The Lambeth Family of North Carolina

The family name, now spelled Lambeth, has evolved from the name Lambert , which is found in the French and German languages, as well as in the English.
In Colonial days many men were completely lacking in formal education and were unable to sign legal documents such as deeds, bonds and wills. Consequently the spelling of a surname was left entirely to the clerk—or whatever literate friend may have made out a deed or a will according to the accepted form. The name was spelled as it sounded, although it is not uncommon to find the same name spelled several different ways in the same document, While the most frequent spelling of the name up to the 1800 was Lambert, it was also spelled Lambard,Lamberth, Lamburt,Lambuth---and occasionally Lambeth. The present spelling has been used throughout this study except in the case of direct quotes.
The first member of this family whose signature has been found was Josiah Lambeth, Son of Samuel, who signed the bond for his marriage to Elizabeth Loftin on 18 December, 1790 as "Josious Lambert." Four years later his brother, Samuel Lambeth , Jr., signed his own marriage bond to Elizabeth Heath, spelling his name, "Lambert" by 1850 the "r" had been dropped, and the final "h" added by a almost all of the family who were then living in Davison and Guilford County .
There is a little confusion as to where the Lambeth family first lived after coming to America. In some early biographical sketches of Frank S. Lambeth of Thomasville, he says" that a John Lambeth was a native of England, who immigrated to America in Colonial times. After living a very brief time in Maryland, he located in Newberne, North Carolina .... He Married Sara Heath." (history of North Carolina, Volume IV pages 186, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago & New York, 1919.)
There is a Land grant order showing John Lambert was granted land on March 21, 1747 by Governor Gabriel Johnston, and issued on April 21, 1750 for 300 acres on the North side of Little Contenty Being about a mile from the Mouth of Sandy run and & rung up sd, run for the compliment. It is also described as being on Buton's Line. (Grant Book 5, Page 385 and also in the Grant Book 10, Page 235). The land in the northern part of Craven County, This part of Craven County has since become part of Greene County.
Frank S. Lambeth's sister a Mrs..., Edgar Dixon, (I only have her married name) who was an early family historian stated that the Family came from New Jersey.
It looks like Mrs... Edgar Dixon is basing this on some land deeds found in the name of Benjamin Lambert of Essex County, New Jersey who purchased land in Craven County in 1760. on the south side of the Trent River, (Craven County Deed Book 2, page 302.) (which does not disprove that they could not have moved to Maryland and lived a short time before moving on to North Carolina.)
One of the witnesses to the deed of land for Benjamin Lambert was George Becton, member of the George Becton family who had also witnessed deeds of Samuel Lambeth, whose descendants moved to Rowan and Guilford Counties. Since the name Benjamin was used by the Lambeth family of Craven County it could easily have been our Benjamin Lambeth that had both this land.
Lambeth family researchers have looked at the early wills in New Jersey hopeing to identify our branch of the Lambert/Lambeth family, what they found was a striking number of Christian names which are the same in the Lambeth families in both states. So your guess is as good as mine,