John Lathrop was born December 20, 1584 in Etton, Yorkshire, England. 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 >

See the Yorkshire, England and Kent, England Home Pages for more details about the ancestral homes of John and Hannah.

See The Lathrop Genealogy Page for comments about his parents. His father was Thomas Lathrop of Cherry Burton. His mother is not certain, but is NOT Mary Salte. She could be one of three wives of Thomas Lathrop, probably the second one - whose identity is given variously as Mary Howell and Maud (___).
 

"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

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.

Spouses:

 
1) Hannah House/Howse, married October 10, 1610 in Eastwell, Kent, England. Eight children. Died in England before John and the children migrated. Eight children.

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.
 

Immigration: 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".
 
See the passenger list of the Griffin.
Persecuted in England:  "The Rev John Lothrop renounced his orders and resigned from his cure at Egerton abt 1623 to succeed Henry jacob as pastor of an independent colngregation was raided. [John] Lothrop and forty-one of his followers were seized and imprisoned, including Peninna and Samuel House, children of the Rev John House (NEHGS 69 [1914] :284).  In 1633, while [John] Lothrop was yet in prison, a dispute arose in his church. those who altogether rejected the established church and denied the ligitimacy of infant baptism were led away by John Spilsbury. John Lothrop's views were obviously less radical than Spilsbury's. Not only did infant baptism continue in his own churches in new England, but, as the above entries show, his sons Joseph and Benjamin were baptized at Eastwell in 1624 and 1626 respectively by their grandfather [Rev John] House, while John Lothrop was pastor of the independents at Southwark. John's eldest son Thomas was baptized at Eastwell on 21 Feb 1612/13, while he was curae at Egerton. (It was not unusual for the eldest child to be baptized in the wife's parish.)" The American Genealogist (TAG) Oct 1995 p251.
 
 

Timeline:
 

1584 ....Christened at Etton, Yorkshire, England
1601 ....Matriculation--Queen's College, Cambridge
1605 ....Received B.A. from Queen's College, Cambridge
1607 ....Ordained deacon by Bishop of Lincoln
1609 ....Received M.A. from Queen's College, Cambridge Vicar of Egerton, Kent
1610 ....Married Hannah Howse
1612 ....Son, Thomas, born
1614 ....Daughter, Jane born
1616 ....Daughter, Anne, born
1617 ....Son, John, born Daughter, Anne, died
1619 ....Daughter, Barbara, born
1623 ....Left Egerton and Church of England.  Son, Samuel, born
1624 ....Minister of Independent Church--Southwark. Son, Joseph, born
1626 ....Son, Benjamin, born
1632 ....Put in prison
1633 ....Hannah Howse died
1634 ....Released on bail. Arrives in Boston aboard the Griffin,  Settles in Scituate
1635 ....Chosen to be Minister of the Scituate Church. Married Ann
1636 ....Son, Barnabas, born
1638 ....Daughter, (unnamed), born and died
1639 ....Arrived Barnstable Daughter. Abigail, born
1642 ....Daughter, Bathshua, born
1645 ....Son,John, born
1650 ....Son, (unnamed), born and died on same day
1653 ....Died and buried in Barnstable, Massachusetts Age -- 68 years, 7 months

Biographical Material on the Web:

Biographical sketch of John Lathrop and the family of each of his children, at Jonathan Lathrop's web page.

Biographical sketch of John Lathrop and some of his children, courtesy of Michael Roman.

See the Notable Lathrop Kin Page

Bush, President George - US President
Carter, Nick - of the Backstreet Boys
Dulles, John Foster - Secretary of State (Eisenhower)
Grant, Ulysses -  Civil War general and President of the United States
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - American Novelist
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Sr.) - Author, poet, physician, lecturer
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) - Supreme Court Justice
Huntington, Ebenezer - Revolutionary War Officer, Later General in 1790's, Congressman
Huntington, Isaac - Connecticut Convention that voted for Constitution
Lathrop, George Parsons - American Novelist
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth American Novelist
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - President of the United States

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NOTE: This book (John Lothropp (1584-1653) : a puritan biography & genealogy / Richard Woodruff Price), in its entirety, is on the web. It is located in genealogylibrary.com, a genealogy library associated with Family Tree Maker. This is a pay service (but worth it, especially for New England genealogy, in my opinion - I've no financial interest in FTM or the site.) This is their subscription page. Do a search on Lothropp, select book titles only.
 
CALL NUMBER: BR1725.L66 P75 1984
AUTHOR: Price, Richard W.
TITLE: John Lothropp (1584-1653) : a puritan biography & genealogy / Richard Woodruff
PUBLISHED: Salt Lake City, Utah : R.W. Price & Associates, 1984.
 
NEHGR Articles:
NEHGR 54:92-93. Will of Mark Lothrop of North Cove, York & Richard Lothropp of the same place who, are said to have been respectively Uncle and Cousin of Rev John Lothrope.

NEHGR 69:284 [1914] Details his troubles in England.
 

TAG Articles
 
The American Genealogist (TAG) Oct 1995 p251.
Bibliography at the Lothrop Family Foundation Page
 

Lathrop books at Higgonson Books:
 

Under Lathrop:

LATHROP. Gen. memoir of the Lo-Lathrop fam. The desc. of Rev. John Lathrop of Scituate & Barnstable, Mass., & Mark Lathrop of Salem & Bridgewater, Mass., by E. B. Huntington. 464p.  1884. $58.00

LATHROP. Ancestors & descendants of Francis Lathrop, 1545-1992, by Lois Roberta Cook White. 82p.  1992. $16.50

Under Lothrop:
 
LOTHROP. Anc. & desc. of Daniel Lothrop, Sr., 1545-1901, by G.D.R. Hubbard. 37p.  1901. $7.50
Also see:
 
Huntington: A Genealogy Memoir of the Lothrop Family
Stratton: Plymouth Colony
Otis: Barnstable Families
Governor Winthrop's Records
J.Hewes: New England Pioneers
A.M.Burk: Prominent Families in America
Records of the Court of the Star Chamber

Another Daughter: Elizabeth??  John possibly had a daughter Elizabeth whose birth was not recorded. From the court records of 1665 we find that "Whereas John Williams, Junr, appeered before the Court held att Plymouth the seaventh of June last past before the date heerof, to answare for his disorderly liveing with his wife, and his abusive carriages towards her both in words and actions, in speciall his sequestration of himselfe from the marriage bedd, and that notwithstanding the Court then tooke such order about it as was judged meet for present, yett the said Williams not attending that due reformation expected from him, wherby Mr Barnabas Laythorpe hath seen cause, in the behalfe of his sister and those related to her, to revive the former complaint, with some aditionall charges; to which the said Williams, though seeming to desire the tryall of such his guiltines or not guiltines might bee put on a jury of his peers, yett afterwards refused it when graunted to him by the Court; this Court, being earnestly desirous of a renewed closure of his hart and affections to his wife, and that his future conversation with her might bee better then his former, were willing to extend what lenitie might bee, and in reference therunto, with exhortation of him to amend his wayes respecting the promises, hee was released att the present". It seems that when Elizabeth became pregnant or bore a child, her husband John accused her of unfaithfulness. She was "by false reports and reproaches rendered as if shee were a dishonest woman, and that the child shee brought forth into the world was not legitimate". The court found no substance to the accusations and cleared her name.  Source: John Lathrop (1584-1653) - Institute of Family Research,  Inc., 1979.

Who is Elizabeth [Scudder?], wife of Joseph3 Lathrop?

Mary Scudder, wife of Joseph Lathrop - The origins of Mercy Scudder, who married Joseph Lathrop, seem to be in doubt. At least the information I have learned so far has not firmly attached her to a set of parents. See this GenForum Posting No 1 and GenForum Posting No 2 for more....

Major branches of John Lathrop descendants will have the following surnames: Lathrop, Fuller, Emerson, Clark, Marsh

 1   John Lathrop 1584 - 1653
..  +Hannah Howse 1590 - 1633
........... 2   Thomas Lathrop 1613 - 1707
...............  +Sarah Learned 1607 -
........... 2   Jane Lathrop 1614 - 1683
...............  +Samuel Fuller 1602 - 1683
........... 2   Anne Lathrop 1616 - 1617
........... 2   John 'The Older' Lathrop 1618 - 1653
........... 2   Barbara Lathrop 1619 -
...............  +John Emerson 1620 -
........... 2   Samuel Lathrop 1623 - 1700
...............  +Elizabeth Scudder 1625 - 1682
...........  *2nd Wife of Samuel Lathrop:
...............  +Abigail Doane 1632 - 1735
........... 2   Joseph Lathrop 1624 - 1700
...............  +Mary Ansell 1632 -
........... 2   Benjamin Lathrop 1626 -
...............  +Martha Walcott 1634 -
  *2nd Wife of John Lathrop:
..  +Ann 1616 - 1688
........... 2   Barnabas Lathrop 1636 - 1715
...............  +Susanna Clark 1641 - 1697
...........  *2nd Wife of Barnabas Lathrop:
...............  +Abigail [Dodson] 1643 - 1715
........... 2   Lathrop 1638 - 1638
........... 2   Abigail Lathrop 1639 -
...............  +James Clark 1639 - 1713
........... 2   Bathsheba Lathrop 1642 - 1723
...............  +Alexander Marsh 1641 - 1698
........... 2   John Lathrop 1645 - 1727
...............  +Hannah 1644 - 1738
...........  *2nd Wife of John Lathrop:
...............  +Mary Cobb 1653 - 1695
........... 2   Lathrop 1650 - 1650

 
 1   John Lathrop 1584 - 1653
....  +Hannah Howse 1590 - 1633
.... 2   Thomas Lathrop 1613 - 1707
..........  +Sarah Learned 1607 -
........... 3   Mary Lathrop 1640 - 1735
...........  *2nd Husband of Mary Lathrop:
.................  +William French 1603 - 1681
.................. 4   Hannah French 1676 - 1766
........................  +John Child II 1669 - 1748
........................ 5   Mary Child 1700 - 1776
..............................  +Nathaniel Whitney III 1696 - 1776
............................... 6   Nathaniel Whitney IV 1728 - 1776
.....................................  +Abigail Joslin 1735 -
...................................... 7   Abigail Whitney 1763 - 1847
............................................  +Elijah Bruce 1760 - 1835
............................................ 8   Abigail Whitney Bruce 1806 - 1884
..................................................  +Nehemiah Willis Fisher 1805 - 1859
................................................... 9   Eleanor Serepta Fisher 1843 - 1924
.........................................................  +Henry Gilbert Baldwin 1836 - 1894
.......................................................... 10   Arthur Willis Baldwin 1876 - 1961
................................................................  +Inez Evangeline Hallock 1886 - 1976
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