"Rev. Robert Lenthall was invited to become minister of the First Parish of Weymouth before 13 Mar. 1638. 'Though of good report in England,' Mr. Lenthall was not settled there. He removed to Newport, R. I., and was admitted a freeman of the Rhode Island Colony, 6 Aug. 1640. By vote he was 'called to keep a public school for the learning of youth' at Newport, 20 Aug. 1640. He returned to England in 1642. It seems that 'a disputation' was held at Dorchester at Captain Stoughton's between Mr. Lenthall and the rest of the Elders of the Bay about some tenets that Mr. Lenthall held, on 11 Dec. 1638. He said, 'I was for witnessing to the Truth, unjustly cast out of my place, to wch I was called by the people, with whom we sweetly agreed.' At a General Court of Election held at Newport 16 and 17 Mar. 1642, Mr. Lenthall is referred to as 'being gone for England." He was in charge of the parish of Barnes, county of Surrey, from 1649 to 1658. His wife Cicerley was buried at Barnes, 15 July, 1650. He made his will at Barnes, 10 May, 1658, and it was proved 3 Sept. 1658. In his will he styled himself 'clerke' and gave to the poor of Barnes 20s. His wife and children 'to see his bodie interred in the church yard of Barnes near to the corner wall of the west and north side'; to Richard Goldston 10s.; to Nan Blinde 5s, to poor James Bennett 5s. 'To my owne Brother Adryan Lenthall, a ring of golde to be sent him if then liveing.' To my sister Downes 20s. To my sister Kitely 20s. To my sister Male a golde ring. To my sister Hawes a ring if then living. To my sister Laughton if liveing a ring of 10s. to be sent over to her. To my sister Pickering a gold ring to be sent to her. To Andrew Kitely a new suit of cloathes and 40s. to put him out to some trade. To my loveing wife Margarett Lenthall threescore and five pounds which is a part of £100 I promised to leave her. Also £20 being parte of what Thomas Signall oweth me. Of the £100 there is £10 to be excepted upon a debt paid to Mr. Barrat for my wife. For my two daughters Marrian and Nan £20 each and £10 to my daughter Nan because of the infirmitie in her sight. My wife and two daughters Marrian and Nan to be joint executrices. Mr. Thomas Eayres of Kensington, gent., and Thomas Signall of Barnes, overseers. Proved by Margaret, relict, and Marrian and Anne Lenthall, daughters. (Prerogative Court of Canterbury-Wootton, folio 540.)
Thomas Laughton of Lynn, planter, by virtue of a commission given me from my brother-in-law Robert Lenthall, Clerke (sometime of Rhode Island), and now living in old England, sells Jeremiah Gold of Newport, yeoman, houses, buildings and 104 acres in Newport which was granted unto said Robert Lenthall by the free inhabitants of Newport. (Massachusetts Archives, 126:267.) Mr. Lenthall's sister evidently married Thomas Leighton (Laughton) who lived at Lynn from 1638 to 1697."
