Thomas Lamb

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Died:
Like his father and brother, he was killed in the 1690 Battle of Quebec.

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Biography:
He was a mariner.

Died:
He died during the Battle of Quebec in 1690. His daughter's 1737 petition "shewing that her later father, Captain Lamb, was master of a transport in the expedition to Canada in the year 1690, and praying that she be admitted as a grantee in the township lately granted to the heirs of Capt. Gardner and his company." The grants were for relative of those killed in the expedition.

Caleb married Mary Wise on 30 Jun 1669 in Roxbury. Mary (daughter of Joseph Wise and Mary Thompson) was born about 1649 in Rocbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Lamb

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• Immigration: Abt 1629, Massachusetts

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Biography:
From "The Great Migration Begins":
ORIGIN: Possibly Barnardiston, Suffolk
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
OCCUPATION: Yeoman. Possibly a slater. On 2 July 1633 "There is demised to Tho: Lambe, of slate in Slate Island, 10 pole towards the water side, & 5 pole into the land, for three years, paying the yearly rent of 2s. 6d."[MBCR 1:106].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Thomas Lambe, he came into this land in the year 1630; he brought his wife & 2 children, Thomas & John" [RChR 73].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366],
ESTATE: In the 1652 inventory of Roxbury lands, the heirs of Thomas Lamb held six parcels which had been granted to him, and a seventh parcel which he had apparently purchased [RBOP 23].
The inventory of his estate, taken "this last of the month 1646 [sic]," referred to various crops on the land, but did not list or value the land itself; the inventory, consisting of movables, totalled £112 8s. 8d. [SPR 2:48]. On 14 October 1651 the General Court ratified the sale by Dorothy Lamb of a parcel of three-quarters of an acre, and on 31 May 1652 granted a petition by "Thomas Hawley & Dorothy, his wife, together with Thomas Lambe & John Lambe, sons of Thomas Lambe deceased" for the sale of fifteen acres to William Parke [MBCR 2:255, 277]. On 26 February 1661 Thomas Hawley and Dorothy his wife sold one of the parcels that had been granted to Thomas Lamb; this was endorsed in 1704 by some of the heirs of Thomas Lamb [SLR 6:42]-
On 3 March 1697/8 letters of administration were granted to "Abiel Lambe, son of Thomas Lambe sometime of Roxbury ... yeoman, deceased intestate, James Bayley and Mary his wife, daughter of the said Thomas Lamb, and Joshua Lamb his grandson" [SPR 8:106]. Subsequent to this grant of administration a large number of documents were gathered in an attempt to determine what had happened to the estate of Thomas Lamb after it had passed into the hand of Thomas's second wife Dorothy and her second husband, Thomas Hawley [SJC Case #3762], Among these papers were a number of receipts that had been drawn up in 1652, shortly after Dorothy had married Hawley. On 12 April 1652 "Thomas Lamb of Charlstown, son of Thomas Lamb of Roxbury deceased," receipted to "Thomas Hawley of Roxbury my father-in-law." On 27 May 1652 "John Lamb of Springfield, wheelwright, son of Thomas Lamb late of Roxbury deceased," acknowledged receipt of his share of his father's estate from "Thomas Halley of Roxbury my father-in-law." Other receipts were acknowledged at a later date. On 23 July 1677 "Abiall Lamb son of Thomas Lamb late of Roxbury" stated that he had received his £24 from Thomas Hawly. On 6 October 1686 "Joshuah Lamb son to Thomas Lamb late of Roxbury" acknowledged that he had had his share of the estate from "my mother Dorothy Hawley administratrix to the estate of Thomas Hawley late of Roxbury and formerly the wife and widow of Thomas Lamb." On 2 July 1697 "Thomas Swan and Mary Swan formerly Mary Lamb daughter of Thomas Lamb of Roxbury deceased" stated that he had received £24 from "Thomas Hawley of the same place who married Dorothy the widow and relict of Thomas Lamb."
BIRTH: By about 1599 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Roxbury 28 March 1646 "Bro. Lambe died of a calenture, by a great cold" [RChR 173].
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1624 Elizabeth (if she was the mother of all his elder children, and if the Barnardiston origin is correct); "Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Lamb" was buried at Roxbury 28 November 1639 [NEHGR 6:183].
(2) "He afterwards married Dorothy Harbitle, a godly maid, a sister of our church" [RChR 74]. As Dorothy Harbectle, she was admitted to Roxbury church in 1638 or 1639 [RChR 84]; the marriage took place at Roxbury 16 July 1640. She married (2) Roxbury 2 February 1651/2 Thomas Hawley.

Thomas married Dorothy Harbottle on 16 Jul 1640 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Dorothy was born in in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts
• Name: Lamb

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts

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Biography:
From Anderson:
Joseph Wise first appears in New England records in the will of Dr. George Alcock of Roxbury. This document, gives the curious date of "22 day 11th (month), called December, Anno Domini 1640," includes bequests to the testator's servants Joseph Wise and John Plimpton (NEHGR 2:104). One of the witnesses to the will was Thomas Weld, whose brother Joseph had married a daughter of the Widow Wise (TAG 55: 148-50).
Joseph is next seen marrying in Roxbury on 3 Dec. 1641 "Mary Tompsonn." There is good reason to believe that this is the Mary Tompson baptized at Preston Capes, Northants, 14 Nov. 1619, to John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson (TAG 13: 1-8; 14:145 f.). Arguments for this identification of Joseph's wife are given by Mary Holman (Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, pp. 422 f.), with support from Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG 32:128). Further supporting circumstantial evidence lies la the Rhode Island land records, where we find that on 7 June 1671 Joseph Wise of Roxbury sells to Deacon William Parke of Roxbury half of a 600 acre tract in Providence. After the document was drawn up, it was discovered that an error in the bounds had to be corrected. This correction was made and signed by Joseph Wise Senior and by Samuel Williams "for his father Deacon William Park." William Parke was son of Robert Parke of Roxbury by his first wife, and was therefore stepbrother of Mary Tompson, daughter of John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson. Samuel Williams, who had married Theoda Parke, daughter of William, was brother of Stephen Williams who had married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Wise. Two years later Joseph Wise sold the other half of this tract to Caleb Lamb and Stephen Williams (Rhode Island Land Evidences vol. 1 (1648-1696), pp. 40 f., 81.
On the assumption that Joseph Wise was of the usual marrying age for colonial males in 1641, he would have been born about 1615. Soon after obtaining his freedom and marrying, Joseph must have taken up the trade of butcher, for by 1648 he is referred to by the elder John Winthrop as "the Roxbury butcher." In the published Winthrop Papers we can trace the course of an early (and somewhat comical) cattle drive which took place in 1648, starting at the "ranch' of John Winthrop Junior at Pequot (later New London), moving through Rhode Island and on to Roxbury. The correspondence includes two letters penned by Joseph Wise which show that he was literate, although not university educated. Before the cattle could be delivered to Wise for slaughter and sale, John Winthrop Senior, John Winthrop Junior and Roger Wllliams were all involved (Winthrop Papers 5:240, 242, 264 f., ;270, 280, 341 f., 375; three unpublished letters from Joseph Hise to John Winthrop Junior, dated 19 March 1650/1, 12 Aug. 1654 and 1 Nov. 1654, are in the Winthrop Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston). Joseph Wise was clearly an important participant in the developing New England economy. For a broader picture of the cattle industry in southeastern New England in these early years, see Carl Bridenbaugh, Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690, pp. 84-92, and Darret B. Hutman, "Governor Winthrop's Garden Crop: The Significance of Agriculture in the Early Commerce of Massachusetts Bay" (William and Mary Quarterly, ser. 3, 20 [1963] 396-415).
Joseph Wise died at Roxbury 12 Sept. 1684, and on 15 September administration of the estate of "Joseph Wise of Roxbury, butcher, dying intestate," was granted to widow Mary and son John (Suffolk Probate Case #1366). We have seen evidence above that Joseph Wise had interests in Providence, so the inclusion in the August 1688 tax list of Providence of "The Estate of ye deceased Joseph Wise" most likely refers to the Roxbury butcher (Richard LeBaron Bowen, Early Rehoboth 1:94).

Joseph married Mary Thompson on 3 Dec 1641 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Thompson and Alice Freeman) was born about 1619; died on 4 Aug 1693 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration: Massachusetts
• Name: Mary Wise
• Baptism: 14 Nov 1619, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England

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Biography:
His will was dated 6 November 1626 and proved 11 April 1627.

John married Alice Freeman before 1 Apr 1616 in Little Preston, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England. Alice (daughter of Henry Freeman and Margaret Edwards) was born between 1595 and 1600 in England; died on 11 Feb 1664/65 in New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Alice Parke
• Name: Alice Thompson