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��its chaplains, in the reign of Richard II., Robert de Louthorp, is now partly ruinated, the tower and chancel being almost entirely overgrown with ivy. It was a collegiate Church from 1333, and from the style of its architecture must have been built about the time of Ed- ward III.

From this English John Lowthroppe the New England Lothrops have their origin : —

"It is one of the most ancient of all the famous New England families, whose blood in so many cases is better and purer than that of the so-called noble families in England. The family roll certainly shows a great deal of tal- ent, and includes men who have proved M idely influential and useful, both in the early and later periods. The pulpit has a strong representation. Educators are prominent. Soldiers prove that the family has never been wanting in courage. Lothrop missionaries have gone forth into foreign lands. The bankers are in the forefront. The pubUshers are represented. Art engraving has its expon- ent, and history has found at least one eminent student, while law and medicine are hkewise indebted to this family, whose talent has been applied in every department of useful industry." *

GENEALOGY.f

I. Mark Lothrop, the pioneer, the grandson of John Lowthroppe and a relative of Rev. John Lothrop, settled in Salem, Mass., where he was received as an inhabitant January 11, '643-4. He was living there in 1652. In 1656 he was living in Bridgewater, Mass., of which town he was one of the proprietors, and in which he was prominent for about twenty- five years. He died October 25, 1685.

II. Samuel Lothrop, born before 1660, mar- ried Sarah Downer, and lived in Bridgewater. His will was dated April 1 1, 1724.

III. Mark Lothrop, born in Bridgewater September 9, 1689; married March 29, 1722, Hannah Alden [Born February i, 1696; died 1777]. She was the daughter of Deacon Jo- seph Alden of Bridgewater, and great grand- daughter of Honorable John and Priscilla (MuUins) Alden of Duxbury, of Mayflower

• The Churchman.

t From a genealogical memoir of the Lo-Lathrop fam- ily, by Rev. E. B. Hunrington, 1884.

��fame. He settled in Easton, of which town he was one of the original proprietors. He was prominent in Church and town affairs.

IV. Jonathan Lothrop, born March 11, 1722-3; married April 13, 1746, Susannah, daughter of Solomon and Susannah (Edson) Johnson of Bridgewater. She was born in 1723. He was a Deacon of the Church, and a prominent man in the town. He died in 1771.

V. Solomon Lothrop, born February 9, 1 761; married Mehitable, daughter of Cornel- ius White of Taunton; settled in Easton, and later in Norton, where he died October 19, 1843. She died September 14, 1832, aged 73.

VI. Daniel Lothrop, born in Easton, Janu- ary 9, 1801; married October 16, 1825, Sophia, daughter of Deacon Jeremiah Home of Roch- ester, N. H. She died September 23, 1848, and he married (2) Mary E. Chamberlain. He settled in Rochester, N. H., and was one of the pubhc men of the town. Of the strictest integrity, and possessing sterling qualities of mind and heart Mr. Lothrop was chosen to fill important offices of public trust in his town and state. He repeatedly represented his town in the Legislature, where his sound practical sense and clear wisdom were of much service, par- ticularly in the formation of the Free Soil party, in which he was a bold defender of the rights of liberty to all men. He died May 31, 1870.

VII. Daniel Lothrop, son of Daniel and Sophia (Home) Lothrop, was born in Roches- ter, N. H., August II, 1831.

" On the maternal side Mr. Lothrop is de- scended from William Home, of Home's Hill, in Dover, who held his exposed position in the Indian wars, and whose estate has been in the family name from 1662 until the present gen- eration; but he was killed in the massacre of June 28, 1689. Through the Home line, also, came descent from Rev. Joseph Hull, minister at Durham in 1662, a graduate at the Univer- sity at Cambridge, England; from John Ham, of Dover; from the emigrant John Heard, and others of like vigorous stock. It was his an- cestress, Elizabeth (Hull) Heard, whom the old historians call a " brave gendewoman," who held her garrison house, the frontier fort in Dover in the Indian wars, and successfully defended it in the massacre of 1689. The father of the subject of this sketch was a man of sterUng qualities, strong in mind and will, but com- manding love as well as respect. The mother was a woman of outward beauty and beauty

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