Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Shipright and later land speculator

Notes:

Note:
Joshua served as a colonel in King Phillip's War and in 1686 acquired title from the Indians to land and later founded the towns of Leicester and Hardwick. Purchased all of Roanoke Island from Gov. Berkley of VA April 17, 1676. In this grant Joshua is referred to as 'merchant Joshua Lamb of Roxbury, County of Suffock in New England.'

Col. married Mary ALCOCK about 1673 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. Mary (daughter of Dr. Dr. John ALCOCK and Sarah PALSGRAVE) was born on 15 Aug 1652 in Boston, Suffolk, MA; died on 9 Oct 1700 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Col. Col. Joshua LAMB, Jr was born in 1674 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; died on 20 Jul 1754 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.
2. Dorothy LAMB was born in 1679 in Suffolk Co., MA; died in 1760 in Framingham, Middlesex, MA.
3. George LAMB was born in 1681 in Suffolk Co., MA.
4. Elizabeth LAMB was born on 2 Mar 1682 in Suffolk Co., MA; died on 9 Jun 1683 in Suffolk Co., MA.
5. John LAMB was born on 22 Apr 1683 in Suffolk Co., MA; died on 22 Apr 1683 in Suffolk Co., MA.
6. John LAMB was born on 3 Feb 1684 in Suffolk Co., MA; died on 16 Jun 1685 in Suffolk Co., MA.
7. Samuel LAMB was born on 9 Apr 1686 in Suffolk Co., MA.
8. Thomas LAMB was born on 23 Mar 1687.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 1630

Notes:

Birth:
Possibly born Barnardiston, Suffolk. The proposed origin of Thomas Lamb in Barnardiston is based on three baptisms only, which are chronologically consistent with what is known of the Roxbury man and his family [TAG 56:99], but this evidence is not conlcusive.

Note:
At least 43 of the early settlers of Roxbury arrived on the Arbella in the Winthrop Fleet, 1630. They include: Johnson, Burr, Alcock, Lamb, Rawlins, Crafts, Dudley, Porter, Pratt, Goldwaithe, and Ruggles. In the year 1631 the ship "Lyon," William Piertie, master, left the shores of England with the first batch of Nazeing pilgrims on board. Eliot, the apostle, was there, with William Curtis and Sarah, his wife, Eliot's sister and their children, in company with the wife of Governor Winthrop. They were ten weeks on the water. In the summer of 1632 she once more left the Thames for Boston, having among her passengers William Heath, with his wife and children, and several other Nazeing worthies. Isaac, his elder brother, did not quit Nazeing until 1635. Early in 1633, John Graves, with his wife and five children, left their home for the shores of New England, and in 1635 they were followed by a large number of Nazeing Christians who came over in the "Hopewell." Others came later, but emigration from Old to New England ceased about 1640, when the popular cause there began to look hopeful.

Died:
Month 1, Day 28: Bro. Lamb died of a calenture (high fever) by a great cold." His remains lie in the family lot, which is now at the corner of Washington and Eustis Streets, Boston.

Buried:
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Thomas married Dorothy HARBITTLE on 16 Jul 1640 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. Dorothy was born about 1610 in Horton, Northumberland, ENGLAND; died on 28 Jan 1698 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]