Person:Matthias Lambard (1)

June 27, 1756 March 16, 1757
Lambard, Mathias.
Executors: Jacob and Casper Lambard. Manchester
Township.
Wife: Omitted.
Children: Jacob, Casper, George, Ann, and
Catharine.

Name spelled various in records: Matthew, Matheis, Matthias; Lampert, Lambert, Lambard, Lombard.

He owned land in Manchester Twp., York Co., PA 1734-1748; another source states that on 5/14/1750, he received a land warrant from the proprietors of PA. Matthias & Anna were sponsors at bapt. of Matheis Walther, s/o Rudy Walther, Christ Luth. Ch., York Boro, on 5/18/1742. In 1747, He helped lay out a rd in west & northwest part of co. He took Oath of Allegiance at Philadelphia, PA Apr 10 1748. Anna d. sometime after Matthias. He came to York Co. from eastern France near the border of Switzerland & Germany in early 1700s. He came via Switzerland. In 1734 he was a landowner in Manchester Twp. In 1748 Matthias & 16 other Lamberts went to Philadelphia & took oath of allegiance & became British subjects. According to sources at the Somerset Co., PA Genealogy Library, Lambert was originally LOMBARD. This name can be traced back to the yr 1-500. They were an early tribe of northern Germany. Reportedly a native of eastern France near the border of Switzerland & Germany, immigrated as a result of French Huguenot persecutions.

The records at the HSYC show Will A-143 written 27 Jun 1756 & probated 15 Mar 1757. So would assume he d. Jan -Mar 15, 1757. He is Lambard in the will.

Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American & West Indian Colonies. Persons' Names.: MATTHIAS LAMBERT. Of what Co.: Lancaster Co. Time of taking the Sacrament.: Apr 10th 1748.

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Extracted from the Oscar Doane Lambert Book:
Matthias Lambert was the first of his line to arrive in America. He came as a German immigrant from teh Palatinate province located in the upper Rhine Valley to Philadelphia. The exact date of his arrival can scarcely be ascertained by it was approximately 1730. However, it could have preceded that time a few years. In 1740 the Parliament of England passed and act of naturalization that required all Protestant foreigners who had settled in the American colonies for seven years or more to "be baptized in a Protestant or a Reformed Church" and to take an oath of allegiance to the British Government. At the April term of the Supreme Court , sitting at Philadelphia in 1748, Matthias Lambert of Lancaster County, having taken the sacrament of baptism, subscribed to that oath. In view of the fact that he had taken up his first boundary of land in that county in June, 1734, his arrival in America must have preceded that date only a short time, and it was probably the same year. For some reason he, like many other aliens, had not signed the registration record upon his arrival but when the law required all aliens to subscribe to the new regulation it was a compulsory matter.

On June 12, 1734, Matthias Lambert acquired from the colony of Pennsylvania, one hundred acres of land located in Lancaster County. Being a man of aggressive industry, he took up another boundary of one hundred fifty acres on March 22, 1741. Three years later (Feb. 28, 1744) , he added a third tract of one hundred fifty acres to his growing estate. When York County was formed in 1749 the lands of Matthias Lambert were incorporated in Manchester Township with the boundaries of the new county. Here he labored and, by wise management, he prospered. His farm lay in the fertile valley of Codorus Creek where thrifty crops grew from the virgin soil.

It was here that this pioneer reared his family under favorable circumstances and eventually left to his widow; Ann Reesin, and each of their five children a small dower. It may be noted in his will hereafter attached that the names of the children were George, Jacob, Casper, Ann and Catherine.

The eldest son of Matthias Lambert, George Lambert, had migrated a few miles away from the homestead into Frederick County, Maryland. There on the headwaters of Antiertam Creek, February 17, 1744, he took up a farm. The new farm he named Lambert's Park, which contained two hundred acres.

Later the owner divided his land into lots which indicated that he anticipated a town be built there. This was the period when the first settlers began to arrive in that region. In the title it is designated that Lambert's Park was more definitely located on "The North side of a branch of Antietam near the mouth of a run that comes from Capt. Charltons and falls into the aforesaid branch and running thence South," etc.

The limestone foundation still remains of the first residence. There is also a gravestone with the inscription "Heir Liegt Eva Lambert und ihre Tochter. War alt 59 Jar." (Here lies Eva Lambert and her daughter. She was 59 years).

Conrad BECKER or Coonradt BAECKER.

The name in its German spelling was Coonradt BAECKER, with two dots over the ae. While the family lived in York County it was known as the Conrad BECKER family. Just when the different children began to be known by the name of BAKER is not known ~ however, we do know that long before the John BAKER branch left Pennsylvania the name had taken on the American pronunciation of BAKER instead of BECKER.

Our research and investigation has brought out the following story of this ancestor and his family:

Coonradt BAECKER, along with two brothers, arrived in the United States on the boat, Snow Betsie, in the port of Philadelphia on August 27th, 173According to the requirements governing the immigrants to the United States at that time, this ancestor was born about the year 1720 in Germany and was one of the so-called Palatin Immigrants. The Palatins were a group of Germans who were seeking religious freedom.

Came to America in 1733 and had land in York and Lancaster PA.

We have been unable to trace his whereabouts during the period from 1739 to approximately 1753. It was approximately 1753 that he was married and in all probability in York County, Pennsylvania.

Conrad BECKER married Catrena LAMBARDT, whose parents lived in York County, about the year 1753. It is impossible to learn anything definite other than this.

Catrena LAMBARDT was the daughter of Matthias and Annreecin LAMBARDT. The name LAMBARDT was written LAMBERT on the Will of Matthias LAMBARDT by the Recorder of York County who recorded the will.

To the union of Conrad and Catherina LAMBERT BECKER was born seventeen children. We know nothing of any of these children or their families except two and those two are the twelfth child, Conrad, who was the grandfather of the Conrad BAKER who was the Governor of Indiana during the years 1867 and 1868, and the fifteenth child, John, who was the father and head of the John BAKER branch concerning which this record is being written.

For your pleasure and interest we will first give you a copy of the MATTHIAS LAMBARD WILL and then a copy of the CONRAD BECKER WILL. After reading and studying these two documents, if you are still interested you will find study of the division of lands in York County in these early years very interesting and you will also understand why we have built up the history of this family in the way we have.

THE WILL OF MATTHIAS LAMBARD

In the name of God amen, the 27th Day of June in One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Six, I Matthias LAMBARD of Manchester Township and County of York farmer being in health and in perfect mind and memory: thanks be given to God therefore, Calling unto mind ye mortality of my Body and knowing it is apinted for all men once to dye: Do make and ordain this my last will and testament: that is to say principal and first of all I give and recommend my soul into ye hands of God that gave it: and as for my Body: I recommend to ye Earth: to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner: at ye discretion of my executors: nothing doubting but at ye general resurrection I shall receive ye same again by ye mighty power of God: and touching such poorly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, demise, and dispose of ye same in ye following manner and form. Thus it is my will and I do order: that in the first place: all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied.

Item: I give and bequeath unto Annreesin my dearly beloved wife ye sum of fifty two pounds with her bed and furniture belonging thereto with one cow which she please to take a chest and spinning wheel with all her wearing apparel: I also order my executors to pay unto her that is my wife ye sum of ten pounds of ye above fifty two pounds in three months after my decease if she requires it and a midden pot a skillet and a side saddle.

Item: I give unto my well beloved sons Jacob LAMBARD and Caspher LAMBARD whom I likewise constitute, make and ordain my only and sole executors of this my last will and testament - - that is an eakewell sheare [sic] of all my estate real and personal: with my son George LAMBARD who is ye oldest.

Item: I give unto my Dafter Ann SMITH an eakewell [sic] part of with my three sons above named it is to say as much in part of all ye estate as either one of them and the sum of sixteen pounds over and above either one of them: to be raised out of ye whole estate and paid unto my said daughter Ann by my executors; in manner as followeth that is her equal part with ye sixteen pounds she is to receive in land, it is my Patten land: And she shall have any children of her body at her decease it shall be equally divided amongst them, but if she should have no children of her body at her decease that - then this - legacy I leave her shall fall into ye porcestion to ye nearest of kin by blood and so on from generation to generation - -

Item: I give and allow my daughter Catren BEAKER to have and receive an equal part and shares of all and singular my estate with my three sons, that is George, Jacob and Caspher LAMBARD, to them their heirs executors administrators or assigns forever.

And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disannul all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies, and executors: by me in any wise before this time and no other: to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, and declared by ye Matthias LAMBARD as his last will and testament in presents of us.


Adam HAFNER Matthias LAMBARD [his mark]
George Phillipp FENUS
Andrew RODGERS

York County:
Before me, George STEVENSON, Esq. Deputy Register for the probate of wills and granting of letters of administration for the County of York personally came Adam HAFFNER and George Philip FENUS on their solemn oath and Andr[ew] ROGERS on his solemn affirmation do each of them say that they saw and heard Matthias LAMBERT sign, seal, publish, and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his testament and last will that they each of them subscribed their names as witnesses to the same and that the said Matthias was at that time of sound and disposing mind and memory.

Adam HAFNER
George Phillip FENUS
Andrew RODGERS
Sworn, affirmed, and subscribed at York, 16th March 1757. Geo. STEVENSON, D.R.