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The Gershom Lambert Farm

October 21, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Barber, Delaware Twp, Hunterdon, Lambert 1 Comment Tags: early settlers, John Lambert, land titles

Because there has been some confusion about exactly where Sen. John Lambert lived, I have spent the past two articles determining that his farm was located on Seabrook Road and not on Lambertville-Headquarters Road, as some have thought. The confusion was caused by the fact that both farms were owned at one time by men named John Lambert and Gershom Lambert.

Sen. Lambert’s Farm, pt 2

October 10, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Barber, Delaware Twp, Families, Hoppock, Lambert, Lambertville, Prallsville 5 Comments Tags: houses, John Lambert, land titles, mills

A continuation of the article on Sen. John Lambert’s home farm.

Having discovered which of two farms belonged to Sen. John Lambert, I realized how amazingly interconnected the Lambert family was. That will hold true even more so here in part two. However, I have not done all the research that could have been done before publishing this article. It was a question of when to stop.

Two Lambert Farms

September 25, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Barber, Delaware Twp, Hunterdon, Lambert 3 Comments Tags: early settlers, ferries, houses, John Lambert, land titles, portraits, proprietors

There are two farms in southern Delaware Township that are particularly interesting. They were part of the old Dimsdale proprietary tract north of Lambertville until 1750, when John Lambert, a recent immigrant from Connecticut, purchased it.

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