• General Notes

  Will: 10 Aug 1653 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Probate: 8 Dec 1653 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  
  Rev. John attended Queen's College, Cambridge, where he seems to have acquired the usual "dissenting" spirit of that University. He resigned as Vicar of Egerton, Kent, England in 1623 and went to London, where he became pastor of the first independent Congregational church in London. He was tried by the Star chamber,and imprisoned for two years in Newgate. He was released in 1634, and sentenced to "banishment." He and his family sailed from England in the ship "Griffin," and landed at Boston in 1634.
  
  He was a minister in Egerton, Kent, England and moved to London in 1624 where he was a pastor of the Congregational Church. He and 43 others were arrested 29 Apr. 1632 and imprisoned for 2 years for practising the teachings of the New Testament. He and some of the other prisoners were released on the condition that they leave the country. He took his family and came to New England landing 18 Sep 1634 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  
  He formed a church, 8 Jan. 1634 in Scituate of the folks who had been banished from England when he had and many more people were added latter.
  
  He was addmitted freeman in Plymouth Colony on 7 Feb 1636/7.
  
  In about 1639 he and his church members moved and founded the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts.
  
  "Mr. Lothrop was a man of deep piety, great zeal and large ability."
  
  Marriage 1 Hannah HOWSE * b: ABT 1594 in Eastwell, Kent, England
      * Married: 10 Oct 1610 in Eastwell,Kent,England
  Children:
     1.  Jane LATHROP * b: in , Kent, England c: 29 Sep 1614 in Edgerton Parish, Kent, England
     2.  Barbara LATHROP b: in , Kent, England
     3.  Thomas LATHROP b: in , Kent, England
     4.  Samuel LATHROP b: ABT 1620 in , Kent, England
     5.  Joseph LATHROP b: in , Kent, England
  
  Marriage 2 Ann HAMMOND b: in , , England
      * Married: 17 Feb 1636 in , , Massachusetts
  Children:
     1.  Barnabas LATHROP b: in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts c: 6 Jun 1636 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
     2.  Abigail LATHROP b: in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts c: 2 Nov 1639 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
     3.  Bathshua LATHROP b: in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts c: 27 Feb 1641 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
     4.  John LATHROP b: in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts c: 9 Feb 1644 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
     5.  Benjamin LATHROP b: in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
     6.  LATHROP
     7.  Hopestill LATHROP
  
  

Details of John's family with Hannah Howse

Details of John's family with Ann Hammond