Daniel Lock
Born: About 1717 probably Massachusetts
Married: ?
Died: About 1800, Stoddard, New Hampshire
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Wife: Abigail Blood b.1721 The church was organized in South Chelmsford, Oct. 22, 1771, at the house of Daniel Lock, with nine male, fifteen female members, twenty-four in all. The names of the first members were: Edward Spaulding, Ebenezer Bailey, Mary White, Mary Hutchins, Rachel Adams, Mark White, Daniel Lock, John Spaulding, Nathan Crosby, Thomas Barnes, Hannah Spaulding, Elizabeth Bailey, Mary White, 2d, Rachel Longley, Elizabeth Barrett, Hannah Hardy, Abigail Lock, Susanna Spaulding, Susanna Chamberlain, Mercy Hutchins, Mary Crosby and Asaph Fletcher. These members were dismissed chiefly from the Second Church in Boston, and resided in the Towns of Chelmsford, Carlisle, Billerica, Acton, Westford and Tyngsborough. They were Calvinistic in doctrine. There is no record of any minister being present at the organization, or council of recognization. Thus the church starts out in true Baptist independence, recognizing no other head of leader than Christ
GAZETTEER OF CHESIRE COUNTY, NH 1736-1885:
Daniel Locke, about a hundred years ago (abt 1785), came from Chelmsford, Mass and made a home on a hillside covered with beech and maple near what was known for many years as Leominster Corner. were Enos, and five daughters. Enos married Anna Keyes, and the names of the sister's husbands were, Green, Adams, Wilson, and Hodgman. Enos settle on the old homestead, had eleven children, Enos, Daniel, Gilman, Francis, Abigial, Sally, Mary, Anna, lucy, and two twins that died in infancy. Wnos was noted for his great industry, and was not only a good farmer, but an excellent cooper, a mechanic in great request in those days. ....he and some of his sisters lived to great age. Of his children, there is but one living (1885), Francis, who became wealthy by farming before he was fifty, and is now one of the solid and much respected citizens of claremont. Enos, JR as he was called for nearly sixty years, was quite noted in his early manhood as a school-master and quite a number of the eminent men of the country took their first lessons in the "Art of Reading" and "Lindley Murray" from his, the most distinguished of them being Franklin Pierce, one of our presidents. He married Harriet Wilson and settled on the homestead, both of them lived to be over seventy. Their children were elbridge W, Susan w, and edwin r. Susan died early in womanhood and was known for her acts of charity....
Children:
Abigail Lock b.1747
Susannah Lock b.1749 m. Jacob Kemp
Mary Lock b.1751
Elizabeth Lock b.1754
Enos Lock b.1764 m. Anna Keyes
Rachel Lock m. Samuel Wilson
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