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About Judge Samuel Lathrop

In 1648 Samuel went to New London, then called Pequot, where he build the second church and held positions of responsibility and honor. In 1649 the general court organized a local court at Pequot and Samuel Lathrop was one of the judges. In 1668 he removed to Norwich, where he is recorded as constable and townsman.

Samuel was a judge, Barnstable County, 1643. He served in Major Willard's Expadition against Ninigret in 1654, and he served with Lieutenant Avery in the Expedition for relief of Uncas, 1659

Came to America aboard the Griffin

Samuel Lathrop Biography Excerpt from the biography of Ernest Avery Lathrop, "A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut," published 1922.

Samuel Lathrop was a builder of Boston, and a farmer of Barnstable, finally settling in what is now New London, Connecticut, where he became one of the judges of the local court organized in 1649. In 1668 he moved to Norwich, Connecticut where he was chosen constable. He first married on 28 November, 1644, in Barnstable, Elizabeth Scudder. They were the parents of nine children, their eldest, a son, baptized 7 Dec 1645, their youngest, a daughter, Anne, born 7 Aug, 1667. Samuel Lathrop married second in 1690, Abigail Doane, born 29 Jan 1632, daughter of Deacon Doane, of the Plymouth Colony. She survived her husband thirty four years, living to the great age of one hundred and two.

He was a house carpenter by trade, combining with it extensive farming operations. In 1648 he went to New London, then called Pequot, where he built the "Second Church" and held positions of responsibility and honor. In 1649 the General Court organized a local court at Pequot and Samuel was one of the judges. In 1668 he removed to Norwich, where he is recorded as "Constable" and "Townsman", and where he died, leaving the widow Abigail who survived him many years.

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From Huntington's A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family ...:

SAMUEL, born in England, and came with his father to Scituate in 1634, thence to Barnstable, where he married, Nov. 28, 1644, Elizabeth Scudder, who had been dismissed from the church in Boston Nov. 10, 1644, to remove her church relation to that in Barnstable. She is reported in Savage as a sister to that John Scudder who was in Barnstable in 1640. He had made the acquaintance of Miss Scudder in Boston, where he commenced his business life as house builder, afterwards combining with this extensive farming operations, Their marriage was recorded by his father on the Barnstable Church Register as follows: "My sonn Samuel & Elizabeth Scudder marryed at my house by Mr. Freeman, Nov. 28, 1644."

They settled in Barnstable, where his house stood next that of John Scudder.

He is reported, in 1643, as one of the five Lothrops at Barnstable liable to bear arms.

In 1648 he removed to New London, Connecticut, then called Pequot. We now find Mr. Lothrop mentioned in two letters from Governor Winthrop to his son John, Jr., at Pequot. In one of these, bearing date Aug. 14, 1648, on the subject of obtaining a minister for the settlement, he writes: " Your neighbour Lothrop came not at me (as I expected) to advise about it," etc.

His house lot in the new plantation was the third in order from that of John Winthrop, Jr,, Esq., and his name is one of the first eighteen to whom were assigned lands on the east side of the "great river" of Pequot, and for these the lots were drawn on the 17th and 31st of January, 1648-9.

Almost at once Mr. Lothrop is assigned by his new townsmen to places of responsibility and honor. The General Court of the State, in May, 1649, organized a local court at Pequot, having for its judges John Winthrop, Esq., Samuel Lothrop, and Thomas Minor, giving them power to sit in the trial of all causes between the inhabitants in which the differences were under forty shillings.

In 1650 he appears with fifteen other townsmen in town meeting "to arrange a system of co-operation with Mr. Winthrop in establishing a mill to grind corn."

He received a large grant of land, also, on the west side of the Pequot river north of the settlement. It was about five miles up the river at a place called Namussuck. A farm of 260 acres at this place remained in the family until 1735, when it was sold by his grandson Nathaniel, after settling all claims, for 2,300 pounds.

His "cattle marks" were recorded before 1650. When, in 1657, Uncas, routed by the Narragansetts, had been chased into tile fort at the head of the Nahantick and was there beseiged, Lieut. James Avery, Mr. Brewster, Samuel Lothrop and others, well armed, succeeded in throwing themselves into the fort and aided in the defence.

He sold his town homestead in 1661 to the Rev. Gershom Bulkley. This house stood beyond the bridge over the mill brook, on east side of highway toward Mohegan, "probably where now (1852) stands the Hallam House."

In 1679 is recorded a contract of Mr. Lothrop for building the Second Church in New London.

He removed to Norwich in 1668. Miss Caulkins in history of Norwich says, "after the first thirty-eight proprietors the next inhabitants who came in as grantees of the town are John Elderkin and Samuel Lothrop." A house lot was first granted to John Elderkin, who, finding it too far from his business, had it conveyed to Samuel Lothrop.

Mr. Lothrop appears to have erected a house on the town street before 1670, which from that time became his home. The house built by Dr. Daniel Lathrop, his great-grandson, about 1745, probably stands upon the same site-now Mrs. Gilman's.

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He was a house carpenter by trade, combining with it extensive farming operations. In 1648 he went to New London, then called Pequot, where he built the "Second Church" and held positions of responsibility and honor. In 1649 the General Court organized a local court at Pequot and Samuel was one of the judges. In 1668 he removed to Norwich, where he is recorded as "Constable" and "Townsman", and where he died, leaving the widow Abigail who survived him many years.

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Samuel Elizabeth Scudder 28 Nov 1644Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John Scudder and Elizabeth Lowers) 12 May 1624 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; 1690Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Martha Lathrop Jan 1657 New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; 21 Sep 1719Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
2. Ann Lathrop Aug 1667.
3. Israel Lathrop, I Oct 1659 New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; 28 Mar 1733Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
4. Samuel Lathrop, II Mar 1650 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 09 Dec 1732Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
5. Abigail Lathrop 11 May 1665 Norwich, CT; 19 Nov 1745Norwich, CT.
6. Elizabeth Lathrop Mar 1648 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 1690.

Samuel Abigail Done 28 Nov 1644Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail 13 Jan 1631 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; 23 Jan 1734Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jane Lathrop 1670 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
2. Bethiah Lathrop 23 Jul 1649 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
3. Martha Lothrop Moss 06 Jan 1657 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 21 Sep 1719Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
4. Deborah Lathrop 1664 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; 17 Jun 1756Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA.
5. Sarah Lathrop Oct 1655 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 11 Nov 1706Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
6. John Lathrop 07 Dec 1645 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 26 Aug 1688Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
7. Joseph Lathrop Oct 1661 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 05 Jul 1740Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
8. Hanah Lathrop 1653 Massachusetts, USA; 19 Nov 1745Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
9. Elizabeth Lathrop Mar 1648 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; 1690Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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he sailed from England on the Griffin and arrived in Boston on 18 September 1634
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Rev. John Lothropp (1584–1653) — sometimes spelled Lothrop or Lathrop — was an English Anglican clergyman, who became a Congregationalist minister and emigrant to New England. He was among the first settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Perhaps Lothropp's principal claim to fame is that he was a strong proponent of the idea of the Separation of Church and State (also called "Freedom of Religion"). This idea was considered heretical in England during his time, but eventually became the mainstream view of people in the United States of America, because of the efforts of John Lothropp and others. Lothropp left an indelible mark on the culture of New England, and through that, upon the rest of the country. He has had many notable descendants, including at least six US presidents, as well as many other prominent Governors, government leaders, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and business people.

Descendants[edit]
While Lothropp's fame may not have lasted much beyond his life, famous descendants continue to influence the world through this day. His direct descendants in America and elsewhere number more than 80,000, including:
Rev. John Lathrop (1740-1816), great-great-grandson; congregationalist Boston minister
Presidents of the United States:
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Millard Fillmore {Possible first cousin of John Lathrop}
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold
Early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Joseph Smith [8]
Hyrum Smith
Wilford Woodruff
Oliver Cowdery
Parley P. Pratt
Orson Pratt
State governors:
Jeb Bush
Thomas E. Dewey
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
William W. Kitchin
Sarah Palin
George W. Romney
Mitt Romney
Jim Guy Tucker[9]
US Senator Adlai Stevenson III
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
CIA Director Allen Welsh Dulles
Joseph F. Smith, 6th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ezra Taft Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and 13th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Roman Catholic cardinal Avery Dulles
Old West gunfighter and lawman Wild Bill Hickock
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Historian, College Administrator, and president of Harvard University, Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust[10]
United States Representative Galusha A. Grow, father of the Homestead Act
Historical, Asahel Lathrop Mormon Pioneer[11]
Artists Lewis Comfort Tiffany and Georgia O'Keeffe
Physician, author Benjamin Spock
Wife of the founder of Stanford University Jane Stanford
Author and doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and his son, US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Novelist Michael MacConnell
Founder of Post Cereal Company C. W. Post
Founder of General foods Marjorie Merriweather Post
Founder of Fuller Brush Company Alfred Carl Fuller
Founder of University of Chicago Law School, Founder of the Harvard Law Review, and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, Joseph Henry Beale
Financier John Pierpont Morgan
The Allred family, including actor Corbin Allred and polygamist sect leaders and brothers Rulon C. Allred and Owen A. Allred
Actresses Dina Merrill, Shirley Temple, Brooke Shields, and Maggie Gyllenhaal and her brother actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
Actor Clint Eastwood and Kevin Bacon
Singer Nick Carter of The Backstreet Boys and his younger brother Aaron Carter[citation needed]

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Reverend John Lothrop died in Barnstable, November 8, 1653. He left

to my wife, my new dwelling house. To my oldest son Thomas, the house in which I first lived in Barnstable. To my son John in England and Benjamin here, each a cow and 5£. Daughter Jane and Barbara have had their portions already. To the rest of the children, both mine and my wife's, each a cow. To each child one book, to be chosen according to their ages. The rest of my Library to be sold to any honest man who can tell how to use it, and the proceeds to be divided, &c.
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Birth:
East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority

Rev Jemimah Howse 10 Oct 1610England. Jemimah 1599 Ashford, Kent, England; 16 Feb 1633Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]