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REVEREND JOHN LOTHROP (bp. 1584–1653)
HANNAH HOUSE (d. 1633)
English Ancestry of Reverend John Lothrop and Hannah House
Generation 1
John Lothrop of Cherry Burton, East Riding, Yorkshire. [5]
Generation 2
Robert Lothrop died between 16 July 1558, when he made his will, and 20 October 1558, when it was proved. He married Ellen ___. He inherited his father’s estate in Cherry Burton. [5]
Robert was taxed in Cherry Burton in 1523/4. [6]
Generation 3
Thomas Lothrop was born in Cherry Burton. He died between 5 October 1606, when he made his will, and 13 January 1606/7, when it was proved. He married first the widow Elizabeth Clark. She was buried on 29 July 1574 in Etton, East Riding, Yorkshire. He married second Mary ___. She was buried on 6 January 1558 in Etton. He married third Jane ___, who subsequently married ___ Coppendale. Thomas had numerous children with his three wives, including Reverend John Lothrop with his second wife. [5]
Thomas moved to Etton, a mile from Cherry Burton. [5]
John House died on 30 August 1630. [2] He was buried on 2 September 1630 in Eastwell. [7] John House, parson of Eastwell, made a nuncupative will a week before he died. [2] He mentioned a wife, Alice. [2] She was buried on 17 July 1640. [2] In addition to being the father of Hannah House, John was the father of two other migrants to New England. [2][8] Samuel House, baptized on 10 June 1610, migrated in 1634, probably with his brother-in-law John Lothrop, and married Elizabeth, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Paine) Hammond of Watertown, in 1635 in Scituate. [2] Pininna House married Robert Linnell of Scituate and Barnstable. [8]
John, the son of Thomas Lothrop, was baptized on 20 December 1584 in Etton, Yorkshire. [1] He died on 8 November 1653. [1] He married first Hannah House on 16 October 1610 in Eastwell, Kent. [1] He married second Ann ___ by 1635. [1] She died on 25 February 1687/8 in Barnstable. [1]
Hannah, the daughter of Reverend John House, died in about 1633 in London while her husband was in prison. [1]
John and Hannah were married by a license of 10 October 1610 issued at Eastwell for John Lothrop, M.A., curate of Egerton, county Kent and Hannah House of Eastwell, virgin. [2]
John Lothrop matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 15 October 1602. He received his B.A. in 1607 and M.A. in 1609 from Queen’s College, Cambridge. [1]
John was appointed the curate at Little Chart, Kent on 10 January 1609/10. He was curate at Egerton from 1614 to 1624. He moved to London and joined Reverend Henry Jacob’s independent congregation. A 29 April 1632 meeting was raided and John was imprisoned. He was not released until June 1634. [1]
John Winthrop wrote on 18 September 1634 that “the Griffin and another ship now arriving with about two hundred passengers and one hundred cattle (Mr. Lothrop and Mr. Simmes, two godly ministers, coming in the same ship.” [1]
John Lothrop settled in Scituate and moved to Barnstable with the Scituate church in late 1639 and remained its pastor until his death. [1]
He was a freeman on 7 June 1637. [1]
Mr. Lothrop, the pastor of the Church of Christ, Barnstable made his will on 10 August 1653; it was proved on 7 March 1653/4. He left his house to his wife and his first house in Barnstable to his eldest son Thomas. He also mentioned his son John in England, his son Benjamin “here in the bay,” his daughters Jane and Barbara, and “the rest of my children.” Inventory was taken on 8 December 1653. Mrs. Lothrop was granted administration on 7 March 1653/4. [1]
Children of John Lothrop and Hannah House:
i. Thomas Lothrop was baptized on 21 February 1612/3 in Eastwell. He married Sarah Learned.
ii. Jane Lothrop was baptized on 29 September 1614 in Egerton. She married Samuel, the son of Edward Fuller, on 8 April 1635 in Barnstable.
iii. Anne Lothrop was baptized on 12 May 1616 in Egerton. [1] She was buried there on 30 April 1617. [1]
iv. John Lothrop was baptized on 22 February 1617/8 in Egerton. [1] He is named in his father’s will of 10 August 1653 and said to be living in London. There is no further record of him. [1]
v. Barbara Lothrop was baptized on 31 October 1619 in Egerton. [1] She married John Emerson on 19 July 1638 in Duxbury. [1]
vi. Samuel Lothrop was born say 1621. He married first Elizabeth Scudder on 28 November 1644 in Barnstable. [1] He married second Abigail Doane in the early 1690s. [3]
vii. Joseph Lothrop was baptized on 11 April 1624 in Eastwell. [1] He married Mary Ansell on 11 December 1650 in Barnstable. [1]
viii. Benjamin Lothrop was baptized on 24 September 1626 in Eastwell. [1] He married Martha ___ by 1660. [1]
Children of John and Ann Lothrop:
ix. Barnabas Lothrop was baptized on 6 June 1636 in Scituate. [1] He married first Susannah, the daughter of Thomas Clark, on 3 November 1658 in Plymouth. [1]
x. Daughter Lothrop was buried on 30 July 1638 in Scituate. [1]
xi. Abigail Lothrop was baptized on 2 November 1639 in Barnstable. [1] She married James, the son of Thomas Clark, on 7 October 1657 in Barnstable. [1]
xii. Bathshua Lothrop was baptized on 27 February 1641/2 in Barnstable. [1] She married first Benjamin Bale. [1] She married second Alexander Marsh. [1]
xiii. Elizabeth Lothrop married John Williams.
On 7 June 1665, after receiving many complaints about John Williams, Jr.'s treatment of his wife—calling her a whore and denying that her child was legitimate—the Court ordered John and his wife to appear. After listening to them, the Court admonished both an ordered them to live peacefully. On 3 October 1665 Ensign John Williams appeared in Court to answer the Mr. Barnabas Lothrop's complaint on behalf of his sister. His wife pleaded her innocence with respect to the child. John demanded a jury trial, but when offered it, he refused. The Court proclaimed that Elizabeth, the wife of John, had been falsely accused of bearing an illegitimate child. On 1 May 1666, after John's continued bad behavior toward his wife, the Court permitted her to stay with friends and ordered John to provide for her. On 5 June 1666 a jury strongly condemned John's behavior and ordered him to pay his wife ten pounds a year. He was ordered to set aside one-third of his estate for her and was fined 20 pounds. The Court also ordered him to stand in the street or marketplace with a sign proclaiming his bad behavior. This last punishment was remitted at the earnest request of his wife. On 5 June 1667 the Court ordered Captain James Cudworth and Joseph Tilden to demand from John and receive what was due Elizabeth. [4, 4: 93, 107, 121, 125–6, 153]
xiv. John Lothrop was baptized on 18 May 1645 in Barnstable. [1] He married Mary Cole on 3 January 1671/2 in Plymouth. [1] He married second Hannah (Morton) Fuller, the daughter of John Morton and widow of John Fuller, about the middle of December 1695 in Plymouth. [1]
xv. Son Lothrop was buried on 25 January 1649/50 in Barnstable. [1]
References
1. "Great Migration, 1634–1635, I–L," digitized book, originally published as Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration to New England, 1634–1635, Volume IV, I–L (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005), 345–51.
2. J. Gardner Bartlett, “House,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 66 (1912): 356–8.
3. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally Published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 558–63.
4. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668 (Boston: William White, 1855).
5. E.B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country (Ridgefield, CT: M. Huntington, 1884).
6. G. Andrews Moriarty, “Lothrop,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 84 (1930): 437–9.
7. Clifford L. Stott, “Lothrop and House Entries in the Parish Registers of Eastwell, Kent,” The American Genealogist 70 (1995): 250–1.
8. Elizabeth French, “Howse,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 67 (1913): 260–1.
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