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Eliphalet Lockwood

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Spouse(s)
  
Susannah St. John


Children
  
Joseph

Name
  
Eliphalet Lockwood

Preceded by
  
Samuel Cook Silliman, Thomas Belden

Preceded by
  
Thomas Belden, Samuel Comstock

Succeeded by
  
Matthew Marvin John Cannon

Died
  
1814, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

Residence
  
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

Battles and wars
  
American Revolutionary War

Succeeded by
  
Samuel Cook Silliman

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 Eliphalet Lockwood and Mary Gold.

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. His home was one of those lost when the British burned Norwalk.

In 1780 captain of the coast guards.

References

Eliphalet Lockwood Wikipedia