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THROOPE, Deacon William I
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Name THROOPE, William Prefix Deacon Suffix I Birth 19 Mar 1636 Nottingham, Kent, England 
Christening 19 Mar 1636 Lound, Nottinghamshire, England Gender Male Burial Dec 1704 Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States Death 4 Dec 1704 Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States WAC 19 May 1932 _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
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Family CHAPMAN, Mary , b. 13 Oct 1643, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 6 Jun 1732, Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States (Age 88 years) Marriage 14 May 1666 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States 
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Notes - Winchester Fitch in “The Throope Family and the Scrope Tradition,” in Vol. 36 & 37 of New York Gen. & Bio Rec., Vol. 22 of Americana, p. 510: “While no actual and incontrovertible proof exists of the fact that William Throope, founder of the American family of that name, was the son of Adrian Scrope, one of the regicide judges of Charles I, tradition has long affirmed it and every evidence substantiates it.”
Walter S. Finley, Americana Vol. 22:
“The Scroope tradition is based on an old family record of a daughter of Rev. Benjamin Throop, third son of William, whose father ‘Lord Scroope of Scotland, in one of the Scotch Rebellions,’ fled to America and assumed the name Throop. Endeavoring to verify this statement, Winchester Fitch, genealogist of the Throop family, (pp. 212, 302) ascertained that the Republican officials of the Commonwealth were called ‘Lord’ as a title of courtesy….When Charles II ascended the throne of England he demanded the execution of the judges who had condemned his royal father [Charles I of England]. As an unrepentant regicide the elder Scroope …was executed at Charing Cross, London, in 1660. The son escaped to America in the SAME YEAR, settling at Hartford where it appears he was first known by his proper name, but later assumed the alias William Throop because of the future safety it afforded.”
Evelyn Fish Knudson in “William Throope and Adrian Scrope,” A J Throop and D A Throop: East St. Louis, Ill, 1943, p. 60 quotes p.42 of Vol IV of James Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England":
"Scroop, Adrian, Hartford, witness to execution of a deed of 31 Mar. 1665, and again 8 May 1667, signed as witness, his name, in a very elegant hand, to deed of Simon Wolcott to Richard Loud of three parcels of land, which was put on record three days after, yet no more is ever told of him. Curiosity to a high pitch naturally is felt on two points in this case, when did he come to our country, and what did he do after signing this rare name? One Adrian Scrope we know had been executed in London, 17 Oct, 1660, for having sat on a pretended trial of King Charles I and signed the warrant for his death. In Nobel's Regicides the report of his trial is very full, much more than of the others. Strong probability from union of such given name and surname arises that this man was son or near relative of the "regicide."
This signature reveals that William Throope, who signed his name “Adrian Scrope” was an educated man. Many merely signed with an “X”.
Knudson (pages 60-2):" “The son of Col. Adrian Scrope would have…wanted to be known by his own rightful name….He knew of the custom in England of periodic “visitations” to place oneself, one’s status and one’s rights on record.
His signing of the deed as a witness in 1665 may have been his modest attempt at a "visitation" to have put himself on record....so early in 1667 he made another record of his name in Hartford. This does not necessarily mean that he was living there at that time; he might have made a special trip--another "visitation"--for that very purpose. "
"....There may be some significance in the fact that the names Scroope and Throope are so similar--the last 5 letters are the same....."
EF Knudson concludes on page 178:
“So far we may not have found the ‘incontrovertible proof’ of the family tradition, but I think the trail is growing wider, don’t you?”
From "Across Throup's Bridge," by Malcolm Throup, Margaret Throup Lancaster, 1986 we read:
"William Throope in his own words said 'he had just changed his name from Colonel Adrian Scroope'. He and Mary travelled into the New England interior by ox cart. (“New York Gen & Bio Rec 1905, Vol. 36, p. 123.)
ANALYSIS:
There are 2 images recorded of an Adrian Scroope in Hartford, Connecticut:
1. His signature of which there is an image, as a witness to a 1665 deed in Hartford, Connecticut.
2. Witness to a 1667 record in Hartford, Connecticut.
There is the statement he made in his own words that he had just changed his name.
PART TWO:
Louise Walsch Throop, C. G., in “Proposed Etiology of the Throop-Scroope Tradition,” in TAG (“The American Genealogist’) 57(1981):110-112 discussed the tradition that Adrian Scroope (son of Colonel Adrian Scroope, regicide) changed his name to William Throope, as a protection, to William Throope when he came to America the year after Col Adrian’s execution.
Louise Walsch Throop notes Winchester Fitch’s heavy reliance on the tradition of “widely scattered descendants” of William and his citing of the witnessing of the two deeds in Hartford, Connecticut by a certain Adrian Scroope. She further notes that this tradition was apparently either proposed or elaborated on by Capt. William Throop (b. 1700) grandson of the immigrant William Throope and recorded by his brother, Rev. Benjamin,…spread the story of descent from Lord Scroope to other family members.
Louise Walsch Throop concludes that in spite of the Hartford deed signed by Adrian Scroope and the long tradition in various branches of the family of descent from Scottish Lords, “no evidence had been found to connect him (Adrian Scroope) with the Bristol William Throope.”
There is a baptism record on Family Search for William Throope, baptized at Sutton cum Lound, Nottinghamshire on 19 March 1636, with father William and mother Izabell. THERE IS NO IMAGE. The image needs to be found, as some entries as sources are made up. The date is different, place, and father are different. Furthermore, the source FHL Microfilm 503820 is from a submission someone sent in to IGI and may or may not be documented. This is a very questionable source upon which to base the correct parentage of William.
William Throop (1636-1704) & Mary Chapman (1643-1704)
William Throop Deacon was born 1637 England. Christened 19 March 1636
Sutton cum Lound, Nottinghamshire, England. He died 4 Dec 1704 in Bristol, Bristol., Rhode Island and was buried in same placeI. William married Mary Chapman on 14 May 1666 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachuettes.She was the daughter of Ralph Chapman and Lydia Wells and to this union was born nine children. Unknown at this time is when did he emigeate and why?
William Throope d. 4 or 12 Dec 1704 in Bristol, RI, buried in East Burial Ground Cemetery, Bristol, RI m1. Elizabeth Cooke (b. 1642 in Lound, England, buried 26 Jul 1669 in Lound, England, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke) in 1664 in England (specualtive), m 2. Mary Chapman b. 28/31 Oct 1643 in Marshfield, Plymouth, MA d. 6 Jun 1732 in Bristol, RI, dau. of Ralph Chapman and Lydia Willis on May 16, 1666 in Barnstable, MA. Both are buried in the East Burial Ground, Bristol, RI.
There is much discussion over the parentage of William. One faction claims he was the son of the Regicide Adrian Scroope while the other (the most likely) gives William Throope, York England, d. aft. 1669, m. 9 Jun 1636 Isabell Redshaw bur. 22 Jun 1658 as his parents. He was reported to have m. 7 Feb 1664/5 Elizabeth Cooke bur. 26 Jul 1669. This marriage took place before he left for America.
William Throope in his own words said 'he had just changed his name from Colonel Adrian Scrope'. He and Mary traveled into the New England interior by ox cart. He became Surveyor of Highways, Grand Juryman and Representative, finally dying in December 1704 aged 67, commencing his will "In the name and fear of God". A somewhat unusual wording. Three of his children were baptised (in the English Throope tradition), John, William and Thomas. This story is related in the New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record 1905, vol 36, a lengthy article and an interesting account of American 'Throop' history. The writer must not have known of the marriage of William Throope to Elizabeth Cooke, or of other Nottinghamshire Throopes. In all fairness, the article was written in the era before Parish records were centralized and placed on microfilm. Perhaps with the aid of modern research facilities, a different conclusion might have been reached.
The above would not be complete without some elaboration on Col. Adrian Scroope. Col. Adrian, the regicide (signatory of the Death Warrant of Charles I) was executed in 1660, aged 58, as retribution for this deed, on the restoration of the English monarchy, without ever having left England's shores. Without any doubt, Col. Adrian Scroope, the regicide, and William Throope of New England could not possibly have been one and the same. Whatever connection they had in England, if any, will never by know 2
William Throope (Adrian (1637-1704) -- William Throope, born and named Adrian Scroope, was the youngest son of Colonel Adrian Scroope, member of the English Parliament and one of the members who formed the High Court of Justice that tired and found guilty King Charles I of England and them imposed the death penalty on the King on January 30, 1649. Several years later, after Oliver Cromwell died, Sir Adrian and the other conspirators were put into prison. While there, Sir Adrian met with his sons, including William, and suggested that as he was certain to be executed for his role in the High Court of Justice, it might be that the conspirators sons would also be arrested. Thus, he cautioned that they leave England. As a result, William left England for the American Colonies, possibly traveling there via Leyden, Holland.
There is much discussion over the parentage of William. One faction claims he was the son of the Regicide Adrian Scroope while the other (the most likely) gives William Throope, York England, d. aft. 1669, m. 9 Jun 1636 Isabell Redshaw bur. 22 Jun 1658 as his parents. He was reported to have m. 7 Feb 1664/5 Elizabeth Cooke bur. 26 Jul 1669. This marriage took place before he left for America.1
----1 Disk 1-267 known as Deacon Throope
2 world family tree notes disk 18-2278
(The Throop Line).
Arms—Gules, a fesse between two chevrons argent.
Crest—An arm embowed fesseways holding a snake, all proper.
Motto—Debita faceré (They did their duty).
While no actual and incontrovertible proof exists of the fact that William Throop, founder of the American family of the name, was the son of Adrian Scroope, one of the regicide judges of Charles I., tradition has long affirmed it and every evidence substantiates it.
Many branches of the family for several generations have preserved the tradition that William Throop and Colonel Adrian Scroope are identical, on the ground that it is impossible otherwise to account for the autograph of Adrian Scroope, which appears in the Hartford Book of Possessions (p. 585) under date of March 11, 1666-67. Of this fact Savage says: "Strong probability from the union of such given name and surname arises that this man was son or near relative of the regicide."
The Scroope tradition is based on an old family record of a daughter of Rev. Benjamin Throop, who states that her father was the seventh child of Captain William Throop, who was the third son of William Throop, whose father "Lord Scroope of Scotland," "in one of the Scotch rebellions" fled to America and assumed the name of Throop.
Endeavoring to verify this statement, Winchester Fitch, genealogist of the Throop family, ascertained that the Republican officials of the Commonwealth were called "Lord," as a title of courtesy; that Colonel Adrian Scroope, who fought in the Parliamentary army, was governor of Bristol Castle in 1649.
He later was prominent on the Parliamentarian side in the Civil War, and served on the High Court of Justice that condemned King Charles I. and signed his death warrant. In 1657 he was commissioner to Scotland with General Monk, and later was sheriff of Lithgow and Sterling until the Restoration.
When Charles II. ascended the throne of England he demanded the execution of the judges who had condemned his royal father. As an unrepentant regicide, the elder Scroope was excepted out of the Act of Indemnity and executed at Charing Cross, London, in 1660. The son escaped to America in the same year, settling at Hartford, where it appears he was first known by his proper name, but later assumed the alias William Throop, because of the further safety which it afforded.
The Throop family in America has figured prominently in the history of Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York since the early Colonial days.
(1) William Throop (thought to have been the son of Colonel Adrian Scroope) is first of record in Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he married, on May 4, 1666, Mary Chapman, daughter of Ralph Chapman, who came to New England in the "Elizabeth," in 1635.
In 1680 he was grand jury man in Barnstable. In the same year he became one of the original settlers of Bristol, Rhode Island, and from that time forward until his death was active in official affairs in the town. William Throop made the journey overland from Barnstable to Bristol, transporting his family and goods in an ox-cart.
In 1683 he was surveyor of highways in Bristol. In 1689 he was chosen selectman; 1690 grand juryman; and in 1691 represented the town in the Rhode Island General Assembly. He died at Bristol, December 4, 1704.
His widow, who was born October 31, 1643, died in Bristol, in June, 1732, aged eighty-nine years. She
was executrix of her husband's estate.
(II) Captain William (2) Throop, son of William (1) and Mary (Chapman) Throop, was born about 1678-79. He ac companied his father to Bristol, which was his home during the early part of his life. He was active in Bristol life, and served on a committee chosen to survey six hundred acres of undivided land in Bristol. Captain William Throop later removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, where he took a leading part in public affairs. He represented the town in the Connecticut General Court from 1730 to 1735. He was moderator of town meetings in 1733-35, justice of the peace in 1736-37. Captain Throop was land agent at Lebanon for the proprietors and acted for the colony on numerous committees to settle boundary disputes. He held the rank of captain of the militia. On March 20, 1698, Martha Colyn, of Bristol, Rhode Island, and William Throop were united in marriage.
(III) Rev. Benjamin Throop, son of Captain William (2) and Martha (Colyn) Throop, was born at Bristol, Rhode Island, June 9, 1 712. He was graduated from Yale in the class of 1734, and subsequently pre pared for the divine ministry. On January 3, 1738, he became pastor of a church which he had organized at Bozrah, Connecticut, and remained at its head until his death in 1785. He became one of the leading divines of Connecticut in his day. Rev. Benjamin Throop was chaplain of the Crown Point Expedition in 1755. In 1753 he was appointed to preach the election sermon, which was afterwards printed by order of the Legislature, and appears in the Colonial Records of Connecticut, vol. 10, page 400. Dr. Throop was vigorous in his defence of the rights of the Colonists and bitter in his denunciation of the oppression of England. His attack on the Stamp Act was published. He was a cultured gentleman, a scholar and an intellectual man, and one of the leaders of thought in Connecticut in the trying period which preceded and followed the Revolution.
On September 27, 1735, he married at Canterbury, Connecticut, Sybil Dyer, who was born October 23, 1714, daughter of Colonel John and Abigail (Fitch) Dyer, and granddaughter of Major James Fitch, patron of Yale, and his wife Alice, daughter of Major William Bradford, oldest son of Governor Bradford. Major James Fitch was the oldest son of Rev. James Fitch and his first wife Abigail, daughter of Rev. Henry Whitfield, and a descendant of the Sheafes and Mannings of Kent county, England. Colonel Dyer was a descendant of Thomas Dyer, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Rev. Benjamin Throop died September 16, 1785. His will bears the date of May 14, 1784.
(IV) Hon. William (3) Throop, son of Rev. Benjamin and Sybil (Dyer) Throop, was born in Bozrah, Connecticut, December *5> I745- He resided in Bozrah during the greater part of his life, and was active in public affairs in the town, which he rep resented in the Connecticut State Legislature. He later removed to Middleburg, New York, where he died February 23, 181 5. Hon. William Throop married, November 9, 1769, Prudence Hyde, who was born at Norwich, Connecticut, October 2, 1743, youngest daughter of Captain Daniel and Abigail (Wattles) Hyde. All their children were born at Bozrah.
(V) Hon. Jabez West Throop, son of Hon. William (3) and Prudence (Hyde) Throop, was born in Bozrah, Connecticut, August 26, 1776. He settled in Schoharie county, New York, where he was a prominent merchant and leader in public life until his death. For twelve years he was county treasurer, and for a similar period served as judge in the County Court. He held the rank of lieutenant in the local militia. On April 30, 1801, he married Pamela West, his cousin, who was born December 27, 1779, at Norwich, Connecticut, daughter of Captain Elias and Mary (Lathrop) West. Hon. Jabez West Throop died in Schoharie, New York, in November, 1845. His cousin, Enos Thompson Throop, was a notable figure in political life in New York in the middle of the nineteenth century, and was governor of the State. Pamela (West) Throop died in Schoharie, February 16, 1813.
(VI) Washington Throop, son of Hon. Jabez West and Pamela (West) Throop, was born at Schoharie, Schoharie county, New York, December 26, 1806, and died in Detroit, in 1883. He was educated in the local schools, and in young manhood learned the general merchandising business in his father's establishment in Schoharie. His first independent venture was a dry goods store in Syracuse. This proved unsuccessful, however, and was soon abandoned. Mr. Throop later established a drug store in Syracuse, which he conducted until 1854, when he removed to Detroit, Michigan.
Here he became associated with the Chandler enterprises, with which he was prominently identified for many years. He was widely known in business and official circles in the city in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, and his name figures frequently in the history of the early years of Detroit's phenomenal industrial and commercial development; Washington Throop was a member of the Central Methodist Church, and for many years an earnest worker for the advancement of its interests. He was a generous, though unostentatious, donor to many charitable and benevolent efforts.
On September 21, 1837, he married Catherine Eliza Sternburg, born in New York City, December 25, 1816, died in Detroit, in 1873, aged fifty-seven years, daughter of William Sternburg, a Dutch gentleman and a prominent New York merchant. The Sternburg coat-of-arms is as follows :
Arms—Azure, a star of five points or.
Crest—The star of the shield between two buffalo horns argent
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Throop:
1. General William A. Throop, who served with distinction throughout the Civil War; he enlisted in 1861, in Detroit, and was commissioned lieutenant; he was rapidly advanced in rank and was mustered out of the United States service a brigadier-general; was twice wounded; died in 1883.
2. Mary Rice, mentioned below.
3. Jabez Clinton, born in 1842, died in 1874.
4. Adeline, born in 1844; married Lyman Thayer ; their children were Marie and Lyman Thayer.
5. Ann Eliza, born in 1847 > married John D. Case, and is now a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(VII) Mary Rice Throop, daughter of Washington and Catherine Eliza (Sternburg) Throop, was born in New York, and in 1845 accompanied her parents to Detroit, which has since been her home. On May 2, 1859, she became the wife of the late Samuel Bell Coyl. (See Coyl). Mrs. Coyl is a member of the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Mt. Vernon Society. She attends St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Cutter, William R. American Biography. New York: Pub. under the direction of the American historical Society, 1916. Print.
Winchester Fitch in “The Throope Family and the Scrope Tradition,” in Vol. 36 & 37 of New York Gen. & Bio Rec., Vol. 22 of Americana, p. 510: “While no actual and incontrovertible proof exists of the fact that William Throope, founder of the American family of that name, was the son of Adrian Scrope, one of the regicide judges of Charles I, tradition has long affirmed it and every evidence substantiates it.”
Walter S. Finley, Americana Vol. 22:
“The Scroope tradition is based on an old family record of a daughter of Rev. Benjamin Throop, third son of William, whose father ‘Lord Scroope of Scotland, in one of the Scotch Rebellions,’ fled to America and assumed the name Throop. Endeavoring to verify this statement, Winchester Fitch, genealogist of the Throop family, (pp. 212, 302) ascertained that the Republican officials of the Commonwealth were called ‘Lord’ as a title of courtesy….When Charles II ascended the throne of England he demanded the execution of the judges who had condemned his royal father [Charles I of England]. As an unrepentant regicide the elder Scroope …was executed at Charing Cross, London, in 1660. The son escaped to America in the SAME YEAR, settling at Hartford where it appears he was first known by his proper name, but later assumed the alias William Throop because of the future safety it afforded.”
Evelyn Fish Knudson in “William Throope and Adrian Scrope,” A J Throop and D A Throop: East St. Louis, Ill, 1943, p. 60 quotes p.42 of Vol IV of James Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England":
"Scroop, Adrian, Hartford, witness to execution of a deed of 31 Mar. 1665, and again 8 May 1667, signed as witness, his name, in a very elegant hand, to deed of Simon Wolcott to Richard Loud of three parcels of land, which was put on record three days after, yet no more is ever told of him. Curiosity to a high pitch naturally is felt on two points in this case, when did he come to our country, and what did he do after signing this rare name? One Adrian Scrope we know had been executed in London, 17 Oct, 1660, for having sat on a pretended trial of King Charles I and signed the warrant for his death. In Nobel's Regicides the report of his trial is very full, much more than of the others. Strong probability from union of such given name and surname arises that this man was son or near relative of the "regicide."
This signature reveals that William Throope, who signed his name “Adrian Scrope” was an educated man. Many merely signed with an “X”.
Knudson (pages 60-2):" “The son of Col. Adrian Scrope would have…wanted to be known by his own rightful name….He knew of the custom in England of periodic “visitations” to place oneself, one’s status and one’s rights on record.
His signing of the deed as a witness in 1665 may have been his modest attempt at a "visitation" to have put himself on record....so early in 1667 he made another record of his name in Hartford. This does not necessarily mean that he was living there at that time; he might have made a special trip--another "visitation"--for that very purpose. "
"....There may be some significance in the fact that the names Scroope and Throope are so similar--the last 5 letters are the same....."
EF Knudson concludes on page 178:
“So far we may not have found the ‘incontrovertible proof’ of the family tradition, but I think the trail is growing wider, don’t you?”
From "Across Throup's Bridge," by Malcolm Throup, Margaret Throup Lancaster, 1986 we read:
"William Throope in his own words said 'he had just changed his name from Colonel Adrian Scroope'. He and Mary travelled into the New England interior by ox cart. (“New York Gen & Bio Rec 1905, Vol. 36, p. 123.)
ANALYSIS:
There are 2 images recorded of an Adrian Scroope in Hartford, Connecticut:
1.His signature of which there is an image, as a witness to a 1665 deed in Hartford, Connecticut.
2.Witness to a 1667 record in Hartford, Connecticut.
There is the statement he made in his own words that he had just changed his name.
PART TWO:
Louise Walsch Throop, C. G., in “Proposed Etiology of the Throop-Scroope Tradition,” in TAG (“The American Genealogist’) 57(1981):110-112 discussed the tradition that Adrian Scroope (son of Colonel Adrian Scroope, regicide) changed his name to William Throope, as a protection, to William Throope when he came to America the year after Col Adrian’s execution.
Louise Walsch Throop notes Winchester Fitch’s heavy reliance on the tradition of “widely scattered descendants” of William and his citing of the witnessing of the two deeds in Hartford, Connecticut by a certain Adrian Scroope. She further notes that this tradition was apparently either proposed or elaborated on by Capt. William Throop (b. 1700) grandson of the immigrant William Throope and recorded by his brother, Rev. Benjamin,…spread the story of descent from Lord Scroope to other family members.
Louise Walsch Throop concludes that in spite of the Hartford deed signed by Adrian Scroope and the long tradition in various branches of the family of descent from Scottish Lords, “no evidence had been found to connect him (Adrian Scroope) with the Bristol William Throope.”
There is a baptism record on Family Search for William Throope, baptized at Sutton cum Lound, Nottinghamshire on 19 March 1636, with father William and mother Izabell. THERE IS NO IMAGE. The image needs to be found, as some entries as sources are made up. The date is different, place, and father are different. Furthermore, the source FHL Microfilm 503820 is from a submission someone sent in to IGI and may or may not be documented. This is a very questionable source upon which to base the correct parentage of William.
Origin of William Throope (1637-1704) '''There are four possible accounts of William Throope (1637-1704)
1. He was Col. Adrian Scrope (Scroope), the regicide.
It has been reported that "in his own words"1 William Throope claimed to to be Col. Adrian Scrope (1600-1660). This is not possible as Col. Adrian Scrope, the regicide, was publicly executed at Charing Cross in London 17 Oct. 16602. Also, he would have been 104 years old while William Throope was 67 at the time of his death.
2. He was Adrian Scrope, youngest son of Col Adrian Scrope.
Adrian Scrope, Jr. was reported to be born 1646. William Throope died December 1704 at the age of 673 which would have given a birth year of 1637. That is the reported birth year of Adrian's older brother, William. There was an Adrian Scrope in America at the time in question as his signature has been found on legal documents4,5. It is likely that Adrian Jr. also fled to America as Col. Scrope had warned his sons to flee the prosecution of King Charles II4.
3. He was William Throope, son of William Throope and Isabelle Redshaw of Lound, England.
The father of William Throope (1637-1704) was William Throope Sr. of Lound (1613-1669). He was Churchwarden of the Anglican Church in Lound. William Sr.'s uncle was William Throope (1576-1628), Churchwarden of Scrooby who was an aggressive prosector of the Puritans Separatists6, especially William Brewster, and one of the primary reasons the Pilgrim Separatists fled to Holland prior to the Mayflower trip. It is unlikely that William, a strong Anglican, would present himself as a Puritan Deacon in Bristol, Rhode Island.
4. He was William Scroope, son of Col. Adrian Scrope.
Col. Adrian Scrope was a Puritan as was his son William. William Throope of Bristol, Rhode Island was a Puritan and active in the congregation where he was known as Deacon Throope. William Throope has the same birth year as William Scrope2. The place he originally settled became known as Bristol, Rhode Island. Other Scrope members also settled in Bristol, Rhode Island. Col. Adrian Scrope was governor of Bristol Castle, England in 1649. Another descendant of a regicide, Nathaniel Blagrave, also settled in Bristol, Rhode Island6. William Scrope's sister Elizabeth was married to Jonathan Blagrave so there was a strong tie between the two families.
1. "Across Throup's Bridge", Malcolm Throup/Margaret Throup Lancaster, The Moxon Press Ltd, Gillroyd Mills, England, 1986, pg, 40
2. "The Throop Tree", Walter Fay Throop/Beryl Estelle Burrh Throop, Throop Press, La Mirada CA, 1971, pg. 13,14
3. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", Vol XXVI, 1905, pg. 124
4. "The Throop Tree", Walter Fay Throop/Beryl Estelle Burrh Throop, Throop Press, La Mirada CA, 1971, pg. 14
# "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", Vol XXVI, 1905, pg. 119
5. "The Throop Tree", Walter Fay Throop/Beryl Estelle Burrh Throop, Throop Press, La Mirada CA, 1971, pg. 15
6. "Mayflower", Nathaniel Philbirck
There is much discussion over the parentage of William. One faction claims he was the son of the Regicide Adrian Scroope. Much early research seems to indicate this is true. William settled in Bristol, Rhode Island with Daniel (Nathaniel) Blagrave, one of the Regicides, and his sister Elizabeth had married Jonathan Blagrave in England. The other gives the parents of William as William Throope, York England, d. aft. 1669, m. 9 Jun 1636 Isabell Redshaw bur. 22 Jun 1658. He was reported to have m. 7 Feb 1664/5 Elizabeth Cooke bur. 26 Jul 1669. This marriage took place before he left for America. The former proposed lineage has been entered with each person marked by "?S" to indicate that the Scroope lineage is questionable, while the second lineage is entered with each person marked by "?T" to indicate that it is equally questionable. To enter the "?T" line look for a second marriage for Mary Chapman.
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[Across Throup's Bridge], Malcolm Throup, Margaret Throup Lancaster, 1986
William Throope in his own words said 'he had just changed his name from Colonel Adrian Scroope'. He and Mary travelled into the New England interior by ox cart. He became Surveyor of Highways, Grand Juryman and Representative, finally dying in December 1704 aged 67, commencing his will "In the name and fear of God". A somewhat unusual wording. Three of his children were baptised (in the English Throope tradition), John, William and Thomas. This story is related in the New York Geneological and Bibliographical Record 1905, vol 36, a lengthy article and an interesting account of American 'Throop' history. The writer must not have known of the marriage of William Throope to Elizabeth Cooke, or of other Nottinghamshire Throopes. In all fairness, the article was written in the era before Parish records were centralized and placed on microfilm. Perhaps with the aid of modern research facilities, a different conclusion might have been reached.
The above would not be complete without some elaboration on Col. Adrian Scroope. Col. Adrian, the regicide (signatory of the Death Warrant of Charles I) was executed in 1660, aged 58, as retribution for this deed, on the restoration of the English monarchy, without ever having left England's shores. Without any doubt, Col. Adrian Scroope, the regicide, and William Throope of New England could not possibly have been one and the same. Whatever connection they had in England, if any, will never by known.
Disk 1-267 Know as Deacon Throope
Disk 11-4139 WILLIAM THROOPE(ADRIAN SCROOPE) (1637-1704) --
William Throope, born and named Adrian Scroope, was the youngest son of Colonel Adrian Scroope, member of the English Parliament and one of the members who formed the High Court of Justice that tired and found guilty King Charles I of Englad and them imposed the death penalty on the King on January 30, 1649. Several years later, after Oliver Cromwell died, Sir Adrian and the other conspirators were put into prison. While there, Sir Adrian met with his sons, including William, and suggested that as he was certain to be executed for his role in the High Court of Justice, it might be that the conspirators sons would also be arrested. Thus, he cautioned that they leave England. As a result, William left England for the American Colonies, possibly traveling there via Leyden, Holland.
Once in the American Colonies, William changed his name from Adrian Scroope to William Throope, married in Barnstable, MASS, had a family, and settled in Bristol, Rhode Island along with Nathaniel Blagrave, one of the regicides. William's sister Elizabeth had married Jothan Blagrave of Longworth, Buckinghamshire, England. In Bristol, William was a highway surveyor, selectman (in 1689), grandjuryman (in 1680 and 1690), and served as a representative to the Rhode Island Assembly in 1691.
It is interesting that William settled in Bristol. In 1649, his father was governor of Bristol Castle in England and other members of his family had settled in the town of Bristol, England.
BIOGRAPHY: Thirty-One English Emigrants Who Came to New England by 1662 by Dorothy C. and Gerald E. Knoff. Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1989.
William Throop was most probably born Adrian Scrope, Jr. about 1637 or 1638. He married 4 May 1666, Mary Chapman, daughter of Ralph and Lydia (Wells) Chapman. After emigrating to the Plymouth Colony he lived in Barnstable, MA and was a grand juryman in 1680. That same year he moved to Bristol, which was then in Plymouth Colony. He was one of the first who settled there after its purchase by four proprietors in Boston. In Bristol he served as surveyor of highways 1683, selectman 1689, grand juryman 1690, and Rhode Islad Assembly Representative from Bristol 1691. He died 4 Dec 1704 and was buried in the East Burial Ground in Bristol, MA. His wife died 6 Jun 1732 and was buried beside him. Widespread belief in the Throop family is corroborated by the Burkes Landed Gentry that Colonel Adrian Scrope, the regicide, who was executed 17 Oct 1660, was his father and "his son Adrian insecure in his person and property with the paternal past following him everywhere, fled to Hartford, Connecticut in 1660, and assumed the name of William Throop, to escape pursuit from his father's enemies."
BIOGRAPHY: Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers to New England by James A. Savage
William Throop first appears in Bristol where he was a rep. 1691. He had five children by then beside a son-in-law.
BIOGRAPHY: Mount Hope a New England Chronicle by George Howe, NY, Viking Press 1959
William Throop came from Barnstable on Cape Cod; he was the grandson of Adrian Scrope (in England the name is still pronounced Scroop). Adrian was one of the judges who had sent Charles I to the block. Even though William had changed his name, it was not safe for him to stay too long in one place. He was a cobbler, and the only man among the sixty original proprietors who owned an oxcart. Bristol may have been named such because of William Throop. Col. Adrian Scroope was governor of Bristol Castle in 1649. Nathaniel Blagrave, a decendant of Daniel Blagrave, another of the regicides, also settled Bristol. William's sister, Elizabeth Scroope, had married Jonathan Blagrave of Longworth, Buckinghamshire. Col. Adrian Scroope's brother-in-law was Sir Peter Saltonstall, son of Sir Richard Saltonstall, founder of the great New England family of that name. William Throop made out a will five months before his death but never signed it. Perhaps he couldn't make up his mind which name to put to it. William may have chosen "troop" and "Dan" from Genesis. He was a Puritan and knew his Bible.
The Throop Tree by Walter Fay Throop and Beryl Estelle Burch Throop, La Mirada, California, Throop Press 1971.
Ancestry of William Throop (Adrian Scrope) back to twelfth century. Trial transcript of Col. Adrian Scrope in 1660. Two instances where he signed his name, Adrian Scrope, in Hartford, CT witnessing deeds. He married in Barnstable, Mary Chapman, 4 May 1666. He served there on the Grand Jury in 1680 and later that year moved to Bristol, which was still within Plymouth Colony jurisdiction. There he was surveyor of the highways
William Throope was a Puritan who gained the respect of his fellow pioneers in mastering the hardships of primitive New England, and left a family that has shown marked character and ability. William was a surveyor of highways in 1683; selectman, 1689; grand-juryman, 1690; and reprsentative in 1691. His will is found in Bristol County, MA Records of Probate, Vol 2, pages 125 and 126. "In the name and fear of God, Amen. I, William Throope, in Ye County of Bristol, yeoman , in the sixty-seventh year of my age and being under some indisposition of body," etc. There are bequests to three sons, Dan, John and William, two eldest daughters, Mary, wife of John Barney, and Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Peck, "youngest son Thomas," "two younger daughters Mercy and Lidiah." "loving and well-beloved wife Mary Throope sole executrix." He mentions "the remaining service of two Indian boys which may be unexpired at my decease." The will was marked signed 12 June 1704, but the heirs state in a petition to the Probate Court that the foregoing instrument was drawn about five months before their father's death , and that although it was never signed, they are satisfied that it expresses the will of the father and they join in asking that it be admitted. This was signed by the heirs and widow and John Barney, Jonathan Peck and Eleazer Carey, 1 Jan 1704-5, same records, Vol 2, page 126 as copied for the writer by Mr. John Elliott Bowman of Chelsea, Mass., 18 May, 1903. From the Bristol County Records of Deeds, Vol. 2, page 224, it is seen that for $250, New England money, John Rogers sold his dwelling house, barn and shop, lands, etc., at Bristol , to William Throop and Ralph Chapman, 21 June, 1697, and on page 226, that for 8:12 silver , Ralph Chapman, with consent of Mary, now his wife, conveyed his share of the purchase to "W illiam Throope of Bristol, yeoman." The same was conveyed by William and Mary Throope by deed of gift 9 Jan., 1698-9, to son Dan. Same records, Vol 3, pg 20. (The Throope Family and the Scrope Tradition) At the breaking out of the Revolution the descendants of William Throope were still flourishing in Bristol. Descendants of his son, Deacon John, had establised themselves in Providence, Woodstock, CT and in Vermont, while the descendants ofCapt. William and Capt. Dan had become a clan at Lebanon, Conn., whence they scattered to Nova Scotia, New Haven, Litchfield, and New York. The descendants of Thomas remained in Bristol until after 1775, when some branches went to Georgia, Europe, and the West. Descendants of each branch claim Scrope descent. (The Throope Family and the Scrope Tradition, pg 207) Occupation: Highway surveyor, selectman, grand-juryman, R.I., Assembly Representative.. (The Throop Tree). The son (William) escaped in the same year to America, settling at Hartford, and took the family name of his mother, becoming plain William Throop. He went to Barnstable, Mass., and in 1680 was a resident of Bristol, RI where he died. (Genealogical and Biographical Record of Lebanon, CT)
- Winchester Fitch in “The Throope Family and the Scrope Tradition,” in Vol. 36 & 37 of New York Gen. & Bio Rec., Vol. 22 of Americana, p. 510: “While no actual and incontrovertible proof exists of the fact that William Throope, founder of the American family of that name, was the son of Adrian Scrope, one of the regicide judges of Charles I, tradition has long affirmed it and every evidence substantiates it.”
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