THE TOWN OF POUNDRIDGE. 1 1 9 



When peace was established with Great Britain, the country, through 

 the villainy of Col. Austin, was destitute of a county court house and 

 jail. The location of a public building is always calculated to excite the 

 interested feelings of different sections of the territory to be accommo- 

 dated, and it was so with Westchester county. Judge L. was one of the 

 committee to settle this vexed question of locality and ; through his in- 

 fluence principally, the present arrangement of court houses was effected, 

 which has proved to give general satisfaction for more than half a cen- 

 tury. 



About the year 1795, he retired from all public employment ; and spent 

 the remainder of his days in the circle of his family and friends, until his 

 death, July 29, 182 1, beloved and esteemed by all who knew him. 



From "Civil List," Ebenezer Lockwood, member of Second Provin- 

 cial Congress, 1775-6; Third Provincial Congress, 1776; Fourth Pro- 

 vfncial Congress, 1777, and Representative Convention; member of 

 Assembly, 1778-9, 1784-5, 1786, 1787 and 1788; first Judge Common 

 Pleas, March 15, 1791. 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



The pastor of the Presbyterian church is Rev. William Patterson, who 

 came to Poundridge and was installed in 1835. He married February 

 16, 1836, Sarah, daughter of Partridge Thatcher, and grand daughter of 

 Major Ebenezer Lockwood. 



Hon. Samuel Drake Lockwood. 



{From Batavia (Til.) Weekly News.) 



Hon Samuel Drake Lockwood was born in Poundridge on the 2d day 

 of August, 1789. 



When he was ten years old his father died, and his mother was left 

 with three small children, and with but slender means for their support. 

 By this event his plans for a liberal education were broken up, and he 

 was thrown very much upon his own resources. 



In 1S03, he went to Waterford, N. Y., to live with his uncle, Francis 

 Drake, a lawyer in that place, and remained in his family as errand boy 

 and law student until February, 181 1, when he was licensed to practise 

 law, and opened an office in Batavia, N. Y. The next year he removed 

 to Auburn and continued in the practise of law there until the Fall of 

 1818, holding during a part of. that time the office of Master in Chancery. 

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On the 19th of October, of that year he started for the West, and 

 reached Shawneetown, Illinois, December 15th, and afterwards removed 

 to Carmi, as a more favorable point for the practice of his profession. 



