LOCKE FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH

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LOCKE FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH
Transcribed and contributed to Genealogy Trails by Janice Farnsworth - Farns10th@aol.com
Source: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson pub 1876,
Claremont, NH

LOCKE, Frederick
Frederick Locke was the son of Lieut. Joshua and Abi-gail (Maynard) Locke and was b. at Westboro, MA on June 6, 1758. The family removed to Sudbury, MA where they resided at commencement of the Rev. War. when the father and son espoused different sides. Joshua Locke had been Ensign under Gen. Winslow in Nova Scotia in 1755 and in Gen Braddock's army where he was wounded at the time of its defeat, and also a soldier under Major Robert Rogers the famous Ranger These services had great-ly attached him to the royal cause, and when the time came that sides must be taken, he still adhered to the cause of the King, while his son, Frederick and the other members of the family, quite as heartily espoused the cause of their country. In the battle of Staton Island the father and son met in the opposing armies and rec-cognized each other. The wife of Lieut. Locke returned to the house of her father in Westboro, where she soon after died, and he went to England. It is said that he was the only person by the name of LOCKE in America, who did not espouse the cause of independence.

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Frederick Locke had a great desire for a collegiate ed-ucation and fitted for college at Leiscester Academy. But feeling that his country needed his services, he cheerfully gave up his studies and entered the army in which he remained during nearly the entire war. After the war he became a civil engineer and surveyor, as his father had been before him.

Frederick Locke m. (1) in 1793, Anna Farwell, dau of Josiah and Lydia Farwell, and settled at Acworth. Their issue:
l. Henry Locke b. 1799 m. 1824 Artemesia Westcott. Their children:

l. Caroline Locke b. 1825 m. Ashbel M. Perry

2. Melinda Locke b. 1804 m. Horace Frost

His first wife dying, Frederick Locke removed to Charlestown, NH and m. (2) 1806 Lucy Graves of Washington, NH Their issue:

3. Frederick Locke Jr. b. 1807 m. 1826 Celia Meacham.

l. Frances Locke b. at Charlestown NH 1827

4. William G. Locke b. 1808 m. 183l Lovisa Williams
5. Catherine Locke b. 18l0 d. 18l3
6. Lucy Locke b. 1811 m. 1834 Ephraim C. Hull.
7. Anna Locke b. 1813 m. 1833 Thaddeus Graves
8. Sarah Locke b. 1815 m. 1836 Eliphat Belcher.
9. John H. Locke b. 1817 m. 1843 Lydia D. Wilkins dau of Sewell and Abigail (Dunham) Wilkins of
Woodstock, Vt. she b. 1820. Their children:

l. Helen Locke b. 1844 m. Chauncey L. Corbin
2. Frederick Locke b. 1846
3. Abby Locke b. 1848 d. 1848
4. Catherine Locke b. 1850
5. Ada Martha Locke b. 1852 m. George Ainsworth in 1873 and res: Weathersfield, Vt.s
6. Henry F. Locke b. 1853 d. 1864
7. John Howard Locke b. 1855
8. Sarah Louise Locke Fitch Belcher b. 1856
9. William Graves Locke b. 1858
10. Rachel Locke b. 18l9 m. William H. Richards in 1845
11. Mary J. Locke b. 182l m. Joel Ward in 1843
12. Benjamin F. Locke b. 1823 m. 1845 Sophronia Shaw of S. Weymouth, MA.