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Title: A letter of interest... Jesse Lamb July 22, 2009
Post by: nord on July 22, 2009, 05:51:49 PM

While doing some family history research, I came across your entry on the Anderson Lamb boys rifle.  My gggrandfather was Jesse Lamb was a gunsmith who migrated from Guilford County to Georgia in the 1840s.  You seem to know quite a bit about the family, so I thought I’d see if you know anything about any of the family moving to Georgia.  Grandpa Jesse set up shop in Covington, Newton County, Georgia, which is a little east of Atlanta.  He made guns for the Confederacy in Atlanta.  His guns bear the motif of a heart on the stock.

 

Any information that you can provide would be wonderful.

 

Thank you for your time and assistance.

 

Yours truly,

Brenda Austin Mason

Dripping Springs, Texas

 

 

 

1850 Census, Division 88, Walton County, Georgia, taken November 15, 1850  (He moved to Newton County, next to Walton a couple of years later)

 

Jesse M. Lamb, 23, gunsmith, born North Carolina

 

His application for a Confederate pension states that he was born in Guilford County, NC