Jonathan Lambert Genealogy

30. JONATHAN LAMBERT was born Mar. 20, 1696/7, and it was probably he who was master of the ,Sea Flower, sloop," owned by Timothy Orne, jr., of Salem, which sailed December, 1747, on a voyage to North Carolina with a cargo of New England rum, molasses and oznabriggs. It was likewise probably he who was cast away Oct. 24, 1759, as Bentley records. He removed to Boston, for he was married there Mar. 4, 1717/18, to Mary Buchanan, and his children's births are there recorded.

In a deed, May 5, 1737, Jonathan Lambert, of Boston, shipwright, with the consent of Mary his wife, sells for £5, to Samuel Swasey of Salem, shipwright, one sixtythird part of a tract of land called " A Canada Township," lately granted by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay "to Samuel King & others Heirs and representatives of Such as were in the Canada Expedition [in the year 1690], it being ye Right allowed Said Swasey for one Jona Lambert (Dec'd)."

Children, born in Boston:

62. JOHN, b. Oct. 16, 1719.
63. JONATHAN, b. June 9, 1722.
64. MARY, b. Sept. 8, 1724.
65. ELIZABETH, b. July 1, 1730.
66. THOMAS, b. Jan. 28, 1735.

*This township was laid out 19 June, 1735, six miles square lying west of the Narraganset town.-Mass. Province Laws.

Parents: Jonathan Lambert Genealogy