became an accomplice of Jack Sheppard, a notorious burglar, and 

 was arrested and sentenced to the gallows in 1724. As he was 

 awaiting execution on the gallows at Tyburn, his sentence was 

 commuted to transportation to Virginia for a period of seven 

 years, inasmuch as this was his first offence. After he had com- 

 pleted his term of seven years in Virginia he moved to Philadelphia, 

 where he opened a shop as an instrument maker and a private 

 school for teaching technical subjects. The curriculum included 

 surveying, navigation, and mathematics. Although his enter- 

 prises prospered, he moved to New York. There he married a 

 Miss Ham and established himself in a respectable position. 

 Lamb's first advertisement in New York appeared on January 23, 

 1749. He died on December U, 1784, at the age of 81, and two 

 days later he was eulogized in The New York Packet where he was 

 mentioned as "a steady friend to the liberties of x'\merica." 



John Lamb (1735-1800), Anthony's son, learned and practiced 

 his father's craft for a time and worked as a partner in the firm of 

 A. Lamb & Son. He subsequently became a wine and sugar 

 merchant, achieved considerable wealth, married well, and was 

 accepted by the gentry of the city. He was a firm patriot and from 

 1765 he was active as the leader of the Sons of Liberty. He 

 served in several major engagements in the American Revolution 

 and in 1783 was brevetted a brigadier-general.'^ 



The immigrant instrument makers were not confined to those 

 working in glass, however. One of the earlier immigrant craftsmen 

 was Charles Blundy, a London watchmaker who established 

 himself on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1753. 

 He notified the public that in addition to watches he sold ther- 

 mometers of all sizes and types. Presumably his merchandise 

 was imported from England. ^'^ He was absent from the city be- 

 tween 1753 and 1760 but returned and continued in business in 

 the latter year. 



Another pre-Revolution immigrant was Thomas Harland (1735- 

 1807), a clock maker who settled in Norwich, Connecticut, in 

 1773. It is claimed that he sailed from England on one of the 

 ships carrying the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party. Over 



'^ Carl Bridenbaugh, The Colonial Craftsman (New York: New York Uni- 

 versity Press, 1950), pp. 160-161; Isaac Q. Leake, Memoir of the Life and Times 

 of General John Lamb (Albany: Munsell, 1850); Silvio A. Bedini, Ridgefield in 

 Review (New Haven: Walker-Rackliffe, 1958), pp. 71, 84. 



'' Alfred Coxe Prime, The /Irts and Crafts of Philadelphia, Maryland and South 

 Carolina, 1786-1800 (The Walpole Society, 1929), p. 230. 



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