Joanna (Chapin) Lamb - Identifying correct/incorrect children

Re: Joanna Stebbins

We show her being born 20 September 1651. This appears to be a common date in on-line trees.

The Springfield records say that the Joanna Lamb born to John Lamb was "borne the 20 of the 7 mon. 1657".

I find 1657 in other mentions of the wife of Samuel Stebbins. So I'm not convinced this is the correct person.

Wikitree's list of children (ignore disproved wife)

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lamb-840

John Lamb was born August 1, 1628 in England.

John married Joanna Chapin by 1651, probably at Springfield.[1] They had, all at Springfield:

1. John, b. February 20, 1653/4[2]
2. John, b. May 15, 1655[3]
3. Thomas, b. May 15, 1655[3]
4. Joanna, b. September 20, 1657[4]
5. Sarah, b. June 15, 1660[5]
6. Samuel, b. September 28, 1663[6]
7. Daniel, b. November 24, 1666[7][8]
8. Mary, b. July 19, 1669[9]
9. Abigail, b. September 20, 1670[9]
10. Joshuah, b. October 3, 1674[10]

John married second January 27, 1687/8 at Springfield Lydia (Wright) (Bliss) Norton widow of Lawarence Bliss and John Norton.[11]

John Lamb of Springfield ("who died Sept. 28. 1690") wrote his will September 27, 1690.[12] He mentions:

• sons: Thomas, Samuel, Daniel, Joshua
• daughter: Abigail
• son (in law): Jonathan Bush

The Stebbins Genealogy, p. 84, states:

"Joanna LAMB, born September 20, 1651 (or January 25, 1666), at Springfield, Massachusetts, who was a daughter of John Lamb and Joanna

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And lists three children. So...I guess we have two possible birthdates, but somehow we know the parents regardless?? That's...odd.

Birth for Joanna Lamb is seen as 20 Sept 1657 at https://catnip13.tripod.com/Lamb.html.

These children don't belong, I italicized them:

• Isaac Lamb, b. 10 July 1664 - d. 12 May 1723, m. Elizabeth Usher
• Ebenezer Lamb, b. 1666 - d. 21 June 1694, m. Mary Jeavett
• Elizabeth Lamb, b. 1670 - d. 1757, m. Daniel Longbottom

Elizabeth Longbottom might be related to Ebenezer Lamb who married at Norwich 1690.

They've been linked as siblings and detached as children of Joanna & John Lamb.

Children of John Lamb, of Springfield & Joanna Lamb now show as 10, as per source info.

I go eat dinner and do laundry, I come back, we've got 10 -- way to go, Erica. :)

We'll next have to tackle where Samuel Lamb went wrong, I'm guessing a bad merge or several somewhere...

Looks like Stonington/Glastonbury Sam and Springfield/Springfield Sam first smerge at https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=77614831920 but their parents may have already been conflated by then.

Merge Undo isn't working for me so we might have to rebuild unless someone else can get it to go through?

Springfield Sam cheat sheet: https://books.google.com/books?id=oeAWAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA597&pg=PA596#v...

Yes, that book is good. You got Samuel Lamb who married Rebecca Lamb (son of John & Joanna) separated from Samuel Lamb who married Mercy Lamb).

https://wildes.net/lamb/pafg02.htm Has

4. John Daniel Lamb 1, 2 (Thomas ) was born 3, 4 in London, London, England. He died 5, 6 on 14 Aug 1673.

John married 4 Ann Skelton 1, 2, 3 about 1654. Ann was born 5 about 1627. She died 6 after 1683.

They had the following children:

17 M i Samuel Lamb 1, 2 was born 3, 4 about 1655 in Kittery, York, Maine. He died 5, 6 on 17 Jun 1737 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut.

Alternate birthplace Stoningotn, New London, Connecticut. IGI.

Samuel married 3, 4 (1) Mercy 1, 2 in 1692 in Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island. Mercy was born 5, 6 in 1656 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. She died 7 in 1736 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut.

Samuel married (2) Martha 1.

(Which is impossible because Mercy was his widow in 1737.)

Kittery to Glastonbury is a questionable migration path. Stonington makes more sense.

I cut away a Martha wife that couldn't have been plausible. I'm thinking there are a lot of bad trees circulating.