New England Lamb Families Before 1692 LAMB, ABEL, Cambridge, perhaps s. of Thomas of Roxbury, in the employm. of William French, was bur. 16 Oct. 1649. ABIEL, Roxbury, s. of Thomas, was one of brave capt. Johnson's comp. Dec. 1675, had bapt. there s. Harbottle, 28 Feb. 1675; Abiel, b. 23 Dec bapt. 4 Jan. 1680; Jonathan, b. 11 Nov. 1682; and Samuel, bapt. 12 Apr. 1685; but I kn. not his w. and suspect, that be liv. over the line of the town, for the town rec. has not one of these b. He rem. to Framingham, then pt. of Sudbury, a. 1695, was constable 1700, selectman 1701, and d. bef. 1710. CALEB, Roxbury, mariner, br. of the preced. m. 30 June 1669, Mary, d. of Joseph Wise, had Thomas, b. 26 Apr. bapt. 15 May 1670; Caleb, 29, bapt. 31 Dec. 1671; Joseph, 11, bapt. 16 Nov. 1673; Mary, 13 Apr. 1678, d. soon; Jeremiah, 24, bapt. 25 May 1679; Mary, again, 7, bapt. 13 Mar. 1681; Elizabeth bapt. 4 Mar. 1683 (but the town rec. has, erron. I suppose, John, b. 5 Apr. 1683); John, [[vol. 3, p. 47]] 29, bapt. 30 Mar. 1684; and Eunice, bapt. 22 Nov. 1685, of wh. is no ment. in the town rec. that supplies Huldah, b. 31 Jan. 1688. He d. Barry thinks, a. 1697. DANIEL, Springfield, prob. s. of John, freem. 1690, had a fam. and d. 1692. EDWARD, Watertown 1633, had w. Margaret; ch. Hannah, b. 27 Dec. 1633; Mary, 10 Sept. 1635, d. soon; Samuel, 3 Apr. 1637; Mary, again, 30 Apr. 1639; John, and Increase, tw. 13 Feb. 1640, d. both in a wk.; and rem. to Boston, there had Elizabeth bapt. 27 Aug. 1648, a. 11 days old. His wid. m. Samuel Allen. Coll. Rec. III. 216 and IV. pt. I. p. 31. JOHN, Springfield 1653, prob s. of Thomas, came 1630, with his f. had John, b. 1654, d. soon; John, and Thomas, tw. 1655 of wh. John d. at 21 yrs.; Joanna, 1657; Sarah, 1660; Samuel, 1663; Daniel, 1666; Mary, 1669, d. young; Abigail, 1670; and Joshua, 1674. He for sec. or third w. in 1688 m. Lydia, wid. of John Norton, wh. bef. was wid. of Lawrence Bliss, and d. of deac. Samuel Wright, and d. 28 Sept. 1690. His ds. Joanna, wh. m. Samuel Stebbins, and Sarah d. aft. m. but bef. him; Thomas, and Joshua, prob. rem. to Stonington; at least they at S. have no ch. on rec.; Samuel and Daniel liv. at S. JOHN, New London 1664-9, was offer. in the latter yr. to be made freem. in Nov. 1677 lost a s. by being struck by a mill-wheel, as told in Bradstreet's Journ. He perhaps was in 1712 in that pt. made Groton. JOSHUA, Roxbury, B. of Thomas, m. Mary, d. of John Alcock, had Joshua, bapt. 7 Mar. 1675; Dorothy, 8 June 1679; George, 27 Mar. 1681; John, 22 Apr. 1683, d. soon; Elizabeth b. 2 Mar. 1684, d. soon; John, again, 3, bapt. 8 Feb. 1685, d. at four mos.; and Samuel, 9, bapt. 11 Apr. 1686. He was a merch. purch. of Sir William Berkeley, lands at Roanoke in Virg. wh. he sold 1677, and d. 23 Sept. 1690. His wid. d. 9 Oct. 1700. Dorothy, m. Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, first min. of Simsbury, and, also, his successor, Rev. Timothy Woodbridge. SAMUEL, Springfield, freem. 1690. THOMAS, Roxbury, came, 1630, in the fleet with Winthrop brot. w. Elizabeth and two ch. Thomas, and John, req. adm. 19 Oct. had Samuel, b. in Oct. bapt. that yr. at Dorchester, bef. the ch. at R. was gather. and was freem. 18 May foll. had Abel, fourth s. b. Oct. 1633; Decline, the first d. b. Apr. 1637, wh. m. 7 Dec. 1666, Stephen Smith; and Benjamin, the sixth ch. Oct. 1639, d. soon, as did his mo. both bur. on 28 Nov. Barry calls this last ch. of Elizabeth Caleb; but the ch. rec. is copious, and explicit to the contra. The town rec. said Benjamin, b. 27 Nov. but a modern hand eras. that, and wrongful. ins. Caleb. Such violat. of the vestal purity of rec. is less rare than might be expect. He m. 16 July 1640, Dorothy Harbottle, "a godly sis. of the ch." had Caleb, b. 9 Apr. 1641; Joshua, 27, bapt. 28 Nov. 1642; Mary, bapt. 29 Sept. 1644; and Abiel, 2 Aug. 1646. The f. d. 28 Mar. preced. and apostle Eliot notes [[vol. 3, p. 48]] (on the bapt.) his "not long afore leav. his childr. to the Lord to be their f." and his wid. m. 2 Feb. 1652, Thomas Hawley. See Winthrop II. 339, 40. Mary m. Thomas Swan. WILLIAM, Boston 1668, d. 1685.