Martha Lathrop Moss - 8 gg

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Martha Lathrop (Lothrop) Moss

1657–1719

BIRTH 06 JAN 1657 or 22 Dec 1657 • New London, New London County, Connecticut Colony

DEATH SEP 21, 1719 • Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony

I mentioned Martha in an earlier post about her son John Moss III Here.  He was one of the 12 children of Martha Lathrop Moss and John Moss Jr.

Martha was the daughter of Samuel Lathrop and Elizabeth Scudder Lathrop, who had both been born in England. Her grandfather, Rev. John Lathrop had been imprisoned and fled England to start his churches in the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Considering how many church records of New England have been kept, as well as the colonial civic records, we don't know if Martha was born in January or December. But both dates were in the year 1657, so that can be established. (Remember the new year was celebrated March 15 so both December and January were in the year 1657)

She married on Dec 12, 1676 to John Moss, Jr. who had also been born in the early colonies of America. His father was a ship captain, John Moss/Morse Sr.

Martha and John Moss Jr. had 12 children, one of whom died as an infant. They are known as early settlers of Wallingford, along with his father. Apparently their home became a historic site early on. 

Martha Lathrop Moss headstone in Center St. Cemetery, Wallingford, CT

 

One of their sons, John Moss III (age 15) was among the teenagers who accused an early Wallingford settler, Mrs. Winifred King Benham, of witchcraft in Aug. 1697, the trial being held in Hartford, CT. She and her daughter were acquitted, but fled to the New York colony. And John Moss III (1682-1755) grew older and married  in 1703 or 1708 to Elizabeth Hall Moss.  

John Moss IV, (1720-1770) (his blog is Here) the son of Elizabeth Hall Moss and John Moss III, had a daughter, Elizabeth Moss Booth (1756-1841) who married Isaac Booth (1755-1841) and I've blogged about them HERE. And thus my Booth ancestors have those colonial New England roots.

This was my eight times great grandmother.

This post belongs to the Barbara Booth Rogers Family Tree. Photo shows Mataley Mozelle Rogers, and her mother Mozelle Booth Miller, and my sister Mary Beth Rogers.