| Name | "Reverend" John LATHROPP Sr. |
| Birth | 20 Dec 1584, Etton, York County, ENGLAND |
| Death | 8 Nov 1653, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Age: 68 |
| Education | 1605 Graduate (B.A.), Queen's College, Cambridge, ENGLAND; 1609 Graduate (M.A.), Queen's College, Cambridge, ENGLAND |
| Occupation | Reverend |
| Religion | Baptized, 20 Dec 1584, Etton, York County, ENGLAND |
| Father | Thomas LOTHROP (1536-1606) |
| Mother | Mary SALTE (1540-1588) |
| 1 | Hannah HOWSE |
| Birth | abt 1594, Eastwell, Kent County, ENGLAND |
| Death | 16 Feb 1633, London, Middlesex County, ENGLAND Age: 39 |
| Father | "Reverend" John HOWSE (~1569-1630) |
| Mother | Alice LLOYD (~1572-1653) |
| Marriage | 10 Oct 1610, Eastwell, Kent County, ENGLAND |
| Children | Thomas (~1613-1707) |
| Jane (1614-<1683) | |
| Anne (Died as Infant) (1616-1617) | |
| John (1618-~1653) | |
| Barbara (1619-) | |
| Samuel (~1623-1700) | |
| Joseph (~1624-1702) | |
| Benjamin (~1626-~1691) | |
| Sarah (~1628-) |
| 2 | Ann HAMMOND |
| Death | 25 Feb 1687, Barnstable, Massachusetts |
| Marriage | abt 1635 |
1584 It is said the ancestral home of the Lathrop family is Lowthrope, England. Hannah House/Howse was from Eastwell, Kent, England. His English residences included: Etton 1584 > Egerton, Kent abt 1610 > 1623 London > - [1]
20 December 1584 John was baptized in Etton, York County, England.
1601 John's "matriculation" at Queen's College, Cambridge, England.
1605 John received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's College in Cambridge.
1607 John was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln.
1609 John received his Master's Degree from Queen's College at Cambridge, Cambridge County, England.
1610 John married Hannah Howse.
1611 John was a minister in Egerton, Kent County, England.
1617 John and Hannah lost two of their young children, 3 year old Jane and 1 year old Anne.
1623 John left Egerton and split from the Church of England.
1624 John became the minister of the Independent Church at Southwark, England.
22 April 1632 John was arrested "non-conforming" in London, Middlesex County, England and placed in prison.
John succeeded Henry Jacobs as the leader of the Independent Congregational Society in London after Reverend Jacobs left England for Virginia. On April 29, 1632, the congregation was discovered by the authorities and 42 of its members were imprisoned. Within two years, all were released on bail except John who remained incarcerated at Newgate Prison, nicknamed, the Clink. Hannah, his wife, fell sick during his imprisonment and died in 1634. John was then finally released from prison on the condition that he leave the country. - [3]
1633 John became a widow as Hannah died. John was still in prison at this time
1634 John was released on bail from prison. He quickly makes plans to travel to America.
His children, except son John, and 30 of his followers left England in August aboard the Griffin and sailed for New England, arriving in Boston on September 18, 1634. The group settled first in Scituate, Massachusetts and moved to Barnstable in 1639. - [3]
18 September 1634 John immigrated to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He arrived on the ship the Griffin. His son Thomas was listed on the ship's roster with him. They settled in Scituate, Massachusetts.
[John] immigrated, as widower, with eight children, on Griffin, arriving Sep 1634. Governor Winthrop's journal entry of Sept. 18, 1634: "The Griffin and another ship now arriving with about 200 passengers. Mr. Lathrop and Mr. Sims, two godly ministers coming in the same ship". - [1]
1635 John was named the minister of the Scituate Church.
John married his second wife, Ann, in Scituate about 1635 and had six children. - [3]
As you would expect, a church that has been in continuous service for more than 360 years has many stories to tell. This account of the history of First Parish is divided, somewhat arbitrarily, into three sections.
First Parish, Scituate is over 350 years old. A group of Nonconformists started meeting in London in 1616, led by Rev. Henry Jacob. He was succeeded by Rev. John Lothrop, a former rector in the Church of England, in 1624. Discovered worshipping clandestinely in 1632, 42 members of the congregation were arrested and jailed.
After two years in jail, Rev. Lothrop was released from jail with the proviso that he leave England forever. With a majority of the members of his congregation, he sailed for New England and arrived in Scituate in September, 1634. They joined a small congregation that had been worshipping under the leadership of a layman, Giles Sexton.
A small log cabin on Meeting House Lane served as the first church. The site is marked today by a monument that lists the early members of the parish, "The Men of Kent," and by gravestones from the 17th century.
Over a span of some 60 years and the succession of six ministers, First Parish was the scene of considerable theological dissension. The principal focii were, first, baptism and. later, the Unitarian/Trinitarion schism.
These disagreements led to the separation, at three times, of a major portion of First Parish's members to form new churches.
Dissension over baptism soon divided the parish and in 1639 Rev. Lothrop led an exodus of a majority of the congregation to Barnstable on Cape Cod. - [4]
John Lothropp has been ranked as one of the four most prominent colonial ministers in America. His spiritual and political strength not only was emulated by his sons and daughters, but has been evidenced in the lives of thousands of his descendants in the past four centuries They include presidents of the United States, a prime minister of Canada, authors, financiers, politicians, and last but certainly not least, key leaders among religious groups throughout the centuries and spanning the continent. "Biography of John Lothrop (1584-1653)", by Richard Price. - [1]
Founder of Barnstable, Mass: John Lathrop and his followers initially settled in Scituate, Mass. But, their religious differences with the inhabitants caused them to look elsewhere to live. Although, some individuals lived in the area of Barnstable, Plymouth Co, Mass, the moving of John Lathrop and his followers to Barnstable is considered the founding of the town. He lived there until he died, in 1653. - [1]
It appears that the name Lothropp, which his father used when naming his children, was changed by dropping the final 'p'. However, John's son Samuel occasionally wrote his name Lathrop, which can be seen in certain genealogies concerning the CT or western MA branches of the family. In addition to these, the names Laythrop and Lawthrop are seen referring to descendants.
After receiving his Master of Arts degree from Queens College, Cambridge in 1609, John became the perpetual curate of the Egerton Church in Kent (the last Anglican Church parish he would serve). In 1624 he succeeded Rev. Henry Jacob as pastor of the first Independent (Congregationalist) Society in London. Jacob was one of the puritans who fled to Leyden, Netherlands before 1616 to avoid persecution, but returned to England when, in 1620, a portion of the church moved to Plymouth, MA.
In 1625, Charles I became King. He tried to conform all political and religious institutions; sold monopolies, titles, and church positions to the highest bidder; levied fines against those who refused to take an oath of allegiance. Those who did not affirm that the Church of England was the true apostolic church were excommunicated. To this end, Charles I appointed a Bishop Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury and empowered him to reform the entire Church of England. Laud established a uniform system of worship that he imposed on all Englishmen; burned books and pamphlets that did not pass his censorship; ordered inspection tours of parish churches to insure the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
On 22 Apr 1632, Rev. Lothropp's group met at the home of Humphrey Barnet in Black Friars, London for their normal worship. Archbishop Laud sent agents to arrest the group, seized forty-two, while eighteen others escaped. They were all sent to Newgate prison (built for felons). By 1634, the group had been released on bail, except for Rev. Lothropp, who finally procured his liberty on the occasion of his wife's sickness. She died shortly thereafter, and his many children were placed with the Bishop at Lambeth. He was finally granted liberty to go into foreign exile on 24 Apr 1634.
He came to America on the 'Griffin' in 1634 together with six of his seven living children and thirty-two members of his church, landing in Plymouth, MA. On 27 Sep 1634, Rev. Lothropp moved to a settlement of nine houses called Scituate, MA, where the meeting-house was the largest home, belonging of Mr. James Cudworth (who would become one of the colony's leading military figures). On 8 Jan 1634/35 thirteen initial members formed the Church at Scituate, and he was ordained as their minister.
Not everyone was happy with the manner in which Rev. Lothropp conducted his religious duties. On 26 Jun 1639, Rev. Lothropp and a few of his followers moved to an area on Cape Cod that became known as Barnstable. Early Plymouth settlers who came to Scituate and later went to Barnstable with Rev. Lothropp included Anthony Annable, Henry Cobb, the younger Samuel Fuller (who married his daughter, Jane), Isaac Robinson, and Henry Rowley; ultimately, James Cudworth would also join the group at Barnstable. - [2]
[PUZZLE] Website [1] has a second wife and six more children for John, "2) Ann (___). This woman is not a Hammond, or a Hammond widow, as has been postulated. (See TGMB sketch on John Lathrop). It is possible that they married in England before immigration in 1634. Six children." but it supplies no names or other information. So far, this is the only reference I've found with this woman and her children. - [1]
[1] - http://geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2806/aqwg101.htm
[2] - http://www.jaenfield.com/genealogy/Enf_Bry/famhist/h694.html#7
[3] - email; Stan/Helen Gould
[4] - History of First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Scituate Massachusetts; www.firstparishscituate.org/history
[5] - http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/eliancestry.html