LOTHROP, Joseph b. 11 Apr 1624 Edmonton, Middlesex, England d. 9 Apr 1702 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

1624 - 1702 (77 years)

Name	LOTHROP, Joseph
Birth	11 Apr 1624	Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Christening	11 Apr 1624	Eastwell, Kent, England
Gender	Male
Burial	Apr 1702	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Death	9 Apr 1702	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
WAC	19 Dec 1928	SLAKE
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Father	LOTHROP, Reverend John , b. 20 Dec 1584, Etton, Yorkshire, England Etton, Yorkshire, Englandd. 8 Nov 1653, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 68 years)
Mother	HOWSE, Hannah , b. 14 Jul 1616, Lavenham, Suffolk, England Lavenham, Suffolk, Englandd. 25 Feb 1687, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 70 years)
Marriage	10 Oct 1610	Etton, Yorkshire, England [1, 2]
Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Egerton, Kent, England. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 5 Jun 1968
Family ID	F10336	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family	ANSEL, Mary , b. 4 Feb 1629, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdomd. 23 May 1713, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 84 years)
Marriage	11 Dec 1650	England
Family ID	F15547	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

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Member of the council of war 1676. Captain in the Indian Wars. Estate of 8,216 pounds
CAPT. JOSEPH LATHROP.— (1624-1702.) A Deputy from Barnstable in 1667 and for eleven consecutive years following; a conspicuous member of the "Council of War" in 1676; mem- ber of the Barnstable Military Company in 1643, and later Lieutenant and Captain. Mentioned to the Governor for con- spicuous services in the Indian Wars

Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-IIIJohn Sparhawk WurtsJoseph Lathrop, seventh child of Rev. John and Hannah (Howell) Lothropp, was born in England in 1624. Removing with his father to Barnstable in 1639, he became later prominent in public affairs there. He was deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony for fifteen years, and for twenty-one years a selectman of the town of Barnstable. On the organization of the town in 1665 he was commissioned the first register of the Probate Court. He was lieutenant of the train band, and a member of the Council of War at the outbreak of King Philip's war in 1676. His will is dated October 9, 1700, and was probated April 9, 1702. He married, December 11, 1650, Mary Ansell.Pennsylvania Founding Families, 1681-1911

Captain Joseph Lathrop son of Rev. John Lathrop

Joseph son of Rev. John (2) Lathrop, was born in England, probably Lambeth, London in 1624, and came to America, very likely with his father in 1634. The first record found of him is his marriage, made on the register of Barnstable church by his father, December 11, 1650. He married Mary Ansell. He was deputy to the general court from Barnstable for fifteen years, and was a selectman for twenty-one years. When the country was reorganized he was appointed the register of the probate court and recorded the first deed of the county, 1666. In 1653 he was appointed to keep the ordinary. He was made freeman June 8, 1655 and in 1664 he was acting constable, and in 1667 a receiver of excise. He had the titles of Lieutenant and Captain, which shows that he was in military service. In 1676 he was a prominent member of the council of war, and he was also commissioned to hold select courts in 1679 in Barnstable. He was among the agents for the settlement of Sippecan, and in September 1689, he is spoken of in skirmishes with the Eastern Indians, and the notice of his service shows that he was a prominent man. His will was dates October 9, 1700 and was proved April 9, 1702, and in it he mentions four sons and two daughters. In the inventory of his estate were mentioned twenty-seven law books, and forty three of classics and sermons.
Children:
Still borne maide child buried Nov. 19, 1651
Joseph , born Dec. 5, 1652
Mary born March 22, 1654
Benjamin, July 25, 1657
Elizabeth, September 18, 1659
John, November 28, 1661 died Dec. 30, 1663
Samuel, March 17, 1663-64
John, August 7, 1666
Barnabus, Feb. 24, 1668-69
Hope July 15, 1671, died Oct 29, 1736
Thomas, Jan. 6, 1673-74
Hannah, Jan. 23, 1675-6 died Feb. 1, 1680-81
Source: Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of Vol. 3
By William Richard Cutter

SECOND GENERATION
REV.JOHN
Barnstable, Mass.
2. JANE, born in England and baptized in her father's church in Egerton,
County of Kent, Sept. 29, 1614. She came with her father to America in 1634,
and was married in Scituate, April 8, 1635, "ye 4th day of the weeke," by
Capt. Miles Standish, of Plymouth, to Samuel Fuller. This marriage was
solemnized at the house of Mr. James Cudworth. Mr. Fuller was a son of Edward
Fuller and his wife Ann, who had come over in the Mayflower with his parents,
and who, as Savage informs us, "outlived tile hardships" of that immigration.
Both the father and mother died the first winter, and Samuel was left in the
care of his uncle Samuel, who hall also come over in the Mayflower, and who
proved to be one of the most valuable members of that primitive community, and
memorable as the first physician who came to New England land to settle. He
died Oct. 31, 1683, one of tile last survivors of the Mayflower. They had nine
children:
Hannah Fuller, who married, Jan. 1, 1658, Nicholas Bonham.
Samuel Fuller, " sonn of my soon Samuel Fuller," baptized Feb. 11, 1637-8 and
married Anna, daughter of Capt. Matthew Fuller.
Elizabeth Fuller, married -------- Taylor. Sarah Fuller, born in Scituate and
baptized in Barnstable, Aug 1, 1641, and died young. Mary Fuller, born in
Barnstable, and baptized Julie 16, 1644, and married Nov. 18, 1674, Joseph
Williams, son of John of Haverhill, who was born April 18, 1647.
Thomas Fuller, born May 18, 1650.
Sarah Fuller, born Dec. 14, 1654, and married -------- Crow.
John Fuller.
A child, born Feb. 8, 1658, and died 15 days later, as Savage has it, " one of
the latest Mayflowers."
3. ANNE, baptized in Egerton, England, May 12, 1616, and buried April 30,
1617.
4. JOHN, baptized in Egerton, England, Feb, 22, 1617-18. This child probably
died before the family came to America; certainly before the birth of the
second John in 1644-5.
5. BARBARA, baptized in Egerton, England, Oct. 31, 1619, find married, July
19, 1638, John Emerson. Her father's record of this marriage is: " My sonn
Emmersonn & and my daughter Barbarah marryed at Duxberry by Captain Standige."
That they settled at least for a time in Scituate is shown in this record in
Mr. Lothropp's own hand: " One Linkes slaine by a bow of a tree in ye cut
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ting down of the tree, March 6, and buryed in the way by John Emmersonn's
house near Goodman Stockbridge, March 10, 1637,"
Mr. Savage supposes this John Emerson may have been of Ipswich, Massachusetts,
and that John, who came over in the ship Abigail, 1635. He is entered on the
ship list as a baker, age 20, and as Mr. Coffin supposed, the son also of a
John Emerson.
6. THOMAS, born in England, and probably in Egerton, about 1621, as we infer
from his own deposition, taken April 4, 1701, in which he states that he is
"about 80 years of age." The will of his father designates him as his eldest
son, which is proof that the John who was baptized in 1617-18 was not living.
The probability is that his birth succeeded the withdrawal of his father from
the curacy of the parish church in Egerton, Kent, where the older children
were recorded. At least this is certain, that the baptism of his older sister
is the last baptism at Egerton found on the copy of the baptisms which the
father made.
At the age of about thirteen he came with his father to Scituate, at which
place we find this first record regarding him in this country : "My sonn
Thomas Lothropp joined May 4, 1637. "
This was his admission to the church in Scituate, from which he removed with
his father to Barnstable, in 1639, where he soon gained distinction among the
pioneers of the new town,
The second record we find is in Barnstable, as follows: " My sonn Thomas and
brother Larnett's daughter, widow Ewer, were married in the Bay (Boston) Dec.
11, 1639." The " daughter " above referred to, was Sarah, daughter, of William
Larned and widow of Thomas Ewer. Elizabeth, a daughter of this Sarah Ewer by
her former husband, was baptized April 9, 1641, and was married, as we learn
from a third record from the same hand as the above, to Thomas Blossom, June
18, 1645, "at my sonn Thomas his house," the Thomas Blossom above having been
born in Leyden about 1620,
In 1641 Thomas Lothrop is reported as land surveyor at Barnstable, and in 1643
am one liable to bear arms.
He became quite a large landholder and an enterprising business man. He was
unrolled as freeman June 3, 1656, He served the town in several offices,
indicating his standing as in honor among his fellow townsmen, His death took
place in 1707.
7. SAMUEL, born in England, and came with his father to Scituate in 1634,
thence to Barnstable, where he married, Nov. 28, 1644, Elizabeth Scudder, who
had been dismissed from the church in Boston Nov. 10, 1644, to remove her
church relation to that in Barnstable. She is reported in Savage as a sister
to that John Scudder who was in Barnstable in 1640. He had made the
acquaintance of Miss Scudder in Boston, where he commenced his business life
as house builder, afterwards combining with this extensive farming operations,
Their marriage was recorded by his father on the Barnstable Church Register as
follows: "My sonn Samuel & Elizabeth Scudder marryed at my house by Mr.
Freeman, Nov. 28, 1644."
They settled in Barnstable, where his house stood next that of John Scudder.
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He is reported, in 1643, as one of the five Lothrops at Barnstable liable to
bear arms.
In 1648 he removed to New London, Connecticut, then called Pequot. We now find
Mr. Lothrop mentioned in two letters from Governor Winthrop to his son John,
Jr., at Pequot. In one of these, bearing date Aug. 14, 1648, on the subject of
obtaining a minister for the settlement, he writes: " Your neighbour Lothrop
came not at me (as I expected) to advise about it," etc.
His house lot in the new plantation was the third in order from that of John
Winthrop, Jr,, Esq., and his name is one of the first eighteen to whom were
assigned lands on the east side of the "great river" of Pequot, and for these
the lots were drawn on the 17th and 31st of January, 1648-9.
Almost at once Mr. Lothrop is assigned by his new townsmen to places of
responsibility and honor. The General Court of the State, in May, 1649,
organized a local court at Pequot, having for its judges John Winthrop, Esq.,
Samuel Lothrop, and Thomas Minor, giving them power to sit in the trial of all
causes between the inhabitants in which the differences were under forty
shillings.
In 1650 he appears with fifteen other townsmen in town meeting "to arrange a
system of co-operation with Mr. Winthrop in establishing a mill to grind
corn."
He received a large grant of land, also, on the west side of the Pequot river
north of the settlement. It was about five miles up the river at a place
called Namussuck. A farm of 260 acres at this place remained in the family
until 1735, when it was sold by his grandson Nathaniel, after settling all
claims, for 2,300 pounds.
His "cattle marks" were recorded before 1650. When, in 1657, Uncas, routed by
the Narragansetts, had been chased into tile fort at the head of the Nahantick
and was there beseiged, Lieut. James Avery, Mr. Brewster, Samuel Lothrop and
others, well armed, succeeded in throwing themselves into the fort and aided
in the defence.
He sold his town homestead in 1661 to the Rev. Gershom Bulkley. This house
stood beyond the bridge over the mill brook, on east side of highway toward
Mohegan, "probably where now (1852) stands the Hallam House."
In 1679 is recorded a contract of Mr. Lothrop for building the Second Church
in New London.
He removed to Norwich in 1668. Miss Caulkins in history of Norwich says,
"after the first thirty-eight proprietors the next inhabitants who came in as
grantees of the town are John Elderkin and Samuel Lothrop." A house lot was
first granted to John Elderkin, who, finding it too far from his business, had
it conveyed to Samuel Lothrop.
Mr. Lothrop appears to have erected a house on the town street before 1670,
which from that time became his home. The house built by Dr. Daniel Lathrop,
his great-grandson, about 1745, probably stands upon the same site-now Mrs.
Gilman's.
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The house lot of about seven acres on which he settled, covered mainly that
hill side enclosed by the streets and lanes, as now, which lies south of the
present residence of Daniel W. Coit, Esq., and extending down to the present
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Main street. He added during his life time successive tracts of land amounting
to about four hundred acres.
The town records of that time are very imperfect, but we find Samuel Lothrop
recorded as " Constable " in 1673 and 1682, and as "Townsman" in 1685-
dignified local offices in those days.
After the death of his first wife, of which no record is preserved, he married
in 1690, in Plymouth, Mass., a maiden lady, Abigail, the daughter of Deacon
John Doane of Plymouth. She was born January 29, 1632, and lived until 1734,
Mr. Lothrop having died February 29, 1700. The following notice of the second
Mrs. Lothrop is found in Miss Caulkins' history of Norwich: " On her hundreth
birthday a large audience assembled at her house, and a sermon was preached by
the pastor of the church. At this time she retained in a great degree the
intelligence and vivacity of her earlier years. At the time of her decease the
descendants of her husband amounted to 365."
Mr. Lathrop left a nuncupative will, proved in 1701.
8. JOSEPH, born in England, probably in Lambeth, London, in 1624. He probably
also came over to America with his father in 1634. The first record known to
the author regarding him in this country is that of his marriage-the last
Lothropp marriage recorded by his father in the registers of the Barnstable
church.
Joseph Lothropp and Mary Ansell marryed alsoe by him (Brother Thomas Hinckley)
Dec.11, 1650." He settled and lived in Barnstable, where his name on the local
records show him to have been an enterprising and honored man. He was a deputy
for the town in the general court of the State for fifteen years, and for
twenty-one years served as one of the selectmen of the town. On the
organization of the county he was appointed the register of the probate court,
and recorded in 1666 the first deed put on record in the county. The court had
appointed him in 1653 to keep the ordinary of the town. He was admitted
freeman, June 8, 1655. In 1664 we find him an acting constable, and in 1667 a
receiver of excise. That he was also in the military line is shown in the
titles of lieutenant and captain which successively mark his name.
Mr. Freeman, in his history of Cape Cod County, speaks of him, as a
"conspicuous member of the Council of War in 1676." He also reports Lieut.
Joseph Laythorpe and his brother Barnabas Laythorpe as commissioned to hold
select courts in Barnstable in 1679: and names both of these brothers among
the agents for the settlement of Sippecan.
His standing is still further shown in a letter front Capt. William Basset
written from Casco, in September, 1689, to Gov. Thomas Hinckley, reporting his
skirmishes with the Eastern Indians. At the close of this report the captain
presents his own and his lieutenants service to the Governor, Esq. Lothrop,
and Mr. Russill. We know enough of that day to be assured that none but a
prominent and public man would be thus complimented.
Mr. Lothrop probably had no collegiate education, yet he must have been a well
educated man-probably with a legal education. His will bears date Oct. 9,
1700,
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and was proved Apr. 9, 1 1702, between which dates his death, of which no
record is preserved, must have occurred.
He names in his will as heirs, his four sons, Samuel, Barnabas, Hope, to
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whom he left the homestead, and Thomas; and his two daughters, Mary Denes and
Elizabeth Fuller.
In the inventory of his estate are reported 27 volumes of law books, and 43
volumes of classics and sermon books, the inventory amounting to £8216. One
other item of the inventory-" three negroes, "-shows that it belonged to an
age past now beyond recall.
9. BENJAMIN, born in England, and brought over in 1634, to Boston. He married
in Barnstable, Martha ----, and settled in Charlestown, Mass., where he was a
man of note, holding the office of first selectman in 1683.
Goodwife Martha Lathrop was admitted to the church in Charlestown in the year
1660.
10. BARNABAS, "Bernabus, son of John Lothropp," as his father wrote it in the
baptismal record, baptized at Scituate, Mass., June 6, 1636, and married (1)
Dec. 1, 1658, Susanna Clark, daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Ring) Clarke of
Plymouth, granddaughter of the Thomas Clarke who was the mate of the
Mayflower. She died, as her headstone shows, Sept. 18, 1697, aet. 55. (2) Wid.
Abigail Dodson, who died Dec. 21, 1715, aet. 72. The church records report
that she was "dismissed from the 1st church in Boston, and removed here,
Feb.23, 1706-7." She died, so the church records show, in Boston, Dec.
21,1715, at 72 years of age. He was also a noted man. He became the first
judge of probate in Barnstable on the organization of the court, having his
brother Joseph as clerk. Was Deputy from 1675 to 1682, Judge of Common Pleas
1692, and the same year appointed counsellor with Governor Hinckley, Governor
Bradford, and John Walley, to represent New Plymouth at Boston, under the new
charter. Died Oct, 26, 1715.On his headstone his title is Esq. The
inscriptions on these three stones in the old burying lot near the county jail
in Barnstable are as distinct as when first cut. Note: How are they now? In
his will dated June 8, 1713, and probated Nov. 27, 1715 he names the following
legatees, with the relationship indicated: his wife Abigail; his only son
Barnabus, his grandson, Barnabus, the "only son of my son John, deceased";
grandson John, son of "my son Nathaniel, deceased "; his brother John and two
sisters, Abigail Clark and Bathshewa Marsh; his daughter- in-law, Elizabeth
Crocker; his grandson, Joseph Lewis, son of Ebenezer Lewis; and "my seven
children now remaining; my kinswoman Bethya Hinckley, now dwelling with me, my
six daughters, Abigail Sturgis, Susanna Shurtlef, Bathshewa Freeman, Anna
Lewis, Sarah Skeffe, and Thankful Hedge; and Bethya Claghorn "who is my
daughter-in-law."
11. "A child born in Scituate, July 30, 1638, and died the same day."
12. ABIGAIL, baptized in Barnstable, Nov. 2, 1639, 0. S., "the first record
since our coming to Barnstable, Oct. 11, 1539." She married Oct. 7, 1657,
James, son of Thomas Clark and Susanna, daughter of widow Susanna Ring. They
settled in Plymouth, to which place the father had come in the ship Ann, in
1623.
13. BATHSHA, as spelled in the records made by her father, baptized in
Barnstable, Feb. 27, 1641, and married Alexander Marsh. She was probably his
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second wife. They lived in Braintree, Mass., where his will was made Mar. 19,
1697, and he died March 7, 1698. His will calls his wife Bathsheba,
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whose death, Jan. 8, 1723, age, 82, is certified by her gravestone in the
Dorchester burying lot. Their children were: John Marsh, a minor at the date
of his father's will, 1697.
Rachel Marsh.
Phebe Marsh.
Ann Marsh, who became the wife of Samuel French of Braintree, Mass., and had a
family of 8 children: Samuel, born Nov. 17, 1680; Samuel the second, Hannah,
Mary, Alexander, Josiah,Nathaniel, and Benjamin.
His widow's will, whose former husband is said to have been John Fuller, bears
date Out. 7, 1738, and is recorded in Book V, p. 362. It was proved Oct. 19,
1738, and names as legatees: son Benjamin; the heirs of son John Fuller,
deceased; grandson John Lothrop; daughter Reliance Prince; daughter Bashua
Webb, and daughter Phebe Thacher. Executor, son-in-law Elisha Thacher.
Hannah was the second wife of Dr. John, son of Matthew Fuller, and by him had
a daughter Bethia, Dec., 1687; John, bornOct., 1689, and Reliance Sept. 8,
1691. These names will make the names in the will intelligible.
14. JOHN, born in Barnstable, Mass., Feb. 9, 1644, and married Jan.3, 1671-2,
at Plymouth, Mass., Mary, probably daughter of James and Mary (Tilson) Cobb of
Scituate, where she was born Dec. 3, 1653. His name on the marriage record is
Laythrope, and she is called Mary Colsgain.He married (2) Dec. 9, 1695,
Hannah, widow of Dr. John Fuller. He died Sept. (18) 27, 1727, at 11 o'clock
A. M., and is recorded as 85 years old, on the Barnstable church records.
On Mr. Otis' authority we know that he was a man of note among the seafaring
men of the coast in that early day, sailing as captain in command of his own
vessel. On the New Haven, Conn., records is found this evidence of his
seamanship.
"These certify I received on board of ye Swan, John Lothrop, Mr., 6 bbls.
pork, 48 bush. wheat of Sam'l Hemingway of New Haven, for use of Capt. Elisha
Hutchinson of Boston, and doe promis to deliver ye same on paying freight 3s.
d. per bbl. and 6d. bush. Apr. 1, 1691. JO LOTHROP."
His will, Book I V, p. 407, dated Mar. 9, 1726-7, and probated Feb. 9, 1727-8,
names as his legatees his wife Hannah; son John's son Joseph; the children of
his daughter Mary Howland, and those of his daughter Elizabeth Lewis; and his
sons, Barnabas and Benjamin. His son Barnabas and his wife Hannah are
executors.
15. ---- "a man childe of John Lothropp dying immediately after it was borne,
buryed Jann. 25, 1649."
John Lothrop, 1672, at Swansey, was admitted an inhabitant of the second rank.
If this is the person so admitted, he probably did not remain there long,
since his children are all recorded in Barnstable.
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Sources

[S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 1239588, reference number 10280, downloaded 8 Oct 2006 (Reliability: 3).
[S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 1126241 for batch 7806801, sheet 73, downloaded 8 Oct 2006 (Reliability: 3).