Thomas Lothrop

 

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Thomas Lothrop                                         Immigrant Ancestor                                            see FAMILY TREE
Bap. 21 Feb 1612  Eastwell, Kent, England

Married: 11 Dec 1639 Boston, MA

Died: Abt. 1707 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA      

FATHER

John Lothrop

MOTHER

Hannah Howse

WIFE

Sarah Learned

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

 

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