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:
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i HANNAH, b.
Watertown 27 December 1633 [ WaVR
1:3]; no further record. |
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ii MARY, bur. Watertown 10 November 1635,
aged 2 months [WaVR 1:4]. |
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iii SAMUEL, b. Watertown 3 April 1637 [WaVR 1:5]; no further
record. |
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iv MARY, b. Watertown 30 April 1639 [WaVR 1:7]; no further
record. |
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v JOHN (twin) bur. Watertown 20 February
1639/40, seven days old [WaVR
1:7]. |
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vi INCREASE (twin) bur. Watertown 20
February 1639/40, seven days old [WaVR
1:7]. |
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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]. |
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viii (poss.) SARAH, b. say 1644; m.
Braintree 27 July 1664 Stephen Scott [BrVR 717]. |
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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].
BrVR
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Records of the Town of
Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Samuel A.
Bates, ed. (Randolph 1886), pp. 627-940 Guilford Anc The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford, Vol. I, by Joan
S. Guilford, Ph D, 1990 |
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MBCR Records of the Governor
and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff,
ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854) NEHGR New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
Volume 1 through present (1847+) SLR Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1 through 14 (Boston 1880-1906). Citations
to later volumes are from the microfilm copies of the originals. WaBOB "Lands, Grants,
Divisions, Allotments, Possessions and Proprietors' Book," Section Two
in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town
Proceedings ... (Watertown 1894) WaVR "Records of Births,
Deaths and Marriages - First Book and Supplement," Section Three in Watertown
Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings ...
(Watertown 1894) |