Born: ca. 1625 Strood, Kent, England
Died: ca. 1688 Norwich, Connecticut
Buried: unknown
Married: Nov. 28, 1644 Samuel Lothrop in Barnstable, MA by Mr. Freeman
Biography: She is reported by Savage as a sister to that John Scudder who was in Barnstable in 1640. Samuel Lothrop had made the acquaintance of Miss Scudder in Boston, where he commenced his business life as house builder, afterwards combining with this extensive farming operations. Their marriage was recorded by his father [Rev. John Lothrop] on the Barnstable Church Register as follows: "My sonn Samuel & Elizabeth Scudder marryed at my house by Mr. Freeman, Nov. 28, 1644."
They settled in Barnstable, where his house stood next that of John Scudder.
In 1648 he removed to New London, Connecticut, then called Pequot. . . . His house lot in the new plantation was the third in order from that of John Winthrop, Jr., Esq. . . .
Almost at once Mr. Lothrop is assigned by his new townsmen to places of responsibility and honor. The General Court of the State, in May 1649, organized a local court at Pequot, having for its judges John Winthrop, Esq., Samuel Lothrop, and Thomas Minor, giving them power to sit in the trial of causes between the inhabitants in which the differences were under forty shillings. [I'm not sure what this meant for Elizabeth, but surely she would have been accorded the same respect in the community as Samuel received.] . . .
Samuel received a large grant of land, also, on the west side of the Pequot river north of the settlement. It was about five miles up the river at a place called Namussuck. [This does not mean the family moved out of town. New England settlement was houses in town, and all farm land surrounding was visited as needed to farm. Cattle could be penned at the house or use the town common / green for pasture or allowed to roam the woods around the town.] . . .
He sold his town homestead in 1661 to the Rev. Gershom Bulkley. This house stood beyond the bridge over the mill brook, on east side of highway toward Mohegan, "probably where now (1852) stands the Hallam House." . . .
He removed to Norwich in 1668. Miss Caulkins in history of Norwich says, "after the first thirty-eight proprietors the next inhabitants who came in as grantees of the town are John Elderkin and Samuel Lothrop." A house lot was first granted to John Elderkin, who, finding it too far from his business, had it conveyed to Samuel Lothrop.
Mr. Lothrop appears to have erected a house on the town street before 1670, which from that time became his home. The house built by Dr. Daniel Lathrop, his great-grandson, about 1745, probably stands upon the same site - now Mrs. Gilman's.
The house lot of about seven acres on which he settled, covered mainly that hill side enclosed by the streets and lands, as now, which lies south of the present residence of Daniel W. Coit, Esq., and extending down to the present Main street. . . .
After the death of his first wife [Elizabeth], of which no record is preserved, he married in 1690, in Plymouth, Mass., a maiden lady, Abigail, the daughter of Deacon John Doane of Plymouth.
[Huntington, E.B. A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family . . . Ridgefield, CT: Julia Huntington, 1884]
Records:
1625 - July 31 - England, Kent, Strood - Elizabeth was baptized
1640-1644 - Massachusetts, Boston - the ship used nor date of immigration is known for Elizabeth. It is generally thought that she migrated with her mother Elizabeth (Stoughton) (Scudder) Chamberlain and her step brother and sisters after the death of her step-father Robert Chamberlain in 1639.
1644 - Massachusetts, Boston - Elizabeth was living in Boston when she met Samuel who was working as a carpenter building houses.
1644 - Nov. 10 - Massachusetts, Boston - the Boston Church granted to "our sister Elizabeth Skuddar" a letter of recommendation to the Church at Barnstable.
1645 - Dec. 7 - Massachusetts, Barnstable - baptism record of her son John: "John Lathrop the sonne of our sister some time or formerly called Elizabeth Skuddar" was baptized. The baptismal record continues, "now the wife of one John Skuddar," an error for "Samuel Lothrop."
Children:
John
Elizabeth
Sarah
Martha
Martha
Israel
Joseph
Abigail
Anne
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