Letters of John Lambert, 12/11/1807

By in Barber, Delaware Township, Families, Hunterdon County, Lambert Tags: , ,

beginning in 1807 when Lambert was a member of Congress 
ending in 1815 when Lambert was in his last year as a U. S. Senator

It has been nine months since Lambert’s last letter to his granddaughter. The last one was shortly before the Ninth Congress adjourned on March 4, 1807. A very unsatisfactory treaty with Great Britain had arrived the day before, but President Jefferson declined to order the Congress to remain in Washington to consider it, for he was too dissatisfied with it to present it to them. So Congress adjourned, and Lambert spent his time back at home tending to his farm and his library, as well as his extensive family, which was increased on July 28, 1807 when his grandson, James Larison, was born.

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John Lambert’s Letters, 1/16/1807

By in Delaware Township, Families, Hoppock, Hunterdon County, Lambert Tags:

Letters from John Lambert to his nine-year-old granddaughter Susan Hoppock when Lambert was a member of the Ninth Congress

In January 1807, John Lambert was a member of the House of Representatives. He and all the representatives from New Jersey were  members of Thomas Jefferson’s party, the Democratic Republicans or Jeffersonian Republicans, as they were later known. And they were all elected at large. These were the final days of the Ninth Congress, which had come into session on March 4, 1805, and would end on March 4, 1807.

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The Anderson Farm

By in Amwell Township, Anderson, Delaware Township, Stockton Tags: ,

In writing about Nathaniel Saxton in my series on Raven Rock, I learned about his investments outside of that village. One of his earliest deeds involved the sale in 1807 of 47.27 acres to Ann Anderson for $422.69.1 This property in today’s Stockton village has an interesting story, one which shows how vulnerable 18th and early 19th century people were to the miserable consequences of debt.

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