JOHN LATHROP [#604], bap. Etton, Yorkshire, England 20 Dec 1584, d. Barnstable, MA 8 Nov 1653, m(1) (license) 10 Oct 1610 HANNAH HOUSE, d. 1634, m(2) Mrs. Ann Hammond, d. Barnstable 25 Feb 1687-8.
The name was sometimes written Lathrop, other times Lothrop and originated in the town of Lowthorpe, England. John Lathrop was born in Yorkshire, England in 1584.[1] He first entered Christ Church College, Oxford in 1601 but transferred to the more liberal Queen's College from which he graduated with a B.A. in 1605 and an M.A. in 1609.[5] He moved to Egerton, Kent, a town 48 miles southeast of London, where he was curate of the parish church. He left Egerton in 1623 apparently due to a distaste for the Church of England and became the minister of the First Independent Church of London, a church whose religion was not the same as the king's and thus was illegal. On April 22, 1632 the church's gathering was invaded by the authorities and forty-two members were taken into custody and were held in the old Clink prison in Newgate. In the spring of 1634 all but Reverend Lathrop were released on bail. However, his wife apparently became sick and died about this time and he was temporarily released to care for the children.[1]
Reverend Lathrop made his escape to America in 1634 as indicated from Governor Winthrop's journal entry of Sept. 18, 1634: "The Griffin and another ship now arriving with about 200 passengers. Mr. Lathrop and Mr. Sims, two godly ministers coming in the same ship". He moved to Scituate, about 10 miles south of Boston, on Sept. 27, 1634 where on Jan. 19, 1634-5 he was officially made the pastor.[1]
It's probable that John's first wife was named Hannah House.[2] He remarried sometime prior to June 14, 1635 as on that date his wife Anna was admitted to the church at Scituate. For his consenting to be the minister, he was granted a farm in Scituate.
John Lathrop was made a freeman and took oath on March 7, 1636-7 in Scituate.[3/1:53,60] On Jan. 1, 1637-8 certain freemen of Scituate, including John Lathrop, complained to the Court that they were allotted such small portions of land that they could not subsist on them. The Court of Assistants granted them upland and a neck of land lying between the North and South Rivers provided upon the condition that they make a township there and inhabit the said land.[3/1:72] John moved with others in Oct. 1639 and this became the town of Barnstable on Cape Cod. He was granted a four acre lot in this town upon which he built a small house. A larger house was built in 1644.[1] On March 7, 1653-4 Mrs. Lathrop was granted letters of administration on the estate of Mr. John Lathrop, deceased.[3/3:46]
John maybe had a daughter Elizabeth whose birth was not recorded. From the court records of 1665 we find that "Whereas John Williams, Junr, appeered before the Court held att Plymouth the seaventh of June last past before the date heerof, to answare for his disorderly liveing with his wife, and his abusive carriages towards her both in words and actions, in speciall his sequestration of himselfe from the marriage bedd, and that notwithstanding the Court then tooke such order about it as was judged meet for present, yett the said Williams not attending that due reformation expected from him, wherby Mr Barnabas Laythorpe hath seen cause, in the behalfe of his sister and those related to her, to revive the former complaint, with some aditionall charges; to which the said Williams, though seeming to desire the tryall of such his guiltines or not guiltines might bee put on a jury of his peers, yett afterwards refused it when graunted to him by the Court; this Court, being earnestly desirous of a renewed closure of his hart and affections to his wife, and that his future conversation with her might bee better then his former, were willing to extend what lenitie might bee, and in reference therunto, with exhortation of him to amend his wayes respecting the promises, hee was released att the present". It seems that when Elizabeth became pregnant or bore a child, her husband John accused her of unfaithfulness. She was "by false reports and reproaches rendered as if shee were a dishonest woman, and that the child shee brought forth into the world was not legitimate". The court found no substance to the accusations and cleared her name.[3/4:107]
See the overseas ancestor section for John's and Hannah's forbears. Also see the "Notable Kin" section for some famous descendants of John.
REF: [1] A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family - Rev.
Elijah Baldwin Huntington, 1884 (pgs.23-34)
[2] Barnstable, Three Centuries of a Cape Cod Town - Donald
Thayer, 1939
[3] Plymouth Colony Records, 1855
[4] John Lathrop (1584-1653) - Institute of Family Research,
Inc., 1979
[5] Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Dwight Brainerd,
1948 (pg.198)
[6] The Mayflower Descendant (Barnstable Vital Records), 1904
(pgs.236-239)
Children (by Hannah):
1. Jane, bap. Egerton, Kent, Eng. 29 Sep 1614, m. Scituate, MA 8 Apr 1635 Samuel Fuller (son of Edward Fuller and Ann), d. Oct. 31, 1683 (married by Capt. Miles Standish) Chil. (surname Fuller)[1/37]: 1) Hannah, m. 1 Jan 1658 Nicholas Bonham; 2) Samuel, bap. 11 Feb 1637-8, m. Anna Fuller (dau. of Capt. Matthew Fuller); 3) Elizabeth, m. ___ Taylor; 4) Sarah, b. Scituate, bap. Barnstable, MA 1 Aug 1641, d. young; 5) Mary, bap. Barnstable 16 Jun 1644, m. 18 Nov 1674 Joseph Williams (son of John Williams of Haverhill), b. 18 Apr 1647; 6) Thomas, b. 18 May 1650; 7) Sarah, b. 14 Dec 1654, m. ___ Crow; 8) John; 9) child, b. 8 Feb 1658, d. 15 days later 2. Anne, bap. Egerton, Eng. 12 May 1616, bur. 30 Apr 1617 3. John, bap. Egerton, Eng. 22 Feb 1617-8, prob. d. young 4. Barbara, bap. Egerton, Eng. 31 Oct 1619, m. Duxbury, MA 19 Jul 1638 John Emerson (married by Capt. Miles Standish) 5. Thomas, b. abt. 1621, d. 1707, m. Boston 11 Dec 1639 Sarah (Learned) Ewer (dau. of William Learned and widow of Thomas Ewer), bap. Ware, Eng. 20 Sep 1604 6. Samuel, d. 29 Feb 1700, m(1) Barnstable 28 Nov 1644 Elizabeth Scudder of Boston, m(2) Plymouth, MA 1690 Abigail Doane (dau. of Dea. John Doane), b. 29 Jan 1632, d. 1734 (deputy to General Court for New London, CT and local court judge, res. Norwich, CT in 1668)[1/39] Chil.[1/46-48]: 1) John, bap. Boston, MA 7 Dec 1645, d. Wallingford, CT 25 Aug 1688, m. 15 Dec 1669 Ruth Royce (dau. of Robert Royce); 2) Elizabeth, b. Mar 1648, m(1) 15 Dec 1669 Isaac Royce (son of Robert Royce of New London), m(2) Joseph Thompson of Wallingford; 3) Samuel, b. Mar 1650, d. 9 Dec 1732, m(1) Nov 1675 Hannah Adgate, d. 18 Sep 1695, m(2) 30 Dec 1697 Mary Edgerton of Norwich, d. 31 Jan 1727-8; 4) Sarah, b. Oct 1655, d. 11 Nov 1706?, m. 21 Apr 1681 Nathaniel Royce (son of Nathaniel Royce of Wallingford)[1/47], d. 8 Feb 1736; 5) Martha, b. Jan 1657, d. Wallingford 21 Sep 1719, m. 1677 John Moss (son of John Moss), d. 31 Mar 1717; 6) Israel, b. Oct 1659, d. Norwich 28 Mar 1733, m. 8 Apr 1686 Rebecca Bliss (dau. of Thomas Bliss and Elizabeth),[1/47] d. 22 Aug 1737[1/48]; 7) Joseph, b. Oct 1661, d. Norwich 5 Jul 1740, m(1) 8 Apr 1686 Mary Scudder, d. 18 Sep 1695, m(2) 2 Feb 1696-7 Elizabeth Watrous (dau. of Isaac Watrous and Sarah), b. 22 Mar 1661, d. 29 Nov 1726, m(3) 22 Nov 1727 Martha Perkins (widow of Dea. Joseph Perkins); 8) Abigail, b. May 1665, m. 9 Dec 1686 John Huntington (son of Christopher Huntington and Ruth Rockwell); 9) Anne, b. Aug 1667, d. Norwich 19 Nov 1745, m. William Hough (son of William Hough and Sarah Calkins), b. 13 Oct 1657, d. 22 Apr 1705[1/48] 7. (Capt.) Joseph, b. abt. 1624, d. btw. 9 Oct 1700 and 9 Apr 1702, m. Barnstable 11 Dec 1650 Mary Ansell (deputy to General Court and Selectman for Barnstable; registrar of county probate court)[1/40] Chil.[1/48-49]: 1) girl, b. and bur. 19 Nov 1651; 2) Joseph, b. 5 Dec 1652, d. Oct 1676; 3) Mary, b. 22 Mar 1654, m(1) 16 Jan 1674 Edward Crowell, m(2) ___ Denes; 4) Benjamin, b. 25 Jul 1657, no known issue; 5) Elizabeth, b. 18 Sep 1659, m. 29 Dec 1680 Thomas Fuller; 6) John, b. 28 Nov 1661, d. 30 Dec 1663; 7) Samuel, b. 17 Mar 1663-4, m. 1 Jul 1686 Hannah Crocker (dau. of John Crocker and Mary Bodfish), b. 10 Oct 1665, d. 11 Oct 1738; 8) John, b. 7 Aug 1666, prob. d. bef. 1700; 9) Barnabas, b. 24 Feb 1668-9; 10) Hope, b. 15 Jul 1671, d. 29 Oct 1736, m. 15 Nov 1696 Elizabeth Lathrop (dau. of Melatiah Lathrop), b. Barnstable 15 Nov 1677, d. 21 Feb 1763, res. Falmouth, MA and Tolland, Hartford, and Sharon, CT; 11) Thomas, b. 6 Jan 1673-4, d. 3 Jul 1757, m. 23 Apr 1697 Experience Gorham (dau. of James Gorham and Hannah Huckings), b. 28 Jul 1678; 12) Hannah, b. 23 Jan 1675-6, d. 1 Feb 1680-1 8. Benjamin, m. Martha (selectman of Charlestown, MA)[1/41] Chil.[1/49-50]: 1) Martha, b. 3 Nov 1652, bap. 5 Aug 1660, d. 26 Sep 1728, m. 2 Dec 1669 John Goodwin, d. Boston 21 Jan 1712, age 65, m(2) 1714 John Pearson; 2) Hannah, b. 15 Sep 1655, bap. 5 Aug 1660, m. 21 Aug 1679 Henry Swain; 3) Benjamin, bap. 5 Aug 1660, d. 1690, m. prob. 1689 Abigail Edwards (dau. of Richard Edwards and Elizabeth Tuthill), res. Hartford, CT, no issue; 4) Mary, bap. 9 Jun 1661, d. 23 Dec 1713, m. 21 May 1679 William Brown, d. 19 Oct 1724, age 78; 5) Sarah, b. 10 Apr 1664, bap. 17 Apr 1664, d. young; 6) Elizabeth, bap. 21 May 1665; 7) Rebecca, b. 14 Nov 1666, bap. 18 Nov; 8) Mercy, b. 17 Dec 1670; 9) John, b. 15 Jul 1672, d. young
Children (by Ann):
9. Barnabas, bap. Scituate, MA 6 Jun 1636, d. Barnstable 26 Oct 1715, m(1) Barnstable 1 Dec 1658 Susanna Clark (dau. of Thomas Clarke and Suannah Ring), d. 28 Sep 1697, age 55, m(2) widow Abigail Dodson, d. Boston 21 Dec 1715, age 72 (judge of probate in Barnstable, deputy to General Court, judge of Common Pleas, councilor with Governor Hinckley and Governor Bradford)[1/41] Chil.[1/50-51]: 1) John, b. 7 Oct 1659, d. Apr 1666; 2) Abigail, b. 18 Dec 1660, m. 1680 Thomas Sturgess, res. Yarmouth, MA; 3) Barnabas, b. 22 Mar 1662-3, d. 11 Oct 1732, m. 14 Nov 1687 Elizabeth Hedge; 4) Susannah, b. 28 Feb 1664-5, d. 9 Aug 1726, m. Oct 1683 William Shurtleff (son of William Shurtleff and Elizabeth Lettice of Plymouth), d. 4 Feb 1729-30, age 71; 5) John, b. 1667, d. 23 Oct 1695, m. Elizabeth Green of Charlestown, MA, d. 1 Aug 1752, age 89; 6) Nathaniel, b 23 Nov 1669, d. 1700, m. Bethiah ___; 7) Bathshua, , b. 10 Aug 1673, m. ___ Freeman; 8) Anna, b. Barnstable 10 Aug 1673, m. Apr 1691 Ebenezer Lewes; 9) Thomas, b. 7 Mar 1674-5, d. 13 oct 1675; 10) Mercy, b. 27 Jun 1676, d. 3 Jul 1677; 11) Sarah; 12) Thankful, bap. 19 Sep 1683, m. 25 Jan 1699-1700 John Hedge; 13) James, bap. 30 Mar 1684, d. young; 14) Samuel, bap. 16 Jun 1685, d. young 10. a child, b. and d. 30 Jul 1638[1/41] 11. Abigail, bap. Barnstable, MA 2 Nov 1639[1/41], m. 7 Oct 1657[1/41] James Clark (son of Thomas Clarke and Susannah Ring)[1/41] 12. Bathsheba, bap. Barnstable, MA 27 Feb 1641,[1/41] d. 8 Jan 1723,[1/41] m. Alexander Marsh, d. 7 Mar 1698,[1/41] res. Braintree, MA[1/41] Chil.[1/42] (surname Marsh): 1) John; 2) Rachel; 3) Phebe; 4) Ann, m. Samuel French of Braintree, MA 13. Capt. John, b. Barnstable, MA 9 Feb 1644,[1/42] d. 18 or 27 Sep 1727,[1/42] m(1) 3 Jan 1671-2 Mary [Cole?] Cobb (prob. dau. of James Cobb and Mary Tilson), b. Scituate 3 Dec 1653,[1/42] m(2) Barnstable 9 Dec 1695 Hannah Fuller (widow of Dr. John Fuller), d. 1738 (Capt. of his own ship Swan)[1/42] Chil.[1/51-52]: 1) John, b. 5 Aug 1673, d. Boston 1716, m. Esther ___; 2) Mary, b. 27 Oct 1675, m. 8 Sep 1697 James Howland; 3) Martha, b. 11 Nov 1677; 4) Elizabeth, b. 16 Sep 1679, m. Nov 1698 James Lewes (son of James Lewes and Sarah Lane); 5) James, b. 3 Jul 1681, bap. 30 Mar 1684, d. young; 6) Hannah, b. Barnstable 13 May 1682-3, d. 3 Apr 1747, m. 25 Dec 1707 James Cobb (son of James Cobb and Sarah Lewes), b. 20 Dec 1677; 7) Jonathan, b. 14 Nov 1684, d. young; 8) Barnabas, b. 22 Oct 1686, d. 1756, m(1) 20 Feb 1706 Bethiah Fuller, d. 26 Oct 1714, age abt. 28, m(2) 25 Dec 1718 Hannah Chipman, d. 1763; 9) Abigail, b. 23 Apr 1689; 10) Experience, b. 7 Jan 1691-2; 11) Bathshua, b. 19 Dec 1696, m. ___ Webb; 12) Phebe, b. Sep 1701, m. Elisha Thacher; 13) Benjamin, b. 8 Apr 1704, m(1) 22 Dec 1727 Experience Howland (dau. of Thomas Howland of Plymouth), b. Nov 1705, d. 5 Sep 1748, m(2) Mary (Hullet) Hedge, d. 3 Jun 1795, age 75, res. Kingston 14. boy, died at birth, bur. 25 Jan 1649[1/42]
THOMAS LATHROP [#302], b. abt. 1621, d. 1707, m. 11 Dec 1639 SARAH (LEARNED) Ewer (dau. of William Learned and Goodith), prob. bap. Ware, Hertfordshire, England 20 Sep 1604. Sarah m(1) England 13 Jan 1623-4 Thomas Ewer, b. abt. 1595, d. 1638.
Thomas Lathrop emigrated to America with his father and lived at Scituate where a record from his father's church states: "My Sonn Thomas Lathropp joined May 4, 1637". He later moved with his family to Barnstable on the Cape in 1639. John Lathrop also recorded Thomas' marriage: "My sonn Thomas and brother Larnett's daughter, widow Ewer, were married in the Bay Dec. 11, 1639". The Bay refers to Boston.[1]
On June 7, 1642 Thomas Lathrop was sworn as the constable of Barnstable.[2/2:34,40] He was also a surveyor of highways there in 1642 and was also constable in 1665.[2/4:91] He was admitted freeman June 3, 1656 and served on the Grand Enquest at the same time.[2/3:100101] In 1667 Thomas Lathrop and Shuball Linnitt were ordered to administer upon the estate of Thomas Ewer and be guardians to the children.[2/4:153] This Thomas was his step-son. The Ewer family, including Sarah (Learned) Ewer, came to America in 1635 in the James and settled first in Charlestown.[3/18]
REF: [1] A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family - Rev.
Elijah B. Huntington, 1884 (pg.38)
[2] Plymouth Colony Records, 1855
[3] The Learned Family - Joseph Learned, 1898
[4] The Mayflower Descendant (Barnstable Vital Records), 1904
(pgs.236-237)
Children:
1. Mary, b. Barnstable, MA 4 Oct 1640,[1/45] d. after 1735, m(1) Barnstable (Dec[1/45]) 20 Nov 1656[?] John Stearns of Billerica, MA (son of Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker), d. 5 Mar 1668-9,[1/45] m(2) 6 May 1669[1/45] William French, d. 20 Nov 1681,[1/45] m(3) 1684 Isaac Mixer, Jr. of Watertown 2. Hannah, bap. Barnstable, MA 18 Oct 1642[1/45] 3. Thomas, bap. Barnstable, MA 7 Jul 1644[1/45], living in 1697[1/45] 4. Meletiah, b. Barnstable, MA 2 (22[1/45]) Nov 1646, d. Barnstable 6 Feb 1711-2,[1/45] m. Barnstable 20 May 1667 Sarah Farrar (dau. of Thomas Farrar and Elizabeth Hood of Lynn, MA),[1/45] d. Barnstable 23 May 1712, aged 64[1/45] Chil.[1/55-56]: 1) Thomas, b. 22 Aug 1668; 2) Tabitha, b. 3 Apr 1671, m. 4 May 1699 Shubael Dimmock (son of Shubael Dimmock and Joanna Bursley) , b. Barnstable Feb 1663; 3) Isaac, b. 23 Jun 1673, d. 7 Sep 1743, m. Elizabeth Barnes (dau. of Jonathan Barnes of Plymouth), b. 16 Aug 1677, d. 19 Oct 1757 (held every town office and representative in General Court); 4) Joseph, b. 15 Dec 1675, d. 1747 or 1748, m. 14 Jan 1695 Abigail Child (dau. of Richard Child and Hannah Dimmock), b. 16 Jun 1672; 5) Elizabeth, b. 23 Nov 1677, m. 17 Dec 1696 Hope Lathrop; 6) Ichabod, b. 20 Jun 1680, prob. d. bef. 1711; 7) Shubael, b. 20 Apr 1682, living 1711; 8) Sarah, b. 5 Mar 1683-4, m(1) 18 Sep 1702 Joseph Huckins (son of Thomas Huckins and Hannah Chapman), b. 6 Oct 1682, m(2) 14 Oct 1708 John Troop 5. Bethiah, b. Barnstable, MA 23 Jul 1649,[1/45] d. Barnstable 10 Jul 1694,[1/45] m. Jul 1668 John Hinckley (prob. son of Samuel Hinckley),[1/45] d. Barnstable 7 Dec 1709[1/45] Chil.[1/45] (surname Hinckley): 1) Sarah, b. end of May 1669, m. John Crocker; 2) Samuel, b. 2 Feb 1670-1, living in Stonington, CT in 1710; 3) Bethia, b. Mar 1673, d. 12 Apr 1715; 4) Hannah, b. May 1675, m. 2 Jun 1708 Benjamin Lewis; 5) Jonathan, b. 15 Feb 1677; 6) Ichabod, b. 28 Aug 1680; 7) Gershom, b. 2 Apr 1682; also named in Bethiah (Lothrop) Hinckley's will (order uncertain)[1/46] 8) Mary; 9) Abigail; 10) Mercy; 11) Job
Sarah's children by Thomas Ewer:[3/1819]
1. Sarah Ewer, m. Barnstable 18 Jun 1645 Thomas Blossom 2. Elizabeth Ewer, b. Eng. abt. 1631, bur. Barnstable 9 Apr 1641 3. Thomas Ewer, b. Eng. abt. 1633, d. 1667, m? Hannah ____ 4. John Ewer, d. 1652, m? Mary ____
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