Small archive of a migrating family, relocating from Stoughton, Mass. to Lake County, Ill. in 1839.

Consists of Hannah Talbot Lamb's record book of deaths, 1812-1841; Joseph Lamb's 7 page manuscript journal of his journey from New England to Warren Township in 1839; Joseph Lamb's account book kept as a shoemaker and then as a farmer, 1831-1858 (which includes a grid-plan of his orchard listing over twenty varieties of apples); an 1840 land purchase document; documents relating to the Lambs as postmasters at the Whittier, Ill. Post office, 1870-1879; a hand-written will of son Nahum Lamb, 1912; and two miscellaneous items: a story of a Fourth of July in 1844 by B. F. Shepard of Gurnee, written in 1914, and receipt for work done by Ney Lamb in 1931.