Deacon Melatiah Lathrop

Ancestor #: A071702

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Melatiah Lathrop and 5 of his sons were in the Revolutionary War in the Seventeenth Regiment. He was a private in Capt. Ebenezer Cady's Company, Col. Wm. Whiting's Regiment, of Albany County Militia. Melatiah and Marah Lothrop settled 1739 at Kent, CT where in 1745 her father gave them a 50-acre farm; Town Clerk; removed 1757 to Amenia, Dutchess Co, NY where he was an early settler in the southeast part of that town and Deacon of the Presbyterian Church at Oblong; said to have served as Private in Capt Ebenezer Cady's Co, Col William Whiting's Regt of Albany Militia during the Revolutionary War. from: The American Forebears and Some of the Descendants of Charles Theron Brown and His Wife Martha Elizabeth Hebbard, Michael R.Gannett, 1978 Melatiah Lathrop and 5 of his sons were in the Revolutionary War in the Seventeenth Regiment. He was a private in Capt. Ebenezer Cady's Company, Col. Wm. Whiting's Regiment, of Albany County Militia.
info from Craig Ferguson

Inscription
Deacon, in the 73rd year of his age
Gravesite Details
Melatiah Lothrop was born 20 Feb 1713/14 in Falmouth, Barnstable, MA, son of Hope & Elizabeth (Lothrop) Lothrop.See the "Lo-Lathrop Genealogy", by E.B. Huntington. Info from ggrandmac@cox.net