Matthew Lambing

Grandfather of the writer [Andrew Lambing]. The entry in the register reads: 1776, 21 April, at Haycock I baptized Matthew, legitimate son of Chrstiopher Lambin or Langbein adn Anne, united in lawful wedlock, born 12 April 1776. Matthew learned the tailor trade, but ever worked much at it. He moved with his family to Armstrong county in the fall of 1823, crossing the Kinskiminetas river September 29 and settled at Long Run, on the north side of tat river about 13 miles above its mouth. Here he lived till the fall of 1830, when, in that and the following year, the family moved to the site of the preent Manroville, two miles below Kittanning, which was then a bottom land overgrown with laurel bushes. Here he spent the rest of his life, and died. His wife died in the same year. They are both burried in Freeport.
Matthew was a very tall man, and though slender, was very muscular, and possessed great power of endurance. All the Lambings spoke, as a rule, German till they left Adams countym and the father of the writer (Andrew Lambing] could not speak English in his childhood.