Family:Samuel Lathrop and Elizabeth Scudder (5)

Facts and Events
Marriage[1][2] 28 Nov 1644 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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Samuel and Elizabeth’s descendants include two presidents--Grant and FDR; Benedict Arnold and the wives of two other noted Revolutionary figures --"signer" Samuel Huntington and General Israel Putnam; various modern political figures --Thomas Edmund Dewey, the Dulleses, the last two Adlai Ewing Stevensons (via Bordens), and the wife of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, "Teddy" Roosevelt’s cabinet minister and Napoleon’s great-nephew; and various "tycoon" families -- the Scribners, publishers, of New York, the Marshall Fields and the chewing-gum Wrigleys of Chicago, the King-Klebergs of the King Ranch in Texas, Charles William Post of Post Toasties, and the wives of Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago and Leland Stanford of California. Boston "Brahmins" among Samuel’s and Elizabeth’s descendants include the two Oliver Wendell Holmeses and John Lothrop Motley, whose daughter married British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William G.V. Harcourt. Access requires NEHGS membership.

References
  1. John Lothrop, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    4:348.

    "Samuel Lothrop, b. say 1621; m. (1) Barnstable 28 November 1644 Elizabeth Scudder [NEHGR 9:286; TAG 72:297]; …"

  2. Otis, Amos. Scituate and Barnstable Church Records. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul, 1855; Jan, Oct 1856)
    9:286.

    "My sonn Samuell, and Elizabeth Scudder marryed att my house by Mr. Freeman, Novemb. 28, 1644."