Johann Conrad Lamb (1719 - 1809)

Born 2 Feb 1719 in Meisenheim, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Died 1809 at about age 89 in Augusta, Virginia, USA

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Biography

Arrival: 1741 in Pennsylvania (Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s)

He came from Kleinrich, Germany in the part of the Hunsruck hills which belonged to the Pfalz (Palatinate) at that time. Conrad, tailor by trade, son of Peter Lahm was granted permission by the government of Trabach 26 Apr 1741 to go to Pennsylvania, on conditions that he either pay their manumission fees (to be freed from slavery).

Conrad, aged 22 years, arrived in Philadelphia 20 Nov., 1741 in the ship Europa, he worked as an indentured servant for his passage. In 1757 Conrad and Catherine purchased a 212 acre farm near Brocks Gap in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia. The land was immediately south of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River a mile west of Brocks Gap. The east boundary of the land was roughly the Shoemaker River that flows mostly north at that point. The farm extended south along the Shoemaker a short distance past the forks with Reedy Run (formally called Lamb Run). He sold the farm in 1767.

Sources

• https://www.geni.com/people/Johann-Conrad-Lahm/6000000000780078137

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Lamb-847 created through the import of Steve Sanders family tree_2011-08-28.ged on Aug 30, 2011 by Steve Sanders.