Jonathan Lamb, third son of Abiel (Lieut) Lamb and Elizabeth (widow Buckminster) Clark was born on November 11, 1682 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
As the son of his father and a child of the times, it was only natural that he should grow up to serve in a military as well as a civic capacity. King William's War with the French and Indians lasted from the time he was seven until his fifteenth year, at which time the family moved to Farmington. When he was twenty when the eleven-year-long struggle, known as Queen's Anne's War, began.
Six years later, he fell in love with Lydia, daughter, of John (II) Death and Mary Peabody and married on 9 Jul 1708 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. They were both "of Framingham," as it says in the Watertown records.
The Watertown record states: "Jonathan Lamb and Lydia Death, Justice of the Peace." By the time war was over, this couple had been blessed with three small daughters, Phoebe, Lydia, and Mary.
Jonathan served the town of Farmingham as Constable, and also elected a selectman for the period from 1716 to 1718. Jonathan, Jr. arrived to brighten their lives, and Dorothy and Joshua were also born while the family lived in Farmington.
In 1772, he was employed in transporting military stores from Boston to Rutland, and he became a Lieutenant in Captain Isaac Clark's Company of Troopers, Muster Roll in August 21 to September 18, 1725. Draper's history of Spencer says that he was a Lieutenant and was always so called.
Lieutenant Lamb moved his family to Spencer in 1726 or 1727, settling on lot 27. He became known here also as a man of character, and exerted a good influence in this community for more than twenty years.
Their son John was born after the family left Farmingham and it is probable that Elizabeth was born between Joshua and John. It is also probable that more children were born to this family but records of only eight in all have been found.
Lieutenant Jonathan and Lydia were fortunate enough to rear their children to maturity it a period of peace, but strife did break broke out with French Colonies again during Jonathan's last years. King George's War (known in Europe as the War of Austrian Succession) ended the year before he died, in 1749, at the age of sixty-seven.
Jonathan Lamb, said to be a descendant of Col. Joshua Lamb, one of the proprietors of Leicester and Spencer. He had been an Lieutenant. and was always so called, and came to lot 27 in 1726 or 1727. Lieutenant Lamb was a man of some influence and highly respected in the community. He died in 1749 in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts.. He is the ancestor of all of the name of Lamb of this town, now or formerly living here.--History of Spence
Their children:
i Phoebe Lamb (1708-1788) Married Nathaniel (Capt) Read (son of Thomas (IV) Read and Mary (widow Bruce) Bigelow on 02 Nov 1729 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts.
ii Lydia Lamb (1710-1736)-Married John Potter
iii Mary Lamb (1712-1750)
iv Jonathan (II) Lamb (1714-1760) married Elizabeth Richardson-had 7 sons who served in the Revolutionary War
v Dorothy Lamb (1717-1753) married Jacob Straw
vi Abigail Lamb (1718-1801)
vii Joshua Lamb (1719-1793) married Sarah Wilson
viii Elizabeth Lamb (1722-?) (probably died in infancy)
ix John Lamb (1727-1796) married Abigail Smith
Original data:
Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library
As the son of his father and a child of the times, it was only natural that he should grow up to serve in a military as well as a civic capacity. King William's War with the French and Indians lasted from the time he was seven until his fifteenth year, at which time the family moved to Farmington. When he was twenty when the eleven-year-long struggle, known as Queen's Anne's War, began.
Six years later, he fell in love with Lydia, daughter, of John (II) Death and Mary Peabody and married on 9 Jul 1708 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. They were both "of Framingham," as it says in the Watertown records.
The Watertown record states: "Jonathan Lamb and Lydia Death, Justice of the Peace." By the time war was over, this couple had been blessed with three small daughters, Phoebe, Lydia, and Mary.
Jonathan served the town of Farmingham as Constable, and also elected a selectman for the period from 1716 to 1718. Jonathan, Jr. arrived to brighten their lives, and Dorothy and Joshua were also born while the family lived in Farmington.
In 1772, he was employed in transporting military stores from Boston to Rutland, and he became a Lieutenant in Captain Isaac Clark's Company of Troopers, Muster Roll in August 21 to September 18, 1725. Draper's history of Spencer says that he was a Lieutenant and was always so called.
Lieutenant Lamb moved his family to Spencer in 1726 or 1727, settling on lot 27. He became known here also as a man of character, and exerted a good influence in this community for more than twenty years.
Their son John was born after the family left Farmingham and it is probable that Elizabeth was born between Joshua and John. It is also probable that more children were born to this family but records of only eight in all have been found.
Lieutenant Jonathan and Lydia were fortunate enough to rear their children to maturity it a period of peace, but strife did break broke out with French Colonies again during Jonathan's last years. King George's War (known in Europe as the War of Austrian Succession) ended the year before he died, in 1749, at the age of sixty-seven.
Jonathan Lamb, said to be a descendant of Col. Joshua Lamb, one of the proprietors of Leicester and Spencer. He had been an Lieutenant. and was always so called, and came to lot 27 in 1726 or 1727. Lieutenant Lamb was a man of some influence and highly respected in the community. He died in 1749 in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts.. He is the ancestor of all of the name of Lamb of this town, now or formerly living here.--History of Spence
Their children:
i Phoebe Lamb (1708-1788) Married Nathaniel (Capt) Read (son of Thomas (IV) Read and Mary (widow Bruce) Bigelow on 02 Nov 1729 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts.
ii Lydia Lamb (1710-1736)-Married John Potter
iii Mary Lamb (1712-1750)
iv Jonathan (II) Lamb (1714-1760) married Elizabeth Richardson-had 7 sons who served in the Revolutionary War
v Dorothy Lamb (1717-1753) married Jacob Straw
vi Abigail Lamb (1718-1801)
vii Joshua Lamb (1719-1793) married Sarah Wilson
viii Elizabeth Lamb (1722-?) (probably died in infancy)
ix John Lamb (1727-1796) married Abigail Smith
Original data:
Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library
Jonathan Lamb, third son of Abiel (Lieut) Lamb and Elizabeth (widow Buckminster) Clark was born on November 11, 1682 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
As the son of his father and a child of the times, it was only natural that he should grow up to serve in a military as well as a civic capacity. King William's War with the French and Indians lasted from the time he was seven until his fifteenth year, at which time the family moved to Farmington. When he was twenty when the eleven-year-long struggle, known as Queen's Anne's War, began.
Six years later, he fell in love with Lydia, daughter, of John (II) Death and Mary Peabody and married on 9 Jul 1708 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. They were both "of Framingham," as it says in the Watertown records.
The Watertown record states: "Jonathan Lamb and Lydia Death, Justice of the Peace." By the time war was over, this couple had been blessed with three small daughters, Phoebe, Lydia, and Mary.
Jonathan served the town of Farmingham as Constable, and also elected a selectman for the period from 1716 to 1718. Jonathan, Jr. arrived to brighten their lives, and Dorothy and Joshua were also born while the family lived in Farmington.
In 1772, he was employed in transporting military stores from Boston to Rutland, and he became a Lieutenant in Captain Isaac Clark's Company of Troopers, Muster Roll in August 21 to September 18, 1725. Draper's history of Spencer says that he was a Lieutenant and was always so called.
Lieutenant Lamb moved his family to Spencer in 1726 or 1727, settling on lot 27. He became known here also as a man of character, and exerted a good influence in this community for more than twenty years.
Their son John was born after the family left Farmingham and it is probable that Elizabeth was born between Joshua and John. It is also probable that more children were born to this family but records of only eight in all have been found.
Lieutenant Jonathan and Lydia were fortunate enough to rear their children to maturity it a period of peace, but strife did break broke out with French Colonies again during Jonathan's last years. King George's War (known in Europe as the War of Austrian Succession) ended the year before he died, in 1749, at the age of sixty-seven.
Jonathan Lamb, said to be a descendant of Col. Joshua Lamb, one of the proprietors of Leicester and Spencer. He had been an Lieutenant. and was always so called, and came to lot 27 in 1726 or 1727. Lieutenant Lamb was a man of some influence and highly respected in the community. He died in 1749 in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts.. He is the ancestor of all of the name of Lamb of this town, now or formerly living here.--History of Spence
Their children:
i Phoebe Lamb (1708-1788) Married Nathaniel (Capt) Read (son of Thomas (IV) Read and Mary (widow Bruce) Bigelow on 02 Nov 1729 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts.
ii Lydia Lamb (1710-1736)-Married John Potter
iii Mary Lamb (1712-1750)
iv Jonathan (II) Lamb (1714-1760) married Elizabeth Richardson-had 7 sons who served in the Revolutionary War
v Dorothy Lamb (1717-1753) married Jacob Straw
vi Abigail Lamb (1718-1801)
vii Joshua Lamb (1719-1793) married Sarah Wilson
viii Elizabeth Lamb (1722-?) (probably died in infancy)
ix John Lamb (1727-1796) married Abigail Smith
Original data:
Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library
As the son of his father and a child of the times, it was only natural that he should grow up to serve in a military as well as a civic capacity. King William's War with the French and Indians lasted from the time he was seven until his fifteenth year, at which time the family moved to Farmington. When he was twenty when the eleven-year-long struggle, known as Queen's Anne's War, began.
Six years later, he fell in love with Lydia, daughter, of John (II) Death and Mary Peabody and married on 9 Jul 1708 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. They were both "of Framingham," as it says in the Watertown records.
The Watertown record states: "Jonathan Lamb and Lydia Death, Justice of the Peace." By the time war was over, this couple had been blessed with three small daughters, Phoebe, Lydia, and Mary.
Jonathan served the town of Farmingham as Constable, and also elected a selectman for the period from 1716 to 1718. Jonathan, Jr. arrived to brighten their lives, and Dorothy and Joshua were also born while the family lived in Farmington.
In 1772, he was employed in transporting military stores from Boston to Rutland, and he became a Lieutenant in Captain Isaac Clark's Company of Troopers, Muster Roll in August 21 to September 18, 1725. Draper's history of Spencer says that he was a Lieutenant and was always so called.
Lieutenant Lamb moved his family to Spencer in 1726 or 1727, settling on lot 27. He became known here also as a man of character, and exerted a good influence in this community for more than twenty years.
Their son John was born after the family left Farmingham and it is probable that Elizabeth was born between Joshua and John. It is also probable that more children were born to this family but records of only eight in all have been found.
Lieutenant Jonathan and Lydia were fortunate enough to rear their children to maturity it a period of peace, but strife did break broke out with French Colonies again during Jonathan's last years. King George's War (known in Europe as the War of Austrian Succession) ended the year before he died, in 1749, at the age of sixty-seven.
Jonathan Lamb, said to be a descendant of Col. Joshua Lamb, one of the proprietors of Leicester and Spencer. He had been an Lieutenant. and was always so called, and came to lot 27 in 1726 or 1727. Lieutenant Lamb was a man of some influence and highly respected in the community. He died in 1749 in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts.. He is the ancestor of all of the name of Lamb of this town, now or formerly living here.--History of Spence
Their children:
i Phoebe Lamb (1708-1788) Married Nathaniel (Capt) Read (son of Thomas (IV) Read and Mary (widow Bruce) Bigelow on 02 Nov 1729 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts.
ii Lydia Lamb (1710-1736)-Married John Potter
iii Mary Lamb (1712-1750)
iv Jonathan (II) Lamb (1714-1760) married Elizabeth Richardson-had 7 sons who served in the Revolutionary War
v Dorothy Lamb (1717-1753) married Jacob Straw
vi Abigail Lamb (1718-1801)
vii Joshua Lamb (1719-1793) married Sarah Wilson
viii Elizabeth Lamb (1722-?) (probably died in infancy)
ix John Lamb (1727-1796) married Abigail Smith
Original data:
Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library
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