Dr. Jesse Fayette Locke (1810-1861).per
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Dr. Jesse Fayette Locke (1810-1861).per
Description
- Ancestry Link
- 1810-07-21 in Hollis Center, Maine.
- 1830 Limerick School in Biddeford Me
- 1833 Main Temperance Society
- 1834 College in Maine
- 1834 Johnsons arrive according to Hannah obit
- 1837-11-15 Marries Mehitable Hill in Lyman, Maine (Ancestry.com)
- 1837-12-04 Marries Mehitable Green Hill in Tonawanda (Locke genealogy book on Ancestry.con)
- 1838 First “resident physician of Tonawanda...Dr. Locke came about (History of City of Buffalo and Erie County p. 419).
- 1840 Birth of daughter Marian in NY NY? (Ancestry)
- 1843-02 A J. F. Locke is listed in the Emancipator and Free American treasurer’s report, published March 9, 1843, as collecting subscriptions at Charlestown, Massachusetts; if this is the same Jesse F. Locke later associated with Wheatfield, it would place him in direct financial support of an abolitionist newspaper. (Vol 7 Issue 46)
- 1843-03-04 Whips a man in tavern for playing possum
- 1844 First appearance in land records: Jesse F. Locke and Jacob Hug, from Thomas Bolton “of Cleveland” & Wife, Lot 10 124 acres - for $700. “The equal undivided one half…of Lot 10.” So they are partners.
- 1844 Helps get local Presbyterian worship off the ground with Payne
- 1847-11-23 Buys Lot 10 from Ephraim Rolles
- 1848 Birth of daughter Pamelia in NT
- 1850-09ish Birth of Son Jesse F. Locke Jr. (drowns)
- 1852-09-18 Wife Mehitable Green Hill dies
- 1853-11-02 Sells some land to John Chadwick (Chadwick pays $500 for a 31-acre strip in center of Lot 10 from its north boundary to Tonawanda Creek (not Johnsons' land)
- 1859 Marries Welsh-born Mary Gwynne, later Rowland
- 1861-03-12 Death
- 1861-1865 Surrugate court docs
Date
1810
Collection
Citation
“Dr. Jesse Fayette Locke (1810-1861).per,” North Tonawanda History, accessed May 21, 2026, https://nthistory.com/items/show/4898.