I didn't think that White Creek was ever known as Salem. It is part of the village of Cambridge. Salem is 20 miles from White Creek. Salem was the home of the White Creek Revolutionary Militia in 1776. Ann

Ann, I stand corrected. I was quoting a secondary source that dealt with the emigration of the Rev. Thomas Clark's congregation, which apparently was not accurate when it came to Washington County geography. I have found one other glitch in the geographic references in that secondary source, which were easily explained and turned out to be actually logical after doing some rather extensive research into the historic geography. When consulting Covens, Mortimer and Coven, Jr.'s map of townships east of Lake Champlain laid down by New Hampshire and New York, dated 1778, it would appear that White Creek was in the Hoosick Tax District of Albany County and New Perth, a/k/a Salem was located in Charlotte County, which had been created from Albany County in 1772. (Coven, Mortimer and Coven, Jr.'s map is available at the Library of Congress. The Call number written on the manuscript is G3710 1780 C.6. Vault) Joseph Lambert's name does not appear on any of Albany County Tax District Lists that I have for tax act, which was enacted on October 23, 1779. His name is not on the list of Turner Patent residents in 1789 as found on page 123 of Johnson's History of Washington County, NY. According to the 1790 U.S. Census Return available through Heritage Quest On Line, there are five men living in the United States, who bear the name Joseph Lambert and none of those five (5) men live in New York State - let alone Salem, Washington County, NY. (However the two, who live in Massachusetts do live in Salem, Essex County, MA.) In 1800 the U.S. Census Return cites 7 men with the name of Joseph Lambert, but again none of them are living in New York State In 1810 the U.S. Census Return cites 3 men with the name of Joseph Lambert and only one lives in New York State and his is down in Westchester County. In 1820 the U.S. Census Return cites 11 men with the name of Joseph Lambert and three live in New York State. One in Tomkins County and two in Westchester County. Granted the U.S. Census transcriptions available through Heritage Quest are not always completely accurate, but.... So leaving the historic geography issues aside, I do not know what to say to Eileen. Leslie