Thomas Latham (1693 - 1769)

Born 30 Jul 1693 in E. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Deborah (Hardin) Latham — married 19 Mar 1712 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1769 at about age 75 in E. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Thomas Latham, son of James and Deliverance ____ Latham, was born probably in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, before 1693.^[1]

He married Deborah Hardin, 19 March 1711/12 in Bridgewater. Deborah was probably the daughter of John and Anna (_____) Hardin, who was born 29 July 1694 in Braintree and was still living the summer of 1740.^[1]

Thomas died in East Bridgewater in 1769.^[1]

Various deeds place Thomas in Bridgewater in 1721, 1724, 1726, although one in 1724 calls him late of Bridgewater now Middleboro. He sold his Bridgewater house in 1728 and bought a house in North Yarmouth in 1732 and he and Deborah sold it a few months later.^[1]

March 1735/6 Deliverance Latham of Bridgewater, single, daughter of Thomas Latham late of Bridgewater now resident in Carolina, was presented for having a bastard.^[1]

Summer of 1740 Deborah, wife of Thomas Latham, millwright, was waylaid on the Kings High Road in North Carolina. Her son Rotheus was a witness.^[1]

Children:^[2]

• Jennet m. Drinkwater of North Yarmouth^[2] Jennet (or Jane) b. c. 1714, based on her age at death. She married in North Yarmouth in 1732, when her parents were living there.^[1]
• Deliverance m. David Howell 1744^[2] She was mentioned in the Mar 1735/6 Court record (above) as a daughter.^[1]
• Anne m. Seth Mitchell 1738^[2] She named a son Rotheus.^[1]
• Probably Phineas b. c. 1720 lived in NC He named a son Rotheus
• *Rhoda m. David Conant^[2] Thomas gave land (on the Kennebec River) to his daughter Rhoda Conant and her husband David in 1753.^[1]
• Rotheus went to North Carolina.^[2] bpt East Bridgewater 1 May 1726.^[1]
• Beriah^[2] bpt 10 Mar 1727/8 East Bridgewater 1 May 1726.^[1]
• Beriah^[1]
• John bpt. 13 Sep 1730 East Bridgewater 1 May 1726.^[1]
• Beriah^[1]
• Micajah bpt N. Yarmouth 11 June 1732.^[1]
• Probably James b. in NC 14 Feb 1736. He lived in North Carolina, and named a son Rotheus.

• Joseph went Eastward^[2] The Mayflower Society found no evidence that there was a Joseph. They do not list him as a child.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16} Sherman, Robert Mood; Wakefield, Robert S and Finlay, Lydia Dow (compilers). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Volume 15 Family of James Chilton. General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1997)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Mitchell, Nahum, History of the early settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, including an extensive Family register. Boston, Kidder & Wright, 1840 p. 222

Mayflower Families Vol. 15 p. 31, 86-87

Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2

Thomas Latham

Thomas Latham

mentioned in the record of Thomas Latham and Deborah Hardin

Name Thomas Latham

Spouse's Name

Deborah Hardin

Event Date

1712

Event Place East Bridgewater,Plymouth,Massachusetts

"Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4X-Y4V : 4 December 2014), Thomas Latham and Deborah Hardin, 1712; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0873752 IT 3.

Find A Grave Index

Name Thomas Latham

Event Type

Burial Event Place East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts,

United States of America

Photograph Included Y

Affiliate Record Identifier

31964406

Cemetery Old Graveyard

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKQ-TLYY : 13 December 2015), Thomas Latham, ; Burial, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America, Old Graveyard; citing record ID 31964406, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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