Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.

Edward Messenger was born in 1617 in England. He and his brothers with their parents came to New England and settled in the colony of Connecticut. He married Dorcas? in 1650. Edward died 12 May 1688 in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

Lambert provided valuable descriptions of the general history of the area and various towns, detailed specific events, and discussed numerous facets of early American life: religious, political and social. There is a poem, entitled "Old Milford," taken from the Connecticut Gazette, Vol. I, No. 4, 1835, as well as a "History of Milford, Connecticut," written by Lambert in June, 1836 for Historical Collections of Connecticut by John W. Barber. Neither the poem nor the sketch of Milford appears in the printed version.