is the same as his son Daniel, and I do not see two of this name in the Mass Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution. Daniel senior's may be an error, as the son filed a pension and his service documented. 

Daniel is buried in the South Street Cemetery, Fitchburg, MA (Find a Grave memorial #51725531). Wife Mary (Ireland) went to Maine following her husband's death, to live with their son Daniel [Skowhegan on the Kenn, pg 1011], and is buried in the Old Bloomfield (now Bloomfield Weston) Cemetery (Find a Grave memorial #51726171).

JOHN STEWARD
​born 18 Aug 1765 in Lunenburg, MA
died: unknown
​Married ABIGAIL WHITCOMB in Norridgewock, Maine, 26 Feb 1787

From the Town Records of Canaan, Maine [Canaan VR 1776-1883, pg 19], the following family record of John and wife "Nabby" is found:

John and Abigail's children, as listed in the Stewart Clan Magazine [Jul 1924: Vol 3, No 1, pg 99], with a few spelling differences (incl Alaxus became "Alexis").

The 1840 census for Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, showing the John Steward household, with a male aged 70-80, a female aged 70-80, along with a female, aged 20-30, and a male, aged 5-10. This is surely John and Abigail, with daughter Malora (she didn't marry until 1841). The youngster could be a grandson

ALAXIS STEWARD
born 4 Dec 1812 in Canaan, Maine
died 15 Jul 1885 Otter Tail, MN
Married in Milburn, ME on 10 Mar 1835, CHARLOTTE (HARNDEN) REED

For Alaxis, who was my 4th Great-Grandfather, his story can be found in the following blogs I have previously written about him and his family:
- Alaxis Steward, son of John
- Alaxis Steward, from Maine to Minnesota