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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Because 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.<\/p>\n
To briefly recap, the first John Lambert purchased a tract of over 800 acres in 1750 and immediately sold off the northern half to Valentine Ent, saving the lower half for his sons John Jr. and Gershom. Son Gershom (father of Sen. John) got the northern half of this 400 acres and built a house on Seabrook Road. Son John Jr. got the southern half, and built his house on Lambertville-Headquarters Road.<\/p>\n
The two brothers, John and Gershom, both died young in 1763, probably from smallpox. Fortunately, both brothers wrote wills, leaving their real estate (or the profits from the sale of it) to their sons. Unfortunately, both brothers had sons named Gershom and John. Here is a crude map showing the location of the two farms. (Click on the image to get a better view.)<\/p>\n
<\/a>I will say no more about the Seabrook Road farm, having covered that subject in the previous two articles. My focus today is the farm of John Lambert, Jr. and wife, on Lambertville-Headquarters Road.<\/p>\n In his will, dated February 14, 1763, John Lambert left the plantation where he lived to his sons John, Gershom and Jeremiah. The will was recorded on March 29, 1763. John Lambert was only 49 years old when he died; his wife Mary was about the same age, and her son Gershom, born in 1754, was only 9 years old. Her son John seems to have died not long after 1763, as I have found no record of him. The third son, Jeremiah, apparently shared ownership of their father\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s real estate, but did not take up residence on Lambertville-Headquarters Road.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n It is hard to say how the family got along before Gershom Lambert came of age in 1775. The widow Mary Lambert had seven children to care for, but I have not discovered when she died. She may have been buried in the Barber Cemetery along with the rest of the Lamberts, but if so, her gravestone has not survived. Her husband John\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s grave has also not been found there, but it seems more than likely that he too was buried in the Barber Cemetery.<\/p>\n Gershom Lambert (1754-1847), son of John and Mary Lambert, became the owner of the Lambertville-Headquarters farm (Block 62, lot 12). Unlike his father, he lived to the ripe old age of 93. During this long life, he married three times. His first wife, Mary Barber, was the daughter of John and Magdalen Barber, who lived further north on Lambertville-Headquarters Road. Mary Barber Lambert may have died in childbirth, as she had no surviving children, that I know of. Gershom Lambert\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s second wife was the daughter of another neighbor, Laughlin Curry and wife Margaret Barber. (I do not know the daughter\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s given name.) She had one son, Asher Lambert, born in 1788, but she probably died not long afterwards.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\nGershom Lambert<\/h3>\n