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FATHER
MOTHER
WIFE
CHILDREN
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
Thomas Lothrop
by Susan Brooke
Mar 2023
Thomas Lothrop was christened 21 Feb 1612 in Eastwell, Kent, England. (1)
On 22 Apr 1632, when Thomas was 19 or 20 years old, his father was arrested for
his religious beliefs. His mother became terminally ill and died in Feb
1634. He was the oldest of six of the still living children of Rev. John
Lothrop. When his father got out of prison, the family emigrated to
America, on the Griffin in 1634. His father remarried to Ann about that
same time. Thomas Lothrop married the widow Sarah Learned in Boston on 11
Dec 1639. (2) She had four small children from her previous marriage, John
the eldest was 10 and Thomas the youngest was 4 years old. (3) However, only two
of those children sailed with their parents in 1635. (4)
Thomas and Sarah
Lothrop have 5 more children. She died in 1652 leaving leaving her widowed
husband with several small children. Thomas Lothrop died about 1707. (5)
Sources
(1) Christening
Thomas Lothrap
21 Feb 1612 Eastwell, Kent, England
Father: John Lothrap
(2)
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.
The Ewer family, including Sarah Learned Ewer, came to America in 1635 in the
James and settled first in Charlestown.
(3)
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.'
(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) Findagrave
.