Display Patriot - P-237643 - Vincent LOCKERMAN/LOOCKERMAN
Vincent LOCKERMAN/LOOCKERMAN
SAR Patriot #:
P-237643
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State of Service: DE
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Vincent Loockerman was born and raised in the Dover area of Delaware. After his father Nicholas passed away in 1771, he would build his mercantile busienss from the wealth that was left him and put great value in the finer items of the day. By 1774, he lived in the Dover's political and social center for more than 25 years, successfully managed plantations and a mercantile business and married twice. He was smart and wealthy. Vincent accumulated more than 4000 acrea of land in Kent County comprising of 5 plantations that he rented to tenant farmers. These farmers would pay him in grain or money and his family would continue to make a living from the rents charged.
During the Revolution, Vincent Sr. was a smart and very wealth man that made his wealth from larger cities and foreign countries. It was up to him to try to protect what he had worked for all his life. He haad to weigh the significiant economic consequences of cutting ties with England and its trade. Vincent served in the Delaware House of Assembly from 1770-1772. He saw that prominent politicians and landowners lost all of thier property and was forced to flee. One such person was Thomas Robinson after a letter written to a friend was published in a PA newspaper. His property was confiscated. Vincent seemed to be very slow to move in one direction or the other. As the years when on, he was supportive of the Revolution and even was involved in the procurement of military accoutrements. As early as July of 1775, he had a hand in choosing the
Standard Colours [sic]" when Caesar Rodney asked his brother in Dover to "assure Mr. Loockerman they will be ellegant and cleaver [sic]." Two years later, with the Delaware Reginment in need of new clothing, he lent the State of Delaware L750.
In 1785, Vincent Sr. died and was buried in the cemetery at Christ Episcopal Church in Dover.
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