Daily Archives: March 20, 2013

John Lothropp (also Lothrop or Lathrop)

Associated Locations:

• Etton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England

Associated Dates:

• 1584 – Born
• September 18, 1634 – John Lothropp arrives in Boston, Massachusetts

Providential Role in History

The following narrative is from The Great Prologue by Mark E. Peterson

The Reverend Lathrop was a Church of England minister. As he read the Bible carefully, he discovered that there was little harmony between the teachings of that denomination and the scriptures.

Roger Sherman

Associated Locations: Newton, Massachusetts Associated Dates: April 19, 1721 – Born Life Sketch from “Lives of the Signers” Character Sketch from Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, B.J. Lossing, the 1848 original. One of the most remarkable men of the Revolution, was Roger Sherman. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on the nineteenth…