George Locksley

George Locksley is one of the most mysterious men in the entire history of Missituk University. Locksley served as chairman of the Board of Trustees for the newly created Missituk Liberal College from 1765 to 1768, and that is all that is really known of him. An extensive search of University documents in the Tabularium offers some biographical details for him—he came to New Jerusalem from Boston, although he claimed birth in Philadelphia. He was said in a letter to have served as a loyal hand on many of Jeremiah Orne voyages, and was called a "lifelong friend" of the sea captain in Orne’s will.
The task of creating the physical college, library, and museum fell to two trustees, Francis Derby and George Locksley. Orne and Derby had parallel careers, first as Salem sea captains and then in working to establish New Jerusalem as a major seaport for the West Indies trade. Locksley was said to have served under both men at different times in his life.
Derby and Locksley had good reputations, and the vision of a proper New England school capable of graduating ministers, teachers, and lawyers appealed to the earnest sensibilities of the town. Orne had long associated with Derby. Of Locksley less was known, though the man was a tireless worker. He mixed little with New Jerusalem society, and he disappeared shortly after assuming trusteeship, a matter hushed up without comment by the University.
During Locksley’s tenure at Missituk he stayed in a boarding house on High Street and supposedly left New Jerusalem as soon as the new college was up and running.
Those who try to add detail to this sketchy story find themselves frustrated. Anyone persistent enough to dig through the registers of all of Orne’s voyages (which requires extensive research in New Jerusalem, Blaine's Port, Boston, and the Essex Institute) find no mention of George Locksley (or any abbreviation or misspelling thereof ) for any of Orne’s voyages. Research in Philadelphia turns up no birth record for Locksley or any other sort of record for him for that matter. Locksley’s whereabouts after he leaves New Jerusalem are equally mysterious; he disappears into thin air. Even the portrait of him that hangs at Missituk University has been brought into question, some believing it to be instead a portrait of Andrew Caldwell, a Philadelphia merchant.
As for Locksley’s time in New Jerusalem, several letters in the archives of the New Jerusalem Historical Society describe Locksley’s stay in New Jerusalem. The administrator is described as a dour, standoffish man whose fanatical supervision of Jeremiah Orne's will and intolerance toward the Congregational Church and organized religion in general caused an angry stir throughout the town. Much is also made of Locksley’s Masonic affiliations, as well as his close association with Levi Tetlow, the first caretaker of the new museum.