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This book contains a genealogical register of the first settlers of New England. Bibliographic Information: Farmer, John. Genealogical A Genealogical Memoir of the Lothrop-Lathrop Family Author: E.B. Huntington Call Number: CS71.L882
This book contains the history and genealogy of the Lothrop family who come to America on the Mayflower and later settled in Connecticut.
Bibliographic Information: Huntington, E.B. Lo-Lathrop Family. Privately Published, Connecticut. 1884.

54. SUSANNAH, born Feb. 28, 1664-5, and married. Oct., 1683, William Shurtleff, son of William and Elizabeth (Lettice) Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marsfield. They settled in Plymouth, where he was a prominent man. He served as a selectman and was a representative to the State Assembly, and active in other offices of honor and trust. He was especially prominent as a military man among the pioneers. His remains were interred on Cole's Hill, the first burying lot of the Plymouth pilgrims, and his headstone bears this inscription: "Here lyes ye body of Capt. William Shurtleff who Decd Febry The 4th, 1729-30, in The 72d year of his age." His wife had died Aug. 9, 1726. She was ancestress to the late eminent antiquary, Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff of Boston. Their children all born in Plymouth were:

Jabez Shurtleff, born Apr. 22, 1684;

Thomas Shurtleff, born Mar. 16, 1687;

Jacob Shurtleff, baptized Aug. 11, 1688;

William Shurtleff, baptized Apr. 4, 1689, graduated at Harvard in 1707, and ordained a Congregational minister in New Castle, N. H., and later installed over the church in Portsmouth, N. H. Susannah Shurtleff, baptized in 1691, and married, Dec. 29, 1709, Josiah, son of Dea. Elkanah and Elizabeth (Cole) Cushman. Their daughter Susannah Cushman married Benjamin Shurtleff, and was the great grandmother of Dr. N. B. Shurtleff above mentioned.

John Shurtleff, born in June, 1693;

Barnabas Shurtleff, born Mar. 19, 1696;

Ichabod Shurtleff, born Nov. 8, 1697;

Elizabeth Shurtleff, born Mar. 28, 1699;

Mary Shurtleff, born Dec. 22, 1700;

Sarah Shurtleff, born June 8, 1702;

Samuel Shurtleff,

Abigail Shurtleff,

Nathaniel Shurtleff, born Dec. 2, 1707.


Buried in Cole's Hill, Plymouth, MA. They settled in Plymouth, where he was a prominent man. He served as a selectman and was a representative to the State Assembly, and active in other offices of honor and trust. He was especially prominent as a military man among the pioneers. His remains were interred on Cole's Hill, the first burying lot of the Plymouth pilgrims, and his headstone bears this inscription: "Here lyes ye body of Capt William Shurtleff who Decd Febry The 4th, 1729-30, in the 72d year of his age."


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