Hannah Lambert Cadwalader
(1715-1788)
BIRTH
1715
PLACE
Yorkshire, England
DEATH
1788
PLACE
Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
FAMILY
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hannah Lambert Cadwalader married Philadelphia physician Thomas Cadwalader in 1738. They lived near Trenton before settling in Philadelphia, where he served in the Pennsylvania Provincial Council. Their sons John and Lambert became Revolutionary officers; Lambert later served in Congress. Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of Hannah is held by the National Portrait Gallery. The museum and historical society date her life to 1712–1786, conflicting with the supplied 1715–1788.
EARLY LIFE
Hannah Lambert was born 1715. The external genealogical record identifies Thomas Lambert Jr. and Ann Wood as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Hannah Lambert is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Hannah Lambert died 1788. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hannah Lambert died in 1788, in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Hannah Lambert Cadwalader married Philadelphia physician Thomas Cadwalader in 1738. They lived near Trenton before settling in Philadelphia, where he served in the Pennsylvania Provincial Council. Their sons John and Lambert became Revolutionary officers; Lambert later served in Congress. Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of Hannah is held by the National Portrait Gallery. The museum and historical society date her life to 1712–1786, conflicting with the supplied 1715–1788. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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