HISTORY OF THE LAMBERT FAMILY
Replies: 44
HISTORY OF THE LAMBERT FAMILY
By Oscar Doane Lambert
Publishers Whitney & White
Morgantown, West Virginia 1958
Page 122,"CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST LAMBERTS OF VIRGINIA"
"The family name in the United States is quite as old as our firat permanent settlement. Thomas Lambert came to VIRGINIA in the spring of 1608 with Captain Nelson on the ship Phoenix. The Phoenix carried forty-seven men, officers, soldiers, and artisians. Captain John Smith has recorded that on December 29, 1608, he set out from Jamestown to Werawocomoco, having two vessels, the Discovery and the Pinnace. Among the fifteen soldiers on the Pinnace was listed Thomas Lambert."
Source: John Smith's Works, 132-135.
Page 123,"An old record states that on May 29, 1638, he purchased 200 acres in the Lower County of Norwalk, and the price he agreed to pay for his new farm was the transportation of four persons into the colony."
Page 124,"The last record relating to the career of Thomas Lambert was his election to the Burgesses in 1661."
Publishers Whitney & White
Morgantown, West Virginia 1958
Page 122,"CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST LAMBERTS OF VIRGINIA"
"The family name in the United States is quite as old as our firat permanent settlement. Thomas Lambert came to VIRGINIA in the spring of 1608 with Captain Nelson on the ship Phoenix. The Phoenix carried forty-seven men, officers, soldiers, and artisians. Captain John Smith has recorded that on December 29, 1608, he set out from Jamestown to Werawocomoco, having two vessels, the Discovery and the Pinnace. Among the fifteen soldiers on the Pinnace was listed Thomas Lambert."
Source: John Smith's Works, 132-135.
Page 123,"An old record states that on May 29, 1638, he purchased 200 acres in the Lower County of Norwalk, and the price he agreed to pay for his new farm was the transportation of four persons into the colony."
Page 124,"The last record relating to the career of Thomas Lambert was his election to the Burgesses in 1661."