Ninth Generation

276. Captain John LOTHROP Sr., Esq. (*)^{265,310,903,904} was born on 3 October 1699 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^265,519 (Some sources indicate that he changed his surname from "Lathrop" to "Lothrop." The gravestone of his son, David, however, lists his surname as "Lathrop.") He was christened on 30 October 1699 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. (His christening date is shown as 1697; that cannot be correct as birth date was 1699.) He died on 17 October 1752 at the age of 53 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^265,519,903 Life Sketch: "John was a Deacon of the Tolland Cong. church. Between 1736 and the time of his death, he is mentioned in numerous probate records of Hartford County concerning Tolland residents, either as an executor of a will, witness to a will, one of the estate appraisers, or as one of the distributors of an estate to the heirs, all by the name of John Lothrop. From the October 1748 to May 1752 sessions of the Conn. Assembly, he with Zebulon West was a deputy for the town of Tolland, all under the name of Mr. John Lothrop. In May 1751 and again in May 1752, by the name of John Lothrop, he was confirmed by the Conn. Assembly as a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County, in which Tolland was then located.

On May 31, 1722 at Yarmouth, Mass., John Lothrop m. Ann Thacher, dau. of Col. John Thacher, Esq. and Lydia Gorham, b. at Yarmouth June 7, 1697.

The extant table-top gravestone of John Lothrop calls his surname as Lathrop, when it actually was Lothrop. Wife Ann's almost pristine gravestone four years after her husband, which calls her the widow Lothrop, raises the obvious question regarding her married family name. John Lothrop's recorded birth, marriage, the recorded birth of all his children, his multiple appearances in the Conn. Public Records, and his own will is uniformly by the surname of Lothrop.

John Lothrop's distant cousin, Dr. Daniel Lothrop (1712-1783) of Norwich, Conn., descended from Samuel Lothrop (1623-1700), the second surviving son of John Lothrop's famous grandfather, Rev. John Lothrop (1584-1654) last of Barnstable, Mass. John Lothrop of this memorial descends from Rev. John Lothrop's third surviving son Joseph (1624-1702).

Samuel left the family in Barnstable, Mass. early in life for Connecticut, eventually founding the numerous Lothrop family of Norwich, Conn. Between the beginning of the 18th century and the Rev. War all of Samuel Lothrop's descendant Norwich, Conn. family were surnamed Lothrop in vital records, church baptism records, land deeds, probate records, etc.

Abruptly during the period of the Rev. War, Samuel Lothrop's great grandson, Dr. Daniel Lothrop, became convinced the family surname was really Lathrop, not Lothrop, and caused the entire Norwich Lothrop family to change to the surname of Lathrop. However, the descendant family of Samuel's brother Joseph Lothrop remained in greater Barnstable until after the beginning of the 18th century when they began relocating to towns in present Tolland County, Conn. However, Joseph's descendants did not adopt the spelling of Lathrop before or after their relocation from greater Barnstable to Conn.

Unfortunately, this Lothrop vs. Lathrop surname problem was exacerbated by Barber in his Connecticut Town Vital Records by alphabetized all Lothrop surnamed families under the surname of Lathrop, thus misleading family genealogists to erroneously change all Lothrop surnamed families to the surname of Lathrop.

Obviously then, the John Lothrop of this memorial died 25 years or so before Daniel Lothrop of Norwich began convincing the Norwich Lothrop family to change their surname to Lathrop clearly indicating the table-top gravestone of the John Lothrop of this memorial was erected long after he died and after the Rev. War." John was buried in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^265,519 in the South Yard Cemetery. He has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-PM. Ann "Anney" THACHER (*) (~) and Captain John LOTHROP Sr., Esq. (*) were married on 31 May 1722 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^519,903

277. Ann "Anney" THACHER (*) (~)^310,904 was born on 7 May 1697 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁵¹⁹ (Her surname is also shown in some sources as "Thatcher.") She was christened on 27 June 1697 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 12 March 1756 at the age of 58 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^519,906 Ann was buried in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^519,520,906 in the South Yard Cemetery. She has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-QS.

Children were:

	i.	David LOTHROP^310,904 was born on 18 October 1723 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.²⁶⁵ (His surname is spelled "Lathrop" on his gravestone.) He died on 2 October 1787 at the age of 63 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.²⁶⁵ He has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-R0. David was buried in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^520,952 in the East Cemetery.
	ii.	Hannah LOTHROP^310,904 was born on 5 July 1725 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 23 August 1805 at the age of 80 in Willington Township, Tolland County, CT. She has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-S5.
138	iii.	*Jonathan LOTHROP () (~).**
	iv.	Anne LOTHROP^265,310,904 was born on 10 March 1730 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-VH.
	v.	John LOTHROP Jr.^265,310,904 was born on 6 May 1732 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. Surname also shown as Lothrop. He died on 24 March 1812 at the age of 79. He has Ancestral File Number 4W3R-7N.
	vi.	Sergeant Thacher LOTHROP^310,904 was born on 20 January 1733 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.²⁶⁵ He died on 30 December 1806 at the age of 73 in Windsor, Hartford County, CT.²⁶⁵ He has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-WN.
	vii.	Lydia LOTHROP^310,904 was born on 21 June 1736 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.²⁶⁵ She died in 1801 at the age of 65 in Tolland, Tolland County, CT.⁹⁵³ She has Ancestral File Number BR4R-GW.
	viii.	Elizabeth LOTHROP^310,904 was born on 22 April 1740 in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.²⁶⁵ She died on 25 May 1823 at the age of 83 in Tolland, Tolland County, CT.²⁶⁵ She has Ancestral File Number 8L9V-GF.