Brief Life History of Jacob White
When Jacob White Lamb was born on 4 August 1782, in Perquimans, North Carolina, United States, his father, Phineas Benjamin Lamb, was 27 and his mother, Dorothy White, was 23. He married Leah Sanders on 1 December 1821, in Pineywoods MM, Perquimans, North Carolina, United States. He died on 26 March 1850, in Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67.
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- Jacob Lamb, Sand Creek MM, Indiana, U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680
- Nathan Newby, Driftwood MM, Bartholomew, Indiana, U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680
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1783 · A Free America
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.
1789 · Becomes 12th State
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
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.
Name Meaning
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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