Person:Mehitable Lathrop (2)
Mehitable Lathrop
b.2 Nov 1697 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
d.19 Jan 1731/32 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 2 Feb 1696/97
  1. Mehitable Lathrop1697 - 1731/32
  2. Samuel Lothrup1699 -
  3. Elizabeth Lothrup1700/01 -
  4. Sarah Lothrup1702 -
  5. Temperance Lothrup1703 -
  6. Solomon Lothrup1706 - 1733
  7. Ruth Lothrup1709 -
  8. Esther Lothrup1712 -
  9. Zerviah Lothrup1718 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 3 Oct 1722
  1. Thomas Stoughton1723 -
  2. Mehitable Stoughton1725 - 1744/45
  3. Zerviah Stoughton1729 -
  4. Elizabeth Stoughton1731/32 -
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Facts and Events
Name[4] Mehitable Lathrop
Gender Female
Birth[3] 2 Nov 1697 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 3 Oct 1722 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Thomas Stoughton
Death[2] 19 Jan 1731/32 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[1] South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesEdwards Cemetery
References
  1. ↑ Find A Grave: Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Conn., in Find A Grave
    Mehetabel Lathrop Stoughton.
    Here lyes the
    Body of Mrs
    MEHETABEL the
    wife of Mr THOs
    STOUGHTON
    who Died Janry
    ye 19th 1731\2 In ye
    34th Year of her Age.
  2. ↑ "Windsor Vital Records", in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    p. 266.

    Stoughton
    Mihitabel, w. Lieut. Thomas, d. Jan. 19, 1731/2 [2 271]

  3. ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    1:41.

    Joseph Lothrup and Elizabeth Waterhous ware married the 2'd Day of ffebruary Anno 1696/7
    Mehittabel Lothrup the Daughter of Joseph Lothrup & his wife Elizabeth was born the 2'd Day of Nouemb'r Anno 1697.

  4. ↑ Source:Stiles, Henry R. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1892), Vol. 2, p. 730, says Thomas Stoughton m. Mehitable Lathrop who "was the wid. of William Bushnell of Norwich", citing Source:Huntington, E. B. Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country, p. 62, where the same is indeed stated with no evidence given. It is odd that the marriage record found in Barbour (cited on the Family page) gives Mehitable's name as Lathrop and not Bushnell. It is further odd that Source:Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, p. 90, show the birth of Benjamin to "William Bushnell & Mehittabell his Wife" 16 Dec 1722, 3 months after she supposedly married Thomas Stoughton. This whole story seems implausible.

    Source:Bushnell, George Eleazer. Bushnell Family Genealogy : Ancestry and Posterity of Frances Bushnell, 1580-1646, of Horsham, England and Guilford,, p. 72, says William [#80] m. Boston 1 Jul 1714 Mehitable Buzwell (found), which ties in with the baptism of daughter Mehitable in Boston in 1715, and her out of order recording in Norwich only when she died, as if born elsewhere. This Bushnell Genealogy (as well as the Hartford VRs) show 6 children for William and Mehitable after Benjamin and says he witnessed a will in 1741, indicating he did not die prior to Thomas Stoughton's marriage so there was no "wid. of William Bushnell".

    [Note: Source:Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, p. 143, appears to show the six Hartford children, but misidentifies the wife as Mehitable Waters. Source:Abbott, Susan Woodruff. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, on p. 342, says the same Mehitable Waters, d/o Thomas Waters and Sarah Fenn, b. 1701, m. John Hine. Barbour's mistake aside, it seems to be the same family, as it explains the death of an otherwise unidentifed Samuel Bushnell noticed by Barbour in Hartford records.]

    All of which, apparently leaves Mehitable Lothrop free to marry Thomas Stoughton, and only Thomas Stoughton.
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