Family History - Person Sheet
Family History - Person Sheet
NameJohn Lambert 
Birthabout 1736, Frederick County, Maryland519
Deathabout 1804, Dry Run, Pendleton County, Virginia (West Virginia)520
FatherJohn Lambert
Spouses
Notes for John Lambert
Although I have found no direct documentation that John Lambert was Garrett’s father, there is a quite convincing accumulation of associations and detail. For example, the 1793 tax lists523 of Clark County, Kentucky, show Matthias, James and John Jr. together, indicating that their father was named John. Matthias’s pension application524 reports that he was born near Frederick, Maryland. Garrett and James appear together a number of times in Nelson County, Kentucky tax lists,525 along with Abraham, an early settler there.526 James was a bondsman for Garrett’s marriage to Dorcas Yates, and Matthias’s name is included there as well.527
John Lambert was born in or around Leitersburg, in Frederick County, Maryland.528 In 1766, “John Lambert Junr. of Frederick County” recorded a bill of sale529 of personal property to John Lambert, Senr. for sixteen pounds of Pennsylvania money (which was in common use there at that time). The contents read like an estate inventory, a whole zoo with the kitchen sink thrown in: “One Red Cow with a white face, 2 Calves 2 Brown Mares 2 Sets of a mans Apparel 2 Sows Bigg with pigg 7 acres of Winter Grain and acre and half of Flax and about 4 acres of Oates 2 acres and a half of Indian Corn one pewter Bason One Large Iron pot & 1 small Pott 6 yards of linen one Hand Saw 2 Axes 1 Grubbing Hoe and 3 Pails.” This is evidently a young man about to pull up roots, and in need of money. One wonders about the circumstances that led to a formal and recorded legal agreement for what would normally be an unwritten and private family transaction.
The younger John may have gone back and forth for a while between the new place and the old. He was still in Frederick County in 1769, according to a land deed there.530 By 1771, he moved to Augusta County, Virginia.521 In 1783, he patented land in Pendleton County, (now West) Virginia,519 where he stayed for the rest of his life.
There are reports, some apparently well-founded and others entirely speculative, that he was a bit of a character and something of a ne’er-do-well.519 I find the note of particular interest, “On 15 March 1774, John and Jean Lambert were charged in court with not bringing up a child properly… On 19 May 1778, John was in court again on the same charge as before but no details were given.”519 Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down the original court records.
The Y-DNA of my Lambert ancestors was probably of the haplogroup R-L44 (also called S171), from the records of my genetic relatives in 23andMe.
John Lambert was born in or around Leitersburg, in Frederick County, Maryland.528 In 1766, “John Lambert Junr. of Frederick County” recorded a bill of sale529 of personal property to John Lambert, Senr. for sixteen pounds of Pennsylvania money (which was in common use there at that time). The contents read like an estate inventory, a whole zoo with the kitchen sink thrown in: “One Red Cow with a white face, 2 Calves 2 Brown Mares 2 Sets of a mans Apparel 2 Sows Bigg with pigg 7 acres of Winter Grain and acre and half of Flax and about 4 acres of Oates 2 acres and a half of Indian Corn one pewter Bason One Large Iron pot & 1 small Pott 6 yards of linen one Hand Saw 2 Axes 1 Grubbing Hoe and 3 Pails.” This is evidently a young man about to pull up roots, and in need of money. One wonders about the circumstances that led to a formal and recorded legal agreement for what would normally be an unwritten and private family transaction.
The younger John may have gone back and forth for a while between the new place and the old. He was still in Frederick County in 1769, according to a land deed there.530 By 1771, he moved to Augusta County, Virginia.521 In 1783, he patented land in Pendleton County, (now West) Virginia,519 where he stayed for the rest of his life.
There are reports, some apparently well-founded and others entirely speculative, that he was a bit of a character and something of a ne’er-do-well.519 I find the note of particular interest, “On 15 March 1774, John and Jean Lambert were charged in court with not bringing up a child properly… On 19 May 1778, John was in court again on the same charge as before but no details were given.”519 Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down the original court records.
The Y-DNA of my Lambert ancestors was probably of the haplogroup R-L44 (also called S171), from the records of my genetic relatives in 23andMe.