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FATHER

William Learned

MOTHER

Goodith  Gilman

HUSBANDS

Thomas Ewer

Thomas Lothrop

CHILDREN with Thomas Ewer

1. John Ewer
    bap. 15 Jan 1628 Strood, Kent, England
    m. Mary Wallen
    d. Bef. 31 May 1652

2. Sarah Ewer
    bap. 10 May 1629
    m. 18 Jun 1645 Thomas Blossom
    m. Abt. n1651 Nicholas Davis
    m. Abt. 1673 John Clarke
    d. Abt. 1692

3. Elizabeth Ewer
    bap. 2 Oct 1631
    d. Bef. 9 Apr 1641

4. Thomas Ewer
    bap. 6 Feb 1634
    m. Abt. 1662 Hannah
    d. Bef. 31 May 1667

CHILDREN with Thomas Lathrop

1. Mary Lothrop.
    b. 04 Oct 1640

2. Hannah Lothrop
    b. 18 Oct 1642

3. Thomas Lothrop
    b. 7 Jul 1644

4. Melatiah Lothrop
    b. 22 Nov 1646 
    m. 20 May 1677
    d. 6 Feb 1711/12

5. Bethiah Lothrop  
    b. 22 July 1649
    m. 1668 John Hinckley
    d. 10 Jul 1697

Sarah Learned
by Susan Brooke
Mar 2023

Sarah Learned was baptized on 18 Jan 1606/7. (1)  When she was 17 she married Thomas Ewer on 13 Jan 1623/4. (2) His first wife, Bridget Hipsey, had died along with two of his children, but he may have had a 7 year son. (3)   Sarah and Thomas Ewer had four more children.  Thomas Ewer was a tailor and he sailed with his wife and at least two of their children on the ship James on 19 Jul 1635. (4)  The child from her husband's first marriage was an adult and married and probably stayed behind.  Her four children were still young.  Then her husband, Thomas Ewer died in Charlestown, MA around 20 Aug 1638. John, her eldest child was 10 and Thomas the youngest was 4 years old. (5)  She then married Thomas Lathrop on 11 Dec 1639. (6)
Thomas and Sarah Lothrop have 5 more children. Altogether she gave birth to 9 children, the last born when she was 42 years old.   According to Find A Grave, she died about 2 1/2 years later in 1652 leaving leaving her widowed husband with several small children.  Also according to Find A Grave, Thomas Lothrop died about 1707.    
 

Sources

(1) Baptized (Source found on Wikitree)
Sarah Learned was baptized St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England, 18 January 1606/7,

(2) Southwark Marriages
Thomas Ewer to Sarah Learned 13 Jan 1623/4  St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Southward, Surrey, England

(3) Thomas Ewer
Bap. 10 Mary 1593
Married Bridget Hipsey 13 Sep 1614
Three children:
    William Ewer   8 Dec 1616  (possibly married Mary Dann on 7 Feb 1636 in Strood)
    Elizabeth Ewer   13 Sep 1618   died 23 Sep 1618
    Robert Ewer     6 Oct 1622   Died 14 July 1623
Bridget Hipsey died Bef. 2 Aug 1623
Thomas Ewer married Sarah Learned 13 Jan 1623/4
Thomas Ewer died 20 Aug 1638

(4) The Great Migration Begins Vol 2 C-F page 482
On the 19th of June in 1635, Thomas Ewer was listed as a 40 years old tailor, with his wife "Sara Ewer," aged 28, "Elizabeth Ewer," aged 4, and "Tho[mas] Ewer," aged 1½, as passengers on the ship JAMES that sailed for New England from London. 

(5) The Great Migration Begins
Children of Thomas Ewer and Sarah
1. John bap Strood  14 Jan 1627/8  m. by 1652  (on 29 Jun 1652, "Mary Ewer 'widow' presented the inventory of the estate of 'John Ewer deceased."
2. Sarah bap. Strood 10 May 1629; m. (1) Barnstable 18 June 1645 Thomas Blossom, son of Thomas Blossom. m. (2) 1651 Nicholas Davis of Barnstable and Newport, and the argument presented there; (if the marriage took place) m. (3) John .Clarke of Newport.
3. Elizabeth bap. Strood 2 October 1631 (aged 4 in 1635; bur.l Barnstable 9 Apr 1641 )Elizabeth Ewer daughter of my daughter Lothroppp"
4. Thomas bap Strood 6 February 1633/34 (aged 1/2 in 1635; m. by 1667 Hannah.  (on 31 May 1667, the estate of Thomas Ewer was appraised, and 'Hannah the relict of the aforesaid Thomas Ewer took her oath.'

(6) North American Family Histories, page 38
A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family
by Rev. E. V. Huntington, A.M.
Mrs. Julia M. Huntington, 1884

They lived at Scituate where a record from his father's church states: "My Sonn Thomas Lathrop 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."
In 1667 Thomas Lathrop and Shuball Linnitt had been ordered to administer upon the estate of Thomas Ewer and be guardians to the children. He had a step-son named Thomas Ewer as well as a son named Thomas Lathrop.