LAMB FAMILY OF ROXBURY, MA by Chuck May 29 Aug 1990 ------------------------------------------------ I have a Jonathan Lamb born 11 Nov 1682 in Roxbury, MA as a brother of my Samuel LAMB. I have their parents as Abiel LAMB and Elizabeth CLARK. This part of the line is a little shaky. The ages are such that there might be a missing generation in between Abiel and Samuel. My father did this research in the vital records of Roxbury and Framingham, MA, but reports that everyone in this line is well documented except for Samuel and Abiel's generations. I'll try to clear this up in a couple of days, but the coincidence of dates tells me we are talking of the same person. The original data for this line came from a letter in my father's possession from a Mr Fred Lamb, who wrote two books in 1900-1903 about the Lamb Family Documentation. I've just learned of them, and am trying to find copies. My line of Lambs is as follows: Thomas LAMB d 1646 in Roxbury. Married Dorothy Harbottle. ..Abiel Lamb b 08/15/1646 in Roxbury. Married Elizabeth Clark ....Samuel Lamb b 1685 Roxbury. m Hester Joslin. ......Samuel Lamb b 1722 Framingham. m Sarah Atwood. ........Nathan Lamb b 1764 Framingham. m Lucy Pepper ..........Mason Lamb b 1799 Guilford VT. m Alice Pierce. ............Joseph Holbrook Lamb b 1830 Vernon VT. m Mary Potter. ..............Joseph Edward Lamb b 1857 Greenfield MA. Married Estella May Thompson ................Edith May Lamb b 1888 Greenfield MA. m Charles Melbourne May ..................Carl Robert May b 1921 Santiago, Dominican Republic. Married Margaret Patterson. ....................Charles William May b 1949 Greenfield MA. Everything downstream from Samuel is well documented. * Origin: NGS/CIG BBS - Arlington, VA (703) 528-2612 *DHST/V.32* (109/302) 151/1003 021/798 11 Sep 90 13:06:11 From: Bob Gleason To: Chuck May Subj: LAMB books Attr: ------------------------------------------------ Chuck. I finally got smart (now that the U.S. Open Tennis is over and I can "get with it") and check the NEHGS Book Loan Catalog. Found Fred Lamb's books: Lamb, Fred W. Family Records:Lamb, Savory and Harriman. (1900) Lamb, Fred W. Genealogical Sketch of the Lamb Family (Second Edition)(1903) and a couple of others: Clemens, William M. The Clemens American Marriage Records. Vol. 4. Early Marriage Records of the Lamb Family in the United States. Official and Authoritative Records of Lamb Marriages in the Original States and Colonies from 1628 to 1865. (1916) Lamb, Charles F. Nathan Lamb of Leicester, Massachusetts. His Ancestors and Descendants. (1930) Lamb, Albert R. Thomas Lambe of Roxbury, English Puritan Founder of an American Lineage in the colony of the Massachusetts Bay and Some of His Descendants, 1632-1932, in a Single Line of Descent through Six Generations. Including that of Elijah Lamb, from Whom All Lines are Traced Through Six Generations More to Include those of his Descendants Now Living. (1932) Lamb, Truxton G. and Evelyn D. Fincher. The Family Record with Addtional Data. (1956?) Brassington, Kathryn Lamb. A Leg of Lamb. (1985) I'm going to the Morristown, NJ library today and will ascertain if these are available there. Then tomorrow I'll go the the NJHS library and check there. If I can't find any of these in one or the other or both of those libraries, I'll order from NEHGS. Will keep you posted of my progress. Have you unearthed anything else??? Did you receive my last message of 31 Aug giving you my LAMB lineage?? --- FD 1.99c * Origin: Kin Ships - East Orange, NJ - (201) 676-7066 - (1:269/123) 396/1 111/826 13 Sep 90 13:06:49 From: Bob Gleason To: Chuck May Subj: LAMB Attr: ------------------------------------------------ Fred Lamb's PAMPHLETS give absolutely nothing of use to us. However, I did find some other "stuff" at the NJHS Library. First is TAG 56:99 as follows: "Thomas Lamb of Roxbury, Mass." by Patricia C. Lamb, 10 Stanwick Road, London W14 8UH, England (1980 address). "Thomas Lamb or Lambe of Roxbury, Mass., came to the Bay Colony in 1630 with his wife Elizabeth and two sons, Thomas and John. A third son, Samuel, was baptized in 1630 at Dorchester (Eliot: Record of Roxbury Church; Banks: The Winthrop Fleet of 1630). "The parish registers of Barnardiston, Suffolk, reveal that one Thomas Lamb or Lambe was a churchwarden of that parish 1625-1629. The following baptisms are recorded: 25 June 1624 Thomas, the sonne of Thomas Lambe 1 Oct. 1626 Susanna, Daughter of Thomas Lambe 20 Apr. 1628 John, sonne of Tho: Lamb "No entries of any spelling of the name were found before 1624 or in the ten years following 1629. "Banks suggested, though not in the work cited above, that Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, was the origin of Thomas Lamb. Transcripts of the registers of that and neighboring parishes include the following entries: Stowlangtoft bapt. 1 Sept. 1566, Tho. Lamb, son of Will. " bapt. 25 Mar. 1572 Geo Lamb, son of Will. Langham bapt. 22 July 1604 Tho. Lambe of Geo. & Barbary Stowlangtoft wife of Tho. Lambe bur. 20 March 1620 " 1629 Tho. Lambe & Avis Lyster married " bur. 18 Aug. 1630, Tho. Lambe "Though it is possible for this younger Thomas Lambe to be identical with Thomas of Roxbury and/or with Thomas of Barnardiston, this appears unlikely, especially as it would require a first marriage for him at age of 19. transcripts of all Suffolk parish registers for the early 17th century were examined." --- FD 1.99c * Origin: Kin Ships - East Orange, NJ - (201) 676-7066 - (1:269/123) 150/150 396/1 014/745 16 Sep 90 10:56:24 From: Bob Gleason To: Chuck May Subj: LAMB -- 5th & Final Installment Attr: ------------------------------------------------ "Abiel, (Thomas(1), [LAMB], bapt. in Roxbury 2d, 6m, 1646; married about 1674, Elizabeth -------, who was admitted to full communion in the church in Roxbury 3d, 10m, 1676. Rev. John Eliot says: '3m, 1684, Abial Lamb, Joseph Bugby senior, John Craft, Nathaniel Sanger & his wife, these confessed yr sins yt wr publick, and so wr admitted to take hold on the covenant.' He was a private in capt. Isaac Johnson's Co. at the 'storming the Narragansett stronghold when the fierce tribe of Indians was destroyed at the famous Fort Fight, dec. 19, 1675.' He was taxed at Muddy River in 1691; removed to Framingham 1700, and at its first town meeting, Aug. 5, of that year, Abial Lamb was elected commissioner; was selectman in 1701. He died in framingham before 1710. His house was on the road northwest of school house No. 7. "Rev. John Eliot says: 'm 7 day 4, 1681. Sister Cleaves (alias Stevens) was publickly admonished for unseasonable entertaining & corrupting other folks servants & children, and hath corrupted Mr Lambs negro, who in discontent set her Mrs house on fire in the dead of the night & also Mr Swans, one girle was furned, and all the rest had much adoe to escape with their lives.' This was probably Abiel or Joshua. "The children of Abiel and Elizabeth Lamb were: Harbottle, bapt. 28d, 12m, 1674. Abiel, bapt. 4d, 11m, 1679; m. Dec. 4, 1699, Hannah, dau. of James and Sarah Taylor. Jonathan, b. Nov. 11, 1682; m. July 9, 1708, Lydia, dau. of John Death of Framingham; removed to Leicester (to the western part which was afterward Spencer) about 1726. He was selectman of Framingham in 1716, 1717 and 1718, and was known as Lieut. Lamb; d. in Spencer in 1749. Samuel, bapt. 12d, 2m, 1685; m. 1st Hester, dau. of Nathaniel, Jr., and Hester Joslin of Marlboro, Mass., who d. March 23, 1728-9; m. 2d Mary ------." That's the extent of the pertinent information in that book, Chuck. If you would like a photocopy please give me your mail address. --- FD 1.99c * Origin: Kin Ships - East Orange, NJ - (201) 676-7066 - (1:269/123) 322/1