The Lockwood family originally derived from a place of the name in Staffordshire, England, and are probably descended from Edmund Lockwood, a freeman of Massachusetts in 1631, who subsequently removed to Connecticut with Messrs. Hooker and Stone.

Ezra Lockwood, Esq., of Poundridge, was for many years a judge of the late court of common pleas, in this county. Of this family is the Hon. Albert Lockwood, present judge of the county, and General Munson L Lockwood, county clerk.

During the contest between England and the colonies., the inhabitants of Poundridge, generally, appear to have taken a decided stand in fovor of liberty. The following letter from the committee of public safety, to the Hon. Provincial Congress, is found ia the acts of the latter body.

Poundridge, J oth of Oct. 1776«

Honored Sirs :

" We the sub-committee of Poundridge, in Westchester County, beg leave to inform your Honors, that we are apprehensive that there is danger of our prisoners leaving us and joining the ministerial army, as we are not above nine or ten miles from the water where the sound is full of the ministerial ships and tenders. One of our number is already gone to Long Island, and numbers are gone from other places, who are no doubt now with the ministerial army. There are disaffected persons daily going over to

i^ Major Lockwood was also a member of the convention that framed t\\Q first constitution of the state, and a judge of the county in 1778.