Cary Latham

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Cary Latham (bp. 1613 –1685)

Elizabeth Masters, daughter of John Masters

English Ancestry of Cary Latham [1]

Nicholas Latham married Elizabeth Newman on 3 April 1604 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England.

Children of Nicholas and Elizabeth, births of all but the first and the first Paget’s burial recorded in Aldenham:

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.
2. Paget Latham was baptized on 17 May 1612. He was buried on 30 May 1612.
3. Cary Latham was baptized on 10 November 1613.
3. Catherine Latham was baptized on 1 April 1615.
4. Paget Latham was baptized on 18 May 1617. He probably died after 16 September 1679.
5. Jane Latham was baptized on 21 May 1619.
6. John Latham was baptized on 29 July 1621.

Cary Latham was baptized on 10 November 1613 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England. [1] He died in 1685. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Masters and the widow of Edward Lockwood. [2][3, 312]

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. [2]

Cary was an early settler of New London and had one of the original home lots there, perhaps before 1647. [3, 60–61]

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. [4, vol. 1, 185, 191]

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, vol. 1, 392, 405]

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]

Children of Cary Latham and Elizabeth Masters:

i. Thomas Lathamwas born in the ninth month of 1639 in Boston. [3, 312] He died on 4 December 1677 in New London. [6] He married Rebecca, the daughter of Hugh and Mary (Rosco) Wells of Wethersfield, on 15 October 1673 in New London. [3, 312][6][7] Rebecca, the daughter of Hugh and Mary Wells, was born on 10 January 1651 in Westhersfield. [6] Rebecca married second John Packer. [9] She married third Unknown Watson of Kingston, Rhode Island. [9]

In his town marriage record, Rebecca is called the daughter of Hugh Willey[!] of Wethersfield.

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. [3, 312][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. [3, 312]

iv. Elizabeth Latham married John Leeds. [3, 312]

v. Jane Latham married first Hugh Hubbard. [3, 312][15] 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 was born say 1658. She died before 10 March 1686. She married John Packer.

vii. Hannah Latham [3, 312]

Endnotes

1. Joseph Gardner Bartlett, “Genealogical Research in England,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 61 (1907), 385.

2. "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), 1193.

3. Mainwaring Caulkins, History of New London, Connecticut (New London: H.T. Utley, 1895), 312.

4. J. Hammond Trumble, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vol. 1 (Hartford: Brown & Parsons, 1850; vol. 2 (Hartford: F.A. Brown, 1852), vol. 3 (Case, Lockwood, & Co., 1859).

5. Henry F. Waters, “Genealogical Gleanings in England,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 47, 413–4.

6. "Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630–1870," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > New London 181; Wethersfield, 281.

7. W. Herbert Wood, “John Packer of Groton, Conn.: His Wives and Children,” The American Genealogist 28 (1952), 175–6.

9. 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. 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.

15. 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.

Revised July 4, 2023