Daniel Lamb

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• Alternate death: 18 Apr 1786, Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts

Daniel married Martha Ashley on 19 Dec 1734 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of Joseph Ashley and Martha Leonard) was born on 23 Apr 1717 in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died on 10 Jun 1766 in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts; was buried in Adams Cemetery, Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1736
• Alternate birth: 1737, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 25 Feb 1832, Belchertown, Hamsphire, Massachusetts

Notes:

“She was throughout her life very active and energetic, and retained her erect carriage to extreme old age. For many of the last years of her life she was blind.” [The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, citation details below.]

Sarah married Capt. Justus Dwight on 19 Jan 1763. Justus (son of Capt. Nathaniel Dwight and Hannah Lyman) was born on 13 Jan 1739; died on 27 Jul 1824 in Belchertown, Hamsphire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Westmoreland,Cheshire, New Hampshire

Notes:

“He was a lawyer in Westmoreland, N.H., whence he removed in 1826 to Jacksonville, Ill. His last years he spent in Louisiana, and d. in Cincinnati, Nov. 5, 1851, aet. 76, when returning to the South.” [The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, citation details below.]

Daniel married Mary Dickinson Mattoon on 24 Dec 1809. Mary (daughter of Maj. Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon and Mary Dickinson) was born on 4 Apr 1780; died on 25 Feb 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Martha married Elizur Wolcott on 15 Jul 1846. Elizur (son of Elihu Wolcott and Rachel McClintock McClure) was born on 7 Aug 1817; died in Mar 1901 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called in many sources May Matoon Wolcott. According to a letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, her given name was actually Mary. She attended Wellesley as a member of the class of 1885, but did not graduate.

Her ashes were interred with those of her father.

Mary married Edward Bull Clapp on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Edward (son of Rev. Charles Wells Clapp and Jane Pray Bassett) was born on 14 Apr 1856 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 6 Feb 1919 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]