When Isaac Lamb was born on 27 March 1781, in Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Daniel Lamb, was 20 and his mother, Esther Avery, was 19. He married Serena Moore about 1807, in Stillwater, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died in 1843, at the age of 62.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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