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118. CARY LATHAM (bp. 1613 –1685)
Cary Latham was baptized on 10 November 1613 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England. He died in 1685. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Masters and the widow of Edward Lockwood. [1] Cary was an early settler of New London and had one of the original home lots there, perhaps before 1647. [2] In May 1649 Cary Latham was warned to the June court for resisting the constable and for letting an Indian in his charge go. On 7 June Cary Latham of Pequot posted bond that he would appear any place in the jurisdiction within the next six months with reasonable warning and behave well in meantime. [3] Cary Latham appraised estates for tax purposes in New London and on 11 March 1662/3 the court in Connecticut ruled that he was corrupt in his assessments; they added and additional four pounds to the levy on his estate and fined him 40 shillings. The court remitted the fine on 14 May 1663. [4] Elizabeth Kent of Sunning, Berks., widow, made her will on 16 September 1679 and it was proved on 7 June 1680. She left her brother Carey Latham of New London five pounds and her father’s picture. She left her sister Elizabeth, possibly Carey’s wife, her “mantow” gown lined with black and a petticoat. She also mentioned her brother John Latham’s granddaughter and her brother Pagett Latham. [5] |
English Ancestry of Cary Latham Nicholas Latham married Elizabeth Newman on 3 April 1604 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England. [6] Children of Nicholas and Elizabeth, births of all but the first and the first Paget’s burial recorded in Aldenham: [7] 1. Elizabeth Latham was probably born about 1610. She died between 16 September 1679 and 7 June 1680. She married Thomas Kent. Their wedding license, dated 9 September 1662 in London, says that they were both fifty years old and of Sunning, Berks. Thomas was a widower and a brewer. |
119. ELIZABETH MASTERS (John)
Elizabeth Masters married first as his second wife Edmund Lockwood. Edmund was probably born about 1600. He died between 9 May 1632 and 3 March 1634/5. He had an unknown first wife. [8] Elizabeth married second Cary Latham.
Children of Cary Latham and Elizabeth Masters:
i. Thomas Latham was born in the ninth month of 1639 in Boston. He died on 4 December 1677 in New London. He married Rebecca, the daughter of Hugh and Mary (Rosco) Wells of Wethersfield, on 15 October 1673 in New London. Rebecca was born on 10 January 1651 in Westhersfield. [9] Rebecca married second John Packer (#116). She married third Unknown Watson of Kingston, Rhode Island.
Thomas’s estate was distributed to his two children on 22 October 1711 and his son-in-law objected to his wife’s share. Rebecca Watson of Kingston wrote a letter on 10 November requesting that her children come to see her about he matter. [10]
ii. Joseph Latham was born the second day of the tenth month of 1642 in Boston. [11]
Joseph might be the Joseph Latham whose widow Mary Latham of Groton, as administratrix, gave bond on his estate on 10 January 1705/6. [12]
iii. John Latham (possible son) died in 1684 in New London. [13]
iv. Elizabeth Latham married John Leeds. [14]
v. Jane Latham married first Hugh Hubbard. She married second John Williams of Groton. [15]
John Williams succeeded the fifty-year lease of the ferry that had been granted to Cary Latham and continued by Hugh Hubbard. Both John and Jane lived to an advanced age. [16]
vi. Lydia Latham (#59) was born say 1658. She died before 10 March 1686. She married John Packer.
vii. Hannah Latham [17]
Endnotes
1. Name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312.
2. Caulkins, History of New London, 60–61.
3. PRC, vol. 1, 185, 191.
4. PRC, vol. 1, 392, 405.
5. Waters, “Genealogical Gleanings in England,” NEHGR 47, 413–4.
6. Joseph Gardner Bartlett, “Genealogical Research in England,” NEHGR 61 (1907), 385.
7. Bartlett, “Genealogical Research in England,” NEHGR 61, 385.
8. Elizabeth’s father and husbands’ names. Edward’s birth and death dates and first wife in GMB, 1193.
9. Birth and death date, wife’s name and her father’s name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312. Death record, as son of Cary, and marriage record as son of Cary to Rebecca, d. Hugh Willey[!] of Wethersfield in CVR, New London, 181. Wife’s parents’ names in Wood, “John Packer of Groton.” Her birth record as the daughter of Hugh and Mary in CVR, Wethersfield, 281. Birth record as son of Cary and Elizabeth on (9) 1639 in David Pulsifer, “Early Records of Boston,” NEHGR 4 (1850), 181.
10. “New London Probate Records,” The American Genealogist 12 (1935), 153.
11. Name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312. Birth records as son of Cary and Elizabeth on 2 (10) in Pulsifer, “Early Records of Boston,” NEHGR 4 (1850), 181.
12. “New London Probate Records,” The American Genealogist 12 (1935), 153.
13. Name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312.
14. Name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312.
15. Name and first husband’s name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312. First and second husbands in “Notes on Early Conn. Families,” Connecticut Nutmegger 13 (1980), 521, citing Hartford Times, genealogical section, 27 January 1934.
16. “Notes on Early Conn. Families,” Connecticut Nutmegger, 521.
17. Name in Caulkins, History of New London, 312.
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