Reverend -------------------- Thomas Lothrop emigrated to America with his father, Rev. John Lathrop, probably on the Griffin in 1634. His mother had just died and his father had just been released from prison for being a Separatist. He would have been about 13.

They lived at Scituate where a record from his father's church states: "My Son 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 son 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.