Rufus Lathrop

Rufus Lathrop b 1731 married (1) Hannah daughter of Francis Choate of Ipswich Mass. She died in 1785. and he married (2) his cousin Zerviah, daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Lathrop.

Rufus Lathrop was possibly a goldsmith, as, in the shop across the street, David Greenleaf (who was later a goldsmith) served as his apprentice and so faithfully according to the testimony of Rufus that he remembers him in his will with a bequest of 50 pounds.

source: Old Houses of the Antient Town of Norwich [Conn.] 1660-1800

By Mary Elizabeth Perkins p. 134