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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 6114A continuation of the article on Sen. John Lambert\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s home farm<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Sen. Lambert died in 1823, having failed to write a will. This meant that the Probate Court, otherwise known as the Orphans Court, had to distribute his real estate among his heirs. What was generally done was to order a public sale of the real estate, with the profits being divided among the heirs\u201a\u00c4\u00eea third to the widow and two-thirds to the children or their heirs.<\/p>\n The first owner after Lambert\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s death was his grandson, William Lambert Hoppock, who, on April 1, 1826 purchased part of the property at a public sale held by the Commissioners named by the court to divide the real estate of John Lambert deceased. What Hoppock bought was a tract of 163.3 acres plus a 5-acre woodlot. This included the 111.66 acres set off for the widow, Hannah, in the original division, plus an additional 52 acres.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Two more farms belonging to the Senator, a farm of 98 acres and another of 101 acres, were advertised for sale in the \u201a\u00c4\u00faTrenton True American\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 in November 1826. Both of these properties had \u201a\u00c4\u00fagood stone dwelling houses\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 on them. They may have been inhabited by family members or tenants.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Probably around 1790, Sen. Lambert\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s daughter Amy (1769-1848) married George Hoppock (1763-1798), son of Cornelius Hoppock and Catherine Corle of Amwell. They had twin sons, John Lambert Hoppock and William Lambert Hoppock, born on July 6, 1792. Their middle names attest to the esteem in which Amy\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s parents were held. Capt. John Lambert Hoppock was only 20 years old when he was killed at Plattsburg in the War of 1812 on April 27, 1813.<\/p>\n In 1790, George Hoppock was taxed on 100 acres,3<\/a><\/sup> which most likely was one of Sen. John Lambert\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s farms, and he was also running the tavern at Stockton.4<\/a><\/sup> According to Egbert T. Bush (and Charles Boyer), George Hoppock ran the tavern there in 1791. But he died at the young age of 35 on December 13, 1798, and was buried in the Barber Cemetery. Because he was so young and died intestate, his death was most likely caused by an accident or a sudden fatal disease. Administrators of his estate were the widow, her father John Lambert, and George Hoppock\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s father Cornelius.<\/p>\n Amy Lambert Hoppock, was left with three children, including their third child, Susannah, who was born on March 13, 1798. This Susannah was the granddaughter of Sen. Lambert who struck up a correspondence with him in 1807 when she was only 9 years old, while he was serving in the U. S. Congress. Fortunately, she saved all the letters that her grandfather wrote to her.5<\/a><\/sup>\u00ac\u2020Shortly after the War of 1812, she married David Wilson (son of Capt. John Wilson and Jane Deremer) and lived on a farm on Sandy Ridge-Mt. Airy Road near the present-day boundary of Delaware Township with West Amwell. They had no children.<\/p>\n The early death of George Hoppock may explain why son William remained at home rather than go to war with his brother John. About the same time that Susannah Hoppock married David Wilson, her brother William L. Hoppock married Jane Heed, who was born in 1794 to Abraham and Jane Heed. The Weed family had moved from Plumstead, Pennsylvania to Kingwood Township in 1791. But William L. Hoppock and wife Jane raised their family in Solebury, Bucks County. Their first daughter Achsah was born on December 4, 1818. They had seven children altogether, the youngest one, Jonathan, being born July 1831.<\/p>\n Jane Heed Hoppock died in 1834, only 39 years old. On November 4, 1837, Wm. L. Hoppock married second Hannah Liverton (1798-1871), widow of Zephaniah Curry (1799-1833). He was the son of John Curry and Eleanor Welsh, and grandson of Laughlin Curry and Margaret Barber. As it happens, Zephaniah Curry was a second cousin of Wm. L. Hoppock. He died about a year before his father John Curry died, and both were buried in the Barber Cemetery. Zephaniah Curry\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s sister Phebe married Robert Dilts in 1826, after whom Dilts Corner was named.<\/p>\n As for the Liverton family, I have hardly any information. It appears that she was the sister of Catherine Liverton, who married Amos Chamberlin, and of Robert Liverton, who married Hester Lanning. Hester was the granddaughter of the Robert Lanning who partnered with John Lambert to run Coryell\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s ferry in 1782.<\/p>\nWilliam L. Hoppock, Esq.<\/h3>\n