The Lockwood family in North America began when two brothers left England for the colony of Governor Winthrop. Over a hundred years later, before the war between the American colonies and England, Benjamin was born in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After this war, he became a Loyalist refugee. Along with some family, his parents and others, he went first to the Maritime settlements of Canada. By 1794, he was at the \u201cHead-of-the-Lake, now known as Hamilton. Here he had met and married Keziah Springer, whose Loyalist father had been killed during the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were living in Glanford when lands to the west, near London, became available for settlers. In 1820, Benjamin again left what was familiar. Soon the family was making a new home in Caradoc. Left behind were the three oldest daughters, now married and beginning families of their own. Within a few years even these three families had made the move to the Caradoc area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the 19th of January 1857, the long life of Benjamin Lockwood came to a close. Still alive to mourn his passing were his wife, Keziah, and 124 descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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