Northrops

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Before the founder England
 Joseph Northrup            

1619(1639)-1669 Milford
 Joseph Northrup            

1666 Milford ~ 1736
 William Northrop    

1694 Milford ~ 1737
 William Northrop    

1731 Greenfield ~ 1800
 Lois Northrop
&
1732 Newtown ~ 1805
John Northrop, Jr.
(Jeremiah 1652 line)


1754 Newtown ~ 1810
Peter Northrop              

1778? Washington? Newtown? Kent?~1855 Warren
Amos Northrop                


1803 NY? Kent,~1875 or 86
Alvin Northrop

1844 Cornwall~1906 Southport
George Elmore Northrop



1871 Southport ~ 1923 SouthportGeorge Ives  Northrop     


 1905 Southport/Norwalk ~ 1980 Fairfield Alvin Jennings  Northrop  

Hannigan

Ives

Jennings

Keeler

Webster (offsite)

This is a work in process and there are still other possible fathers for Amos.

Other Amos Father Possibilities

Connecticut Founders and Usual Suspects ~
Immigration/Origins
March 2014

from book ancestral homes see below

Six miles from Chelmsford we arrive at Hatfield Peverel, and taking a byroad to the northwest for four miles we reach the adjoining small rural parishes of Fairsted and Great Leighs. The little stone and flint churches of these parishes date from Norman times. Of our Cambridge adherents of Hooker, James and Richard Olmstead had lived in Fairsted and Great Leighs, and the brothers John and George Steele came from Fairsted. Returning to Hatfield Peverel we continue northeast on the Roman road for nine miles and reach the parish of Messing which is situated on elevated ground. The ancient church is located about a mile to the right of our main road and is a stone conglomeration of various styles, but the square embattled tower is of modern red brick construction. In this parish was fought one of the desperate battles between the Britons under Queen Boadicea and the Roman legions. From here came two of our Cambridge disciples of Hooker, Reynold Bush and John White, the latter of whom went with him to Hartford.

Four miles beyond Messing we come to Copford Hall, the home of Gov. Haynes, one of the noblest Puritans who came to New England and the one who suffered the greatest material losses for his religious convictions. He was born at Codicote Hall in Hertfordshire 1 May 1594, eldest son and heir of John Haynes, Esq., an armorial landed gentleman who died in 1605, leaving extensive estates in several parishes in Essex and Hertfordshire. Before 1624 Gov. Haynes bought the manor of Copford Hall where he resided until his emigration to New England with Mr. Hooker in 1633. Having served as governor of Massachusetts in 1635, he removed to Hartford in 1637

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and was governor of Connecticut eight terms in alternate years until his death 1 Mar. 1653/4. His children by his first wife, Mary Thornton, remained in England, where his son Hezekiah Haynes became one of Cromwell's major-generals in the Civil War and succeeded to Copford Hall, which is still owned by descendants, although not of the name, which died out in 1763. By his second wife, Mabel Harlakenden, Gov. Haynes had five children born in New England, from whom many distinguished Americans descended. Copford Hall belonged to the See of London from Saxon times until the time of Queen Elizabeth, when on the death of Bishop Bonner in 1569 it passed to the Crown. This prelate took the leading part in the persecution of the Marian martyrs, over two-thirds of the three hundred who perished at the stake being condemned by him. During his tenure of the bishopric of London he resided part of the time at Copford Hall. The church of Copford was built in Norman times, and the interior is covered with the original frescoes.

Of our early settlers of Cambridge who were followers of Mr. Hooker, it is known that William Goodwin was from Bocking and William Wadsworth and John and Nicholas Clark were from Braintree, although William Wadsworth was born at Long Buckby in Northamptonshire. Doubtless there were several other emigrants from Braintree, but the loss of the early registers prevents us from establishing the fact.

Five miles northwest of Hatfield Broad Oak we come to Bishop's Stortford (previously mentioned in the account of Daniel Denison), and in another fifteen miles we reach Hertford, the county seat of Hertfordshire, and a place of importance in early Saxon times. Of its five ancient church edifices but one, All Saints, now remains. Hertford Castle was originally built about the year 900, and ruins of a part of the ancient building still remain. The city is of interest to us as the parent town of Hartford, Conn., and also as the birthplace of Rev. Samuel Stone, who was baptized there 30 July 1602, graduated at the famous Puritan College, Emmanuel, in 1623, for a short time was lecturer at Towcester, Northamptonshire, and from 1627 to 1630 was curate at Stisted near Braintree where he became intimate with Hooker. In 1633 he accompanied Hooker to New England on the ship Griffin, became the latter's assistant at Cambridge and Hartford, and after Mr. Hooker's death was sole pastor at Hartford, Conn., for sixteen years until his own death 20 July 1663. Leaving old Hertford we run southward twenty-five miles to London, having covered in all during this trip about one hundred and forty miles.

Of the rest of Hooker's company who first located at Cambridge, there remain to mention Jeremy Adams, John Arnold, John Barnard, John Benjamin, Richard and William Butler, Joseph Easton, Edward Elmer, Nathaniel Ely, Richard Goodman, Stephen Hart, John Hopkins, William Kelsey, William Lewis, Richard Lord, William Manning, John Maynard, Abraham Morrill, John Pratt, Nathaniel Richards, Thomas Scott, Edward Stebbing, George Stocking, Richard Webb, and William Westwood. The exact English home of none of these has been made public to my knowledge; but we can be quite sure that practically all of them came from County Essex.

Rev. Thomas Shepard and his adherents formed the next company of settlers in Cambridge. This zealous and fiery Puritan minister was born 5 Nov. 1605 at Towcester, co. Northampton, a thriving town eight miles south of the city of Northampton. It is situated on Watling Street, the famous Roman road which starts at Dover and runs through Canterbury, London, St. Albans, Towcester, Atherstone and so on west to near Shrewsbury. Towcester was one of the Roman stations, remains of which are still discernible. Mr. Shepard's parents and relatives were Puritans, and he graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1623. From 1627 to 1631 he was lecturer at Earls Colne, co. Essex, and secured a large following in that vicinity. Having been silenced by Archbishop Laud he fled to Bossal in Yorkshire

1. I think the parentage and distinguished connections of Mrs. Ames have not heretofore been known or made public. The account of Dr. Ames in the Dictionary of National Biography erroneously refers to her merely as Joane Sletcher.

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where he remained a year and secured more adherents. In 1632 Bossal became unsafe and he removed to Haddon, a suburb of New-castle-on-Tyne in Northumberland, and in two years secured a new following in that region. Urged by his adherents to emigrate with them to New England, in June 1634 he went by ship from Newcastle to Ipswich in Suffolk; after a year in that region, on 10 Aug. 1635 he sailed from London in the ship Defence with his company, and on arriving in Boston they at once settled in Cambridge where he served as pastor until his death 28 Aug. 1649.

Going east from Sudbury, an eight mile run brings us to Groton (the home of Gov. Winthrop before mentioned) and five miles farther to the northeast we come to Lindsey and Semer, the former being the native parish of the brothers Richard and Justinian Holden of Cambridge, and the latter the birthplace of Clement Chaplin, another early founder of Cambridge. Lindsey is a very decrepit-appearing place; several of the old houses in the village lean toward the street at

alarming angles, most of the farms have a shiftless aspect, and even the parson who was the incumbent when I visited the parish was a most unkempt individual. Continuing east, a fifteen-mile run brings us to Ipswich, a port from which sailed a large number of emigrants for New England, and the parent of our Massachusetts town of the same name. The town was of importance as early as Saxon times, until long after the Norman Conquest was called Gyppeswic, and is located at the head of the Orwell River or estuary, eleven miles from its mouth at Harwich on the North Sea. The town of Ipswich has twelve ancient churches with square towers built of stone and flint, most of them constructed during the fifteenth century. The Sparrow House erected in 1567, and the birthplace of Cardinal Wolsey built in 1471 are well-preserved specimens of Tudor dwellings; the former is now used as a book store and tea room, while the latter is occupied by a "chemist" or druggist. William Andrews and Richard Girling were the Ipswich adherents of Shepard who came to Cambridge.

We now push westward some fifteen miles over more hilly country and then come to Mellis, a rural parish with houses scattered on the fringe of a large green or common. The church was originally built in the Early English style of the thirteenth century, but was considerably altered about 1500. In 1730 the ancient tower fell down and has not been replaced. Here, as in very many Suffolk manors, the custom of Borough English prevails, whereby copyhold lands descend to the youngest instead of the oldest son of a family. From Mellis came about 1645 Nicholas Wyeth, founder of a Cambridge family resident here to this day; and it is to be noted he followed the Borough English custom of Mellis by leaving his homestead in Cambridge to his young-

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est son. He married first in England about 1630 Margaret Clarke, born at Westhorpe (four miles from Mellis) in 1600, sister of Dr. John Clarke the distinguished Baptist founder of Newport, R. I.

Crossing the Stour we will now take a little trip on its south shore in Essex, first coming to Ridgewell which has the usual fifteenth-century church, but in recent times its exterior walls have been plastered over. Here our Barnabas Lamson of Cambridge resided before his emigration. Proceeding southeast five miles we pass, on a hill to the left, the massive keep of Hedingham Castle, a stone structure about sixty feet square with walls about twelve feet thick and rising to a height of over a hundred feet to the top of its square corner turrets; this castle was built about 1130 and for five centuries was possessed by the illustrious de Vere family, Earls of Oxford. Five miles more brings us to Halstead, now a town of over six thousand inhabitants. In this parish is Stansted Hall, a large, many gabled, brick, Elizabethan manor house, owned and occupied from 1590 to 1613 by Thomas French who became lord of this manor by marriage to an Olmsted heiress. His fourth son, William French, was baptized at Halstead 15 Mar. 1603; and for many years it has been generally claimed in America that he was identical with our William French of Cambridge in 1635. A descendant of the latter, after several pilgrimages of admiring worship to this supposed ancestral manorial shrine, discovered that William French of Stansted Hall died unmarried in England in 1637! Sic transit gloria mundi! But there was another William French baptized in Halstead in 1606, son of William

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French of "The Leete," who possibly may have been Shepard's fellow-passenger on the shipDefence in 1635.

Continuing easterly along the northern bank of the Stour, a charming ride of about seven miles brings us to Stratford St. Mary where we again cross the river and find ourselves in Dedham in Essex. Here preached for over thirty years the famous Puritan minister "Roaring John Rogers," born in 1572, died in 1636, eldest son of Thomas Rogers of Moulsham in Chelmsford, and father of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich, Mass. The soubriquet of this doughty Puritan lecturer doubtless indicates his method of expounding the Gospel. A lecturer in the Church of England is a minister voluntarily engaged and paid by the people of a parish or maintained by endowments left for that purpose, generally to preach or lecture once a week. During the growth of Puritanism in England, many nonconforming Puritan ministers secured these positions, conflicting with the vicar or rector. In Dedham an endowment maintains a lectureship to the present day. Three of the early founders of Cambridge were from Dedham, namely Edmund Angier, John Cooper, and Nathaniel Sparhawk.

Among other followers of Shepard who settled in Cambridge were Roger Bancroft, Thomas Blodgett, Robert Bradish, John Bridge,

1. For an illustration of this church see these Proceedings, vii, 72.

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William Buck, Christopher Cane, Richard and John Champney, Edward Collins, Gilbert Crackbone, Robert Daniell, Richard Francis, Edmund Frost, John Gibson, Edward Goffe, Richard Hassell, John Hastings, Thomas Marret, William Patten, Richard Park, Thomas Prentice, and William Russell. While the exact places of origin of none of these emigrants have been made public, it is safe to state that nearly all of them were doubtless from either Essex or Suffolk. William Holman was from Northampton, which is only eight miles from Towcester, and so he may have known Rev. Thomas Shepard in his youth; and Samuel Shepard was the latter's brother and came with him to Cambridge.

While Rev. Thomas Shepard was living and preaching at Bossal in Yorkshire, Thomas Brigham, Thomas Crosby, and the latter's son Simon Crosby, all of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, co. York, evidently fell under his influence, and so followed him to Cambridge. Holme-on-Spalding-Moor is a parish lying about fifteen miles southeast of the city of York, in the midst of a great flat and low plain. In the northern part of the parish rises to the height of a hundred and fifty feet a small oval-shaped hill, so regular in outline as to look artificial in construction. On its summit, surrounded by trees, stands the venerable parish church, with a square tower, from the top of which a fine view can be had for many miles, the lofty spires of York Minster being clearly discernible fifteen miles to the northwest. Except for this hill, much of the parish was a swampy moor until about a century ago. In ancient times, so difficult was the crossing of these dreary wastes, that the lords of the manor maintained on the edge of the moor a cell for two monks as guides for strangers, one acting as conductor, while the other was praying for the safety of the travellers, the monks alternating at the two offices. As I have walked across the windswept plain during a bitter blizzard, covering the two miles from the railroad station to the village of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, I can realize the praying monk's duty was much the more comfortable.

While at and near Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northumberland, Rev. Thomas Shepard obtained quite a number of adherents from that vicinity who accompanied or followed him to Cambridge, viz., Guy Bainbridge, Thomas and William Bittlestone, Thomas Chesholme, Widow Elizabeth Cutter and her sons Richard and William, Widow Ann Errington and her son Abraham, Edward and Thomas Hall, Robert Holmes, John Sill, Andrew Stevenson (or Stimpson), John

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Swan, John Trumbull, Isabel Wilkinson, and Edward Winship. Concerning the region whence came this band of emigrants, I will follow the discreet example of Benjamin Franklin when examined by the House of Commons concerning the Stamp Act, and being asked what he knew about Newfoundland, replied," I have never been there."

We will next give our attention to the group of fifteen families from Kent who located about 1635 in Cambridge, and will begin with Rev. William Wetherell. He was a native of Yorkshire, born about 1601, and graduated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1623. He soon secured a position as teacher in the Free School at Maidstone, co. Kent, but having become unorthodox from the prelatical viewpoint, and being suspected of imparting undesirable heresies to the youthful mind, he found himself persona non grata as a pedagogue. So early in the spring of 1635 he came to New England with a party of Kentish emigrants in the shipHercules, and located in Cambridge. After teaching school a few years in Cambridge, Charlestown, and Duxbury, in 1644 he became pastor of the Second Church in Scituate, where he served forty years until his death 9 Apr. 1684. Nearly all these emigrants from Kent were from the southwestern and central parts of the county, known as the Weald of Kent, which before the Norman Conquest was a vast, heavily-wooded forest and sparsely settled. Throughout this county prevails the custom of gavelkind, a land tenure by which a man may devise his lands by will, and if he dies intestate they are equally divided among all his sons instead of descending wholly to the eldest son, as is the general usage in England, or to the youngest son as in manors having the custom of Borough English.

Of this group of emigrants from Kent who settled in Cambridge, William Pantry and perhaps Stephen Post had been fellow-townsmen of Mr. Wetherell in Maidstone. This place existed in Roman times and is now a manufacturing city and railroad center of 40,000 population. The great church of All Saints, mostly built during the latter part of the fourteenth century, is one of the largest parish churches in England and has the unusual feature of having its square embattled tower located on the south side of the nave instead of at the western end. The populace of Maidstone were active in the peasant rebellions of Wat Tyler in 1381 and Jack Cade in 1450. The grammar school where Mr. Wetherell taught was founded in 1536 and established in its present modern buildings half a century ago.

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Three miles southwest of Maidstone is the small parish of West Farleigh with a correspondingly small church, part of which is of Norman style of the twelfth century. Dolor Davis was of this parish before coming to Cambridge. Eight miles to the southeast of West Farleigh is the low-lying parish of Staplehurst, the native place of Jonas Austin, baptized 3 Dec. 1598, and Samuel Greenhill, baptized 11 July 1605, both of whom became early settlers of Cambridge. Staplehurst Church shows three periods of architecture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Three miles farther southeast is Frittenden, where the ancient church was taken down about 1850 and replaced by a modern stone structure; the old registers however are preserved from 1558. Our Moses Paine of Cambridge was baptized in Frittenden 23 Apr. 1581, and his ancestral line has been traced back there for several generations. The railroad station for Frittenden consists of a stopping point in a field, whence the walking is good or bad, according to the season, for a distance of two miles to the village.

Eight miles west of Frittenden is the parish of Horsmonden, the birthplace of that worthy Puritan, Major Simon Willard, who was baptized there 8 Apr. 1605, and on emigrating to New England at first located in Cambridge, which lost a valuable citizen when he removed to Concord. Among his distinguished descendants of the Willard name were two presidents of Harvard College and the late Frances E. Willard, founder and president of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union; a memorial tablet to her memory has been placed in Horsmonden Church, but the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral was the place chosen for a memorial to the colonist Major Simon Willard. Earlier generations of this family resided in Goud-hurst and Brenchley, parishes adjoining Horsmonden.

Five miles southeast of Horsmonden is the thriving and prosperous-appearing parish of Cranbrook, for three centuries after 1350 the most noted place in England for the manufacture of broadcloth. The church is an unusually large and handsome edifice of the fifteenth century and has a fine stained glass triple window, erected in 1902 to the memory of Rev. William Eddy, vicar here from 1591 to 1616 and ancestor of the Eddy family in America; also a tablet to the memory of Dr. Comfort Starr, baptized here 6 July 1589, who settled in Cambridge in 1635. Five miles south of Cranbrook is Hawkhurst, where on 2 Jan. 1602/3 was baptized Thomas Hosmer who located in

Cambridge in 1634 but moved to Hartford the next year. Ten miles northeast of Hawkhurst is Biddenden, the native parish of two more of our Cambridge founders, Thomas Besbeech, baptized 3 Mar. 1589/90, and Thomas Beal, baptized 25 Mar. 1599. Biddenden was another famous place of broadcloth manufacture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the old Cloth Hall is still standing, but now used as a dwelling. Fifteen miles northeast of Biddenden is the parish of Eastwell, the register transcripts of which show the baptism on 10 June 1610 of Samuel House, son of John House the rector there, and a proprietor of Cambridge in 1642. Six miles northeast of Eastwell lies the parish of Chilham, the old home of John Fessenden who appeared in Cambridge in 1637. Another six miles farther to the northeast is Canterbury, a place so familiar to everyone that no further mention of it is necessary. From here came Daniel Cheever who settled in Cambridge about 1640.

Three small groups of Cambridge founders next require brief notice. Reverend Jose Glover was born in England about 1597, son of Roger Glover, a wealthy London merchant. He was perhaps educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and from 1624 to 1635 was rector of Sutton in Surrey. After a short visit to New England in 1635, he returned to England and for over two years assisted in the plans for establishing Harvard College. In 1638 he again sailed for New England with his family, bringing with him a printing outfit, mechanics to run it, and several servants. He died on the voyage, but his widow Elizabeth (Harris) Glover soon married Reverend Henry Dunster, who in 1640 became the first president of Harvard College. In Mr. Glover's party was Stephen Day of Cambridge, England, who set up and operated in Cambridge, Mass., the printing press of Mr. Glover, the first press established in America. William Boardman from Cambridge, England, a stepson of Mr. Day, and John and Robert Stedman, probably from Sutton in Surrey, were other members of Mr. Glover's party and also settled in Cambridge. Richard Harris, a brother of Mrs. Glover, born at Blechingley, co. Surrey, in 1617 and graduated at New College, Oxford, in 1640, later came to Cambridge, Mass., where he died 29 Aug. 1644, unmarried.

Rev. Henry Dunster was baptized at Bury in Lancashire, 26 Nov. 1609, graduated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 1630, and for several years taught school and preached in his native place. He came to New England in 1640, at once became the first president of

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Harvard College and continued in office until 1654. Having become an Anabaptist, the Overseers feared he might ensnare the students in his unorthodox ideas, and labored ("with extreme agony" says Cotton Mather) to rescue him from his errors. But Mr. Dunster remained obdurate, so was removed from office and went to Scituate in the Plymouth Colony, where more tolerance prevailed and where he preached five years, until his death 27 Feb. 1658/9.

A letter is preserved, written to Mr. Dunster by his father, dated at Bury, 20 Mar. 1640/1. He mentions receiving four letters from New England from his son, and also states, "I do not know of any that you sent for that intend to come as yet." This expression indicates that some relatives or friends of Mr. Dunster were contemplating following him to New England. While positive legal proof is lacking, I feel absolutely certain that one of these adherents was Richard Dana, who was in Cambridge about 1642, and that he was identical with Richard Dana baptized at Manchester Cathedral 31 Oct. 1617, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Barlow) Dana. Manchester is only nine miles from Bury, the home of Dunster, and the name Dana is extremely rare in England and in fact has been found before 1700 solely in Manchester and at Kendal in Westmoreland where Robert Dana, father of Richard, was undoubtedly born, and where the family was living as early as the time of Henry VIII. The records at Kendal clearly show that Dana was a shortened form of Dawney, a family name on record in Westmoreland as early as 1327. Manchester was founded in Roman times, and had grown in 1640 to a town of only six thousand inhabitants; so could Richard Dana, like a Rip Van Winkle, now return to his native place, he would certainly be bewildered in finding himself in the greatest cotton-cloth manufacturing city in the world with a population of nearly a million. Other early Cambridge settlers after 1640 who were probably followers of Dunster were Richard Eccles, Richard Oldham and Humphrey Bradshaw; these are very common family names in and about Bury and Manchester.

In conclusion there need to be briefly mentioned twelve other founders of Cambridge whose English origins are known, but who are not associated with any of the five parties of emigrants previously mentioned. The first "master" of Harvard College, Nathaniel Eaton, that wretched prototype of Wackford Squeers, was born in 1609 at Great Budworth in Cheshire, son of the local vicar. Matthew Allyn was baptized 17 Apr. 1605 in Braunton, co. Devon; Andrew

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Belcher was from London; Francis Foxcroft, born in 1657, was a son of the mayor of Leeds in Yorkshire; Thomas Hitt was from Folkingham, co. Lincoln; and Daniel Gookin, born about 1613, came here from Virginia, but his father was of an ancient armorial and landed family of Ripple and Beakesbourne in Kent. John and Edward Jackson were baptized in Stepney, London, 6 June 1602 and 3 Feb. 1604/5 respectively; James Kidder was from a family of East Grinsted, co. Sussex; Gary Latham was baptized 10 Nov. 1613 in Aldenham in Hertfordshire, and Samuel Wakeman was a native of Bewdley, co. Worcester. John Adams was baptized in Kingweston, co. Somerset, 4 Dec. 1622, son of Henry Adams, and came to New England about 1638 with his father's family, who soon located in Braintree, Mass., where Henry died in 1646.

Rev. Charles Chauncey was baptized 5 Nov. 1592, son of George Chauncey, a member of an armorial and knightly family located for six generations at Gedleston (or Gilston) in Hertfordshire and for ten generations previously at Skirpenbeck in Yorkshire. Mr. Chauncey graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1613, and from 1627 to 1637 was vicar of Ware in Hertfordshire. Being persecuted for nonconformity by Archbishop Laud, he came to New England in 1637, preached three years at Plymouth, and from 1641 to 1654 was pastor of Scituate. He became an advocate of immersion instead of sprinkling for baptism, and the latter being then the orthodox form for New England, Mr. Chauncey found himself in hotwater with the authorities. But being offered the presidency of Harvard College on condition of recanting his heresy, and being less obdurate than Dunster, he agreed to conform, and in 1654 succeeded the latter, and remained in office until his death 19 Feb. 1671/2.

The English Ancestral Homes Of The Founders Of Cambridge

1631 Samuel Wakeman arrives in Massachusetts Bay Colony with wife Elizabeth. They settle in Roxbury.

DEFINITIVE REFERENCES
Old Genealogy Document

Old Genealogy Document2

William Commemorative Biography

Alvin Day Books

A JUDD NORTHROP GENEALOGY

AMOS ISSUES

AMOS BRIEF TIMELINE-CENSUS

FAMILY NAMES

NEIGHBOR NAMES

DETAILED TIMELINE

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Amos
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Amos may have been a farmer, shoemaker (his eldest known son, Alvin, was a shoemaker) or in a profession related to leather.Chatham, NY reported as birthplace is suspicious. May be Chatham, CT (Alvords) or wrong Northrop line. Names WITH connections - Amos, BurrNames with possible connections - Gerrit, George, Fenn, Elmore, Winthrop, Blaine, Anzonetta /Antoinetta

A number of Fenns have connections to Joseph Line - Second Congregational Church Milford "Plymouth" Amos had 2 known children but possibly more.Amos might have even spent some time in Berkshire County, MA.

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There are 4,272 people in the U.S. with the last name Northrup. Statistically the 8013th most popular last name.
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There are fewer than 1,526 people in the U.S. with the first name Northrop. The estimate for this name is not absolute.

There are fewer than 1,526 people in the U.S. with the first name Northrup. The estimate for this name is not absolute.

deed from the Ramapoo Tribe of Indians and their associates to the proprietors, viz. : John Belden, Samuel Keeler, Sen., Matthias Saint John, Benjamin Hickcock, John Beebee, Samuel Saint John, Mathew Seamor, James Brown, Benjamin Wilson, Joseph Birch- ard, John Whitne, Sen., John Bouton, Joseph Keeler, Samuel Smith, Junior, Jonathan Stevens, Daniel Olmstead, Richard Olmstead, John Sturtevant, Samuel Keeler, Junior, Joseph Bouton, Jonathan Rockwell, Edward Waring, Joseph Whitne, Daniel Olmstead, Thomas Hyatt, James Benedick, Joseph Crampton, Ebenezer Sension, Matthias Saint John, all of the Town of Norwalk in ye County of Fairfield in her Majesties Colony of Connecticut, in New England, and Thomas Smith, Thomas Canfield and Samuel Smith of ye Town of Milford in ye County of New Haven a 30th day of September in ye seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Anne, Queen of England, and in the Year of our Lord God 1708.

14. Norwalk, settled 1649; incorporated Sept., 1651, "Norwaukee shall bee a townee," Algonkin noyank, point of land, or more probably from the Indian name, "Naramauke."