Eliphalet Lockwood Explained

Eliphalet Lockwood
Office:Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
Term Start:May 1790
Term End:May 1792[1]
Predecessor:Samuel Cook Silliman,
Thomas Belden
Alongside:Job Bartram,
Samuel Cook Silliman
Successor:Samuel Cook Silliman
Term Start2:October 1794
Term End2:May 1797
Predecessor2:Thomas Belden,
Samuel Comstock
Alongside2:Taylor Sherman,
Samuel Cook Silliman,
Samuel Comstock,
Matthew Marvin
Successor2:Matthew Marvin
John Cannon
Birth Date:1741
Birth Place:Norwalk, Connecticut
Death Date:1814
Death Place:Norwalk, Connecticut
Residence:Norwalk, Connecticut
Spouse:Susannah St. John
Children:Joseph
Battles:American Revolutionary War
Rank:Captain
Unit:First Company of Connecticut's Seventh Regiment
Commissary of Connecticut's Fifth Regiment
Coast Guard

Eliphalet Lockwood (1741 – 1814) was a nine-term member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May and October 1790, May and October 1791, October 1794, May and October 1795, May and October 1796. He served as a captain in the Connecticut Militia during the American Revolutionary War.

He was the son of Deacon Peter Lockwood and Mary Hawley.

At the beginning of the war, on July 12, 1775, Lockwood enlisted in the First Company of Colonel Charles Webb's Seventh Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged December 24, 1775.

In 1778, he was assistant commissary of issues of the Fifth Regiment.

On July 21, 1778, he gave his bond for $5000 as security to Henry Laurens, Esq., President of the Continental Congress or his successor in office, for faithfully executing the office and trust of an Assistant Commissary of Issues in the American Army.

Lockwood organized the first voluntary fire department in Norwalk.[2] His home was one of those lost when the British burned Norwalk.[2]

In 1780 captain of the coast guards.

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ul0EAAAAYAAJ Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gekgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mm4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2952%2C4950053 Services for Manice Lockwood Slated in Norwalk Thursday