Miscellaneous information concerning various Lake individuals.

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For info on the Lakes of Gravesend, Kings County, Long Island, NY see
Misc->LakeFamilyOfGravesend.pdf


From ancestry.com ...

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of
the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the
Founding of a Nation. Volume III

Thomas Lake, immigrant ancestor, was born in or near Portsmouth, England,
in 1734. When he was fourteen years old he came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
in 1748, removing afterward to Rye, New Hampshire. In 1785 he settled with his
family in Chichester, New Hampshire, on the farm afterward owned and occupied
by his greatgrandson, Joseph T. Lake, situated on the road leading from
Pine Ground in Chichester to Pittsfield Village. He married Eunice (Seavey)
Davis, widow of Samuel Davis, by whom she had two sons, Samuel Davis, of
Epsom, and David Davis, of Cornish, New Hampshire. She died July 16, 1804,
and Thomas Lake died March 6, 1815. Children: 1. James, born August 13,
1765. married Mehitable Berry. 2. Thomas, June 10, 1767, married Rebecca
C. Blake. 3. John, March 21, 1769, a sea captain of Portsmouth. 4. Anna, May
26, 1771; married (first) Captain Morris; (second) Richard Rand. 5. Martha,
March 21, 1773, married Jeremiah Sanborn. 6. Robert, May 8, 1775, married
(first) Hannah Blake; (second) Hannah Noyes. 7. Rebecca, December 23, 1776,
married Jonathan Leavitt. 8. William, February 20, 1779.

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of
the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the
Founding of a Nation. Volume IV

The Lake family is of ancient English origin, and in colonial days several
pioneers of this name came to New England. Captain Thomas Lake, son of Richard
Lake, of Erby, England, was born in 1615, and became deputy governor of the
New Haven Colony. He married Mary Goodyear and settled at an early date in
Boston, where he was engaged in trade, and had extensive land interests in
Maine. July 30, 1663, he deposed in Boston that he was about forty-eight
years of age, this deposition relating to Penobscot lands in Maine for
which he had paid rent to Colonel Temple. He was slain at Kennebec by the
Indians, August 16, 1676. His will, which was dated February 27, 1663,
and proved February 20, 1676, bequeathed to his sister, Lydia Goodyear;
to Samuel Shepherd, pastor at Rowley; to cousin (nephew) George Rokesby;
to Mr. John Sherman, pastor of Watertown; to Mr. Henry Frenchman; to wife
Mary and children, Stephen, Thomas and Anne. His widow died in 1705 and
bequeathed her estate to cousins, John and Richard Watts and Mary Treworthy.
The descendants of this Lake did not go to New Jersey, and the record of
the births of his children show that he had no son William.

Another Thomas Lake came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, and was admitted to
the church there, September 20, 1640, and made a freeman, June 2, 1641. He
was a proprietor and town officer, and died October 27, 1678, at the age of
eighty years. His will, which was proved November 14, 1678, bequeathed to the
church a piece of silver plate for the communion table; to his brother Henry
Lake and children; and to one of them, Thomas, in particular. This Thomas
evidently left no children. His nephew Thomas settled in Connecticut and
was probably of age in 1659, when he was called before the church. Alice,
wife of Thomas Lake, of Dorchester, died October 20, 1678, at the age of
seventy years.

John Lake, a tailor, also came to Boston, where he was admitted to the
church, December 2, 1643, and made a freeman, May 29, 1644. June 26, 1648,
he purchased land, and in 1669-70 he deposed in the administration of
Thomas Millard 's estate that he was about fifty-one years of age. His
will, dated August 3, proved August 9, 1677, bequeathed to wife Lucy;
brother-in-law, Matthew Coy (or Cowee) and his wife; to cousin (nephew), -
Lake; to cousins (nephews) John and Mary Lake, children of his brother Luke;
to Mary Saxton. James Taylor was appointed guardian of this nephew, John
Lake, October 6, 1677, and nothing further appears concerning the brother
Luke. John Lake had several children, but as they are not mentioned in the
will of the father, it is to be presumed that none survived him or left issue.

The records of New York show a Lake family as early as 1637, viz: Robert,
two Johns, and George Lake were in Dorchester county, Maryland, as early
as 1661. It is not unlikely that sons of Henry or Luke Lake may have gone
from Massachusetts to Staten Island, and thence with the tide of pioneers,
that were known to have taken this course, to New Jersey.

William Lake, the pioneer, settled prior to 1702 in Great Egg harbor,
Gloucester county, New Jersey, now known as Atlantic county, and there
purchased one hundred acres of land. Daniel Lake settled on Staten Island in
1694, removing thence from Long Island, and as William had a son Daniel, it
is possible that Daniel and William were brothers. There are many descendants
of Daniel Lake in Staten Island and in all parts of the country. William
Lake died at Egg Harbor in 1716, leaving a large estate. He bequeathed four
hundred and fifty acres to his son Nathan, and to his son Daniel, who was
not yet of age at the time of the death of his father, the homestead and
two hundred and fifty acres, which, after the English fashion, was left
to the family name of Daniel for generations. The industrial and other
interests of the state have been greatly benefited by various members of
this family. From their settlement in this country they have been noted for
their strict adherence to temperance principles, and were public advocates of
these measures before a church opened its doors to any speaker in this cause,
and the only two schoolhouses in which these principles were permitted to
be advocated, each had a Lake as a member of its board of trustees.

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distribution of LAKE surname in England in 1881, Misc->LAKE-GreatBritain-1881.jpg
distribution of LAKE surname in England in 1998, Misc->LAKE-GreatBritain-1998.jpg



From "A Genealogy of the LAKE Family of Great Egg Harbor" by Dr. Arthur
Adams and Sarah Risley in 1915:

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THE LAKE FAMILY IN ENGLAND

  The family name of *LAKE* is in origin a place name, that is, it designated
its bearer as living at or near a lake. Used in this way, it occurs as
early as 1273, as, for example, William of the Lake. Names of this type are
usually found spread over a large territory, and indeed originating quite
independently among different nations. Consequently we are not surprised
to find the name among the Dutch, the Germans, or the Swedes.

  In ancient English records the name is not uncommon, and is found in various
parts of the country, though perhaps most frequently in the South and West.

  Several branches of the family early arose to distinction, chief of
which may be mentioned that of Almeric Lake of Southampton, whose two
distinguished sons were Arthur, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Sir Thomas
Lake. Bishop Arthur Lake was born in Southampton in September, 1569; he
graduated from New College, Oxford, in 1591. In 1616 he became Bishop of
Bath and Wells, which office he discharged with great credit to himself. He
died May 4, 1626. His tomb may still be seen in his own cathedral. His more
distinguished brother, Sir Thomas Lake, was born in 1567, and was knighted
in 1603. He was a favorite of James I, who in 1615 made him Secretary of
State. His later career seems to have been unfortunate and embittered
by family quarrels. He died September 17, 1630, leaving a widow, Mary,
daughter of Sir William Ryder, three sons and four daughters.

  The great English General Sir Gerard Lake was of this family, being a
descendant of the third son Lancelot. Gerard, first Viscount Lake of Delhi
and Leswarree, was born July 27, 1744. He entered the English army in 1758;
he became major-general in 1790, lieutenant-general in 1797, and general
in 1802. He served under Cornwallis in America in 1781.  After service in
Ireland, he was sent to India in 1800. His campaigns there against the native
Indian states were extremely successful, and as a result English influence
in India became supreme. He received the thanks of Parliament and was raised
to the peerage. He died February 20, 1808, one of the most honored and most
loved commanders of English military history. It is said of him that he could
think more clearly amidst the rain of bullets than in the calm of his own
tent. His line became extinct in 1848, none of his three sons having issue.

  The next famous family of Lakes in England to be mentioned is that of Sir
Edward Lake. He was born about 1600, the eldest son of Richard Lake of Irby,
Lincolnshire. He received the degree of B.A. at Oxford in 1627. He was an
eminent lawyer, becoming advocate general for Ireland.  On the outbreak of
the Civil Wars, he both fought and wrote on the King's side. At the battle
of Edgehill he received sixteen wounds, and having lost the use of his left
hand by a shot, he placed his horse's bridle between his teeth and fought
with his sword in his right hand. He was promised as a reward a baronetcy
and an augmentation to his arms by King Charles I in 1643. But since the
King was beheaded and the period of the Commonwealth intervened, nothing was
done till 1661. King Charles II then made him Chancellor of the Diocese of
Lincoln, and the augmented coat of arms promised by King Charles I was in
1661 formally authorized by the College of Arms. He died July 18, 1674, and
was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. His wife was Anne, daughter of Simon Biby,
by whom he had a son Edward, who died an infant before 1666. This family
is of peculiar interest to us, because two of Sir Edward Lake's brothers,
namely Thomas and John, came to America and lived in Boston.

  The will of Sir Edward Lake is dated April 8, 1665; he added codicils in
1670, 1671, and in 1674, they being rendered necessary by the death of the
executors successively named. This will is an interesting document, since it
gives us much information in regard to the antecedents and connections of Sir
Edward. He leaves a bequest to the church at Normanton near Pontefract in
Yorkshire, because it was the home of his paternal ancestors. He mentions
his kinsman and servant Christopher Lake, his brother John Lake, his
cousin Francis Lake of Hatcliffe, the eldest son of his brother Luke Lake,
and Stephen, eldest son of his brother Thomas Lake. He makes his brother
Thomas Lake executor, and directs that the heirs male for ever may for their
Christian name have the name Biby, or Seaman, his wife's mother's surname,
or Caly, an ancestor of the time of Edward III, or Wardell, in honor of
his mother, a daughter of Edward Wardell. Thomas Lake, the brother in New
England, died before Sir Edward, and in a codicil he names Thomas's son
Stephen executor in his place; then Stephen died, and Thomas, Stephen's
brother, is named.

  Thomas Lake, brother of Sir Edward, seems first to have gone to New
Haven, Conn., for there he married Mary, daughter of Stephen Goodyear, a
prominent merchant and Deputy Governor. Several children of Thomas and Mary
are mentioned in the Boston records, but only Stephen, Ann, and Thomas grew
up. Stephen died young, and Ann, married, first, the Rev.  John Cotton, and,
second, the Rev. Increase Mather of Boston, by whom she left issue. Thomas,
son of Thomas, and nephew of Sir Edward Lake, was born in Boston February 9,
1656. He returned to England, was a barrister and a member of the Middle
Temple. He lived at Bishop's Norton, Lincolnshire. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Story, of Derbyshire, and died May 22, 1711, leaving a son
Biby and a daughter Mary. Biby Lake was a sub-governor of the African Company,
and in 1711 received from Queen Anne a confirmation of the title granted to
Sir Edward Lake, together with the coat of arms. The descendants of Biby
Lake have held honorable places in English affairs down to the present,
Sir St. Vincent Atwell Lake being the seventh Baronet, counting from Sir Biby.

  Another Edward Lake who attained eminence was apparently of the same
family as Sir Edward, though the exact relationship is not known; perhaps
he was a cousin of some degree. He was born at Exeter November 10, 1641,
the son of a clergyman. In early life he was a tutor to the princesses
Mary and Anne, daughters of James, Duke of York. He became archdeacon of
Exeter October 24, 1676, at which time he received the degree of D. D. from
Cambridge University. He was a famous preacher, and a well-known writer of
religious and devotional books. He died February 1, 1704.

  The last of the famous men of the name of Lake in England to be mentioned
is the famous John Lake, Bishop of Chichester. He was the son of Thomas
Lake, a grocer of Halifax in Yorkshire, where he was born in 1624. He
graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge. He was a devoted royalist,
as was Sir Edward Lake, to whom it is not unlikely that he was related. In
1647, he took Holy Orders; on the Restoration he was made Vicar of Leeds,
and in 1661 he received the degree of D.D. from Cambridge University. He
held many important church offices, until in 1682 he was made Bishop of
Sodor and Man. In 1684 he was transferred to the See of Bristol, and in
1685 he became Bishop of Chichester.

  Though Bishop Lake owed much to King James, and though his loyalty
to the Crown was unquestioned, he could not sanction the King's illegal
acts tending to the restoration of the Roman Catholic faith in England;
and on refusing to read the King's declaration of liberty of conscience,
he with six other Bishops, was committed to the Tower of London in 1688.
One should read Macaulay's account of the heroic stand of these men,
who will ever be regarded as heroes for conscience's sake. He refused
to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, and died August 30,
1689. His whole life shows that he spoke only the truth when he said that
"He thanked God he never much knew what fear was, when he was once satisfied
of the goodness of his cause." His heroic character and godly life may well
be an inspiration to all who take pride in the Lake name.

  This roll of great men of the name of Lake might be extended almost
indefinitely, but the purpose of this chapter is not to tell all that is known
or may be learned of the family in England, but merely to show that in the
mother country, the old home, the family of Lake is ancient and honorable;
that sufficient has been said to demonstrate this will readily be granted.

  We hope that sometime, perhaps through some happy accident, we may
discover to which branch of the English family our John Lake belonged,
but until that time we shall claim all as our kinsfolk and give hearty
thanks for their good examples, and endeavor ourselves to follow them in
all virtuous and godly living.

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