CHAPTER IV 



ZACHARIAH GAGE LAMSON was 

 born in Beverly, Massachusetts, May 

 13, 1783, and died in Granada, Central 

 America, Dec. 16, 1846. The first Lam- 

 son to land in this country was William 

 Lamson of England, who was one of the 

 early settlers in Ipswich, taking up his resi- 

 dence there in 1637. William Lamson had 

 a son, John Lamson, whose son William 

 I^amson was the father of Jonathan Lam- 

 son. Jonathan Lamson lived in Hamilton, 

 formerly a part of Ipswich, and was the 

 father of Nathaniel Lamson. Nathaniel 

 Lamson, who was a merchant in Beverly, 

 married Jean Gage, a daughter of Zachary 

 Gage, a descendant of John Gage who set- 

 tled in Beverly in 1633. Nathaniel Lam- 

 son and Jean Gage Lamson had eleven 

 children, one of whom was Zachariah or 

 Zachary Gage Lamson, the writer of the 



