Jerusha's bloodline decends from Gov. William Bradford, one of the pilgrims to come over on the Mayflower! She, along with her husband Gad, founded Lambs Creek in 1797. Jerusha also started the first Sunday school in these parts in her home in Lambs Creek.∼The Lamb Cemetery AKA Cooper Cemetery AKA Moore's Run Cemetery was located about 1.5 miles from Mansfield. It was moved from Lambs Creek, Pennsylvania, due to the building of the Tioga and Hammond Lakes Dam in the early 1970s by the Corps of Engineers, to Oakwood Cemetery in Mansfield, Pennsylvania
*Wellsboro Gazette - May 24, 1971 - page 11 - Gad Lamb is buried in Lamb's Creek Cemetery, Richmond Township. He was born Nov. 20, 1744, died April 5, 1824. He married first Penelope Leonard who died in 1777. He married second Jerusha Ripley of Windham, Conn. On January 7, 1779. She was born May 28, 1756. She died May 9, 1838. He served in the Springfield CO., of Militia which marched April 21, 1775 in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775. Service of three days under Lieut. David Bust and Lieut. Johnathon Hale to Brookfield, also in Sgt Capt James Shaw's company. He entered service Sept 24, 1777, discharged on Oct 18, 1777. A service of thirty two days Gad Lamb was the third settler in Richmond Township, he settled at Lambs Creek in the year 1797.
*History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania - 1897 - Brown - Chapter 48 - In the early years of the township's history, before any attempt was made to organize a church, the settlers depended for religious services upon itinerant evangelists, members generally of the Methodist Episcopal of the " Old School" Baptist denominations. Whenever one of these put in an appearance the settlers would flock to hear him, the meetings being held in the open air or in the dwelling or barn of one of the settlers. The earliest meetings of this kind in Richmond township were held sometimes in the open air and sometimes in the barn, on the premises of Gad Lamb, the pioneer settler at Lamb's Creek. Here the pioneers listened to the earnest and oftentimes, fiery eloquence of Kimball, Beers, Solon Stocking--who preached Mr. Lamb's funeral sermon in April, 1824-- Sheardown, Cranmer, Rogers, Andrew Pickard.-- who married Maria Lamb, and who died in Colorado in June, 1894, aged ninety- four years--and other ministers of the denominations named. In 1826 Jerusha Lamb, Gad Lamb's widow, organized the first Sunday -school in the township at her home. the meetings on the Lamb place continued until the building of the school house in 1835, after which they were held there, although no regular church appears to have been organized.
*Wellsboro Gazette - May 24, 1971 - page 11 - Gad Lamb is buried in Lamb's Creek Cemetery, Richmond Township. He was born Nov. 20, 1744, died April 5, 1824. He married first Penelope Leonard who died in 1777. He married second Jerusha Ripley of Windham, Conn. On January 7, 1779. She was born May 28, 1756. She died May 9, 1838. He served in the Springfield CO., of Militia which marched April 21, 1775 in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775. Service of three days under Lieut. David Bust and Lieut. Johnathon Hale to Brookfield, also in Sgt Capt James Shaw's company. He entered service Sept 24, 1777, discharged on Oct 18, 1777. A service of thirty two days Gad Lamb was the third settler in Richmond Township, he settled at Lambs Creek in the year 1797.
*History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania - 1897 - Brown - Chapter 48 - In the early years of the township's history, before any attempt was made to organize a church, the settlers depended for religious services upon itinerant evangelists, members generally of the Methodist Episcopal of the " Old School" Baptist denominations. Whenever one of these put in an appearance the settlers would flock to hear him, the meetings being held in the open air or in the dwelling or barn of one of the settlers. The earliest meetings of this kind in Richmond township were held sometimes in the open air and sometimes in the barn, on the premises of Gad Lamb, the pioneer settler at Lamb's Creek. Here the pioneers listened to the earnest and oftentimes, fiery eloquence of Kimball, Beers, Solon Stocking--who preached Mr. Lamb's funeral sermon in April, 1824-- Sheardown, Cranmer, Rogers, Andrew Pickard.-- who married Maria Lamb, and who died in Colorado in June, 1894, aged ninety- four years--and other ministers of the denominations named. In 1826 Jerusha Lamb, Gad Lamb's widow, organized the first Sunday -school in the township at her home. the meetings on the Lamb place continued until the building of the school house in 1835, after which they were held there, although no regular church appears to have been organized.
Jerusha's bloodline decends from Gov. William Bradford, one of the pilgrims to come over on the Mayflower! She, along with her husband Gad, founded Lambs Creek in 1797. Jerusha also started the first Sunday school in these parts in her home in Lambs Creek.∼The Lamb Cemetery AKA Cooper Cemetery AKA Moore's Run Cemetery was located about 1.5 miles from Mansfield. It was moved from Lambs Creek, Pennsylvania, due to the building of the Tioga and Hammond Lakes Dam in the early 1970s by the Corps of Engineers, to Oakwood Cemetery in Mansfield, Pennsylvania
*Wellsboro Gazette - May 24, 1971 - page 11 - Gad Lamb is buried in Lamb's Creek Cemetery, Richmond Township. He was born Nov. 20, 1744, died April 5, 1824. He married first Penelope Leonard who died in 1777. He married second Jerusha Ripley of Windham, Conn. On January 7, 1779. She was born May 28, 1756. She died May 9, 1838. He served in the Springfield CO., of Militia which marched April 21, 1775 in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775. Service of three days under Lieut. David Bust and Lieut. Johnathon Hale to Brookfield, also in Sgt Capt James Shaw's company. He entered service Sept 24, 1777, discharged on Oct 18, 1777. A service of thirty two days Gad Lamb was the third settler in Richmond Township, he settled at Lambs Creek in the year 1797.
*History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania - 1897 - Brown - Chapter 48 - In the early years of the township's history, before any attempt was made to organize a church, the settlers depended for religious services upon itinerant evangelists, members generally of the Methodist Episcopal of the " Old School" Baptist denominations. Whenever one of these put in an appearance the settlers would flock to hear him, the meetings being held in the open air or in the dwelling or barn of one of the settlers. The earliest meetings of this kind in Richmond township were held sometimes in the open air and sometimes in the barn, on the premises of Gad Lamb, the pioneer settler at Lamb's Creek. Here the pioneers listened to the earnest and oftentimes, fiery eloquence of Kimball, Beers, Solon Stocking--who preached Mr. Lamb's funeral sermon in April, 1824-- Sheardown, Cranmer, Rogers, Andrew Pickard.-- who married Maria Lamb, and who died in Colorado in June, 1894, aged ninety- four years--and other ministers of the denominations named. In 1826 Jerusha Lamb, Gad Lamb's widow, organized the first Sunday -school in the township at her home. the meetings on the Lamb place continued until the building of the school house in 1835, after which they were held there, although no regular church appears to have been organized.
*Wellsboro Gazette - May 24, 1971 - page 11 - Gad Lamb is buried in Lamb's Creek Cemetery, Richmond Township. He was born Nov. 20, 1744, died April 5, 1824. He married first Penelope Leonard who died in 1777. He married second Jerusha Ripley of Windham, Conn. On January 7, 1779. She was born May 28, 1756. She died May 9, 1838. He served in the Springfield CO., of Militia which marched April 21, 1775 in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775. Service of three days under Lieut. David Bust and Lieut. Johnathon Hale to Brookfield, also in Sgt Capt James Shaw's company. He entered service Sept 24, 1777, discharged on Oct 18, 1777. A service of thirty two days Gad Lamb was the third settler in Richmond Township, he settled at Lambs Creek in the year 1797.
*History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania - 1897 - Brown - Chapter 48 - In the early years of the township's history, before any attempt was made to organize a church, the settlers depended for religious services upon itinerant evangelists, members generally of the Methodist Episcopal of the " Old School" Baptist denominations. Whenever one of these put in an appearance the settlers would flock to hear him, the meetings being held in the open air or in the dwelling or barn of one of the settlers. The earliest meetings of this kind in Richmond township were held sometimes in the open air and sometimes in the barn, on the premises of Gad Lamb, the pioneer settler at Lamb's Creek. Here the pioneers listened to the earnest and oftentimes, fiery eloquence of Kimball, Beers, Solon Stocking--who preached Mr. Lamb's funeral sermon in April, 1824-- Sheardown, Cranmer, Rogers, Andrew Pickard.-- who married Maria Lamb, and who died in Colorado in June, 1894, aged ninety- four years--and other ministers of the denominations named. In 1826 Jerusha Lamb, Gad Lamb's widow, organized the first Sunday -school in the township at her home. the meetings on the Lamb place continued until the building of the school house in 1835, after which they were held there, although no regular church appears to have been organized.
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Gad Lamb
Born
Nov. 20, 1744
Died
Apr. 5, 1824
Jerusha
His Wife
Born May 23, 1856
Died
May 9, 1838
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Shared Stone with husband Gad Lamb, son Daniel Bradford Lamb, daughter-in-law Clarissa CHAMBERLAIN Lamb
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