From the Lambert Line of our Lakin Family: "Daniel Lambert and his bride Miriam Russell were the first settlers in the northern part of what is now Washington County, Maine. Maine was a part of Massachusetts until statehood in 1820. Lambert Lake was named for these pioneers. It is not known whence they came as there are no records available of that time."
(The Lambert wilderness homestead was about 140 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine, just a few miles south and west of the St. Croix River. This may have been War of 1812 veteran bounty land. This remote and sparsely populated area was claimed by both Britain (for Canada) and the Unites States. An international incident called the "Aroostook War" occurred in 1838-39 that brought the boundary dispute to a head. The St. Croix River became the official boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada as part of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.)
"In the early 1800s (probably after 1815), they traveled by canoe and on foot through the solid wilderness and hewed out a home on the shore of the lake. It was thirty miles through swamps, mud and knee-deep water to the nearest wagon road. For some years they packed supplies over this route. They hauled in heavy things in the winter when they could be dragged across the ice and frozen ground.
In this isolated spot their only neighbors were a few Indians. (Mariam) did not see another white woman for the first six years of their homesteading. The area was covered with enormous hardwood trees and eventually the lumbering interests came into the district and a small settlement developed; the community reverted to its present-day status, a wildland township (unincorporated and uninhabited)."
Daniel married Mariam Russell in December 1810, probably in Somerset County, Maine. In the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 U.S. Census returns, the family is found in the Lambert Lake area of Washington County, Maine. Daniel was a farmer and probably also a lumberman. Only five children are known, three sons and two daughters, all apparently born by 1820.
The Daniel and Mariam Lambert family remained at Lambert Lake for over forty years. In 1855, these hardy pioneers, in their 60s, joined the families of three of their children, James and Ruth (Peters) Lambert, Ann Lambert and William Trask, and Richard and Lavinia (Hill) Lambert, with about 20 grandchildren, and moved as a family group over a thousand miles to the unsettled prairies of Bellevue Township, Morrison County in central Minnesota Territory, near the Mississippi River. Daniel left behind his siblings and two children. Son Daniel, wife Sarah and children remained in Aroostook County, Maine. Daughter Parmelia, husband Samuel Muncy and children lived just across the Canadian border in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. They followed the other Lamberts to Morrison County in 1866.
From the Lambert Family History, as told by Maria Lambert Farnum, recorded August 25, 1939: "Grandfather (ed.: Daniel, born 1788) Lambert lived a quarter of a mile from our house. The men all having gone away to make hay, Mother took her children, one of them a baby (ed.: Mary Elizabeth (Lambert) Holmes, born March 1863), over to Grandfather Lambert's at night. There we had Grandfather and my brother, (ed.: Isaac Peters Lambert, born 1848) who was sixteen, to take care of us.
One night a big hound we owned, that hated Indians started making a fuss. Then we heard a big noise coming down the road and we knew it was drunken Indians. Terribly frightened we fastened the windows, put the curtains over them and waited, the men standing by the door with guns and an axe. Mother, with the baby in her arms, walked the floor in terror. We expected the Indians to come in and kill us; opening the door we found the Indians were friendly. The man with them said all they wanted was a drink of water. I can feel the relief in my heart now. The moments we waited had been filled with the most terrible agony, especially for my Mother."
Mariam would survive only thirteen years in Minnesota, to 1868. She was buried in the Old Bellevue Pioneers Cemetery. Daniel died two years later and is also believed to be buried there, but no stone has been found.
(The Lambert wilderness homestead was about 140 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine, just a few miles south and west of the St. Croix River. This may have been War of 1812 veteran bounty land. This remote and sparsely populated area was claimed by both Britain (for Canada) and the Unites States. An international incident called the "Aroostook War" occurred in 1838-39 that brought the boundary dispute to a head. The St. Croix River became the official boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada as part of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.)
"In the early 1800s (probably after 1815), they traveled by canoe and on foot through the solid wilderness and hewed out a home on the shore of the lake. It was thirty miles through swamps, mud and knee-deep water to the nearest wagon road. For some years they packed supplies over this route. They hauled in heavy things in the winter when they could be dragged across the ice and frozen ground.
In this isolated spot their only neighbors were a few Indians. (Mariam) did not see another white woman for the first six years of their homesteading. The area was covered with enormous hardwood trees and eventually the lumbering interests came into the district and a small settlement developed; the community reverted to its present-day status, a wildland township (unincorporated and uninhabited)."
Daniel married Mariam Russell in December 1810, probably in Somerset County, Maine. In the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 U.S. Census returns, the family is found in the Lambert Lake area of Washington County, Maine. Daniel was a farmer and probably also a lumberman. Only five children are known, three sons and two daughters, all apparently born by 1820.
The Daniel and Mariam Lambert family remained at Lambert Lake for over forty years. In 1855, these hardy pioneers, in their 60s, joined the families of three of their children, James and Ruth (Peters) Lambert, Ann Lambert and William Trask, and Richard and Lavinia (Hill) Lambert, with about 20 grandchildren, and moved as a family group over a thousand miles to the unsettled prairies of Bellevue Township, Morrison County in central Minnesota Territory, near the Mississippi River. Daniel left behind his siblings and two children. Son Daniel, wife Sarah and children remained in Aroostook County, Maine. Daughter Parmelia, husband Samuel Muncy and children lived just across the Canadian border in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. They followed the other Lamberts to Morrison County in 1866.
From the Lambert Family History, as told by Maria Lambert Farnum, recorded August 25, 1939: "Grandfather (ed.: Daniel, born 1788) Lambert lived a quarter of a mile from our house. The men all having gone away to make hay, Mother took her children, one of them a baby (ed.: Mary Elizabeth (Lambert) Holmes, born March 1863), over to Grandfather Lambert's at night. There we had Grandfather and my brother, (ed.: Isaac Peters Lambert, born 1848) who was sixteen, to take care of us.
One night a big hound we owned, that hated Indians started making a fuss. Then we heard a big noise coming down the road and we knew it was drunken Indians. Terribly frightened we fastened the windows, put the curtains over them and waited, the men standing by the door with guns and an axe. Mother, with the baby in her arms, walked the floor in terror. We expected the Indians to come in and kill us; opening the door we found the Indians were friendly. The man with them said all they wanted was a drink of water. I can feel the relief in my heart now. The moments we waited had been filled with the most terrible agony, especially for my Mother."
Mariam would survive only thirteen years in Minnesota, to 1868. She was buried in the Old Bellevue Pioneers Cemetery. Daniel died two years later and is also believed to be buried there, but no stone has been found.
From the Lambert Line of our Lakin Family: "Daniel Lambert and his bride Miriam Russell were the first settlers in the northern part of what is now Washington County, Maine. Maine was a part of Massachusetts until statehood in 1820. Lambert Lake was named for these pioneers. It is not known whence they came as there are no records available of that time."
(The Lambert wilderness homestead was about 140 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine, just a few miles south and west of the St. Croix River. This may have been War of 1812 veteran bounty land. This remote and sparsely populated area was claimed by both Britain (for Canada) and the Unites States. An international incident called the "Aroostook War" occurred in 1838-39 that brought the boundary dispute to a head. The St. Croix River became the official boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada as part of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.)
"In the early 1800s (probably after 1815), they traveled by canoe and on foot through the solid wilderness and hewed out a home on the shore of the lake. It was thirty miles through swamps, mud and knee-deep water to the nearest wagon road. For some years they packed supplies over this route. They hauled in heavy things in the winter when they could be dragged across the ice and frozen ground.
In this isolated spot their only neighbors were a few Indians. (Mariam) did not see another white woman for the first six years of their homesteading. The area was covered with enormous hardwood trees and eventually the lumbering interests came into the district and a small settlement developed; the community reverted to its present-day status, a wildland township (unincorporated and uninhabited)."
Daniel married Mariam Russell in December 1810, probably in Somerset County, Maine. In the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 U.S. Census returns, the family is found in the Lambert Lake area of Washington County, Maine. Daniel was a farmer and probably also a lumberman. Only five children are known, three sons and two daughters, all apparently born by 1820.
The Daniel and Mariam Lambert family remained at Lambert Lake for over forty years. In 1855, these hardy pioneers, in their 60s, joined the families of three of their children, James and Ruth (Peters) Lambert, Ann Lambert and William Trask, and Richard and Lavinia (Hill) Lambert, with about 20 grandchildren, and moved as a family group over a thousand miles to the unsettled prairies of Bellevue Township, Morrison County in central Minnesota Territory, near the Mississippi River. Daniel left behind his siblings and two children. Son Daniel, wife Sarah and children remained in Aroostook County, Maine. Daughter Parmelia, husband Samuel Muncy and children lived just across the Canadian border in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. They followed the other Lamberts to Morrison County in 1866.
From the Lambert Family History, as told by Maria Lambert Farnum, recorded August 25, 1939: "Grandfather (ed.: Daniel, born 1788) Lambert lived a quarter of a mile from our house. The men all having gone away to make hay, Mother took her children, one of them a baby (ed.: Mary Elizabeth (Lambert) Holmes, born March 1863), over to Grandfather Lambert's at night. There we had Grandfather and my brother, (ed.: Isaac Peters Lambert, born 1848) who was sixteen, to take care of us.
One night a big hound we owned, that hated Indians started making a fuss. Then we heard a big noise coming down the road and we knew it was drunken Indians. Terribly frightened we fastened the windows, put the curtains over them and waited, the men standing by the door with guns and an axe. Mother, with the baby in her arms, walked the floor in terror. We expected the Indians to come in and kill us; opening the door we found the Indians were friendly. The man with them said all they wanted was a drink of water. I can feel the relief in my heart now. The moments we waited had been filled with the most terrible agony, especially for my Mother."
Mariam would survive only thirteen years in Minnesota, to 1868. She was buried in the Old Bellevue Pioneers Cemetery. Daniel died two years later and is also believed to be buried there, but no stone has been found.
(The Lambert wilderness homestead was about 140 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine, just a few miles south and west of the St. Croix River. This may have been War of 1812 veteran bounty land. This remote and sparsely populated area was claimed by both Britain (for Canada) and the Unites States. An international incident called the "Aroostook War" occurred in 1838-39 that brought the boundary dispute to a head. The St. Croix River became the official boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada as part of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.)
"In the early 1800s (probably after 1815), they traveled by canoe and on foot through the solid wilderness and hewed out a home on the shore of the lake. It was thirty miles through swamps, mud and knee-deep water to the nearest wagon road. For some years they packed supplies over this route. They hauled in heavy things in the winter when they could be dragged across the ice and frozen ground.
In this isolated spot their only neighbors were a few Indians. (Mariam) did not see another white woman for the first six years of their homesteading. The area was covered with enormous hardwood trees and eventually the lumbering interests came into the district and a small settlement developed; the community reverted to its present-day status, a wildland township (unincorporated and uninhabited)."
Daniel married Mariam Russell in December 1810, probably in Somerset County, Maine. In the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 U.S. Census returns, the family is found in the Lambert Lake area of Washington County, Maine. Daniel was a farmer and probably also a lumberman. Only five children are known, three sons and two daughters, all apparently born by 1820.
The Daniel and Mariam Lambert family remained at Lambert Lake for over forty years. In 1855, these hardy pioneers, in their 60s, joined the families of three of their children, James and Ruth (Peters) Lambert, Ann Lambert and William Trask, and Richard and Lavinia (Hill) Lambert, with about 20 grandchildren, and moved as a family group over a thousand miles to the unsettled prairies of Bellevue Township, Morrison County in central Minnesota Territory, near the Mississippi River. Daniel left behind his siblings and two children. Son Daniel, wife Sarah and children remained in Aroostook County, Maine. Daughter Parmelia, husband Samuel Muncy and children lived just across the Canadian border in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. They followed the other Lamberts to Morrison County in 1866.
From the Lambert Family History, as told by Maria Lambert Farnum, recorded August 25, 1939: "Grandfather (ed.: Daniel, born 1788) Lambert lived a quarter of a mile from our house. The men all having gone away to make hay, Mother took her children, one of them a baby (ed.: Mary Elizabeth (Lambert) Holmes, born March 1863), over to Grandfather Lambert's at night. There we had Grandfather and my brother, (ed.: Isaac Peters Lambert, born 1848) who was sixteen, to take care of us.
One night a big hound we owned, that hated Indians started making a fuss. Then we heard a big noise coming down the road and we knew it was drunken Indians. Terribly frightened we fastened the windows, put the curtains over them and waited, the men standing by the door with guns and an axe. Mother, with the baby in her arms, walked the floor in terror. We expected the Indians to come in and kill us; opening the door we found the Indians were friendly. The man with them said all they wanted was a drink of water. I can feel the relief in my heart now. The moments we waited had been filled with the most terrible agony, especially for my Mother."
Mariam would survive only thirteen years in Minnesota, to 1868. She was buried in the Old Bellevue Pioneers Cemetery. Daniel died two years later and is also believed to be buried there, but no stone has been found.
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