!Marriage(1)-Children: Mayf.Des.6:238 (Barnstable VR:427). However, in
Shurtleff 8:22, Records of the Town of Plymouth, the following is recorded:
"Mr Barnabas Laythorpe was married to Susanna Clarke, the 3d of November,
1658"
[His second son named John is not listed]
He was the Judge of probate at Barnstable in 1693.
Among others, his will lists grandson Joseph Lewis, son of Ebenezer Lewis
[B.L.Williams p.26]
on 1 DEC 1658 at Barnstable,Barnstable Co.,Massachusetts
Children:
John Lothrop ( 7 OCT 1659-bur. APR 1660)
Abigail Lothrop (18 DEC 1660-)
Barnabas Lothrop (22 MAR 1663-) m. Elizabeth Hedge on 14 NOV 1687 at Barnstable,Barnstable Co.,Massachusetts, children: 1. Mercy Lothrop ( 1 MAR 1689-), 2. Elizabeth Lothrop (15 SEP 1690-), 3. Barnabas Lothrop (10 NOV 1692-ABT 6 APR 1693), 4. Nathaniel Lothrop ( FEB 1694-), 5. Lemuel Lothrop (26 DEC 1695-), 6. Barnabas Lothrop ( 8 FEB 1698-), 7. Susannah Lothrop ( 8 OCT 1699-), 8. Thankful Lothrop (24 SEP 1701-), 9. Sarah Lothrop (22 APR 1703-), 10. Mary Lothrop (15 JUL 1705-), 11. Kembel Lothrop (21 JUL 1708-).
Susanna Lothrop (28 FEB 1664-)
Nathaniel Lothrop (23 NOV 1669-) m. Bethia [---] , children: 1. John Lothrop (28 OCT 1696-).
Bathsheba Lothrop (25 JUN 1671-AFT 13 DEC 1742) m(1). Samuel Smith (26 MAY 1668-22 SEP 1692) on 26 MAY 1690 at Eastham,Barnstable Co.,Massachusetts, children: 1. Samuel Smith (13 FEB 1691-18 JUL 1768), 2. Joseph Smith ( 9 OCT 1692-BEF 10 JUN 1779).m(2). Samuel Freeman (-AFT 13 DEC 1742) on ABT 1693
Anna Lothrop (10 AUG 1673-26 DEC 1715) m. Ebenezer Lewes (20 DEC 1666-AFT 19 JUL 1757) on APR 1691 at Barnstable,Barnstable Co.,Massachusetts, children: 1. Sarah Lewes (13 JAN 1692-), 2. Susannah Lewes (17 APR 1694-), 3. James Lewes ( 4 AUG 1696-), 4. Ebenezer Lewes ( 9 MAY 1699-), 5. Hannah Lewes (14 FEB 1701-), 6. Lothrop Lewes (13 JUN 1702-), 7. George Lewes ( 5 APR 1704-AFT 19 JUL 1757), 8. Nathaniel Lewes (12 JAN 1708-), 9. John Lewes (15 JUL 1709-19 SEP 1756), 10. David Lewes ( 8 NOV 1711-), 11. Abigail Lewes ( 8 NOV 1711-), 12. Joseph Lewes.
Thomas Lothrop ( 7 MAR 1675-13 OCT 1675)
Mercy Lothrop (27 JUN 1676- 3 JUL 1677)
John Lothrop (-23 OCT 1695) m. , children: 1. Elizabeth Lothrop ( 3 SEP 1693- 9 NOV 1694), 2. Barnabas Lothrop (23 NOV 1694-).
Father:Robert Lowthorpe Mother:Ellen Aston Birth: of,Cherry Burton,East Riding,Yorkshire
Death: BEF 6 MAY 1629 Dengie,Essex Co.,England
Notes:
Records in NEHGR 84:438 establish him as the father of the father of Rev. John
Lothrop.
His will identifies son-in-law John Gallant, son-in-law William Akett, and his
son William.
John Lothrop (20 DEC 1584- 8 NOV 1653) m(1). Hannah House ( 1590-16 FEB 1634) on 10 OCT 1610 at ,England, children: 1. Thomas Lothrop (ABT 1621- 1707), 2. Benjamin Lothrop, 3. Ann Lothrop (-bur. 30 APR 1617), 4. Jane Lothrop, 5. Barbara Lothrop, 6. Samuel Lothrop (ABT 1622-28 FEB 1700), 7. Joseph Lothrop (ABT 1624-AFT 19 JAN 1686).m(2). Ann Hammond (-25 FEB 1688) on 17 FEB 1637, children: 1. Barnabas Lothrop ( 1636-26 OCT 1715), 2. Abigail Lothrop ( 1639-AFT 10 MAR 1704), 3. Bathsheba Lothrop ( 1642- 8 JAN 1732), 4. John Lothrop ( 1645- SEP 1727), 5. Elizabeth Lothrop.
Thomas Lothrop (-BEF 6 MAY 1629) m. Elizabeth [---] (-AFT 20 OCT 1628) , children: 1. Ann Lothrop (AFT 23 OCT 1607-AFT 23 OCT 1628), 2. Jane Lothrop (AFT 23 OCT 1607-AFT 23 OCT 1628), 3. Elizabeth Lothrop (AFT 23 OCT 1607-AFT 23 OCT 1628), 4. Mary Lothrop (AFT 23 OCT 1607-AFT 23 OCT 1628).
Mary Lothrop (-AFT 23 OCT 1628) m. John Gallant (-AFT 23 OCT 1628) on BEF 23 OCT 1628
From Lay Subsidies records for co. York, printed in NEHGR 84:437:
Henry VIII [1543-45]. Burton.
Robert Lowthorppe at Isabella Lowthorpe's, in manibus John Milsoin, in
goods, [valuation] L4, [tax] 4d.
Elisabeth [1596-97]. North Burton.
Robert Lowthorpe in goods, [valuation] L3, [tax] 8s.
Thomas Lothrop (-BEF 6 MAY 1629) m. Mary Salte ( 1550-16 JAN 1588) on 2 SEP 1575 at Elton Hill,Yorkshire,England, children: 1. John Lothrop (20 DEC 1584- 8 NOV 1653), 2. Thomas Lothrop (-BEF 6 MAY 1629), 3. Mary Lothrop (-AFT 23 OCT 1628), 4. William Lothrop (-AFT 23 OCT 1628), 5. Lothrop.
!Marriage Date: From Plymouth Vitals, pg. 128. Reprinted in Mayflower
Descendant, Vol. XIII, pg. 204.
Listed as a church member 10 Mar 1703: "Rebecca Churchell, the wife of John
Churchell" [Plymouth Church Records, Pub.Col.Soc.Mass 22:193]
!Death: Plymouth Church Records, in Publications of the Colonial Society of
Massachusetts, Vol.22, pg. 209, for 1709: "...Rebecca Churchell ye Wife of John
Churchl Aprill 6th in ye [---] year of her Age. all three Eminent pious usefull
Women"
Rebecca Churchill (29 AUG 1689- 3 FEB 1758) m. George Morton (-BEF 3 FEB 1758)
John Churchill (20 DEC 1691-) m. Bethiah Spooner , children: 1. Ebenezer Churchill ( 6 NOV 1721-BEF 6 JUN 1781).
Sarah Churchill (10 FEB 1695-) m. Jonathan Smith
Hannah Churchill (27 APR 1697-AFT 26 MAR 1732) m. Samuel Bartlett (ABT 1691- 9 MAR 1750) on 19 AUG 1725 at Plymouth,Massachusetts, children: 1. Samuel Bartlett (10 JUN 1726- 7 APR 1780), 2. William Bartlett (14 FEB 1728-19 APR 1807), 3. John Bartlett ( 6 SEP 1729-), 4. Hannah Bartlett, 5. Judah Bartlett (29 JUN 1732-19 JAN 1783).
Father:Anthony Morton Birth: 1585 Austerfield,Yorkshire,England
Death: JUN 1624 Plymouth,Massachusetts
Notes:
George Morton was a member of the Leyden congregation under Robinson, probably
because it was the available English church at that place. Like many of the
other members he was a merchant or small trader from York, England.
Before that, he was said to be a merchant of Harworth, Notts., and to have
come from Austerfield, Yorks.
He came to Plymouth in the Little James in 1623 along with Mrs. Juliana
(Carpenter) Morton. He was a merchant of Harworth, Notts County, England.
A Thomas Morton Jr. came over in the Ann the same year, and his father, Thomas
Morton, came over in the Fortune in 1621.
He was granted 8 acres jointly with Experience Mitchell "against the swampe &
reed-ponde" in Plymouth in 1623. [Shurtleff 12:6]
The following is from "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial"
by William Richard Cutter, Vol. 3, page 1586-7:
George Morton is presumed to be the editor of the valuable book usually
called "Mort's Relation." (See Dr. Young, Chronicals of Pilgrims, p. 113, and
Dr. Felt's Annals of Salem, and Cutter's New England Families). This book is
made of contributions from Robert Cushman, John Robinson, William Bradford, and
Edward Winslow, covering much the same ground as by Governor Bradford's work.
It was published by John Bellamie in London in 1622. George Morton wrote the
introduction only, and signed his name G. Mourt. His son Nathaniel, in his
"New England Memorial" (Cambridge, Mass., 1669, page 48), says of his father:
"Mr. George Morton was a pious, gracious servant of God and very faithful in
whatsoever public employment he was betrusted withal, and an unfeigned
well-willer and according to his spehere and condition a suitable promoter of
common good and growth of the plantation of New Plimouth, laboring to still the
discontents that sometimes would arise among some spirits, by occasion of the
difficulties of these new beginnings; but it pleased God to put a period to his
days soon after arrival in New England, not surviving a full year after his
coming ashore. With much comfort and peace he fell asleep in the Lord in the
month of June, Anno 1624."
The "New England Memorial" contains some of the matter published in "Mourt's
Relation." Mr. Morton appears to have been an agent of the Leyden colony in
London at the time the book was published. As to his ancestry there is
reason to believe that he was the George Morton of the family of Anthony
Morton of Bawtry.
!Marriage: Mayf.Des.11:193 (Marriage Certificate).
!Birth-Baptism-Marriage-Death-Bio: "New England Families, Genealogical and
Memorial" by William Richard Cutter; Lewis Historical Publishing Co.; New York;
1914, pages 1586-7.
His birthdate is given in NEHGR 114:117 as 1585. There it says he was a
merchant of a well-to-do Roman Catholic family of Harworth, near Scrooby,
England who organized the Ann and Little James company and died impoverished
not long after landing.
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The following is from Dictionary of American Biography VII:254:
MORTON, GEORGE (1585-June 1624). Pilgrim father, was probably the son and heir
of Anthony Morton, a wealthy Catholic gentleman living near Bawtry or Harworth,
not far from the little village of Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, England. When
still very young, he was converted by William Brewster to Puritanism. He was a
member of the Scrooby congregation before their emigration and either went to
Holland with them or followed them after a residence at York. He is one of the
three emigrants to America who can be traced to the Scrooby district, the
others being Brewster and William Bradford. On July 23, 1612, he was married
at Leyden to Juliana Carpenter. Morton was possessed of considerable means,
was entered in his marriage record [MD 11:193] as a merchant from York, was
apparently one of the financial mainstays of the Pilgrims at Leyden, and was
certainly closely associated with the leaders. He was one of those who went to
London in 1619 to negotiate with the merchants, living probably at Aldgate,
where his brother-in-law, Edward Southworth, was already established. Here he
changed his name to Mourt, perhaps to escape the displeasure of his Catholic
relatives.
While Robert Cushman was absent in America, Morton was probably chief Pilgrim
agent in London. He received the writings sent in the Fortune from Plymouth in
1622, and published them under the title: "A Relation or Journall of the
beginning and proceedings of the English Plantation setled at Plimoth in New
England...London, Printed for John Bellamie" (1622), which is still the only
contemporary account of the voyage of the Mayflower and the first months of the
colony. Tradition has assigned to him the authorship, and it has always been
known as "Mourt's Relation". It has been conjectured that Bradford and Winslow
were the authors and Morton merely the publisher, but since the narrative
Bradford wrote and sent back on the Fortune was retained by the captain of teh
French privateer which captured the Fortune on its return voyage (Calendar of
State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, 1860, p. 124), it is possible that
Morton wrote a narrative from information brought back by those returning on
the Mayflower and teh Fortune and published it together with material by
Winslow and others not retained by the French captain. The authorship of the
book cannot now be definitively established.
Morton was one of the organizers of the voyage of the Anne and the Little James
in 1623 and came himself with his wife and four children, and his wife's
sister, Alice Southworth, a widow, who married Governor Bradford the following
year. He was assigned an excellent piece of land in 1624, but died in June of
that year. His property having by this time been spent in the Pilgrim service,
Bradford assumed care of his wife and children. Morton's descendants have been
numerous and influential. His eldest son, Nathaniel, was secretary of the
colony for many years.
Nathaniel Morton ( 1613-28 JUN 1685) m. Lydia Cooper (-23 SEP 1673) on ABT 1645, children: 1. Eleazer Morton (-16 JAN 1650), 2. Elizabeth Morton ( 1652- 6 APR 1673), 3. Joanna Morton ( 9 NOV 1654-), 4. Nathaniel Morton (-17 FEB 1667).
Patience Morton ( 1615- 1691) m(1). John Faunce ( 1602/1610-29 NOV 1654) on ABT 1633 at Plymouth,Massachusetts, children: 1. Priscilla Faunce ( 1634-15 MAY 1707), 2. Mary Faunce (ABT 1630/1639- 4 OCT 1664), 3. Patience Faunce (ABT 1640-), 4. Sarah Faunce ( 1645-27 JUN 1695), 5. Thomas Faunce ( 1647-27 FEB 1746), 6. Elizabeth Faunce (23 MAR 1648- 3 MAR 1650), 7. Mercy Faunce (10 APR 1651-11 FEB 1732), 8. Joseph Faunce (14 MAY 1653-18 JAN 1728), 9. John Faunce (29 NOV 1654-).m(2). Thomas Whitney (-ABT MAR 1674) on AFT 1 FEB 1661 at probably,Plymouth,Massachusetts
John Morton ( 1616-) m. Lettice [---] (ABT 1623-22 FEB 1691) , children: 1. John Morton (11 DEC 1649-20 DEC 1649), 2. John Morton (21 DEC 1650-AFT 29 JUL 1724), 3. Mannasses Morton ( 7 JUN 1653-), 4. Ephraim Morton ( 7 JUN 1653-), 5. Mary Morton.
Sarah Morton ( 1618- 1694) m. George Bonham ( 1609/1610-28 APR 1704) , children: 1. Patience Bonham (ABT 1647-AFT 24 JUL 1724).
Ephraim Morton ( 1623- 7 OCT 1693) m(1). Ann Cooper (ABT 1627- 5 SEP 1691) on 1644, children: 1. George Morton (ABT 1645- 2 AUG 1727), 2. Ephraim Morton (27 JAN 1648-18 FEB 1732), 3. Rebecca Morton (15 MAR 1651-), 4. Josiah Morton ( 1653-), 5. Nathaniel Morton, 6. Eleazer Morton, 7. Thomas Morton ( 1667-), 8. Patience Morton.m(2). Mary Shelly (-AFT 30 JAN 1694) on 18 OCT 1692 at Plymouth,Massachusetts
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