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Notes for Barnabas Lothrop and Susanna Clark

1636 On 6 June, Barnabas Lothrop was baptized. [1]

c 1642 Susanna Clark was born. [2]

1658 On 1 December, Susanna Clark married Barnabas Lothrop, of Barnstable, Massachusetts. [3]

1694 Barnabas Lothrop was Judge of Probates. [4]

1705 Barnabas Lothrop was Judge of Probates at Barnstable, Massachusetts. [5]

1715 On 26 October, Barnabas Lothrop died. [6]

Research Notes:

As hostilities escalated during King Philip's War, the General Court ordered on 29 Feb 1675 that "the inhabitants of the several townships and plantations shall not withdraw from the same without permission first had and obtained" from the rightful authorities. Town councils of war were appointed "to look out for the safety and good ordering of their respective towns." Barnstable appointed Thomas Hinckley, Thomas Huckins and Barnabas Lothrop.
In 1684 George Hinckley, Mr. Barnabas Lothrop, Jeremiah Bacon, and Samuel Allyn agreed to build a substantial windmill within twelve months. In 1687 the town ordered that a windmill be built, either on Cobb's Hill, or the old meeting-house hill, and appropriated for the purpose L32 and five acres of upland and as much marsh. Barnabas Lothrop and Samuel Allen were appointed to see the work done at the town's charge.
Barnabas was six years a Representative for Barnstable; he was also an Assistant of Plymouth Colony. He was named counsellor in the new Province Charter by Increase Mather and was rechosen.
The will of Barnabas Lothrop of Barnstable is dated 8 June 1713, probated 27 November 1715. It names wife Abigail; only son Barnabas; grandson Barnabas "only son of my son John, deceased"; grandson John, "son of my son Nathaniel, deceased"; brother John, two sisters: Abigail Clark and Bathsheba Marsh; daughter-in-law Elizabeth Crocker; grandson Joseph Lewis, son of Ebenezer Lewis; seven children now remaining; kinswoman Bethya Hinckley; six daughters: Abigail Sturgis, Susanna Shurtleff, Bathshua Freeman, Anna Lewis, Sarah Skeffe, Thankful Hedge, and Bethya Claghorn who is my daughter-in-law.


Footnotes:

[1] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Thomas Clark(e) of Plymouth and Boston in the Line of Nathaniel of Lyme, Connecticut," The American Genealogist 47 (1971), 3-16, at 6, [AmericanAncestors].

[2] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Thomas Clark(e) of Plymouth and Boston in the Line of Nathaniel of Lyme, Connecticut," The American Genealogist 47 (1971), 3-16, at 6, [AmericanAncestors].

[3] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Thomas Clark(e) of Plymouth and Boston in the Line of Nathaniel of Lyme, Connecticut," The American Genealogist 47 (1971), 3-16, at 6, [AmericanAncestors].

[4] Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Ann (Besse) Hallet, Step-Mother of Abigail (Hallet) Alden," The American Genealogist 26 (1950), 193-195, at 195, [AmericanAncestors].

[5] MacLean W. McLean, "Mr. Edmond Freeman of Sandwich, Mass., and his Family," The American Genealogist 40 (1964), 103-110, at 108, [AmericanAncestors].

[6] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Thomas Clark(e) of Plymouth and Boston in the Line of Nathaniel of Lyme, Connecticut," The American Genealogist 47 (1971), 3-16, at 6, [AmericanAncestors].