Captain Thomas Lothrop, Jr.

Biography

Thomas Larthrop (Lartrop) married 1 Elizath Norwood 1726 in Boston MA. Children: Elizabeth (Nov 28 1728), Sarah (May 11 1735), Thomas (Jan 21 1738/9), Mehitable (Nov 6 1740). Resident of Edgartown. Removed to Boston where he married. He later returned to Martha's Vineyard, settling at Chilmark.

At a meeting on Nov. 7 1740, the selectmen of Boston were told that Capt. Thomas Lothrop had arrived from New Castle, Massachusetts (now Maine) with 30 "souls on board" but they had the smallpox. They wanted a doctor or nurse to come to them. It was decided that everyone from their ship and other ships coming from New Castle direction would need to stay on Rainsford Island and not enter Boston. This island had a hospital built on it 4 years earlier to keep sick sailors in quarantine. Dr. Clarke and Mary Flood were sent to examine them. They were examined on Dec 1 and found that most people had been "cleaned" (healed), although some, including Captain Lothrop, still had scabs. So he was allowed back in town on Dec 18. He followed proper procedure here by sending the message of smallpox. Another ship's captain arriving at the same time simply came on shore, and he was disciplined for putting the people of Boston at risk.

Disambiguation

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Lothrop_%288%29

Banks, Charles Edward. The history of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. (Boston: G H Dean, 1911) Vol. 3 (Family Genealogies), p. 245.

Thomas Lothrop [#51], s/o Thomas Lothrop and Mehitable Sarson, b. Edgartown abt. 1700, m. (1) Boston 1726 Elizabeth Norwood, m. (2) (int.) 27 Nov 1735 Deborah Loring. Returned and settled at Chilmark.

[Note: Banks' assertion of the second marriage is demonstrably incorrect, as Elizabeth is named as mother of all children in baptism records through 1740. Here is the timeline of events based on what the records say:

Thomas and Elizabeth baptized a daughter Sarah 11 May 1735 in Boston
Thomas and Deborah publish intentions 27 Nov 1735 in Boston
Thomas and Deborah marry 3 or 14 Jun 1736 in Hingham
Thomas and Deborah have a son Thomas born 7 Mar 1736[/37] in Boston
Thomas and Deborah had a son Thomas born 9 Nov 1738 in Hingham
Thomas and Elizabeth baptized a son Thomas 21 Jan 1738/9 in Boston
Thomas and Elizabeth baptized a daughter Mehetabel 16 Nov 1740 in Boston
Thomas Lothrop died 4 Mar 1740 [/41?], age 37, buried in Boston

By all appearances, these are two overlapping couples. While in some records, the man who married Deborah Loring is called "of Boston", creating this confusion, in the Hingham record he is the "son of [blank] Lawthorp of Barnstable" which description would not fit the Thomas of this page who came from Edgartown.

The other point of confusion may be the baptism in Boston folwing the birth in Hingham. The records show different mothers so, barring clerical error, they don't appear to be related. Further, a deed of Thomas Lothrop of Edgartown, dated 1746 (Dukes Co. Deeds 7:247), gives personal property to his daughter Lydia Mayhew wife of Thomas Mayhew of Chillmark reserving his Bible to his grandson Thomas Lothrop [the daughter identifies him as the husband of Mehitable Sarson, he had only one son, so the grandson must be the son of son Thomas]. The will of Thomas Lothrop of Barnstable in 1751 bequeaths to his grandson Thomas Lothrop son of his son Thomas deceased. These documents show the existance of six Thomas Lothrops: two grandfathers who had a son Thomas, who in turn, each had a grandson Thomas.

The man who married Deborah Loring was a different Thomas Lothrop.]

References

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/3MX9-3YL : accessed 2014-02-07), entry for Thomas /Lothrop/.
• "Old South Church", in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), p. 149. discussed at werelate at[1]
• Marriage: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-N373 : 29 November 2018), Thomas Larthrop and Elizabeth Norwood, 1726; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011046.
• Records relating to the early history of Boston .. by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept as found at [2]
• A volume of records relating to the early history of Boston containing Boston marriages from 1700 by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept, 1898
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Lothrop_%288%29