Person:Bernard Lombard (2)

Bernard was probably a resident of Dorchester until early 1635. He was not yet in Scituate when Rev. John Lathrop made a list of those with houses there on 28 Sep 1634, but he was granted a lot on 6 Apr 1635. He and his wife joined Lathrop’s church 19 Apr 1635.^S4

Bernard came to Barnstable in 1639; he was one of seven inhabitants called Mr. in 1664. The relationship with the Clarks is shown by his testimony given at the age of sixty, 28 December, 1668. He says that William Clark, who appears to have died in Yarmouth 7 December, 1668, without children, probably unmarried, gave by nuncupative will his property to Joseph Benjamin. Benjamin's second wife, Sarah Clark, was doubtless a niece of William Clark's as well as of the Lamberts. Thomas Lambert was freeman 18 May, 1631, said to have been then about fifty. His house in Barnstable, built about 1639, is called a large one.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Thomas Lombard entry, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   Children... ii BERNARD, b. about 1608 (deposed 20 February 1668[/9?] aged about sixty [ MD 17:109]); m. by about 1633 _____ _____. (Wakefield suggests that Bernard Lombard may have had a second wife, who may have been daughter of William Clarke of Yarmouth [ TAG 52:138-39].)

2. ↑ Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   17:109.

   On 20 Feb 1668/69, "I Barnard Lumbart of ... Barnstable aged sixty yeares or therabouts" testified about William Clarke's will.

3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:105-106.

   BERNARD, s. of Thomas, b. in O. E. took the o. of freem. in Mass. 1 Apr. 1634, when he was, perhaps, of Dorchester, but soon went to Scituate, where he may have been earlier, but with his w. join. the ch. 19 Apr. 1635, thence to Barnstable, with Lothrop, hav. then Joshua, and Mary, bapt. at S. 8 Oct. 1637, not 57 as in Geneal. Reg. XII. 249, the former, perhaps, b. in Eng. but at B. where be was ensign 1652, had Martha, bapt. 3 Nov. 1639, not, as in Geneal. Reg. XII. 249, perhaps d. soon, for in Col. Rec. Martha, b. 19 Sept. 1640, tho. we may suspect error in this; and Jabez, 4 July 1641; yet Col. Rec. makes this b. 1 July 1642. When he d. I kn. not, but presume it was aft. 1664. Mr. Hamblen discov. that he was b. 1607 or 8. Mary m. 1 Dec. 1654, George Lewis, jr.; and Martha m. 1 July 1657, John Martin.

4.   Wakefield, Robert S., “The Lombard Family of Barnstable, MA,”, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   Vol. 52 [1972]: 136-139.