John Lothropp

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• Name: John Lathrop

Notes:

Edward's son, Samuel, married Jane Lathrop, daughter of Rev. John Lathrop of Christ's College, Cambridge. Lathrop was educated at Oxford University; was pastor of the First Congregational Church, London. Samuel Fuller was a physician. William Bradford said of Samuel Fuller: "The beloved physician of both the Pilgrims and Indians. He was one of the noolest of the Mayflower group, with a gentle tolerance and a wide outlook on life," of which one indication is found in his deep friendship for Roger Williams, who was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In Dr. Samuel Fuller's will provision was made for the education of his son Samuel, his daughter Mercy and his nephew Samuel and also for others "put to him for schooling" with special mention of Sarah Converse "left to me by her sick father."

Family/Spouse: Hannah Howse. Hannah (daughter of John Howse and Alice Lloyd) was born about 1594 in Eastwell, Kent, England; died on 16 Feb 1634 in London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jane Lathrop was born on 29 Sep 1614 in Egerton, Kent, England; died after 1658 in , Barnstable, MA.
2. Joseph Lathrop was born about 1624 in London, Middlesex, England; died between 1700 and 1702.

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3. THOMAS, born in Cherry Burton and married (1) Elizabeth (widow) Clark, who was buried in Etton., July 29, 1574. He married (2) Mary, who was buried in Etton, Jan. 6, 1588; and (3) Jane, who after his death became the wife of (???) Coppendale.

He removed to Etton, Harthill wapentake, East Riding, Yorkshire, about 1576, and here he died in 1606, having made his will Oct. 5, 1606, which was proved in the following January. The several legacies specified in this will are printed in full. It will be noticed that neither of the sons who were educated is named in the will.

WILL OF THOMAS OF CHERRY BURTON.
1. Jaine, my wieff, lease for 12 yr. for ed. of my younge children whom I give unto her with these legacies.

2. Richard my sonne, if he die, then to my sonne Mark, and if he be not of age XXI, my sonne to be a tutor unto him.

3. Jane my wieff and Lawrence my sonne, lease of Westwood, leas in territories of Scarbrough.

4. Robart--three kye gatts in Etton.

5. Markes, Lawrence, Joseph, and Bartholomew--moiety of lease of Etton pke or Calfe pke.

6. Bartholomew, pte Freehold lande called temple wood.

7. Robart--best horse.

8. Isabel Burne, my daughtr, one cowe.

9. Katherine Aket, my daughtr, one cowe.

10. Wm. Wykam, Thos. Wykam, and Jayne Wykam, children to my daughter Audrie Wykam, one cowe among them.

11. Robert--my best, bound wayne.

12. Robert, all my freehold land in So. Dalton and Walkinton.

13. Jane, Anne, Isabell, and Elizabeth Akeit, daughters of Wm. Akeit, my son-in-lawe each of them, one ewe.

14. Poore of Etton, vj??--viijd.

15. The rest to Jane, my wief, Richard, Lawrence, Marks, Joseph, Bartholomew,

my sons, and Margaret, Luce, and Jane Lowthorp, my daughters whom I make executors.

Witness. Thos. Cardener, Alexander Lyon, Henry Fenby.

Proved, Jan. 13, 1606-07

3. THOMAS. Etton, Yorkshire.

7. ROBERT, born in Cherry Burton, married, Jan. 27, 1607-8, Ann Pattison. He received from his father's will both lands and tenements in South Dalton and Walkington, the first in the wapentake of Harthill, and the second in that of Howdenshire, both in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

8. CATHERINE, married June 12, 1607, William Akett, of Leckonfield, Harthill wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, who is named in the will of her brother Thomas, then rector of Dengie, Essex. In her father's will her children are named: Jane, Anne, Isabell, and Elizabeth Akeit.

9. AWDREY, who is reputed in her father's will as the wife of a Wickham. Her children are named in the will as: William, Thomas, and Jayne, and the family name is spelled Wykam.

10. ELIZABETH, married, Feb. 19, 1587-8, Thomas Rowood.

11. ANNE, baptized at Etton, Feb. 13, 1568-9, and died young.

12. ISABELL, baptized at Etton, July 3, 1570.

13. MARTIN, baptized at Etton, Oct. 21, 1572, and buried, Nov. 12, 1572.

14. ANDREW, baptized at Etton, April 23, 1574.

2d Wife's.
15. ANNE, baptized at Etton, July 29, 1576.

16. MARY, who is named in her brother Thomas' will, Oct. 20, 1628, as the wife of John Gallant.

17. THOMAS, baptized in Etton, Oct. 14, 1582, and was admitted to Queen's College, Cambridge, under George Mountaine as his tutor, June 30, 1601, and took his Bachelor's degree in 1604. He married Elizabeth (???), and ?? his will, which bears date Oct. 20, 1628, and which was proved in Consistory Court, London, May 6, 1629, he names as legatees his wife Elizabeth, and makes the following bequests: to eldest daughter Anne, when she shall come of age; to second daughter Jane, his Wilkes estate, Tillingham, Essex Co.; to his third daughter Elizabeth, lands in Allborne. Essex Co.; to his youngest daughter Mary, the Yates gap land and Meale Field, Southminster, Essex; to his brothers John and William: to William Akett, of Leckenfield, his brother-in-law; to his sister Mary, wife of John Gallant, and to several servants

18. JOHN, baptized in Etton, Dec. 20, 1584, and became the pioneer and founder of the LOTHROP-LATHROP family in America. His record and that of his descendants immediately follow this record of the English Lowthrops.

19. WILLIAM, baptized May 24, 1587, and is named in his brother Thomas' will, Oct. 20, 1628.

3d Wife's.
20. MARGARET, baptized in Etton, Feb. 13, 1590-1.

21. ISABELL, baptized in Etton, Sept. 29, 1592.

22. LUCY, baptized in Etton, Jan. 4, 1593-4, and married, June 16, 1613, Ralph Cawnsby.

23. RICHARD, baptized in Etton, Oct. 12, 1595, and married Dorothy Lowdon. He settled in Cherry Burton, where his will was made Feb. 8, 1640-1, and where his wife died in 1645. He left two sons, Thomas of Cherry Burton, and Richard of North Cave, near Cherry Burton, who died unmarried in 1659; and a Mary, a posthumous daughter. In his will, dated Feb. 8, 1640-1, and proved June, 1641, he remembers the poor of Cherry Burton, of Bishops Burton, of Etton, and of Leconfield; the Church of Cherry Burton; his eldest son Thomas, when of age; his unborn child, if it reaches majority; his wife Dorothy; his mother, Jane Coppendale; his younger son Richard, his brother Joseph, and his son Thomas; his brother Bartholomew; his sister Mary Garwood and her daughter Elizabeth, and to John, son of William Lowthrop.

The will of Dorothy Lowthrop, widow of this Richard, dated May 15, 1641, and proved May 9, 1645, names as legatees, son Thomas, son Richard, daughter Mary, mother Jane Brown, mother Jane Coppendale or dayk, brothers, sister Lowson, brother Lawrence Lowthrop and his children, and his brother Bartholomew Lowthrop.

24. MARK, baptized in Etton, Sept. 27, 1597. Mr. Somerby in his work prepared for Mr. Motley, before mentioned, says of this Mark: "He was among the settlers of West Bridgewater in Massachusetts, where he died about the year 1686. His children were Elizabeth, Mark, Samuel, and Edward," etc.

It would have greatly simplified my record of the American Lo-Lathrops if I had not soon found another record for this Mark. His will was brought to light in London just in season to save the perpetuation of the error in our American record.

Before his death he had removed to North Cave, near Cherry Burton, in Harthill wapentake, Hunsley Beacon, Yorkshire, when he probably had never married. His will bears date, North Cave, January, 1659-60, and was admitted to probate in London April 17. 1660. He names as his only legatees, his brother Bartholomew, brother William, Margaret Bateman, sister Lucy, and sister Jane. He also made his brother Bartholomew his executor and residuary legatee.

Of course the above will disproves of the supposition which for years misled my search, that this Mark Lothrop was the pioneer who settled in Bridgewater, Mass., and whose descendants I have not been able to connect with the family of the Rev. John.

25. LAWRENCE, baptized in Etton, Aug. 29, 1599, and is mentioned in the will of his nephew Richard, 1659, as the father of three children. He was, in 1641, one of the witnesses to his brother Richard's will.

26. JANE, baptized in Etton, March 14, 1600-1.

27. JOSEPH, baptized in Etton, Dec. 31, 1602. He and his son Thomas are mentioned in the will of his nephew Richard.

28. BARTHOLOMEW, baptized in Etton. March 1, 1604-5, and named in the wills of his brother Richard, 1641, and nephew Richard, 1659.

Of the places named in these wills and pedigrees, all are very near to Lowthorpe, Bridlington, and Napperton being in the same wapentake; Cherry Burton, North Cave, So. Dalton, and Etton in Harthill wapentake, Walkinton in Howdenshire wapentake.

Thomas married Jane Carter on 11 Nov 1588 in Etton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1. ROBERT succeeded to the estates of his father in Cherry Burton, and during his lifetime made considerable additions to them. He had married Ellen (???), who survived him fourteen years, and at her death left a will, which supplies for us the names of some of her descendants which, but for this will, might not have reached us. The names preserved to us in this will are the eldest son Thomas, and his children Robert, Elizabeth, and Isabell, and Robert's wife, Alice Clarke; her son Lawrence, and his wife Elizabeth and their children, Edward and Agnes; her daughter Margaret, the wife of Robert Hodgeson, and her own sister Margaret. Her sons were the executors of her will.

Mr. Robert Lothrope died in 1558. His will, bearing date, North Burton (Sheributon), July 16, 1558, was proved at York, Oct. 20, 1558, and makes the following bequests. It will be seen that the later will of his widow, as reported above, confirms the list of his children as given in the will below. This will is thus fully reported as best setting before us the condition and social position of this representative of the Lothrop family more than three centuries ago.

2. WILL OF ROBERT LOWTHROPPE OF CHERRY BURTON.
1. To ye blessed sacrament of ye altar for forgotten tythes, v s.

To poor people at his burial, 4 marks, by executors.
3. To ye church of "Sheriburton," 68. 8d.

4. To son JOHN all lands and tenements in So. Dalton and all freehold lands and titles; the lands in Burton purchased of Richard Fenle and Marmaduke Whytinge; and in default of issue from him, the reversion of the foregoing to be unto son Lawrence and his heirs.

5. To son THOMAS all lands and their appurtenances in Walkinton.

6. To daughter Margaret a messuage in Beverlaie, in the Tenore of Christopher More. If she fail of issue this also to go to son Lawrence.

7. To wife ELLEN, during widowhood, and then to son Thomas all leases and terms of years of his two "fermolds" in Burton and Rainthorpe. If she should marry or die the leases to remain in Thomas and his executors and heirs. The said Ellen and Thomas are to succor "with meat and drink and house room" in said "fermold" in Burton all the rest of the children to their several marriages.

8. To daughter Margaret, 40 marks.

9. To son JOHN, a gray stoned horse.

10. To son Thomas, an ambling gelding, dapple gray.

11. To son Lawrence, a bright bay gelding.

12. To daughter Margaret, a branded fleet cow, in consideration of one I sold which my father gave to her. Also a lead, a table, two chairs, two trestles and a forme with a great with eaves, two basings, two lavers, two candlesticks, twelve pieces of pewther, and "y?? best (beast), yt came from Beverlaie."

13. To "everie of my godchildren, 4d."

14. To "everie of my sister's children, 8d."

15. To my three sisters, everie of them, 6s. 8d.

16. To John Swinburne, John Pickering, William Fisher, Robert Barnes, Gawin and Hewe Mason--my servants, every of them, halfe a quarter of barlye (two bushels).

17. To Catherine Shadlock, maid servant, half a quarter of barley and a bushel of wheat.

18. Elizabeth Thornton and Isabell Coke, maid servants, either of them a mett (two bushels) of barley.

19. To ye township of So. Burton, 6s. 8d.

20. To children of William Burne, every of them, 8d.

21. To William and John, sons of Henry Sowersby, 7d. each.

22. To Alison Simson and Henry Bynks, 4d.

23. To Robert Binks, 4d.

24. To every of my three sons a bound waine and gear.

25. To Richard Eshton, a quarter of barley.

26. To Robert Hoyeson, Robert Wilson, William Burne, Robert Patenson, and John Patenson, 20d.

27. To Thomas Jervis, 6s. 8d.

28. To Mr. John Eglesfield, Esq., supervisor of this will, 20s.

29. To son Thomas, two draughts nante--a hawked and browne--and fourtie (40) weathers such as he will choose.

30. To son John, a cow "such as daughter Margaret will appoint," and a couple "stotes goying at Harswell such as he choose."
31. To son Lawrence, two stotes.

32. To daughter Margaret, two whies goying at Harswell.

33. "To ye Prests," 20d.

34. To ye Clerk, 12d.

35. To William Burne, "my buckskin doublet."

36. To Robert Johnson, "my vilett jacket."

37. To Simon Naves, "my second best vilett jacket."

38. To son Thomas, a "jack" (coat of mail), "bill" (battle ax), steel cap, and pair of splents.

39. To wife Ellen, son John, son Thomas, son Lawrence, and daughter Margaret, the rest of the estate, and all of them are appointed executors.

Robert married Ellen Aston. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Aston and Unknown) was born between 1510 and 1519 in Cherry Burton, Yorkshire, England; died between 8 Mar 1571 and 1572 in Cherry Burton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Our pedigree of that branch of the old Lowthorpe family which had its earliest known English seat in Lowthorpe, wapentake of Dickering, East Riding of Yorkshire, must begin in JOHN LOWTHROPPE, gr. grandfather, to Rev. John Lothropp, the American pioneer. Early in the sixteenth century he was Undisclosed in Cherry Burton, a parish about four miles from Lowthorpe. He was, though belonging to a junior branch of the family, a gentleman of quite extensive landed estates both in Cherry Burton and in various other parts of the county. In the 37th year of Henry VIII (1545), he appears on a Yorkshire subsidy roll, assessed twice as much as any other inhabitaut of the parish. Of his parentage and of the names of his brothers and sisters, if he had any, we shall probably be unable to find the record, the early parish registers having disappeared. No record of baptisms before 1597, none of burials before 1561, and none of marriages before 1562, now remain.

This John Lowthroppe left the son ROBERT whose record we are able to give, and also three daughters whose families are mentioned, though their own names are not designated in the will of the son. Whether there were still other children we may never be able to learn.

John married Margaret Wade. Margaret (daughter of John Wade and Margaret Unknown) was born about 1478 in Lowthrope, Cherry Burton, Yorkshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Unknown. was born about 1495; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]