1832 Plat of Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan, Boaz Lambson property, over 1000 acres. Boaz Property, Coldwater State Park. Current map shows Coldwater Lake on the north and the freeway situated east of Kinderhook passing through part of what was Boaz property. Coldwater Lake State Park contains property that Boaz Lambson and Polly Walworth Lambson owned in about 1835/6/7. There are no buildings in the park, only hunting and hiking trails. Boaz's property bordered on the southern fringes of Coldwater Lake, then Lake Atlee. Boaz and his wife, Polly Walworth owned a total of 1003.32 acres which consisted of no less than two miles of lakeshore of Lake Atlee, now Coldwater Lake and Silver Lake.
After Boaz's death in 1837, part of the property was sold to clear his debts, some of it was sold to his son Apollos Walworth Lambson. He remained in the area until his death in 1911. Boaz was the son of Jesse Lambson and Ruth Miller, born Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, 2 May 1789.
Even as a young man, Boaz had been compelled by the Western New York and the Eastern Michigan frontiers to be a trailbreaker and pioneer in the most arduous of wilderness. In a day when mere survival took great human resource, Boaz was to be found in the forefront, conquering the forests, the elements and the odds, establishing order and peace of the young societies and nurturing communities in the frontiers of New York and Michigan.
By the time he was twenty-one, Boaz had left Connecticut and Massachusetts and settled on 134 acres of land in the wilderness of far-off Orleans County, New York. The area he settled later became part of Niagara County. The Holland Purchase records list him among the 1810 settlers.
By the time he reached twenty-four, his mother Ruth had passed away in Granville. This was also the year in which he was married to Polly Walworth. His Father, Jesse, was to follow her in death five years later, a matter of days before Boaz's eldest son Arba Lorenzo was born. The year was 1818.
Of Boaz's birth in Connecticut and his early childhood, we have found no record. The circumstances indicate that he left Massachusetts with his brother Jesse who was twenty-one in 1808. We do know that Boaz pressed on farther west while Jesse remained in Geneva, Ontario (later Seneca) County, New York where he can be found on the 1810 census. In the same year Boaz acquired land through the Holland Purchase. Jesse, the younger, remained in the area of Geneva at least thirteen years. There is a record from Geneva dated 1823 which recorded the death of a five-year old son there. Early LDS Church records show that he had departed from the Finger Lake Country and was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois by 1843. His activities of the interim thirty years are unknown to us. There is, recorded in the annals of his offspring, a note that Jesse was a close friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the onset of the restored church. It is therefore indicated that Boaz's brother Jesse was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints some time before 1843.
In 1826 in Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory. In the first town meeting, when the town was officially named and officers chosen, the moderator for the meeting was Boaz. Was he a leader? As we have said, the records are somewhat moot, but the evidence that he was all of these seems clear. Note that Alfred Boaz, son of Boaz, states in his autobiography that when he was five years of age (his birth date was 27 August 1820):
My father went on the Fulton, the first boat propelled by steam. It took the Lambson family up Lake Erie to Detroit where father bought a team and wagon and moved into the interior of Michigan to the forest. We settled where the city of Saline now stands. (Taken from the records of his daughter Julina Smith, wife of Joseph F. Smith, one of the early presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) The above excerpt tells us much about the family. Upon the completion of the Erie Canal, they were financially able to travel by boat to the newly opened Michigan Territory.
Following is the record of Boaz's brother Arba's marriage to Esther Bonner:
Territory of Michigan Washtenaw County. Be it remembered that on this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty nine, the Bans of Matrimony was duly solemnized between Arba Lampson and Hester Bana (sic) both of Annarbour in said county by the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Washtenaw. Signed Orange Risdon Justice of the Peace. Married 12 August 1829.
Asenath Margetta Lambson was born 30 April 1829 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan.
1830 US census for Saline, Wastenaw, Michigan lists, Boaz, 41, Polly, 31, Mary Louisa 14, Arba Lorenzo, 12, Alfred Boaz, 10, Apollas Walworth, 7, Sarah Jane, 5, Esther Julina, 3. and Asenath, 1.
Twins boys Edwin Harlow Lambson and Son Lambson, were then born to the couple 9 May 1831 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan. Son Lambson died soon after birth. Theodore Wallis Lambson, a son was born 11 May 1833, in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan. Pelina Lodema Lambson a daughter was born 21 August 1835 in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan.
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Taken from the book, Our Lambson Family, Barnabas Boaz: A Partial Genealogy, Ridgewell to Ramah. 1635 1992. Hurricane, Utah, 1992, E Kay Lambson, Et al.
After Boaz's death in 1837, part of the property was sold to clear his debts, some of it was sold to his son Apollos Walworth Lambson. He remained in the area until his death in 1911. Boaz was the son of Jesse Lambson and Ruth Miller, born Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, 2 May 1789.
Even as a young man, Boaz had been compelled by the Western New York and the Eastern Michigan frontiers to be a trailbreaker and pioneer in the most arduous of wilderness. In a day when mere survival took great human resource, Boaz was to be found in the forefront, conquering the forests, the elements and the odds, establishing order and peace of the young societies and nurturing communities in the frontiers of New York and Michigan.
By the time he was twenty-one, Boaz had left Connecticut and Massachusetts and settled on 134 acres of land in the wilderness of far-off Orleans County, New York. The area he settled later became part of Niagara County. The Holland Purchase records list him among the 1810 settlers.
By the time he reached twenty-four, his mother Ruth had passed away in Granville. This was also the year in which he was married to Polly Walworth. His Father, Jesse, was to follow her in death five years later, a matter of days before Boaz's eldest son Arba Lorenzo was born. The year was 1818.
Of Boaz's birth in Connecticut and his early childhood, we have found no record. The circumstances indicate that he left Massachusetts with his brother Jesse who was twenty-one in 1808. We do know that Boaz pressed on farther west while Jesse remained in Geneva, Ontario (later Seneca) County, New York where he can be found on the 1810 census. In the same year Boaz acquired land through the Holland Purchase. Jesse, the younger, remained in the area of Geneva at least thirteen years. There is a record from Geneva dated 1823 which recorded the death of a five-year old son there. Early LDS Church records show that he had departed from the Finger Lake Country and was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois by 1843. His activities of the interim thirty years are unknown to us. There is, recorded in the annals of his offspring, a note that Jesse was a close friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the onset of the restored church. It is therefore indicated that Boaz's brother Jesse was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints some time before 1843.
In 1826 in Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory. In the first town meeting, when the town was officially named and officers chosen, the moderator for the meeting was Boaz. Was he a leader? As we have said, the records are somewhat moot, but the evidence that he was all of these seems clear. Note that Alfred Boaz, son of Boaz, states in his autobiography that when he was five years of age (his birth date was 27 August 1820):
My father went on the Fulton, the first boat propelled by steam. It took the Lambson family up Lake Erie to Detroit where father bought a team and wagon and moved into the interior of Michigan to the forest. We settled where the city of Saline now stands. (Taken from the records of his daughter Julina Smith, wife of Joseph F. Smith, one of the early presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) The above excerpt tells us much about the family. Upon the completion of the Erie Canal, they were financially able to travel by boat to the newly opened Michigan Territory.
Following is the record of Boaz's brother Arba's marriage to Esther Bonner:
Territory of Michigan Washtenaw County. Be it remembered that on this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty nine, the Bans of Matrimony was duly solemnized between Arba Lampson and Hester Bana (sic) both of Annarbour in said county by the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Washtenaw. Signed Orange Risdon Justice of the Peace. Married 12 August 1829.
Asenath Margetta Lambson was born 30 April 1829 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan.
1830 US census for Saline, Wastenaw, Michigan lists, Boaz, 41, Polly, 31, Mary Louisa 14, Arba Lorenzo, 12, Alfred Boaz, 10, Apollas Walworth, 7, Sarah Jane, 5, Esther Julina, 3. and Asenath, 1.
Twins boys Edwin Harlow Lambson and Son Lambson, were then born to the couple 9 May 1831 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan. Son Lambson died soon after birth. Theodore Wallis Lambson, a son was born 11 May 1833, in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan. Pelina Lodema Lambson a daughter was born 21 August 1835 in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan.
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Taken from the book, Our Lambson Family, Barnabas Boaz: A Partial Genealogy, Ridgewell to Ramah. 1635 1992. Hurricane, Utah, 1992, E Kay Lambson, Et al.
1832 Plat of Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan, Boaz Lambson property, over 1000 acres. Boaz Property, Coldwater State Park. Current map shows Coldwater Lake on the north and the freeway situated east of Kinderhook passing through part of what was Boaz property. Coldwater Lake State Park contains property that Boaz Lambson and Polly Walworth Lambson owned in about 1835/6/7. There are no buildings in the park, only hunting and hiking trails. Boaz's property bordered on the southern fringes of Coldwater Lake, then Lake Atlee. Boaz and his wife, Polly Walworth owned a total of 1003.32 acres which consisted of no less than two miles of lakeshore of Lake Atlee, now Coldwater Lake and Silver Lake.
After Boaz's death in 1837, part of the property was sold to clear his debts, some of it was sold to his son Apollos Walworth Lambson. He remained in the area until his death in 1911. Boaz was the son of Jesse Lambson and Ruth Miller, born Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, 2 May 1789.
Even as a young man, Boaz had been compelled by the Western New York and the Eastern Michigan frontiers to be a trailbreaker and pioneer in the most arduous of wilderness. In a day when mere survival took great human resource, Boaz was to be found in the forefront, conquering the forests, the elements and the odds, establishing order and peace of the young societies and nurturing communities in the frontiers of New York and Michigan.
By the time he was twenty-one, Boaz had left Connecticut and Massachusetts and settled on 134 acres of land in the wilderness of far-off Orleans County, New York. The area he settled later became part of Niagara County. The Holland Purchase records list him among the 1810 settlers.
By the time he reached twenty-four, his mother Ruth had passed away in Granville. This was also the year in which he was married to Polly Walworth. His Father, Jesse, was to follow her in death five years later, a matter of days before Boaz's eldest son Arba Lorenzo was born. The year was 1818.
Of Boaz's birth in Connecticut and his early childhood, we have found no record. The circumstances indicate that he left Massachusetts with his brother Jesse who was twenty-one in 1808. We do know that Boaz pressed on farther west while Jesse remained in Geneva, Ontario (later Seneca) County, New York where he can be found on the 1810 census. In the same year Boaz acquired land through the Holland Purchase. Jesse, the younger, remained in the area of Geneva at least thirteen years. There is a record from Geneva dated 1823 which recorded the death of a five-year old son there. Early LDS Church records show that he had departed from the Finger Lake Country and was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois by 1843. His activities of the interim thirty years are unknown to us. There is, recorded in the annals of his offspring, a note that Jesse was a close friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the onset of the restored church. It is therefore indicated that Boaz's brother Jesse was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints some time before 1843.
In 1826 in Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory. In the first town meeting, when the town was officially named and officers chosen, the moderator for the meeting was Boaz. Was he a leader? As we have said, the records are somewhat moot, but the evidence that he was all of these seems clear. Note that Alfred Boaz, son of Boaz, states in his autobiography that when he was five years of age (his birth date was 27 August 1820):
My father went on the Fulton, the first boat propelled by steam. It took the Lambson family up Lake Erie to Detroit where father bought a team and wagon and moved into the interior of Michigan to the forest. We settled where the city of Saline now stands. (Taken from the records of his daughter Julina Smith, wife of Joseph F. Smith, one of the early presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) The above excerpt tells us much about the family. Upon the completion of the Erie Canal, they were financially able to travel by boat to the newly opened Michigan Territory.
Following is the record of Boaz's brother Arba's marriage to Esther Bonner:
Territory of Michigan Washtenaw County. Be it remembered that on this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty nine, the Bans of Matrimony was duly solemnized between Arba Lampson and Hester Bana (sic) both of Annarbour in said county by the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Washtenaw. Signed Orange Risdon Justice of the Peace. Married 12 August 1829.
Asenath Margetta Lambson was born 30 April 1829 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan.
1830 US census for Saline, Wastenaw, Michigan lists, Boaz, 41, Polly, 31, Mary Louisa 14, Arba Lorenzo, 12, Alfred Boaz, 10, Apollas Walworth, 7, Sarah Jane, 5, Esther Julina, 3. and Asenath, 1.
Twins boys Edwin Harlow Lambson and Son Lambson, were then born to the couple 9 May 1831 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan. Son Lambson died soon after birth. Theodore Wallis Lambson, a son was born 11 May 1833, in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan. Pelina Lodema Lambson a daughter was born 21 August 1835 in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan.
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Taken from the book, Our Lambson Family, Barnabas Boaz: A Partial Genealogy, Ridgewell to Ramah. 1635 1992. Hurricane, Utah, 1992, E Kay Lambson, Et al.
After Boaz's death in 1837, part of the property was sold to clear his debts, some of it was sold to his son Apollos Walworth Lambson. He remained in the area until his death in 1911. Boaz was the son of Jesse Lambson and Ruth Miller, born Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, 2 May 1789.
Even as a young man, Boaz had been compelled by the Western New York and the Eastern Michigan frontiers to be a trailbreaker and pioneer in the most arduous of wilderness. In a day when mere survival took great human resource, Boaz was to be found in the forefront, conquering the forests, the elements and the odds, establishing order and peace of the young societies and nurturing communities in the frontiers of New York and Michigan.
By the time he was twenty-one, Boaz had left Connecticut and Massachusetts and settled on 134 acres of land in the wilderness of far-off Orleans County, New York. The area he settled later became part of Niagara County. The Holland Purchase records list him among the 1810 settlers.
By the time he reached twenty-four, his mother Ruth had passed away in Granville. This was also the year in which he was married to Polly Walworth. His Father, Jesse, was to follow her in death five years later, a matter of days before Boaz's eldest son Arba Lorenzo was born. The year was 1818.
Of Boaz's birth in Connecticut and his early childhood, we have found no record. The circumstances indicate that he left Massachusetts with his brother Jesse who was twenty-one in 1808. We do know that Boaz pressed on farther west while Jesse remained in Geneva, Ontario (later Seneca) County, New York where he can be found on the 1810 census. In the same year Boaz acquired land through the Holland Purchase. Jesse, the younger, remained in the area of Geneva at least thirteen years. There is a record from Geneva dated 1823 which recorded the death of a five-year old son there. Early LDS Church records show that he had departed from the Finger Lake Country and was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois by 1843. His activities of the interim thirty years are unknown to us. There is, recorded in the annals of his offspring, a note that Jesse was a close friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the onset of the restored church. It is therefore indicated that Boaz's brother Jesse was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints some time before 1843.
In 1826 in Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory. In the first town meeting, when the town was officially named and officers chosen, the moderator for the meeting was Boaz. Was he a leader? As we have said, the records are somewhat moot, but the evidence that he was all of these seems clear. Note that Alfred Boaz, son of Boaz, states in his autobiography that when he was five years of age (his birth date was 27 August 1820):
My father went on the Fulton, the first boat propelled by steam. It took the Lambson family up Lake Erie to Detroit where father bought a team and wagon and moved into the interior of Michigan to the forest. We settled where the city of Saline now stands. (Taken from the records of his daughter Julina Smith, wife of Joseph F. Smith, one of the early presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) The above excerpt tells us much about the family. Upon the completion of the Erie Canal, they were financially able to travel by boat to the newly opened Michigan Territory.
Following is the record of Boaz's brother Arba's marriage to Esther Bonner:
Territory of Michigan Washtenaw County. Be it remembered that on this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty nine, the Bans of Matrimony was duly solemnized between Arba Lampson and Hester Bana (sic) both of Annarbour in said county by the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Washtenaw. Signed Orange Risdon Justice of the Peace. Married 12 August 1829.
Asenath Margetta Lambson was born 30 April 1829 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan.
1830 US census for Saline, Wastenaw, Michigan lists, Boaz, 41, Polly, 31, Mary Louisa 14, Arba Lorenzo, 12, Alfred Boaz, 10, Apollas Walworth, 7, Sarah Jane, 5, Esther Julina, 3. and Asenath, 1.
Twins boys Edwin Harlow Lambson and Son Lambson, were then born to the couple 9 May 1831 in Mooreville, Washtenaw, Michigan. Son Lambson died soon after birth. Theodore Wallis Lambson, a son was born 11 May 1833, in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan. Pelina Lodema Lambson a daughter was born 21 August 1835 in Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan.
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Taken from the book, Our Lambson Family, Barnabas Boaz: A Partial Genealogy, Ridgewell to Ramah. 1635 1992. Hurricane, Utah, 1992, E Kay Lambson, Et al.
