Family Migration XVII

The Benedict, Lockwood, Norton, Olmstead, Scofield and Webb families headline today's post.

Benedict: Thomas Benedict of Suffolk and Norfolk, England arrived in Beverly, Massachusetts Bay about 1639. Later he removed to the New Haven Colony [Connecticut], then to Long Island, New York [still property of New Haven]. The Benedicts finally settled in Norwalk, Connecticut. Daughter Mary married John Olmstead. England, Massachusetts, New Haven/Connecticut, NewYork/Connecticut, Connecticut

Lockwood: Brothers Edmund and Robert Lockwood arrived with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. They were natives of Suffolk, England. Edmund settled first at Watertown, then moved to New Towne [Cambridge] where he died in 1634. Namesake son, Edmund, lived with his Uncle Robert and moved to Stamford, Connecticut in 1646 and died there in 1692. Joseph Lockwood moved to Poundridge in Westchester Co., New York in 1746, where he passed four years later. Son James later settled at Courtlandt Manor also in Westchester County. Anna, James' daughter, married John St. John. They moved around New York before migrating to Warren Co., Ohio. England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Ohio

Norton: Little is know of Hugh Norton. He was probably English and resided in Stamford, Connecticut. His daughter, Mary, wed James Lockwood and went to New York. England?, Connecticut, New York

Olmstead: Richard, the immigrant, was from Essex, England. He settled at Mt. Wollaston [Quincy], then New Towne [Cambridge] in Massachusetts before moving on to Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut. Son John remained in Norwalk, but daughter Rebecca [Samuel] St. John moved on to New York. England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York 

Scofield: Richard Scofield, of Lancashire, arrived in New England in 1635. He lived at Watertown, Boston and Ipswich, Massachusetts before settling in Stamford. Daughter Hannah married Joseph Webb. England, Massachusetts, Connecticut

Webb: Englishman Richard Webb settled in the New Haven Colony [by 1643] then Stamford [1651] The Webbs remained in Stamford. The next two generations [Joseph and Margery] married there. England, New Haven/Connecticut

One more post to go on this topic, the St. John and Tinker families!!