Lamb Family of Maryland

Project based on Lamb Family geneology by Francis L. Lamb of Chestertown, MD in the early 1990's.

It begins with ? Lambe marries ? Pearce, parents of Richard Lambe, Francis Lambe, Henry Lambe and Pearce Lamb (who comes to America in 1669).

Property

The family tract, Lamb's Meadow, is in historic trust. Details here: https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Kent/K-113.pdf

Pearce Lamb had Lamb's Meadow surveyed on the 19th day of March in 1694. It contained 215 acres. Upon his death in 1709, Pearce left Lamb's Meadow to his wife Mary Howe, stipulating that after her death it was to be divided between their two sons, Francis and Pearce. As the will states: "that tthey may set in any place of the tract which is above mentioned." This stipulation infers that their father's own dwelling may have been located elsewhere, perhaps on Lamb's Range adjoiningS, which was patented about 10 years before.

Francis Lamb (b. 1689) lived a long and prosperous life. On April 3, 1714, he married Rosamund Beck, at St. Paul's Church. While the records of all of his children's births and deaths are found in the Quaker records of the county, it remains difficult to ascertain when Francis took over the property as the date of his mother's death is unrecorded. Family tradition holds that Francis' brother Pearce died shortly after their father, leaving Francis sole heir of the tract. But according to a resurvey conducted for Francis in 1743, there were only 103 acres of the original grant in his possession.3

When Francis Lamb began the construction of his house is not easy to determine. Again according to family tradition, the house was built by Pearce and Mary Lamb, but that is improbable, as there are no other gambrel roof structures dating from before 1709 on the Eastern Shore.

Disambiguation

4 Jacob Lambs in the tree.

• 1: Son of Francis and Rosamond, b. 9/8/1725.
• 2: son of Edward and Eleanor, b. 5/8/1745 and died about age 3!
• 3: son of Pearce and Rachel, b. 3/3/1763. He married Mary Nuttall of KY and lived in KY. Daughter, "Polly", b. 5/28/1796 married Rev. Peter Hamilton Vorhees and son John married Elizabeth without issue.
• 4: Jacob Emerson Lamb, b. 10/23/1798 d. 5/28/1800 son of Isaac and Rachel

References

• https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/bama/id/97/ “According to Earle, located in Kent County "another of Mr. [B. Howard] Haman's ancestors was Pearce Lamb, a sturdy Quaker, who obtained a grant for 'Lamb's Range' in 1683, and in 1694 received another grant called 'Lamb's Meadows.' These two tracts were owned by Pearce Lamb's son, Francis Lamb, at the time (1714) he married Rosamund Beck. As author of the Maryland law under which the oyster beds of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries were first surveyed and mapped, Mr. Haman's name will go down into history as one of Maryland's patriotic sons." See: Earle, Swepson, The Chesapeake Bay Country (Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923), 315.
• “ The Key to Kent County History” The Historical Society of Kent County
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0419...
• “Lamb Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 1898, pp. 51–54. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919917. Accessed 25 Sept. 2020.
• http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/ead/5085labo.xml “ An Inventory of the Lamb-Booth-Miller Family Papers, 1709-1959”