Wednesday 10 June 2015

The Lamberson’s Mixed Bag

When Hansel and Samuel Batton married into the Lamberson family they certainly picked a family with a very interesting lineage.

The Lamberson girl’s great grandparents, Johannes Fite (originally Vogt but the immigrations officials spelled it phonetically) and Catherine Cunningham came from Germany to New Jersey via Philadelphia in 1749.  They left Germany for one reason, love.  Catherine was supposedly of noble Scottish birth on her father’s side and 14 years Johannes junior.  Her family wasn’t happy about the match.  They ran away and jumped on the cargo ship, Ann, leaving behind most of their possessions.  Johannes had learned to do well for himself in Germany, working hard as a millwright he built up multiple small businesses in New Jersey on hundreds of acres of land.  Catherine and Johannes were married until his death in 1784 and had nine children together.


Johannes Fite (1714 - 1784)
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If we go even farther back in the Lamberson line we find the two most fascinating (I think anyway) ancestors in this whole collection.  There will be more on those two in the coming posts.
I thought somewhere in the family history we had to have someone who was involved in the Revolutionary War as a Patriot. When I looked into Sarah and Amanda’s mother, Sarah “Sally” Taylor’s family I found my first Revolutionary War hero.

Machpelah Cemetery, Townsville, North Carolina

Lt Col William Taylor, Sally’s grandfather, was born 1737 in Virginia and died 1803 Granville, North Carolina.  He was Clara Forbes Batton’s 4x great grandfather.
William signed up to the 6th North Carolina Regiment 15 April, 1776 and served with this regiment and the North Carolina militia until 1 June 1781.
According to a marker by his grave he was also at Valley Forge the winter of 1777-1778.

(For more info on William Taylor's military service click HERE)

Machpelah Cemetery, Townsville, North Carolina

Lt Col William Taylor’s parents, Catherine Pendleton and John Powell Taylor married in King and Queen County Virginia in 1716.  They moved to North Carolina establishing Machpelah Plantation which still stands today.

Machpelah


John’s grandfather, also named John Taylor, emigrated from England to Virginia with his wife, Elizabeth in 1648.  It is through John the immigrant’s father, Captain Thomas Taylor b. 1574 and his wife Margaret Swinderly b. 1578 in Denmark that we are related to 4th President of the USA, James Madison, 9th President of the USA, William Henry Harrison, 12th President of the USA, Zachary Taylor, 16th President of the USA, Abraham Lincoln, and 23rd President of the USA, Benjamin Harrison.
Our common ancestors, Thomas and Margaret Taylor were Clara Forbes Batton’s 8x great grandparents.

If we keep going back through time we will meet Thomas Taylor’s grandfather,
Dr Rowland Taylor but he’s also pretty interesting so he’s going to get his own post too.

Keep going back through the Taylor line and you end up with John Taylor 1327-1377 and his wife Margaret Wellmote 1328-1410.  With these two ancestors we can add a few more presidential cousins to the list. We share these common ancestors with not only the 5 presidents listed earlier but also, Willard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon. 
It makes research a lot easier when you are related to Presidents. A lot of the work had already been done.



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