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John LATHROP 1 was born on 21/21 Mar 1538/9 in Cherry Burton, York, England, United Kingdom. John was sealed to his parents on 15 Feb 1955 in the Mesa Arizona temple. He was baptized on 11 Dec 1928. He was endowed on 19 Dec 1928.
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John Lothropp
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John Lothropp
Born 20 December 1584
Etton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England
Died 8 November 1653
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Nationality English subject
Other names John Lothrop, John Lathrop
Education Bachelor of Arts
Spouse(s) Hannah House, Ann Hammond
Children Jane, Anne, John, Barbara, Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Barnabas, Abigail, Bathsheba, John
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.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Ministry and incarceration
1.3 Emigration
2 Genealogy
2.1 Children
2.2 Descendants
2.3 Family tree
3 See also
4 Bibliography
5 Notes
6 External links
Biography
Early life
Lothropp was born in Etton, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was baptised on 20 December 1584. He attended Queens' College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1601, graduated with a BA in 1605, and with an MA in 1609.[1]
Ministry and incarceration
He was ordained in the Church of England and appointed curate of a local parish in Egerton, Kent. In 1623 he renounced his orders and joined the cause of the Independents. Lothropp gained prominence in 1624, when he was called to replace Reverend Henry Jacob as the pastor of the First Independent Church in London, a congregation of sixty members which met at Southwark. Church historians sometimes call this church the Jacob-Lathrop-Jessey (JLJ[2]) Church, named for its first three pastors, Henry Jacob, John Lothropp and Henry Jessey.
They were forced to meet in private to avoid the scrutiny of Bishop of London William Laud. Following the group's discovery on 22 April 1632 by officers of the king, forty-two of Lothropp's Independents were arrested. Only eighteen escaped capture. The arrested were prosecuted for failure to take the oath of loyalty to the established church. Evidence gleaned by the historians Burrage and Kiffin and from the Jessey records indicate many were jailed in The Clink prison. As for Reverend John Lothropp, the question is still unresolved. English historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner, whose book Reports of Cases in the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, gives an account of the courtroom trial and cites information from the trial record that the convicted dissenters were to be divided up and sent to various prisons. Historian E. B. Huntington suggests Lothropp was incarcerated in either the Clink or Newgate.[3] Further, it may be that Lothropp actually served time in both prisons since it was customary to move prisoners from one prison to another due to space availability. In the end, the precise location of Lothropp's imprisonment is not confirmable from primary documentation.
While Lothropp was in prison, his wife Hannah House became ill and died. His six surviving children were, according to tradition, left to fend for themselves begging for bread on the streets of London. Friends, being unable to care for his children, brought them to the Bishop who had charge of Lothropp. After about a year, all were released on bail except Lothropp, who was deemed too dangerous to be set at liberty. The Bishop ultimately released him on bond in May 1634 with the understanding that he would immediately remove to the New World. Since he did not immediately leave for the New World, a court order was subsequently put out for him. Family tradition and other historical reflections indicate he then "escaped."
Emigration
Lothropp was told that he would be pardoned upon acceptance of terms to leave England permanently with his family along with as many of his congregation members as he could take who would not accept the authority of the Church of England. Lathrop accepted the terms of the offer and left for Plymouth, Massachusetts. With his group, he sailed on the Griffin and arrived in Boston on 18 September 1634.[4] The record found on page 71 of Governor Winthrop's Journal, quotes John Lothropp, a freeman, rejoicing in finding a "church without a bishop. . .and a state without a king." John Lothropp married Ann (surname unknown) (1616–1687).[5]
Lothropp did not stay in Boston long. Within days, he and his group relocated to Scituate where they "joined in covenaunt together" along with nine others who preceded them to form the "church of Christ collected att Scituate."[6] The Congregation at Scituate was not a success. Dissent on the issue of baptism as well as other unspecified grievances and the lack of good grazing land and fodder for their cattle caused the church in Scituate to split in 1638.
Lothropp petitioned Governor Thomas Prence in Plymouth for a "place for the transplanting of us, to the end that God might have more glory and wee more comfort."[7] Thus as Otis says "Mr. Lothropp and a large company arrived in Barnstable, 11 October 1639 O.S., bringing with them the crops which they had raised in Scituate."[7] There, within three years they had built homes for all the families and then Lothropp began construction on a larger, sturdier meeting house adjacent to Coggin's (or Cooper's) Pond, which was completed in 1644. This building, now part of the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts is one of John Lothrop's original homes and meeting houses, and is now also the oldest building housing a public library in the USA.
Genealogy
Children
Lothropp married Hannah House/Howse in England, on 10 October 1610. They had eight children:[5]
Thomas Lothropp, baptised 21 February 1612/3 in Eastwell, Kent, England, by his grandfather Rev. John Howse, parson there. Record from Bishop's Transcript records at Canterbury.
Jane Lothropp, baptised 29 September 1614 in Egerton, Kent, England; married Mayflower passenger Samuel Fuller (1608–1683), son of Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller (1575-1621).
Anne Lothropp, baptised 12 May 1616 in Egerton, England; buried in Egerton 30 April 1617.
John Lothropp, baptised 22 February 1617/8 in Egerton, England
Barbara Lothropp, baptised 31 October 1619 in Egerton, England
Samuel Lothropp, born about 1621 in Egerton, England
Captain Joseph Lothropp, baptised 11 April 1624 in Eastwell, Kent, England
Benjamin Lothropp, born December 1626 in Eastwell, Kent, England
After Hannah's death, Lothropp married again, to Ann (surname unknown) in 1635. They had five children:[5]
Barnabas Lothropp, baptised 6 June 1636 in Scituate, Massachusetts
Unnamed daughter, buried 30 July 1638.
Abigail Lothropp, baptised 2 November 1639 in Barnstable, Massachusetts
Bathsheba Lothropp, baptised 27 February 1641/42 in Barnstable, MA
Elizabeth Lothropp, born about 1643
Captain John Lothropp, baptised 18 May 1645 in Barnstable, MA
Unnamed son, buried 25 January 1649/50 in Barnstable. Died immediately after birth.
Descendants
Lothropp's direct descendants in America and elsewhere number more than 80,000,[citation needed] including:
Rev. John Lathrop (1740-1816), great-great-grandson; congregationalist Boston minister
Rev. R.A. Torrey
Rev. Robert P. Shuler
Presidents of the United States:
Ulysses S. Grant
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
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]
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Galusha A. Grow, father of the Homestead Act
Historical, Asahel Lathrop Mormon Pioneer[11]
Artists Louis 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, Jordana Brewster and Maggie Gyllenhaal and her brother actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
Actors Clint Eastwood and Kevin Bacon
Singer Nick Carter of The Backstreet Boys and his younger brother Aaron Carter[citation needed]
Family tree
Family tree
Hannah House John Lothropp Ann (surname unknown)
Thomas Jane Anne John
Barbara Samuel Joseph Benjamin
Elizabeth Barnabas Abigail Bathsheba {{{John}}}
See also
icon Christianity portal
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Congregationalism
Plymouth Colony
Lowthorp for a discussion of the origins and spelling variations of the name Lo-/Lathrop.
Bibliography
Huntington, Rev E. B., A.M. "A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this country embracing as far as known the descendants of The Rev. John Lothropp of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass., and Mark Lothrop of Salem and Bridgewater, Mass. the first generation of descendants of other names." ; Ridgefield Ct. 1884.
Price, Richard. John Lothropp: "A Puritan Biography And Genealogy". Salt Lake City, Utah, 1984.
Otis, Amos. "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families". 1888.
Holt, Helene Exiled : the story of John Lathrop, 1584–1653, a biographical novel 1987
Notes
"Loothrop, John (LTRP606J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
McBeth, Leon (1987). The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness. Broadman. pp. 42–43. ISBN 0-8054-6569-3.
A plaque in the Lothrop Hill Cemetery in Barnstable, Massachusetts, the town which John Lothropp settled and where he died, states he was incarcerated in Newgate Prison during the years 1632-1634. The National Archives at London which would hold the records for Newgate Prison indicate they have nothing earlier than 1770. The lack of documentation is attributable to the Great London Fire (1666), the Gordon Riots (1780), and the fact that upon the abolition of the Star Chamber in 1641, the court proceedings of the reign of Charles I deteriorated and failed to survive. A report to the Lords in 1719 noted that those documents were "in a very great heap, undigested, and without any covering from dust or security from rats and mice. "As for records of the Clink, the National Archives indicates they would be held at the London Metropolitan Archives, but those records start from 1690. The National Archives states that records from these earlier times are also not complete due to the fact that they were not created or kept for research purposes, but for use by the government or law courts of the day.
The State Papers in the new Record Office, Fetter Lane, London, preserved some of the Star Chamber records of John Lothropp's imprisoned days. The last record probably was the order of the court which opened the way for his escape to America. However, according to the National Archives, this office has not been in use since the 1860s and State Papers are now held at the National Archives.
Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. John Lothrop pages 345 - 351
Huntington, 1884 p27
Otis, 1888 p198
KEITH W. PERKINS (21 March 2014). "Rev. John Lathrop". familysearch.org. Family Search. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
The Progenitors and Descendants of James P. Edwards Baptist Missionary and Western Pioneer by Harry K. Windland, copyright 1996
Hollick, Martin E. (2008). "Notable Kin: The New England Ancestry of Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th President". NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stafford 1719–1850, Tolland 1715–1850
External links
Lothropp Foundation
Barnstable county history page
John Lothrop in Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635.
Sturgis Library History
History of the Jacob Lathrop Jessy Church
Notable Descendants of Rev. John Lathrop/Lothropp, Founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts
Immigrant Ancestor Rev. John Lathrop
Lathrop Genealogy Lathrop history and resources for genealogical research.
Findagrave.com
https://nwculaw.edu/john-lothrop-biography
John Lothrop Biography
Reverend John Lothrop's Home, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1644"Where liberty is, there is my country."
These famous words spoken by Benjamin Franklin during the first years of independence of the United States of America reflect the founding principle upon which our country was established. Liberty is a right bestowed on every American, but not a right enjoyed by people everywhere in the world. Nor was liberty common in the centuries that led up to American independence. Freedoms of speech, of assembly, and of religion were denied to virtually all people before the 18th century, but a handful of English men and women known as Puritans followed the pathway of their consciences in the pursuit of these liberties. Their struggles and sacrifices made possible the guarantee of liberty in America.
Reverend John Lothrop lived during the dismal days of 17th century England, a time of severe religious persecution. During this time, it was a crime in England to worship outside of the established church, the Church of England (or Anglican Church), and non-conforming ministers could be subjected to cruel punishment, public humiliation, imprisonment, and torture.
Lothrop was born into a privileged English family and was educated at Oxford and then Cambridge University where he was likely exposed to the teachings of John Wycliffe, the English theologian and reformer who espoused the notion that "to restrain men to a prescribed form of prayer is contrary to the liberty which is granted to them by God." Upon his graduation, Lothrop was ordained a deacon in the Church of England and became curate of the Egerton Church in Kent. He held this position for eleven years during which time he married Hannah House, saw some of his children born, and lived an ostensibly peaceful existence. But during that time his views began to shift toward Protestant or "Puritan" beliefs and he found himself at odds with the King on the topic of religious freedom.
Lothrop's increasing misgivings about the Church of England, its rituals and its authoritarian character, led him to give up his post at the Egerton Church and in 1623 to become the minister of the First Independent Church of London, a church whose religion was not the same as the King's and thus was illegal. The congregation met in secret locations and private homes in order to escape the notice of English politicians who were authorized by King Charles I to persecute the Puritans. William Laud, Bishop of London and later Archbishop of Canterbury, is infamous for his cruelty and severity during this time. His deputies were ordered to arrest any gathering of more than five people worshipping outside the Church of England. On April 22, 1632, Reverend Lothrop and 42 of his followers were seized by deputies and were imprisoned in Newgate Prison. Some of them, including Reverend Lothrop, were transferred to "The Clink," a place of filth and wretchedness whose name has come down through time as a pseudonym for any prison.
Laud sought to make an example of Lothrop and his followers by prosecuting the trial against them himself in England's Court of Star Chamber. The trial centered on the court's demand that they swear an oath of loyalty to the Church of England. Lothrop refused. Within two years, all of Lothrop's followers were released from prison, but Lothrop himself was considered too great a threat to be released and remained in "The Clink." Lothrop's family suffered greatly during his imprisonment. His wife, Hannah House, became ill and died while Lothrop was in prison. Friends made a plea to the court to release Lothrop so that he might care for his seven children, and on April 23, 1634 he was released upon the condition that he remove himself, his family and his followers to the New World.
On August 1, 1634, Lothrop and his children, along with thirty followers, set sail for New England on board "the Griffin." They arrived in Boston on September 18, 1634. The group settled in Scituate, Massachusetts where they established homes, farms, and a new church. Lothrop married his second wife, a woman named Anna, with whom he eventually had five more children, in 1635. The years in Scituate were not without struggle, however. Disagreements with the existing population over matters involving religious right and doctrine, as well as the short supply of cultivable land led Lothrop and his followers to leave Scituate in 1639 and found a new town in what is now Barnstable, Massachusetts. The years that followed were peaceful and prosperous, and he is described in Governor John Winthrop's journal as "rejoicing in having found for himself and his followers 'a church without a Bishop... and a state without a King'." Reverend John Lothrop had endured great hardship during his life but in the years before his death in 1653 he attained what he most desired - liberty.
John Lothrop's influence in America is still felt today. His direct contribution to the establishment of religious freedom and liberty for all Americans is significant, but perhaps equally as great are the contributions made by his direct descendants to law, government, religion, culture, technological innovation, and education in America. His many descendants include presidents (Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George Bush Sr. and Jr.); jurists (U.S. Supreme Court Justices Melville Weston Fuller and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.); governors (George W. Romney, Mitt Romney, and Thomas Dewey); legislators (Adlai Stevenson); religious leaders (Mormon prophet Joseph Smith); writers and poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Nathaniel Hawthorne), artists (Georgia O'Keeffe and Louis Comfort Tiffany), innovators (Eli Whitney), and educators (Dr. Benjamin Spock and, notably, Michael P. Clancey, the Founder and Dean of Northwestern California University, who is descended from Lothrop's oldest daughter, Jane). |
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