Robert Lenthall (1570)

Born 1570 in England

Husband of Lucy (Grey) Lenthall — married before 1600 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

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Biography

Robert Lenthall was born about 1570 and was the minister at Great Missenden presented 28 Jun 1604, [The Genealogist (2005)

Unconfirmed info: Robert LENTHAL was born in 1565 in Oxfordshire, England, the child of Dr. William Lenthall. He married Lucy GREY Lenthall about 1600. They had at least five children:

Sons: Robert Lenthall (1600-1658) and Adryan Lenthall (1601-) Daughters: Elizabeth Lenthall (1605-), Sarah Lenthall (1609-1691), and Jane Lenthall (1614-)

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Information below pertains to his son Robert.

He died in 1640 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, having lived a long life of 75 years.

Story: Robert Lenthal/Lenthall/Leynthall

Robert Lenthall was Vicar of Great Missenden from 1627 to 1637. He was invited on Sept. 2, 1637 by the prople of Weymouth, MA to come over to be their minister. When he came he seemed to be too involved with the more liberal Quakers instead of the local Puritans. They brought Robert and three others to court over the matter of their trying to start a more moderate church. Robert was ordered to publicly apologize for his part but his friends were not so lucky. One was find 20 pounds; one was disenfranchised; and the other was publicly whipped. Robert then moved to Newport, Rhode Island where he was elected Freeman Aug. 6, 1640. He was granted 104 acres by the townspeople to start a public school for the learning of youth. But by 1642 Robert returned to England where he was inducted as Rector at Great Hampden in Barnes, County Surrey. Then tragedy struck, his wife Susanna, 14 year old daughter Sarah and 21 year old son Adrian all died in the space of two days of the plague. He remarried to Margaret, and eventually died in 1658. He left 20 pounds to each of his two daughters, Mariann and Anna.

Research Notes

Robert Lenthall was from Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England; he arrived in New England in 1638, and resided in Weymouth and Newport. He permanently removed to England by 1643, per Anderson's Directory, citing WJ 1:346; RICR 1:92, 104; WP 4:86; MBCR 1:254; Weymouth Hist 3:367-68; GMN 22:30; TG 19:222-30; Frank Farnsworth Starr, The Eels Family of Dorchester...With Notes on the Lenthall Family (Hartford 1903), 173-90; Abandoning 183-4]^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory, published 2015, reference pages 206-7

• Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.