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Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

Joshua Lapham

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Willis Carrier — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 126 
  • Father:
  • John Lapham Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Russell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Mar 1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Nov 1799 
  • Death Location:
  • Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Quaker Meetinghouse Grounds, Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Apr 1747 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lydia Lapham (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  Hannah Lapham

  • Notes: 

  • Some older sources mistakenly list Joshua Lapham as the son of Samuel and Hannah (Rogers) Lapham.

• Sources for Joshua Lapham

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/16/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Births, Vol. 1, p. 147, Birth record for Joshua Lapham.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 291, Marriage record for Hannah Sherman and Joshua Lapham.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 309.
  • ⁵ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Providence County, Vol. 3, p. 6-102, Birth record for daughter Lydia Lapham.
  • ⁶ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 21584, Birth record for Joshua Lapham (born Dartmouth).
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, pp. 11, 183-186.
  • ⁸ Drummond, Josiah H., John Rogers of Marshfield and Some of His Descendants, Portland, Maine: Smith and Sale, Printers (1898), 57-58.
  • ⁹ Hathaway, Charles F., Tribe Hathaway, New York: Unknown (1909), a2.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 35.
  • ¹¹ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 295.