Part VI - Lampman (Lampmann)

David Bruce Lampman was married to Beryl Waunita Roach

Balthajar Lampmann, son of David Bruce, was born about 1630 and died 14 January 1692.

He married Sabrina Margaret Arnold, who was born about 1639 & died 15 December 1709.

Peter Lampmann, son of Balthajar, was born about 1665 in Stockheim, Hessen, Germany, then part of the Palatinate.

He was married in Stockheim, on 20 July 20 1698, to Catherine Deckman (Decleman), a widow Frikk, who was born about 1665.

In 1709, Peter petitioned to emigrate to the New World and upon payment, permission was granted. The family arrived in New York, via Amsterdam and London, England.

They came with other Palatines and their Lutheran pastor came with them. His name was Simmendinger and he tended to their spiritual needs, and kept detailed lists of their condition and reported back to the families in Germany, as to their welfare when he returned back to Germany to bring out more refugees and to assure anxious relatives left behind. From new research it seems Peter and Catherine boarded the ship Betsey, one of ten ships, on Christmas Day in 1709. They live aboard under poor conditions, till the ship sailed 10 April from Plymouth. Many died enroute.

The new arrivals were pitifully poor and were put to work in the tar fields providing tar from the pine trees for the British Navy. This did not last, and to survive until they could find work and farm, the British Governor Hunter of New York fed them out of his own pocket. On the subsistence lists of 1710-12, Peter Lampmann�s family is noted first as two adults and three children, and the later as three adults and two children. Children became adults at ten years of age, as far as rations were concerned.

These hard working, honest and loyal Germans built homes, cultivated land and thrived in very harsh conditions in these early years. Many of these Lampmann families helped to settle early the states of New York, Vermont and lower provinces of Quebec, Ontario and the surrounding wilderness. They may not have been the first to adventure into a wild and rugged region, but they were among those early hardy German Palatines who ventured forth.

After leaving the tar fields and working their own farms, the Lampmann family established very comfortable houses and prosperous farms. One such home was a mansion on the banks of the Hudson River at East Greenwich, opposite Albany, Rensselaer County, New York. There were slaves and servants on the estate.

An olde report of the family states �Tradition has it that the song �Yankee Doodle� was composed on that estate by a young surgeon on the staff of General Abercrombie while staying at the old home, during the American Revolution. From a copy of an article from the register of Fort Plain, 17th July 1894: �A skirmish took place on the land of the late Peter Lampmann and the farm was ever after distinguinshed with the name of 'Lampmann�s Battle'. This was north-east of Johnsville and is shown on various maps.

They had 3 children, plus a child of Catherine�s.

Children:

1. Johann Peter Lampmann, born 5 April 1700


2. Anna Elizabeth Lampmann, born 1703, died 29 May 1704, Stockheim


3. Johann Casper Lampmann, born 1705

Johann Peter Lampmann, the son of Peter Lampmann and Catherine Deckman, was born 5 April 1700, in Stockheim, Hessen, Germany, coming to America as a child.

He was married to Johanna Elizabeth Planck, who was born in 1696, in Dansenau, Nassau, Germany who was born in 1696 from another Palatine family, that of Johannes, (born 1667 Dansenau, Germany, died in New York) and Maria Planch They lived near Hoosick, New York, and had a large family.

Children:

1. Frederick Lampman, born 1720


2. John Michael Lampman, born in 1729

Frederick Lampman, son of Johnn Peter Lampman and Johanna Elizabeth Planck, was born in 1720. He was married to Catherine Schramm on 11 June 1748.

He served as Sargeant in Captain Halenbeck�s Company of the New York Militia in 1757, during French Indian War; loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution, and came to Canada at 64 years of age.

During the Revolution, Frederick�s six eldest sons fought for the British. Peter, Frederick, William, Johannes, Matthias and Stephen served as guides, soldiers and spies along the Hudson River and along the routes north Canada. The brothers had to leave their homes to escape being inpressed in the rebel army.

Children:

1. Peter Lampman, born in 1749


2. Frederick Lampman 2


3. William Lampman, as captured in 1780 by the rebels and hung as a spy in Albany Gaol. His wife and his first cousin were ordered to the British lines and away from their relatives.


4. Johannes Lampman


5. Stephen Lampman

John Michael Lampman, son of Johnn Peter Lampman and Joan Elizbeth Planck, was born 11 December 1729 in Hosack, Albany County, New York, and died in 25 December 1811.

He was married 6 October 1751, in Hosack, New York, to Polly Maria Brouwer (Brower) who was born 29 January 1759, Renneselaer, Brunswick County, New York, and died 12 January 1810, daughter of John William Brouwer (born about 1700)

The Vermont Historical Gazeteer, Vol II, page 254-8, says that the first settlers of Highgate were John Hogle and ____Lampman.

Vol 4, page 994, states that Orange Smith was followed to Swantown by Michael Lampman, John Hogle, Stephen Lampman and Henry Lampman. They had settled on land originally belonging to Highgate in 1789.

The land was later annexed to Swantown, Vermont. Mikel Lampman was a selectman at Highgate in 1791.

Stephen Lampman was moderator of the Swantown meeting in 1790, and became the first selectman in 1791. Peter Lampman was a fence-viewer, and prominent business man, from 1793-1803.

Polly died 12 January 1855, in Henryville, PQ, Canada

Children:

1. Polly Marie Lampman, born about 29 June 1759, Rennselaer, Brunswick County, New York, died 12 January 1855, Henryville, PQ, Canada, married Johannes Hogle, son of Pieter Hogle (Hoghil) and Catherina Vosburgh. (See: John Hogle)

Peter Lampman, son of Frederick Lampman and Catherine Schramm, was born in 1749

Two of Peter�s sons served in the War of 1812-14. Peter was severely wounded on the 27th May 1813, at the Battle of Fort George. He survived the primitive surgery of the day and lived until 1870. Harold Lampman has his shot flask, powder horn, and other article of that War. Peter�s epaulettes were lent to the St. Catherines Museum many years ago and have never been returned. His certificate of wounds, signed by J Muieyead (who was the surgeon to Sir Isaac Brock) states the the �ball penetrated his left side and was cut out nigh to the back bone, which has rendered him incapable of performing any military duties. John served throughout the war and was at the Battle of Beaver Dam. For 5 years, Peter was a hunted man.

Peter was married to Elizabeth Heens (Hayes) a sister of Adam Hayes of Butler�s Rangers who settled in St. Catherines. As a loyalist, was granted lot 182 in Newark (now Niagara Township) and also lots 2 and 3 Hassau (now Grantham-St Catherine) and lots 1 and 2 in the old No. 3. Later he possessed 181 and 183 in Niagara Township. He amassed all his property together at the junction of the three townships-900 acres in all.

Peter and Elizabeth had 10 children-five boys and five girls. He became very active in affairs from the very beginning. At one time he was an assessor and a fence viewer.

He was one of the founders of the Old German Church in Thorold (St. Peter�s), which was destroyed when the Welland Canal was enlarged. Though St. Peter�s was originally intended to be a Lutheran church, there was trouble getting a Lutheran pastor and when one was obtained, there was much dissention and he was asked to leave. The Church of England clergyman the Rev. Robert Addison looked after the German Lutheran Church for a brief time when the Lutherans joined with the Presbyterians.