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Colonial and Revolutionary Families of
Pennsylvania, Vol. I-III originally published in 1911.
The Lathrop
family was founded in America by Rev. John Lothropp, was a
great-grandson of John Lowthorpe, of Lowthorpe, in the Wapenstake
of Dickering, East Riding of Yorkshire, who early in the sixteenth
century was living in Cherry Burton, a parish located about four miles
from Lowthorpe. He belonged to the junior branch of the family, but was
a gentleman of quite extensive landed estates. His name appears on the
subsidy Roll in Yorkshire in 1545 in Cherry Burton.
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Robert
Lowthorpe, son of Rev. John Lothropp, succeeded to his father's
estates in Cherry Burton, and died leaving a will dated July 16, and
probated October 28, 1558, which mentions his wife Ellen,
(who survived him fourteen years) sons: Thomas (the eldest),
John, Lawrence; daughter Margaret; and his three sisters.
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Thomas
Lowthorpe, the son, was born at Cherry Burton, married (first)
Elizabeth Clark, who was buried at Etton, July 29, 1574, and
(second) Mary ---, who was buried at Etton, January 6, 1588. He
removed from Cherry Burton to Etton, Wapenstake of Harthill, East Riding
of Yorkshire, about 1572, and died there in 1606, leaving a will
dated October 5, 1606, which was probated January, 1607. He
had sons: Robert, Markes, Lawrence, Joseph and Bartholomew; and
daughters: Margaret, wife of Robert Hodgeson, Isabel Burns,
Katharine, wife of William Aket, Lucy and Jane Lowthorpe.
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John
Lothropp (as the American pioneer of the family spelled his name)
was a son of Thomas Lowthorpe by his second wife, Mary,
and was baptized at Etton, Harthill, Yorkshire, December 20, 1584. He
was educated ar Queen's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in
1601, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1605, and that of
Master of Arts in 1609. He located at Egerton, Hundred of Colehill,
County of Kent, forty-eight miles from London, where he was admitted
curate of a parish in 1611. He left there in 1623 by reason of having
imbibed doctrinal beliefs not in accord with the Established Church, and
at about this date we find him connected with the conventicles of the
Puritan faith. He was called to succeed the Rev. Henry Jacob as pastor
of the First Independent Church in London, ministering to the
congregation in secret places of worship to evade the emissaries of
Bishop Laud. Finally on April 22, 1632, he and a congregation of about
seventy persons were surprised and captured by the minions of the law
while worshipping in a private house in Black Friars, and cast into the
old Clink prison at Newgate, where Mr. Lathrop (Lothropp) was confined
for two years, his followers being released some months sooner.
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While
confined in the prison his wife died. He was permitted to visit her on
her death-bed but was returned to prison, from which he was released on
bond, April 24, 1634. He at once organized a party of his followers to
go to New England, and they sailed on the "Griffin", arriving at
Boston, September, 1634. He first located and established a church at
Scituate, Massachusetts, of which he was ordained pastor, January 19,
1634-5, but removed with most of his flock to Barnstable, October 11,
1639. Here he ministered until his death, November 3, 1653.
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| Rev. John
Lothropp married (first) Hannah Howell, who as before stated died in
England while he was confined in prison at Newgate. He married a second
wife in New England who survived him. |
| Thomas
Lothrop, fifth child and eldest surviving son of Rev. John and Hannah
(Howell) Lothropp, was born in England in 1621, and accompanied his
father to New England. He was admitted to the church at Scituate, May 4,
1637, and removed with his father to Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he
was married, December 11, 1639, to Sarah (Larned) Ewer, daughter of
William Larned and widow of Thomas Ewer. He was surveyor of Barnstable
1641, and served the town in other official positions until his death in
1707. |
| Meletiah
Lothrop, second son of Thomas and Sarah (Larned) (Ewer) Lothrop, was
baptized at Barnstable, Massachusetts, November 22, 1646, died there
February 6, 1712. He married, May 20, 1667, Sarah, daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Hood) Farrar, who died May 2, 1712, aged sixty-four
years. Their daughter, Elizabeth Lothrop, born at Barnstable, November
15, 1677, married, November 15, 1696, her cousin, Hope Lathrop, son of
her father's brother, Joseph Lathrop. |
| Joseph
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. |
| Hope Lathrop,
son of Joseph and Mary (Ansell) Lathrop, was born at Barnstable,
Massachusetts, July 15, 1671. As before stated he married, November 15,
1696, his cousin, Elizabeth Lothrop. They removed to Falmouth,
Massachusetts, from there to Tolland, Connecticut, later to Sharon,
Litchfield county, Connecticut, and finally to Hartford, Connecticut,
where he died October 29, 1736. |
| Meletiah
Lathrop, fifth son and ninth child of Hope and Elizabeth Lathrop, was
born February 20, 1714. He married, at Tolland, Connecticut, November
15, 1738, Mercy Hatch, born at Tolland, August 23, 1717, daughter of
Joseph Hatch, one of the pioneers of Tolland county. In 1755 they
removed to Dutchess county, New York, settling in the town of Dover,
where he died September 5, 1787. His wife died in Columbia county, New
York, October 16, 1788. |
| Ezra Lathrop,
ninth child of Meletiah and Mercy (Hatch) Lathrop, was born at Kent,
Connecticut, August 19, 1751. His parents removed to Dutchess county New
York, when he was a small child. He married, in 1779, Miriam Thurston,
born September 5, 1762, daughter of Deacon Daniel Thurston, of Albion,
New York, and located at New Concord, Columbia county. About 1800 he
removed with his family into the wilderness of Chenango county, New
York, locating at Sherburne, where he took up and cleared a farm on
which he resided for many years, later removing to Ontario county, New
York, where he died February 12, 1825. His wife died at Lockport,
Niagara county, New York, February 20, 1841. |
| Deacon Daniel
Thurston, father of Miriam (Thurston) Lathrop, born in Sharon,
Connecticut, was for fifty years a deacon of the Presbyterian church in
different towns in southeastern New York. He was a son of Daniel and
Miriam (Allen) Thurston; grandson of Daniel and Experience (Warren)
Thurston; great-grandson of Daniel and Maria Thurston, and
great-great-grandson of John Thurston, born in Wrentham, county Suffolk,
England, in 1601, who with Margaret his wife (age thirty-two years) came
to New England in the "Mary Anne" of Yarmouth, May 10, 1637, and settled
at Dedham, Massachusetts. |
| Miriam
(Allen) Thurston, above mentioned, (born May 27, 1704) was a daughter of
Joseph Allen, of Medfield, Massachusetts, born December 19, 1676, died
May 25, 1727, and his wife, Miriam (Wight) Allen, born August 22, 1675,
died April 15, 1746; granddaughter of Joseph Allen, born June 24, 1652,
died 1703, and his wife, Hannah (Sabine) Allen, of Seekunk, daughter of
William and Hannah Sabine; and great-granddaughter of James Allen and
his wife, Anna (Guild) Allen, who came from England to New England in
1639, and settled at Dedham, Massachusetts, later being among the
founders of the town of Medfield in 1649. |
| Miriam
(Wight) Allen was a daughter of Ephraim Wight, born January 27, 1645,
died February 20, 1722-23, and his wife, Lydia Morse, baptized at
Dedham, Massachusetts, August 13, 1645, died July 14, 1722;
granddaughter of Thomas Wight, who located in Watertown, Massachusetts,
in 1635, and with wife Alice was admitted to the church at Dedham, July
18, 1637. The ancestry of Thomas Wight has been traced several
generations in England to John Wight, whose wife, Anna (Bray) Wight, was
a granddaughter of Sir John Jenyns, whose ancestry is traced to Geoffrey
de Braboeuff. |
| Salmon
Lathrop, father of Lucretia Jeanette (Lathrop) Wurts, paternal
grandmother of John S. Wurts, was born in New Concord, Columbia county,
New York, January 5, 1781, and was the eldest son of Ezra and Mirian
(Thurston) Lathrop. At an early age he removed with his parents to
Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, where his youth was spent on his
father's farm. He acquired a crude education and taught school during
the winter months. |
| In 1817, when
the construction of the Erie Canal was begun, he took contracts and
constructed several miles of that great water-way. He later built
portions of the Pennsylvania and Chenango canals, locating in 1822 in
Florida, Montgomery county, New York, where he resided until 1826. He
also assisted in building the New York and Erie Railroad. In 1827 he
went to Carbondale, Pennsylvania, at the solicitation of the Wurts
brothers, with whom he had become associated through their activity in
the building and operation of the Hudson and Delaware Canal. He built
the first house in Carbondale, and at once devoted his energies to the
development of the coal lands of the Lackawanna Valley. He resided in
Carbondale until his death on November 4, 1868, and was one of the best
known and priminent business men of that section. |
| Salmon
Lathrop married, August 28, 1805, Aurelia Noble, born in Benton,
Vermont, July 18, 1790, died at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, April 13,
1872. She was the eldest daughter of John Noble, born at Hebron,
Connecticut, October 25, 1762, died at Orwell, Vermont, April 29, 1842,
a veteran of the Revolutionary war, and his wife, Lydia (Wilcox) Noble,
born at Goshen, Connecticut, December 13, 1770, died January 8, 1801,
daughter of Elijah and Silence Wilcox. |
| Thomas Noble,
the great-grandfather of John Noble above mentioned, born about 1630,
was in New England as early as 1653, when he was a resident of Boston,
Massachusetts. He located at Westfield in 1668 when it was the extreme
frontier from which his family was driven back in King Philip's war. He
died January 20, 1704. He married, November 1, 1660, Hannah Warringer,
of Springfield, Massachusetts, born there August 7, 1642. |
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