Deborah Fowler*

Samuel Belding

Samuel Foote

Nathaniel Foote

Elizabeth Seymour

John Seymour*

Sarah Gregory*

Elizabeth Lamberton (Sellivant)*

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George Lamberton*

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If it be thy pleasure"- Thus prayed the old divine- "To bury our friends in the ocean, Take them, for they are thine

" But Master Lamberton muttered, And under his breath said he, "This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be

" And the ships that came from England, When the winter months were gone, Brought no tiding of this vessel

Nor of Master Lamberton. This put the people to praying That the Lord would let them hear What in his greater wisdom He had done to friends so dear. And at last our prayers were answered: It was in the month of June An hour before sunset Of a windy afternoon. When, steadily steering landward, A ship was seen below, And they knew it was Lamberton, Master, Who sailed so long ago. On she came with a cloud of canvas, Right against the wind that blew, Until the eye could distinguish The faces of the crew. Then fell her straining top mast, Hanging tangled in the shrouds, And her sails were loosened and lifted, And blown away like clouds. And the masts, with all their rigging, Fell slowly, one by one, And the hulk dialated and vanished, As a sea-mist in the sun

And the people who saw thus marvel Each said unto his friend, That this was the mould of their vessel, and thus her tragic end. And the pastor of the village Gave thanks to God in Prayer, That, to quiet their troubled spirits, He had sent a Ship of Air. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England., vol. 3,p.48-49. Lamberton, George, New Haven 1641, prob. merch. from London, was one ofthe chief inhabs. employ. 1643 in project. a sett. at Delaware, butresist. by the Swedes, wh. vindica. their right; by w. Margaret hadMercy, bapt. 17 Jan. 1641; Desire, 13 Mar . 1642; and Obedience, 9 Feb.1645 went in Jan. 1646 for Eng. in the sh. of 80 [p.49] tons, "cut out ofthe ice 3 miles," with Mr. Gregson, the w. of dep.-gov. Goodyear, andothers, wh. was never heard of. Johnson, in his W. W. P. and Winth. II.266 , well relate the matter; but Mather, Magn. I. 25, has prov. the gr.superiority result. from tradit. of a story told 50 yrs. aft. to thecontempo. narrat. By tak. the "dimensions" of the sh. in the air,Mather's worthy corresp. could make her a. 15 0 tons. His readers admit,that benefits of similar measure the ecclesiast. hist. gain. in hiseveryday life. He left wid. wh. m. dep.-gov. Stephen Goodyear, and,perhaps, ds. Eliz. wh. m. 1654, Daniel Sillevant; Desire, m. 1659, ThomasCooper, jr . of Springfield; Hannah m. Samuel Wells; and, next, Col. JohnAllyn; and Obedience, wh. m. 1676, Samuel Smith. Yet it is not sure,that these were his ds. and possib. ano. fam. may have come, for atJamaica, L. I. was a THOMAS, 1686. ~~~~~~~~~~~ George LAMBERTON BIRTH: ABT 1604, England DEATH: 1646, At Sea Father: Christopher LAMBERTON Mother: Mary (Margaret) DENIS Family 1: Margaret LEWEN MARRIAGE: 6 Jan 1628/9, St. Nicholas Acons, London, England 1.Elizabeth LAMBERTON (ABT 1632 - May 1716) 2.Hannah LAMBERTON (ABT 1634 - ) 3.Hope LAMBERTON (ABT 1635 - ) 4.Deliverance LAMBERTON (ABT 1638 - AFT 1664) 5.Mercy LAMBERTON ( - BEF 1677) 6.Desire LAMBERTON 7.Obedience LAMBERTON ( - 29 Mar 1734) __ _Richard LAMBERTON _ __ _Christopher LAMBERTON _ __ _Cassandre DIGHTON _ --George LAMBERTON _Mary (Margaret) DENIS _ George LAMBERTON BIRTH: London, England Barnard Family research by David Evans, New Canaan, Connecticut,1975. DEATH: 1646 Barnard Family research by David Evans, New Canaan, Connecticut,1975. Family 1: Margaret LEWIN ( - ) MARRIAGE: 6 Jan 1628/29 Barnard Family research by David Evans, New Canaan, Connecticut,1975. LAMBERTON. Elizabeth LAMBERTON b. 1632 London, England dau of George LAMBERTON b. 1604London, England and Margaret LEWEN b. 1614 London, England. Elizabethmarried William TROWBRIDGE March 1657 Milford, Conn. Elizabeth was thewidow of Daniel Sellivant. "Being Londoners, or merchants and men of traffick and business, theirdesign was in a manner wholly to apply themselves unto trade; but thedesign failing, they found their great estates sink so fast, that theymust quickly do something. Whereupo n in the year 1646, gatheringtogether almost all the strength which was left them, they built one shipmore, which they fraighted for England with the best part of theirtradable estates; and sundry of their eminent persons embarked themselvesin he r for the voyage. But, alas, the ship was never after heard of

shefoundered in the sea; and in her were lost, not only the hopes of theirfuture trade, but also the lives of several excellent persons, as well asdivers manuscripts of some great me n in the country, sent over for theservice of the church, which were now buried in the ocean. The fullerstory of that grievous matter, let the reader with a just astonishmentaccept from the pen of the reverend person, who is now the pastor ofNew- Haven. I wrote unto him for it, and was thus answered. "'Reverend and Dear Sir, "'In compliance with your desires, I now give you the relation of thatapparition of a ship in the air, which I have received from the mostcredible, judicious and curious surviving observers of it. "'In the year 1647, besides much other lading, a far more rich treasureof passengers, (five or six of which were persons of chief note and worthin New-Haven) put themselves on board a new ship, built at Rhode-Island,of about 150 tuns; but so walt y, that the master, (Lamberton) often saidshe would prove their grave. In the month of January, cutting their waythrough much ice, on which they were accompanied with the Reverend Mr.Davenport, besides many other friends, with many fears, as wel l asprayers and tears, they set sail. Mr. Davenport in prayer with anobservable emphasis used these words, Lord, if it be thy pleasure to burythese our friends in the bottom of the sea, they are thine; save them

The spring following, no tiding s of these friends arrived with the shipsfrom England: New-Haven's heart begain to fail her: this put the godlypeople on much prayer, both publick and private, that the Lord would (ifit was his pleasure) let them hear what he had done with thei r dearfriends, and prepare them with a suitable submission to his Holy Will.In June next ensuing, a great thunder-storm arose out of the north-west;after which (the hemisphere being serene) about an hour before sun-set aSHIP of like dimensions wit h the aforesaid, with her canvass and coloursabroad (though the wind northerly) appeared in the air coming up from ourharbour's mouth, which lyes southward from the town, seemingly with hersails filled under a fresh gale, holding her course north , and continuingunder observation, sailing against the wind for the space of half an hour. "'Many were drawn to behold this great work of God; yea, the verychildren cryed out, There's a brave ship

At length, crouding up as faras there is usually water sufficient for such a vessel, and so near someof the spectators, as that they imagi ned a man might hurl a stone onboard her, her main-top seemed to be blown off, but left hanging in theshrouds; then her missen-top; then all her masting seemed blown away bythe board: quickly after the hulk brought unto a careen, she overset,an d so vanished into a smoaky cloud, which in some time dissipated,leaving, as everywhere else, a clear air. The admiring spectators coulddistinguish the several colours of each part, the principal rigging, andsuch proportions, as caused not onl y the generality of persons to say,This was the mould of their ship, and thus was her tragick end: but Mr.Davenport also in publick declared to this effect, That God hadcondescended, for the quieting of their afflicted spirits, thisextraordinar y account of his sovereign disposal of those for whom so manyfervent prayers were made continually. Thus I am, Sir, Your humble servant, JAMES PIERPONT "Reader, there being yet living so many credible gentlemen, that wereeye-witnesses of this wonderful thing, I venture to publish it for athing as undoubted, as 'tis wonderful." ~~~~~~~ In 1640 the northern boundary of New Sweden, as the colony was nowgenerally called, was extended, by purchase from the Indians, to a pointopposite Trenton, and thence, indefinitely, due west. Once again the gunof Fort Nassau was trained, withou t effect, upon the Swedish commander.The fertility of the lower Delaware Valley and the struggling forprecedence between Sweden and Holland led the English to assert theirclaim to the river and the bay. In 1640 a certain Captain NathanielTurner , agent of the New Haven Colony, is mentioned as a purchaser fromthe Lenni-Lenap, of lands on the east and west banks of the stream, whilein 1641 George Lamberton also secured lands from the Indians. A part ofthe English purchase extending from Ca pe May to Raccoon Creek(Narraticons Kil) had been but recently transferred to the Swedish by thesame Indian sachem who sold the land to the English. To confirm the titlesixty individuals settled at Salem Creek (Varken's Kil), and on August30, 1641 , the Salem "plantations" were declared to be a part and parcelof the New Haven government. New Jersey As a Colony & as a State Vol 1 , p. 90-91.http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/1146/1146_91.html ~~~~~~ Did you know he was a leading man in New Haven who was accused of havingjoined in a plot with the local Indians to cut off trade with the Swedesand the Dutch? The English, Dutch and Swedes were in a territorialdispute and Lamberton went to trad e at the Deleware River. He wasarrested for treason and the Dutch and Swedes tried to get Lamberton'smen to speak against him, but they wouldn't so they let him go for lackof proof. This info. is in many books on the History of New Haven Colony. I found him listed in The New England Historical and GenealogicalRegister of 1914, Volume LXVIII. It refers to his marraige to MargaretLewen on 6 Jan 1628/29 and says he is 'of St Mary's Whitechapel', whichis in London. It then goes on to say "som e account is given of him and ofhis family in The Converse Family, 1905, vol. 2, pg 681" I haven't beenable to get hold of that book. Did you know that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about the shipthat Capt. Lamberton was lost on? It's called The Phantom Ship. CottonMather wrote the story in his book Magnalia Christi Americana, but Ihaven't been able to find a cop y of that.

Thomas Gregory