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Family of Edward + LAMB and Margaret + FRENCH

Husband: Edward + LAMB (1610- )
Wife: Margaret + FRENCH (1610-1650)
Children: Hannah + LAMB (1633-1695)
Mary LAMB (1635-1635)
Samuel LAMB (1637- )
John LAMB (1640-1640)
Increase LAMB (1640-1640)
John LAMB (1643- )
Elizabeth LAMB (1648- )
Marriage 1632 Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US1

Husband: Edward + LAMB

Name: Edward + LAMB
Sex: Male
Father: Edward + LAMB (1578-1678)
Mother: -
Birth 1610 Alford, Lincolnshire, England
Immigration 1633 (age 22-23) to Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US
Death Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US

Wife: Margaret + FRENCH

Name: Margaret + FRENCH
Sex: Female
Father: Thomas + FRENCH (c. 1580-1639)
Mother: Susan + RIDDLESDALE (1584-1658)
Birth 1610 Steeple, Essex, England2
Christening (adult) Apr 1610 (age 0) Halstock
Dorset, England
Death 1650 (age 39-40) Braintree, Norfolk, MA, US

Child 1: Hannah + LAMB

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Hannah + LAMB

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Spouse: Joseph + KNIGHT

Name: Hannah + LAMB
Sex: Female
Spouse: Joseph + KNIGHT (1624-1687)
Birth 27 Dec 1633 Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US3,4,5
Death 13 Jan 1695 (age 61) Woburn, Middlesex, MA, US
Burial First Burial Ground
Woburn, Middlesex, MA, US

Child 2: Mary LAMB

Name: Mary LAMB
Sex: Female
Birth 1635 Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US
Death 10 Nov 1635 (age 0) Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US

Child 3: Samuel LAMB

Name: Samuel LAMB
Sex: Male
Birth 3 Apr 1637

Child 4: John LAMB

Name: John LAMB
Sex: Male
Birth 13 Jan 1640
Death 20 Jan 1640 (age 0)

Child 5: Increase LAMB

Name: Increase LAMB
Sex: Female
Birth 13 Feb 1640
Death 20 Feb 1640 (age 0)

Child 6: John LAMB

Name: John LAMB
Sex: Male
Birth 1643

Child 7: Elizabeth LAMB

Name: Elizabeth LAMB
Sex: Female
Birth 16 Aug 1648

Note on Husband: Edward + LAMB

EDWARD LAMB ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown REMOVES: Boston by 1648 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Either Edward or his wife Margaret (or perhaps both) held membership at Watertown, as noted in baptism at Boston. ESTATE: Edward Lamb received the full range of land grants in Watertown: a seven-acre houselot; twenty rods for a garden; three acres of plowland; four acres of meadow; twenty-five acres of upland in the Great Divident in the third division, lot #6; seven and a half acres of upland beyond the further plain, and a farm of sixty-five acres [WaBOP 4, 7, 9, 13, 41]. He added "one acre of meadow ... in Patch Meadow ... granted to him" [WaBOP 94]. On 15 March 1647/8 Edward Lamb of Watertown sold to Charles Stearns five of these parcels [SLR 1:101]. On 16 October 1650 the General Court granted administration on the estate of Edward Lamb to Samuel Allen, so that "a certain house" might be sold to Thomas Boyden; the petition for administration came from "Margrett Allen, late wife of Edward Lambe" [MBCR 3:216]. BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of marriage. DEATH: Probably at Boston, between 27 June 1648 (baptism of daughter Elizabeth) and 1650 (widow's remarriage). MARRIAGE: By 1633 Margaret _____ (birth of first child in 1633). She survived him and married by 1650 Samuel Allen of Braintree [BrVR 635; MBCR 3:216]. CHILDREN: i HANNAH, b. Watertown 27 December 1633 [WaVR 1:3]; no further record. ii MARY, bur. Watertown 10 November 1635, aged 2 months [WaVR 1:4]. iii SAMUEL, b. Watertown 3 April 1637 [WaVR 1:5]; no further record. iv MARY, b. Watertown 30 April 1639 [WaVR 1:7]; no further record. v JOHN (twin) bur. Watertown 20 February 1639/40, seven days old [WaVR 1:7]. vi INCREASE (twin) bur. Watertown 20 February 1639/40, seven days old [WaVR 1:7]. vii (prob.) JOHN, b. say 1642; m. (1) by 1677 Mary (French) Poole [NEHGR 2:353; BrVR 663]; m. (2) by 1690 Lydia _____ [BrVR 669]. viii (poss.) SARAH, b. say 1644; m. Braintree 27 July 1664 Stephen Scott [BrVR 717]. ix ELIZABETH, b. about 16 June, bp. Boston 27 June 1648 (27 day, 6th month, 1648, "Elizabeth of Edward & Margaret Lambe member of Ch. of Watertowne aged about 11 days") [BVR 28]; no further record. COMMENTS: The grant of Beaverbrook Plowland on 28 February 1636/7 was for three acres, and of Remote Meadow on 26 June 1637 was four acres; since each of these grants is based on head count in the household, these grants accurately reflect the size of this family, and the birth of Samuel in the interval between the two grants. However, in the Inventory of Grants [WaBOP 94] and in the sale of land [SLR 101] the parcel in the Beaverbrook Plowlands is four acres, so all is not as clear as it might be. The sale of land in early 1648 probably signalled the move to Boston, and the request by the remarried widow to sell "a certain house" may reflect land held in Boston, which is not otherwise recorded in Boston or Suffolk County records. That there was a son John who survived, probably born in the late 1640s, is based on several pieces of circumstantial evidence. First, there was a John Lamb who married in Braintree about 1677 Mary (French) Poole, widow of Samuel Poole [NEHGR 12:353]. Second, the widow of Edward Lamb remarried to Samuel Allen of Braintree. Third, John Lamb had among his children a son Samuel and a daughter Margaret, possibly named for his mother and stepfather. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1990 Joan S. Guilford examined the family of Edward Lamb, arriving at some conclusions which are not always consistent with those given above [Guilford Anc 526-28]. The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN

Sources

1"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).
2"England and Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906" (On line - Provo, UT).
3"American Genealogical-Biographical Index" (Godfrey Memorial Library, On-Line, Provo, UT).
4"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".
5"New England Historic and Genealogical Register" (New England Genealogical Society).