Lowthorpe is a small parish in the Wapentake of Dickering, in the East Riding of York, four and a half miles northeast from Great Driffield.  It is a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of York.  This parish gave name to the family of Lowthrop, Lothrop, or Lathrop.  The Church, which was dedicated to St. Martin, and had for one of its chaplains, in the reign of Richard II., Robert de Louthorp, is now partly ruinated, the tower and chancel being almost entirely overgrown with ivy.  It was a collegiate Church from 1333, and from the style of its architecture must have been built about the time of Edward III.

From this English John Lowthroppe the New England Lothrops have their origin:—­

“It is one of the most ancient of all the famous New England families, whose blood in so many cases is better and purer than that of the so-called noble families in England.  The family roll certainly shows a great deal of talent, and includes men who have proved widely influential and useful, both in the early and later periods.  The pulpit has a strong representation.  Educators are prominent.  Soldiers prove that the family has never been wanting in courage.  Lothrop missionaries have gone forth into foreign lands.  The bankers are in the forefront.  The publishers are represented.  Art engraving has its exponent, and history has found at least one eminent student, while law and medicine are likewise indebted to this family, whose talent has been applied in every department of useful industry,"[A]

[Footnote A:  The Churchman.]

GENEALOGY.[B]

[Footnote B:  From a genealogical memoir of the Lo-Lathrop family, by Rev. E.B.  Huntington, 1884.]

I. Mark Lothrop, the pioneer, the grandson of John Lowthroppe and a relative of Rev. John Lothrop, settled in Salem, Mass., where he was received as an inhabitant January 11, 1643-4.  He was living there in 1652.  In 1656 he was living in Bridgewater, Mass., of which town he was one of the proprietors, and in which he was prominent for about twenty-five years.  He died October 25, 1685.

II.  Samuel Lothrop, born before 1660, married Sarah Downer, and lived in Bridgewater.  His will was dated April 11, 1724.

III.  Mark Lothrop, born in Bridgewater September 9, 1689; married March 29, 1722, Hannah Alden [Born February 1, 1696; died 1777].  She was the daughter of Deacon Joseph Alden of Bridgewater, and great grand-daughter of Honorable John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden of Duxbury, of Mayflower fame.  He settled in Easton, of which town he was one of the original proprietors.  He was prominent in Church and town affairs.

IV.  Jonathan Lothrop, born March 11, 1722-3; married April 13, 1746, Susannah, daughter of Solomon and Susannah (Edson) Johnson of Bridgewater.  She was born in 1723.  He was a Deacon of the Church, and a prominent man in the town.  He died in 1771.