Benjamin Lathrop

Christening: 24 Dec 1626, Eastwell, Kent, England
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (4 Feb 2023), Benjamin Lothroppe, 1626.
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (4 Feb 2023), Beniamin Lothroppe, 1626.

Wikitree: Benjamin Lothrop (1624–1691)

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700 @Ancestry.com:— Name: Benjamin Lothrop – Gender: Male – Birth Year: 1631 – Marriage Date: 1652 – Marriage Place: New England – Death Year: 1691 – Spouse: Martha Lothrop.

Proof of Martha's maiden name and parentage needs to be found and included in this Overview.

For children's births (+ two deaths), please see search results at FamilySearch.
Also, look further down the page to see four children with surnames spelled "Lathrop." They are John, Martha, Rebecca, and Mercy, and they are included in A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country: Embracing the Descendants... Available at: Archive.org.

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• DEATH: 3 Jul 1691, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2022), Benjamin Lathrop, 3 Jul 1691; citing Death, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
  • Find a Grave® for Benjamin Lothrop:—
  • BIRTH: 1626 – Kent, England
  • DEATH: [same as shown above]
  • BURIAL: Burial Details Unknown
  • "Benjamin, Fifth son of Rev. John & Hannah (House) Lothrop, was baptized 24 Sep 1626 at Eastwell, Kent. He married Martha ____ by about 1660 ( on 29 July 1660, "Goodwife Martha Lathrop" was admitted to the Charlestown church." Source: Great Migration Study Project

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Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 22 2023, 21:40:00 UTC

From A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, by James Savage:—

"LOTHROP, LATHROP, LOTHORP, or LOWTHROP, LAWTHROP.

"|| * BAR¬NABAS, Barnstable, s. of Rev. John, m. Plymouth rec. says, 3 Nov. or as ano. report is, 1 Dec. 1658, Susanna, d. of Thomas Clark, had John, b. 7 Oct. 1659, d. bef. 7 yrs.; Abigail, 18 Dec. 1670; Barnabas, 22 Mar. 1673; Susanna, Feb. 1665; Nathaniel, 23 Nov. 1679; Bathshua, 25 June 1671; Ann, 10 Aug. 1673; Thomas, 7 Mar. 1675, d. at 7 mos.; Mercy, 27 June 1677, d. at one yr.; Thankful, bapt. 16 Sept. 1683; James, 30 Mar. 1684; and Samuel, 14 June 1685; was six yrs. a rep. also an Assist, of the Col. of Plymouth, named a counsellor in the new Province Chart, by Increase Mather, and rechosen; m. sec. w. 15 Nov. 1698, Abigail, wid. of Joseph Dudson, d. of Robert Button, and d. 1715, in 79th yr.

"BENJAMIN, Barnstable, br. of the preced. b. prob. in Eng. rem. to Charlestown, had w. Martha, and ds. Martha, b. 3 Nov. 1652; Hannah, 15 Sept. 1655; and Benjamin; all bapt. 5 Aug. 1660; Mary, bapt. 9 June 1661; Sarah, b. 10, bapt. 17 Apr; 1661, d. soon; Eliz. bapt. 21 May 1665; Rebecca, 14, bapt. 18 Nov. 1666; Mercy, 17, bapt. 18 Dec. 1670; and John, 15, bapt. 21 July 1672, d. young. Of the ds. Martha m. 2 Dec. 1669, John Goodwin, and was mo. of the four ch. wh. plagued Cotton Mather; Marytn. 21 May 1679 William Brown; and Hannah m. 21 Aug. 1679, Henry Swain; was a householder 1653 and 1678, aft. the gr. Jnd. war, when he was a soldier in capt. William Turner’s comp. 1676 at Hatfield, unless that soldier was his neph. s. of Joseph, as seems more prob. the same being in the list call. jr. d. 3 July 1691. Hope, Barnstable, s. of Joseph, in. 17 Dec. 1696, Eliz. d. prob. of Meletiah or of John Lothrop, had Benjamin, b. 18 Dec. 1697; and John, 3 Oct. 1699.

"JOHN, Scituate, the first min. was bred at Oxford, if the tradit. may he trusted, but prob. he was there only for a short time, preached, perhaps, at Egerton, in Kent, but certain, in London, where Bp. Laud caus. him.to be impris. for it, for two yrs. in wh. time his w. d. by whom he had all his ch. exc. these by sec. w. Barnabas, bapt. at S. 6 June 1636; Abigail, wh. was bapt. at Barnstable, 3 Nov. 1639, the first in that cli.; Bathshua, bapt. 27 Feb. 1642; John, 9 Feb. 1645; and two, wh. d. soon aft. b. 30 July J038 and 25 Jan. 1650. On liberat. from prison he embark, for Boston 1634, hav. fellow-passeng. Rev. Zachary Symmes, celebr. Ann Hutchinson, and many others, arr. in Sept, and 27th of that mo. went to S. there in. sec. w. Ann, wh. long outliv. him, dying 25 Feb. 1688. On 18 Jan. 1635, the ch. at S. were gather, for enjoy, the benefit of his services, as in Deane’s Hist. 167, 13 told, but the author, ment. that the centenn. annivers, would occur on 7 Jan. 1835, deduct, eleven days, whereas the true annivers. requir. addit. of ten days, must have been 28 of the mo. He rem, to Barnstable with a large part of his flock, 11 Oct. 1639, and was held in honor to his d. 8 Nov. 1653. His will, made 10 Aug. bef. provides for w. the eldest s. Thomas, and Benjamin, beside John, wh. was in Eng. and ds. Jane and Barbara. Jane m. 8 Apr. 1635, says her f. Samuel Fuller; Barbara m. 19 July 1638, . . . . . Emerson; and Abigail m. 7 Oct. 1657, James Clark. It is much regretted that no better acco. of this eminent confessor is obtaina. than a descend, of our days compil. in 2 Hist. Coll. I. 163, for in Mather nothing but his name in the list is giv. Ch. beside those already nam. were his sec. and third s. Samuel and Joseph, both brot. from Eng. JOHN, Barnstable, youngest s. of the preced. m. 3 Jan. 1672, at Plymouth, Mary Cole, junr. had John, b. 5 Aug. 1673; Mary, 27 Oct. 1675; Martha, 11 Nov. 1677; Eliz. 16 Sept. 1679; James, 3 July 1681; Hannah, 13 Mar. 16S3; Jonathan, 14 Nov. 1684; Barna¬ bas, 22 Oct. 1686; Abigail, 23 Apr. bapt. 12 May 1689; and Experi¬ence, 7 Jan. bapt 10 May 1692; and, perhaps, others; and he d. 17 Sept. 1727, in 85th yr. wh. proves that he was b. at Barnstable, unless fig. err. John, Norwich, s. of Samuel the first, m. 15 Dec. 1669, Ruth, d. of Robert Royce.

"* JOSEPH, Barnstable, s. of the first John, b. in London, perhaps, certain, in Eng. m. 11 Dec. 1650, Mary Ansell, had a ch. b. 19 Nov. 1651, bur. next day; Joseph, 3 Dec. 1652, d. at 24 yrs.; Mary, 22 Mar. 1654; Benjamin, 25 July 1657; Eliz. 18 Sept. 1659; John, 28 Nov. 1661, d. at two yrs.; Samuel, 17 Mar. 1664; John, again, 7 Aug. 1666; Barnabas, 24 Feb. 1669; Hope, 15 July 1671; Thomas, 6 Jan. 1674; and Hannah, 23 Jan. 1676, d. at 5 yrs. He was rep. 1667, and for eleven yrs. aft. Mary m. 16 Jan. 1674, Edward Crowell; and Eliz. m. 29 Dec. 1680, Thomas Fuller. MARK, Salem 1643, rem. to Duxbury, and thence to Bridgewater 1656, d. a. 1686. He had Eliz. Mark, Samuel, and Edward. Eliz. m. Samuel Packard the sec. of the same; Mark perish, in the abortive expedit. of Phips 1690, prob. unm. but left a will, and his br. Edward d. without issue. Descend, are, it is said, num.

"MELETIAH, Barnstable, s. of Thomas, m. 20 May 1667, Sarah, eldest d. of Thomas Farrar of Lynn, had Thomas, b. 22 Aug. 1668; Tabitha, 3 Apr. 1671; Isaac, 23 June 1673; Joseph, 15 Dec. 1675; Eliz. 23 Nov. 1677; Ichabod, 20 June 1680; Shubael, 20 Apr. 1682; and Sarah, 5 Mar. 1684. He d. 6 Feb. 1712, and his wid. d. 23 May foll. in her 64th yr.

"SAMUEL, New London, g. of Rev. John, b. in Eng. one of the first sett. 1648, had m. at Barnstable, 28 Nov. 1644, as his f. tells, Eliz. Scudder (sis. I suppose, of John), had John, bapt. at Boston, in right of his mo. 7 Dec. 1645. This discov. of the meaning of our ch, rec. wh. is strange, confused, aft. being by me some three or four yrs. given over, may encourage other explorers not to despair. He was of high esteem, rem. to Norwich 1668, had by w. Abigail, m. 1692 (wh. long outliv. him, and was 100 yrs. old 13 Jan. 1733, when in her room, at the ho. of her s. a sermon was preach.) no ch. of course, as she was sixty yrs. old when m. By the first w. were nine ch. five ds. and the others. were Samuel, 1650; Israel, 1659; and Joseph, 1661; as ment. by Miss Caulkins in her Hist, of N. Of the five ds. I kn. only Eliz. wh. in. 15 Dec. 1669, Isaac Royce of New London; and Ann, wh. m. William Hough, sec. of N. and d. 19 Nov. 1745. He d. 19 Feb. 1701. Samuel, Barnstable, s. of Joseph, is said to have m. Hannah, d. of Thomas Adgate, but more prob. m. 1 July 1686, Hannah, d. of John Crocker, had Mary, b. 19 Oct. 1688; Han¬nah, 11 Nov. 1690; Abigail, 10 Aug. 1693; Benjamin, 16 Apr. 1696; Joseph, 10 Nov. 1698; and Samuel, 28 Apr. 1700.

"* || THOMAS, Salem, freem. 14 May 1634, ar. co. 1645, lieut. and capt. rep. 1647, 53, and 64, and for Beverly 1672 and more yrs. where he was one of the found, of the ch. 1667; tho. no acc. is kn. of his w. or ch. my conject. makes him the same who was capt. in the fight at Bloody brook, 18 Sept. 1675, near Deerfield, k. by the Ind. with almost every man of his comp, call. “the flower of Essex.” He left, perhaps, no ch. but his wid. Bethia. d. of Daniel Rea, m. Joseph Grafton, as his sec. w. and next, m. deac. William Goodhue.

"THOMAS, Barnstable, eldest s. of Rev. John, b. in Eng. join, his f.’s ch. 14 May 1637, m. 11 Dec. 1630, Sarah, wid. of Thomas Ewer of Charlestown, d. of William Lamed, had Mary, bapt. 4 Oct. 1640; Hannah, b. 18 Oct. 1642; Thomas, bapt. 7 July 1644; Meletiah, 22 Nov. 1646; and Bethia, 22 July 1649, wh. m. July 1668, John Hinckley; Mary m. Dec. 1656, the first John Stearns, as his sec. w. and next, 6 May 1669, capt. William French, both of Billerica, and 3d in 1684, Isaac Mixer of Watertown, as his 3d w. He sw. in a depon. of 4 Apr. 1701, that he was “a. 80 yrs. of age.”

"THOMAS, Barnstable, perhaps youngest s. of Joseph, unless Meletiah were his f. m. 23 Apr. 1697, Experience, d. of James Gorham, had a s. b. 10 Jan. 1698, d. next mo.; Deborah, 21 Apr. 1699; Mary, 4 Apr. 1701; James, 9 Aug. 1703; Thomas, 8 July 1705; Ansel, a. 1707; Joseph, 8 Dec. 1709; and Seth, Mar. 1712. Five of this name, varying only bet. a and o in the first syl. had been gr. at Harv. in 1834, seventeen at Yale, and two at other N. E. coll."