Elkanah b. 11/9/1754 Norwich CT md. ? d. in either VT or Canada. His father Ezra died on Elkanah's sixth birthday. Elkanah's sister Charity married David Galusha in Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., Vermont in 1773.
Henry Lathrop's biographical sketch in the History of Lawrence Co., IL puts Elkanah in New London, CT in 1781:
"His [Henry Lathrop's] father Russell Lathrop, was born in Fairfax County, Vt., and the grandfather, Elkanah Lathrop, was a native of Connecticut in which State he lived when the British and Tories burned New London. This atrocious act stirred him deeply and with many others he aided in driving the enemy out of the neighborhood."
James B. Lathrop's biographical sketch in the History of Decatur Co., IN gives this information:
The great-grandfather of our subject, the Rev. Elkanah Lathrop, was born and reared at Norwich, Connecticut, and for many years lived on a farm in Vermont, and was also a minister. He afterward removed to Canada, where he owned a large farm, which, during the trouble between England and the United States [War of 1812?] was confiscated by the British government. He then returned to Vermont there spending the remainder of his life.
That is probably why he moved there. He lived in Fairfax, VT for awhile where his name appears in the Fairfax Town Book I:
- 4 March 1794 - sworn as a leather sealer
- 3 March 1795 - made choice of Elkanah Lathrop sealer
- 10 March 1795 - named a trustee to take care of the school money
- 21 May 1796 - his cattle mark recorded as half cross on the underside of the left ear
A petition to create a township in Quebec, dated Montreal 21 Sep 1795:
To his excellency Guy Lord Dorchester Captain General & Governor in Chief of the Provinces of upper & Lower Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick and their dependencies etc. etc. etc.
The Petition of Simon McTavish of the city of Montreal in behalf of himself & thirty-nine persons his associates.
Land Committee - Recommended on the strength of the Certificate annexed to this List. Signed by order 26th Jany. 1797: Hugh Finley Commissioner.
List of Associates proposed for the Township of Simeon McTavish Esqr. Leader, Missiskouie Bay 23rd Decr. 1796.
Referred to the Land Committee by order of His Excellency General Prescott, Quebec 13th January 1797, H.W. Ryland
Rec'd. by the Land Committee 24th & out-- on their _ Vol. III page 187
Sheweth:
That they desire to become proprietors of a tract of the ungranted lands belonging to the Crown, intending to have the same immediately settled; the petitioner therefore prays that a warrant may be issued to the Surveyor General to lay off for your Excellency's petitioner & his associates a Township of ten miles square, north of the Township of Stratford, beginning at the southeastern most corner of the Township of Weedon, running North-westerly up along the Eastern most boundary of that Township ten miles, thence, in a direction North Easterly, by a line making a right angle with the first line ten miles, thence down south easterly to the north westerly corner of the Township of Stratford ten miles, & from thence to the first station. And your Excellencey's Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
Montreal 21 Sept. 1795 [signed] Simon McTavish
List of associates proposed for the Township of Simon McTavish Esquire Leader. [All are listed as being from Vermont]
- Nehemiah Easterbrooks
- Harvey Wakefield
- Elijah Wakefield
- John Wakefield
- Elijah Tyler
- James Bennett
- John Tyler
- John Tyler
- Benjamin Warren
- Jonah (?) Hutchinson
- Ira Hand
- Hibbard
- John Townsend
- Amos Humphrey
- Benjamin Neiff
- Jedidiah Beaman
- Asa Beaman
- Benjamin Cutler
- Jonas (?) Robinson
- R. Foster
- Pomroy Johnson
- Roswell Brown
- James Thompson
- James Willson
- John Smith
- Robert Willson
- Erastus Lothrop
- Eleana Lothrop - this is probably Elkanah, his name appeared as Eleana in Norwich, CT vital records
- Gideon
- Sherry (?)
- Shores (?) Ufford
- Samuel Ufford
- Hezekiah Cooley
- John Blake
- Bradberry Blake
- John Mudget
- Benona Mudget
- Leicester Grosevenor
- Resolved Grosevenor
Give under our hands at Missikouie Bay this 25th day of December 1796
John Butler (?) & Patk. Conroy Commissioners
The above petition was denied. McTavish applied again, see below N222 Petition of Simon McTavish 22 Jul 1800.
The present day name for this township is Beaulac-Garthby and it is located on the banks of Lake Aylmer. It's about 447 miles from Norwich, CT where Elkanah was born. It's possible that Elkanah and Erastus did live there at some point.
A Petition of the Land owners of Fairfax for a Land Tax
---- Oct. 15, 1795
B.? Hopkins, Secy. In Genl. Assembly 15th Oct. 1795
Rec’d & referred to the 2nd Land tax ----
Wm. R. Whitney, clerk
[Section 2]
To the Honorable the General Assembly now sitting, Your committee to whom was refer’d the within do report that the prayer thereof --- to be granted.
D. Sheldon for Comtt.
Windsor 19th of Oct. 1795
In Genl. Assembly 19th Oct. 1795
Rec’d. & accepted & ----
W.R. Whitney, Clk.
[Section 3]
To the Honorable --- General Assembly to be Conven’d. at Windsor on Thursday the Eight day of October next. The petition of a large number of proprietors ^and Landowners of Fairfax Humbly ---- that whereas the town of Fairfax in subject to the extraordinary expense of Building ^a Bridge over the river Lamoil [Lamoille] and the land being very wet in many parts of the Town they are under the necessaty of expanding more (?) upon the highways than almost any other town in that part of the state your Petitioners therefore request that a tax of one penny upon the acre ---- may be laid upon the land in Fairfax publick right ---- for the purpose of building bridges and replacing the road in sd. Town as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray.
Date at Fairfax this 1st day of September 1795
[Signature] No. of acres
Elkanah Lothrop 100
[subtotal] 4445
2660
4445
3020
[total acres] 10125
A deed was recorded executed 27 March 1799 and recorded 3 March 1800:
Know all men by these presents that I Elkanah Lathrop of Fairfax in the county of Franklin and state of Vermont for and in consideration of Nine hundred & thirty three dollars and thirty-three cents [$933.33] to me in hand paid before the delivery & _ by Oliver Parmely, Esqr. of said Grantee late of Bethlehem, Litchfield County and state of Connecticut the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge to be my full satisfaction & I the said Elkanah for myself & my heirs do by these presents give, grant, bargain, sell, assign [?] convey and confirm to him the said Oliver Parmelee his heirs and assigns forever the following piece or parcel of land lying and being situate in said Fairfax town the Lot No. 2 in the Swift (?) Division or body Lots so called in Fairfax aforesd. which was sold (?) to the Right of Joseph Newmarch (?) containing one hundred acres be the same more or less with a _ _ and barn thereon standing . . .
To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises together with all the privileges and appertinences thereto belonging to him the said Oliver Parmelee his heirs and assigns to his and their own proper use benefit and forever. And the said Elkanah Lathrop for myself heirs, executors administrators covenant to and with the said Oliver Parmelee his heirs and assigns that I am seized in fee simple of the above granted and bargained premises and have good right to sell the same in manner aforesd and that the same is free of all incumberance whatever and of the said Elkanah Lathrop for myself heirs executors and administrators engage to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained premises to him the sd. Oliver Parmelee his heirs and assigns forever against any claim or demand of any person or persons whatever in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal. _ Fairfax the 27th day of March 1799 signed, sealed and delivered in presents Jonathan Danforth, Asahel Johnson, Elkanah Lathrop.
Franklin County ~ Fairfax 27th March 1799
Personally appeared Elkanah Lathrop signed and sealed of the written instrument and acknowledge the same to be his _ deed.
Before me Jonathan Danforth
certifies that the written interlineation between the seventeenth and eighteenth line was made before signing and is approved by me (viz) with or honored thereon standing in the original this mistake was
Elkanah Lathrop
A true copy of original att. Erastus Safford, F. clerk.
N222 Petition of Simon McTavish 22 July 1800:
Praying that the Quarter of the Township lately ordered for him may (in consideration of the expences incurred by him) be granted at the old fees. Book E, p. 94. Referred to a committee of the whole council by order of his Excellency the Lieut. Governor 22 July 1800. H. W. Ryland.
To His Excellency Robert Shore Milnes Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Lower Canada, etc., etc., etc.
May it please your Excellency.
Your petitioner having long ago incurr'd considerable expence in exploring a tract of the waste lands of the Crown near the River Becancour, and in procuring ass_ to cover a Township which he had prayed for, and seeing he has obtained your Excellency's order in Council but for a fourth part of it, on condition of paying the new fees or sixpence an acre, your petitioner begs leave humbly to represent, That his first prayer was for a whole Township for himself & thirty nine associates, and his Excelly the Governor in Council was pleased to order that the tract prayed for should be laid out for him and them. That at that time the established fees were fixed at three pounds six shillings & eight pence per Thousand Acres and your petitioner humbly conceives that it was intended to grant to him & his associates the tract prayed for on the then established fees; He further begs leave to state that his associates have been waiting with impatience to settle upon the land ever since, as appears by the Commissioners Certificate transmitted to the Council Office; a considerable part of the Land wou'd have been e'er now cleared had your petitioner conceived that he might have suffered his associates to take possession. The petitioner is to receive but one fourth of the Tract, tho' he will be obliged to survey and subdivide the whole Township into Lots of Two hundred acres, at the expence of One Hundred & fifty pounds, so that after deducting the seven thousand eight hundred ^acres for his associates, four thousand acres will only remain for himself, which would cost him at the new fees above five hundred pounds considering the expence he has already been at.
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that considering the money he has already laid out, and the small quantity of Land that will remain to him after satisfying his associates, the Quarter Township may be granted on the old fees.
And your petitioner will every pray.
Simon McTavish
Montreal 13th July 1800
Report respecting the ___ admitting the associaes for the Quarter Townships ordered to be laid out for Simon McTavish, Isaac Todd and their respective associates to take the oaths. Ent'd. Book E, pages 293-4
To His Excellency Sir Robert Shore Milnes Bart. Lieut. Governor of the Province of Lower Canada, etc., etc., etc.
Report of the permanent committee of the whole council. Present. Mess. Williams in the chair, Baber, DeBonne & Young, on Your Excellency's Reference of Two Lists of Associates:
May it please Your Excellency
The Committee proceeds to take into consideration the List of Associates for the Quarter Township ordered to be laid out in the Tract adjoining the Township called Halifax, whereof Simon McTavish Leader, and also the List of associates for the Quarter Township, ordered to be laid out in the Tract adjoining the Township of Inverness, whereof Issac Todd is Leader, and do humbly recommend that the said Leaders and their associates respectively be admitted to take and subscribe the oaths and Declaration required by His Majesty's Instructions, preparatory to their receiving a Grant of the waste Lands of the Crown.
All which is humbly submitted to Your Excellency's wisdom.
By order - Williams, Chairman
Council Chamber, Bishop's Palace, Quebec, 8th Jan. 1802
According to the Lathrop Family History Elkanah was a Baptist minister and lived in Canada. His grandson James said that Elkanah moved to Canada where he owned a large farm, which during the trouble between England and the United States, was confiscated by the British government. He then returned to Vermont, there spending the remainder of his life.
Elkanah's children - possibly more:
Armon b. ca. 1775 md. Theresa (--?--) was living in Clay Co. IL in 1840. He could be Elkanah's son. Still working on this. Armon had a son Daniel M. born ca. 1815, a son Armon and a daughter.
- 1810 NY Ontario County Census - many VT families lived in NY or were counted in NY as well as in VT 1810NYOntarioCoArmonLathrop.jpg
Ezra b. 1781 VT, d. 10/27/1845 Decatur Co. IN, md. Margaret ?
They had at least 3 children: Elkanah, Harriet and a son
Elkanah md. Sarah Jane Morgan b. 3/28/1824 Decatur Co. IN, d. 6/11/1887 Greensburg, Decatur Co. IN daughter of James & Elizabeth (McCoy) Morgan. They had 4 children - Sidney, Eliza, Almira and Inez. Elkanah d. 1/20/1851. Sarah Jane md. 2) James Chambers.
Elkanah b. ca. 1787, d. 1851
Hannah b. ca. 1791 VT, d. ca. 1814, Richford, VT md. 2/26/1811 in Richford, VT Daniel Janes. Daniel b. 9/25/1789 Richford, VT was the son of Daniel & Annie (Saunders) Janes and a cousin to Cynthia Powell. After Hannah's death he married Mary Powell 4/24/1813 in Richford, VT. She was a cousin of Cynthia Powell as well. Daniel and Hannah had two children:
- Elkanah Daniel b. 11/13/1811 Richford, VT, d. 3/9/1888 in Nebraska. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in York, NE. He migrated to Decatur Co., IN probably moving with his Lathrop uncles and cousins. He was living in Clay Co., IL in 1870, Doniphan Co., KS in 1880 and York, NE in 1885. He married 1) ? and 2) Mary Corson in Dearborn Co., IN 6/18/1846. Elkanah's children:
Stephen Daniel b. 1839, IN md. 1) Mary E. (?) and 2) Phoebe. ca. 1868, children: Ida, William, Gertie, Archie, Scott and ? Janes. Stephen was living in York, NE in 1885.
Margaret E. b. 1847, IN
Albert L. b. 1849, IN
Charles D. b. 1858, IN
- Hannah b. 2/23/1813 Richford, VT
Timeline & Map:
1754, Nov. 9 - Elkanah born Norwich, CT
1760, Aug. 9 - brother Samuel born, Norwich, CT
1760, Nov. 9 - father Ezra Lathrop dies Norwich, CT, Elkanah's 6th birthday
1773, Dec. 31 - sister Charity marries David Galusha in Shaftsbury, VT, Elkanah age 19
ca. 1774 - Elkanah marries age about 20
ca. 1775 - unidentified son born, Elkanah age about 21
1776, Aug. - son Rev. Erastus born in VT, Elkanah age 22
1781, Sep. 6 - Tories burn New London, Elkanah said to have been there, age 27
ca. 1785 - son Armon (?) born, Elkanah age about 31
ca. 1785 - son Ezra born, Elkanah age about 31
1790 - Elkanah living in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT - census, Elkanah age 36
ca. 1791 - daughter Hannah born, Elkanah age about 37
1793, Jan. 8 - son Russell born Franklin Co., VT, Elkanah age about 39
1794, Mar. 4 - Elkanah sworn as leather sealer, Franklin, VT, age 40
1795, Mar. 3 - Elkanah chosen as sealer, Franklin, VT, age 41
1795, Mar. 10 - Elkanah named school trustee, Franklin, VT, age 41
1795, Sep. 17 - Elkanah & son Erastus named in Simon McTavish's petition to create and settle Beaulac-Garthby Township in Quebec, Elkanah age 41, Erastus age 19, Russell age 2
1795, Oct. - Elkanah signed petition for land tax in Fairfax, VT to build a bridge across the Lamoille River.
1796, May 21 - Elkanah;s cattle mark registered in Franklin, VT, age 42
1799, Mar 27 - Elkanah sells land to Oliver Parmely, Fairfax, VT age 45
1800, Feb. 22 - son Rev. Erastus married Delia Ingalls, Fairfax, VT, Elkanah age 46
1800, Mar. 3 - Elkanah's deed to Parmely recorded, Farifax, VT, age 46
1800, Jul 22 - Simon McTavish re-petitions for township in Quebec, Elkanah not mentioned by name
1801, Feb. 10 - grandson Augustus Lathrop born in Sutton, Canada, Elkanah age 47
1803, Mar 12 - grandson Ezra M. Lathrop born in Sutton, Canada, Elkanah age 50
1810 - son Rev. Erastus moves to Vermont, Elkanah age 56, if living, not listed in census as head of household
1811, Feb. 26 - daughter Hannah marries Daniel Janes, Richford, VT, Elkanah age 57
1811, Nov. 13 - grandson Elkanah Janes born Richford, VT, Elkanah age 57
1812 - son Rev. Erastus moves family back to Vermont b/c of War of 1812
1812, Sep. 25 - Oct. 31 - son Russell participates in the War of 1812, Elkanah age 58
1813, Feb. 23 - granddaughter Hannah Janes born Richford, VT, Elkanah age 59
ca. 1814 - daughter Hannah dies Richford, VT, Elkanah age ca. 60
1815 - son Russell said to be "of Swanton, VT", Elkanah age 61
1815, Jan. 12 - son Russell marries Cynthia Powell, Richford, VT, Elkanah age 61
1817, May 14 - grandson Henry born Richford, VT, Elkanah age 63
1817, Feb. 10 - son Rev. Erastus moves his family, first to Pittsburgh and then to Dearborn Co., IN, Elkanah, age 63 if living
1820 - son Russell living in Richford, VT, Elkanah age 66, not listed in 1820 as head of household
1820, Jul 3 - grandson Levi born Franklin Co., VT, Elkanah age 66
1821(?), Oct. 20 - granddaughter Samantha A. born, VT, Elkanah age 67
1824 - grandson Hazen D. born, VT, Elkanah age 70
1825, Aug. 10 - grandson Rev. Erastus J. born, Franklin Co. VT, Elkanah age 71
1827, Mar 5 - granddaughter Lucy Ann born, VT, Elkanah 73
1829 - grandson Marvin b. VT, Elkanah 75 if living
1833, Jul 15 - granddaughter Clarinda D. born Canada, Elkanah 79 if living
1837, Jun - son Russell moves to Decatur Co., IN, Elkanah 83 if living
Sources:
Huntington, E.B. History of Lo-Lathrop Family, 1884.
History of Decatur County, IN
Gail Lathrop research
1790 VT Census, Chittenden Co.
Janes, Frederic. The Janes Family, NY: John H. Dingman, 1868.
History of Lawrence County, IL
Caroline Page research
1840 IL Census Clay Co.
1850 IL Census, Lawrence Co.
1860 IL Census, Lawrence Co.
1870 IL Census, Clay Co.
1870 IL Census, Lawrence Co.
IL Public Domain Land Grant #118549, 122624, 137825, 144360
Johnson, Herbert. Roster of Soldiers in War of 1812-14, 1933
1840 IN Census, Ripley Co.
1820 VT Census, Franklin Co.
Drouin Collection - Quebec, Vital & Church Records 1621-1967, Elkanah not found
1885 NE State Census
1880 KS Census
Find-A-Grave online database
Franklin County, VT Probate Records 1796-1921 no Lathrops mentioned
Land Petitions of Lower Canada, 1764-1841
Quebec, Registres de Eglises Protestantes, 1763-1967, Elkanah and children not found
Ezra Lathrop's obituary
Augustus Lathrop's obituary
Vermont State Archives - MsVtSP, Vol. 19, p. 195
Revised 11/24/2019
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