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Joseph Lockwood was a Methodist circuit rider.

Lockwood was accepted on trial as an itinerant preacher by the Methodists' New York Conference in 1807. That year he was assigned to ride the Long Island Circuit, and the next the Middletown and Hartford Circuit. In 1809 he volunteered to go to Canada, and was assigned to the Bay of Quinte Circuit. He remained in Canada in 1810, but was transfered to the Yonge Street Circuit. During his year on the Yonge Street Circuit, membership in the Methodist Church decreased. He retired from circuit riding after 1810, working as a schoolteacher. He also worked as a local preacher, first along Yonge Street, and later in Belleville.