Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OE BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 185
Lothrop's family were not imprisoned. He was the leader, the man
against whom the bishops had the strongest enmity, and if they
allowed his family to go free, it is not probable that the families
of other members were incarcerated. As a question of policy it
was inexpedient ; it would have been in violation even of the
spirit of the arbitrary orders in council, and even of the customs
prevalent in those intolerant times. This point, I think, may be
set down as certain, that on the 29th day of April, 1632, Mr.
Lothrop's church and congregation consisted of at least sixty
male adult members.
Of the eighteen that escaped from thepursuevantsof the Bishop,
it is probable that they all came to New England. It is certain that
most of them did. Some came to Plymouth, some to Salem, and
others settled in Boston and the adjacent towns. As no list of their
names has been preserved, we cannot trace them with certainty, yet
we are in possession of records from which safe inferences may be
drawn.
Mr. Lothrop arrived in Boston Sept. 18, 1634, O. S., and soon
after be and most, if not all those who came over with him went to
Scituate, wliere there was a small settlement of his old friends, who
welcomed him and invited him to become their pastor. No permanent
settlement appears to have been made in Scituate before 1633 or 4.
There is a deed on record by which it appears that lands had been
enclosed there as early as 1628. Mr. Lothrop furnishes a list of the
houses, and gives the dates when built. This is an authentic and
reliable document. He says that when he came to Scituate "about
the end of Sept. 1634," only nine houses had been erected, "all
small plaine pallizadoe Houses."* Below I give the list. The
dates immediately following each name is the date of admission to
the Scituate Church.
In the preceding genealogy it is stated on the authority of his
deposition, dated April 4, 1701, that Thomas Lothrop was born in
1621. In that paper he states that he is "about 80 years of age,"
and that he is a son of Mr. Lothrop. The latter in his will calls
Thomas his "eldest son," and from the general expression in the
will I inferred that he was his first born, and that 1621 was the true
date of birth. From these I inferred that Mr. Lothrop was married
in 1620, and settled in the ministry at Edgerton in Kent, as early as
1619.
That deposition is seemingly good authority, though it involves
some conclusions hard to be believed, one of which I have named in
this and former papers, namely, that on the 11th of Dec. 1639,
Thomas Lothrop, a boy of eighteen summers, married Sarah Ewer,
*The pailisade house was not the building known as a log houBe. Two parallel rows of
holes, about four inches apart, were bored into the sills, and corresponding ones into the
plates of ihe building. Into these small poles were inserted, and the space between filled
with stones and clay. It thus appears that no framed houses had then been put up.