Barnabas Lambson

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He emigrated in 1635 and settled at Cambridge.

Barnabas married Mary before 1627. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was alive in 1717 when she is mentioned in her husband's will, and in 1718 when she is mentioned in the will of her son Isaac.

Martha married Matthew Rice on 7 Jul 1654 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Matthew (son of Deacon Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost) was born before 28 Feb 1630; died in 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Bent. John (son of John Bent and Martha) was born before 24 Jan 1636; was christened on 24 Jan 1636 in Weyhill, Hampshire, England; died before 15 Sep 1717; was buried on 15 Sep 1717 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Regarding the identity of the mother of this John Bent: was it the first wife of his father John Bent (1636-1717), Hannah Stone, or his second wife, Martha Rice?

Alicia Crane Williams's entry for John Stone (1618-1683), the father of his father's first wife, Hannah Stone, in the Early New England Families Study Project, says of Hannah that she was born 6 Jun 1640, and died between 9 Jun 1683 and about 1691, "between when Hannah Bent participated in the deed by heirs of John Stone and the estimated year of birth of youngest child, David, who died at age 39 in 1730." After Hannah's death, her husband John Bent (1637-1717) married Martha Rice; Williams places this second marriage as taking place "aft. abt. 1691."

The evidence Williams cites for placing those particular bounds around the death of Hannah (Stone) Bent is Allen Bent's 1894 NEHGR article "The Bent Family" (volume 48, page 288) and his subsequent 1900 book The Bent Family in America (citation details below), both of which say that John Bent (1637-1717) was twice married, first on 1 Jul 1658 to Hannah Stone, then (no date given) to Martha Rice, and that he had three children, all by his first wife Hannah Stone: Hannah, born 6 May 1661; John, born 29 Nov 1689, and David, born about 1691, a date no doubt estimated based, as Williams says, on the fact that David died in 1720 and was said at the time to be 29.

But given the dates of these three children's births, and the fact that all we actually know about the death date of Hannah Stone is that she was alive on 9 Jun 1683, Allen Bent's assignment of all three children to Hannah seems...unlikely! A man is married twice, to a first wife in 1658, and then to a second wife at an unspecified date. And he has three children, one born in 1661, one born twenty-eight years later, and a third born two years after that. Which is likelier? That his first wife suddenly bore two further children after a break of nearly three decades? Or that the second two children are by the second wife, and that the first wife died sometime not at all long after 9 Jun 1683, rather than after 1691?

Finally, the record of the birth of the younger John Bent, as found in the published vital records of Sudbury, quoting Middlesex County records at East Cambridge, clear gives his parents as John and Martha. "BENT, John, s. John and Martha, Nov. 29, 1689" (italics ours). This seems a reasonably clear indication that John Bent was a son of his father's second wife. (And if this was the case, then his younger brother David must have been as well.)

(It seems notable that James Savage in his 1860-64 Genealogical Dictionary of New England, volume 1, page 169, says that John Bent was born "prob. by sec. w. Martha, d. of Matthew Rice". And it seems also relevant that Clarence Almon Torrey's listing for the marriage of John Bent to Martha Rice dates it as taking place "by 1689", despite the fact that several of Torrey's listed sources assert otherwise. Conceivably both Savage and Torrey were perfectly well aware of the entry for the younger John Bent's birth in the vital records of Sudbury.)

John married Hannah Rice on 15 Nov 1711 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon David Rice and Hannah Walker) was born on 5 Jan 1692. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Richard Rice in 1734. Richard (son of Jonathan Rice and Elizabeth Wheeler) was born on 31 Jan 1710; died in 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Samuel Hemingway. Samuel (son of Ebenezer Hemingway and Hannah Winch) was born on 3 Aug 1724 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jun 1806 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ebenezer Hemenway. He served in the Revolution on the Massachusetts line. His gravestone, evidently in error, gives the date of his death as 22 Oct 1839.

Ebenezer married Ruth Gates in Jun 1786 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Amos Gates and Mary Trowbridge) was born on 12 Feb 1768 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Oct 1854 in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire; was buried in East Cemetery, Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Luther Hemenway.

"Brief Bio", posted to ancestry.com by user "janaiwin":

Luther Sr., son of Ebenezer and Ruth Gates Hemenway, was born in Framingham January 2, 1787 and came to Marlborough with his parents when but six months old. He married, for his second wife, Eliza Cummings on October 26, 1813. She was of a well-known and honored New Hampshire family. He was a blacksmith by trade and had a shop in Marlborough and was familiarly known as Captain Hemenway. He was a stanch man, an old-time Whig, interested in educational affairs, and was one of the number who formed the Social Library Association. He removed to Jaffrey, where he died February 13, 1872.

Luther married Betsy Cummings on 26 Oct 1813 in Marlborough, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Sarah Hemenway.

She is named ("my daughter Sarah Towne") in her father's will, written 1871, and the records of his probate include a note from Sarah Towne dated 2 Aug 1873 acknowledging receipt of thirty dollars, her share in the estate.

Sarah married Warren C. Towne on 15 Nov 1840 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Warren (son of Enos Towne and Lucy Browning) was born on 15 Sep 1815 in Barre, Washington, Vermont; died on 4 Nov 1895 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire; was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The 1880 and 1900 US census both say that her father was born in Vermont and her mother in New Hampshire. As of the 1900 census she was a widow.

Sophronia married Henry Harrison Hartwell on 5 Feb 1869. Henry (son of Haskell F. Hartwell and Sarah Ann Ellis) was born on 18 Nov 1849 in Springfield, Windsor, Vermont; died on 21 Feb 1898 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1874, Foxboro, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Bert married Mabel Rebecca Geddes on 17 Oct 1900 in Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Mabel (daughter of George E. Geddes and Isabella Jean Murray) was born on 28 Sep 1881 in North Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 25 Feb 1958 in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was an MIT graduate and an electrical engineer.

Henry married Constance Elizabeth Nash on 26 Jun 1937. Constance (daughter of Thomas Vinson Nash and Daisy Maria Blanchard) was born on 14 Sep 1913 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 Nov 2005 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]