James Locke, Lieutenant

1729 - 1808  (78 years)

• Name	James Locke
  Suffix	Lieutenant
  Born	20 Nov 1729	Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1749	Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Occupation	1767	Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  	Town Clerk and Chairman of Selectman
  Residence	1784	Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
  Died	19 Jan 1808	Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
  Buried	Four Corners Cemetery, Sullivan, Croydon, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States
  Person ID	I9302	Wyman
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2022

  
  

  Father	James Locke ,   b. 17 Jun 1703, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 1 Sep 1782, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Burnap ,   b. 1 May 1708, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 25 Nov 1785, New Ipswich, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States  (Age 77 years)
  Married	11 Jan 1727	Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F4473	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Farnsworth ,   b. 22 Jun 1734, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 27 Oct 1798, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States  (Age 64 years)
  Married	17 Dec 1753
  Children	1. Hannah Locke ,   b. 4 Apr 1754, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 1 Oct 1831, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States  (Age 77 years)   2. Jonas Locke ,   b. 3 Mar 1755, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 15 Mar 1755, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 0 years)   3. Samuel Locke ,   b. 3 Mar 1755, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 15 Mar 1755, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 0 years)   4. Lucretia Locke ,   b. 9 Apr 1756, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 6 Nov 1843, Temple, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States  (Age 87 years)   5. Urania Locke ,   b. 23 Jan 1758, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 27 May 1838, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 80 years)   6. James Locke ,   b. 11 Mar 1759, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. John Locke ,   b. 13 Jul 1761, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 22 Mar 1783, , , Saint John, Antigua and Barbuda  (Age 21 years)   8. Eunice Locke ,   b. 19 Jul 1763, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 6 Mar 1846, Gill, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 82 years)   9. Calvin Locke ,   b. 18 Jun 1765, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 12 Aug 1843, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States  (Age 78 years)   10. Samuel Barron Locke ,   b. 1 May 1767, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 12 Oct 1840, Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States  (Age 73 years)   11. Luther Locke ,   b. 10 Dec 1769, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 5 Jun 1792, Thetford Hill, Orange, Vermont, United States  (Age 22 years)   12. Lavinia Locke ,   b. 17 Sep 1771, Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   13. Sophia Locke ,   b. 11 Dec 1773, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 6 Dec 1868, Orange, Orange, Vermont, United States  (Age 94 years)
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2010
  Family ID	F4483	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Nov 1729 - Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Residence - 1749 - Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Occupation - Town Clerk and Chairman of Selectman - 1767 - Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Residence - 1784 - Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Died - 19 Jan 1808 - Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Buried - - Four Corners Cemetery, Sullivan, Croydon, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  'He prob. went with his father from Hopkinton to Ashby, (then Townsend,) in 1749. His name appears on a Committee 1763 - and in 1758 he was chosen an 'Informer of Deer.' In 1767, a portion of Townsend, Fitchburg and Ashburnham, was set off and incorporated by the name of Ashby; and at the first Town Meeting, Mh. 30, 1767, James Locke, Jr., was chosen Town Clerk and Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, to which offices he was frequently re-elected so long as he remained in town. May 26, 1769, he was chosen an Agent to confer with Agents from other towns, relative to a petition to the Gen. Court for a land tax on non-residents; and 1768 and '71, he was appointed an Agent to attend the Gen. Court to get a land tax laid on non-residents. In 1769, he was one of a committee to build a meeting-house, and whne completed in 1772, he was on a committee to 'dignify the pews,' His name appears on most of the important committees, and he was one of the leading men in the town until 1773, when he moved to Townsend, and was immediately, according to the custom of the times, 'warned out,' but at the first town meeting held after his removal, was chosen moderator and added to the Committee of Correspondence, which had been chosen the year previous. At a town meeting, June 19, 1775, 'Mr. Locke protested against the proceedings (of the town), the warrent coming out in the King's name.' In 1777, he was appointed 'to take acknowledgments and recognisances of debts,' a member of the Middlesex Convention at Concord, Aug. 1774, and of another, Oct. 1779, and of the State Convention to form a Constition the same year; and a Representative in the Legislature in 1783. Aug. 24, 1775, a warrant was issued by the Council to 'pay James Locke (pounds) 6.11.11., for clothing furnished the army.' During the time he resided at Ashby, he lived on land which he bought of his father, it being the southerly part of his father's homestead. His house, which has long since been removed, stood in the orchard south of the house that was afterwards built byn his brother Jonathan, and which is now standing. His residence at Townsend was about a mile north of the 'Harbor.' He did not labor on his farm for many years in consequence of an injury to one of his hands, but was a land surveyor for a long time. He moved form Townsend to Sullivan, N.H. about 1784, where he d. Jany. 19, 1808, a. 78. Although deprived of the advantages of an early education, his energy and perseverance enabled himto attain a position that gave him great influence with his townsmen, and he left a character behind him that his descendants would do well to emulate.'

  
  

• Sources

  [S1239] Farnsworth Memorial II, Moses S. Farnsworth, (1897, Revised 1974), p. 215 (Reliability: 3).