{"id":334,"date":"2011-10-28T04:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/?p=334"},"modified":"2014-09-24T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:21:55","slug":"lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"LAMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Joshua Lamb in an affidavit made in Perq, asserted that he was \u201cof Mass Bay, in New England.\u201d Sir William Berkeley granted to Joshua Lamb of New England \u201cthe whole Island of Roanoke\u201d April 17, 1676. Test\u2019 James Bray, Darby Maguire, John Culpepper. In this grant he is called \u201cmerchant.\u201d Joshua Lamb of Roxbury, Co of Suffolk, in New England, Merchant; sold said Island for \u00a3150 unto Nicholas Paige, of Boston, same county, Merchant. Sept 29, 1679. Mary Lamb widow of Joshua, returned to Roxbury, where she signed some papers 1690, and calls herself of said town. As Joshua Lamb made no will, so far as the records of Perq make manifest no direct line can be traced from him, but it seems probable that the next to make his entry into the county, may have been his son, or gr-son.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lamb, William, (next to appear) made his will in Perq, probated April 1758, naming wife Miriam, and dau\u2019s: Elizabeth, Miriam, &amp; Mary. Ex William Newby (bro-in-law). As he named no sons, we are at sea again, as to descent, but he may have \u201cset off\u201d his sons before this date, to use an old Quaker phrase, in use at that day. William Lamb m Miriam Newby 2, 11mo 1751.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Isaac Lamb, (s of Henry) m Elizabeth Nixon (d of Phineas) 18, 2mo 1756. As these two appear to be contemporaries, they were probably brothers. Henry Lambs name appears on Tithe List of James Sitterson J. P. 1744. On List of Masters, &amp; mistresses, between Cypress Bridge, &amp; Skinners Bridge, are found the names of Henry &amp; Thomas Lamb (no date). As Henry Lamb made no will it is not possible to find descent from him, although he surely had children, as shown by his son Isaac.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lamb, Joseph, (Thought to be son of Isaac) m Lovey Smith, 1, 11mo 1794. His will p in Perq, Nov 1803, names sons: Nixon, &amp; Stanton, brother John Lamb, bro-in-law Hosea Smith, dau\u2019s: Mary Sarah, &amp; Nancy Lamb.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lamb, Zachariah, m Miriam Griffin, 1, 2mo 1785. He also made his will in Perq, p May 1804. Sons: William, &amp; Chalkey, dau\u2019s: Mary, &amp; Betsy, wife Miriam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lamb, Phineas, m Dorothy \u2014 &amp; had issue according to his will, p in Perq Feb 1809. Sons: Thomas, Jacob, Josiah, &amp; Isaac, dau\u2019s: Lydia, Rebecca, &amp; Elizabeth Lamb, dau Miriam Griffin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lamb, Restore, m Millicent Winslow (d of Jacob, &amp; Elizabeth). His will p in Perq, May 1823, names wife Millicent, sons: Stephen, &amp; Caleb, dau\u2019s: Sarah Perry, &amp; Mary Lamb, son Jacob, gr-son Thomas Hunter, dau Elizabeth Hunter, dau Kezia Willson, &amp; Gulielma Lamb, son-in-law Sam\u2019l Willson.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: small\">Source:\u00a0History of Perquimans County\u00a0by Ellen Goode Rawlings Winslow, (1931).<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Lamb in an affidavit made in Perq, asserted that he was \u201cof Mass Bay, in New England.\u201d Sir William Berkeley granted to Joshua Lamb of New England \u201cthe whole Island of Roanoke\u201d April 17, 1676. Test\u2019 James Bray, Darby Maguire, John Culpepper. In this grant he is called \u201cmerchant.\u201d Joshua Lamb of Roxbury, Co &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/lamb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LAMB&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[6945,15819,6952,29828,12192,6961,30830],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-families-of-perquimans-county","tag-griffin","tag-hunter","tag-lamb","tag-newby","tag-nixon","tag-perry","tag-winslow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8874,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}