Joshua LATHROP

1723 - 1807  (84 years)

• Name	Joshua LATHROP  [1]
  	Graduated at Yale College in 1743. He became eminent among the business men of his native town. His brother Daniel and himself are reported in the sketch of Dr. Woodward as having been "successively the most celebrated druggists of their day in Connecticut. Importing medicines directly from Europe, they not only supplied a wide area of country about home, but also received orders from New York". The following tribute, from mrs. Sigourney's "POST MERIDIAN" is well worth a place in this family memorial: "Among childhood's unfading sketches of my native [lace, is the figure of a beautiful ole man of eight-four, Dr. Joshua Lathrop, who, until the brief illness that preceded dissolution, took daily equestrian excursions, withheld only by very inclement weather. Methinks I clearly see him now; his small, well-knit; perfectly upright form, mounted upon his noble, lustrous black horse, readily urged to an easy canter, his servant a little in the rear. I see the large, fair, white wig, with its depth of curls, the swarthy cocked hat, the rich buckles at knee and shoe, and the nicely plaited ruffles, over hand and bosom, that in those days designated the gentleman of the old school. Repeated rides in that varied and romantic region, were so full of suggestive thought to his religious mind, that he was led to construct a good little book, in dialogue form, on the works of nature and nature's God, entitled, 'The Father and the Son,' which we younglings received with great gratitude from its kind-hearted author His quick, elastic step in walking, his agility in mounting his steed, as well as his calm and happy temperament, were remarkable, ad a model for younger men." His will, dated May 29, 1795, names as legtees his wife, "Mercy, son Thomas, daughter Lydia Austin, friends and nieces Abigail Gardiner, Hannah Thomas, Mehetabel Carew, and Sally Eells, living with me." His death occurred Oct. 29, 1807, and that of his widow, July 7, 1833, at ninety-one years of age. [1]
  Birth	8 May 1723	Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Oct 1807  [1]
  Person ID	I96457	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	Thomas LATHROP,   b. 25 Aug 1681
  Mother	Lydia ABEL   d. 22 Mar 1752
  Marriage	24 Feb 1708/9  [1]
  Family ID	F7098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah GARDINER   d. 24 Jul 1750
  Marriage	21 May 1748  [1]
  Family ID	F6865	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Mercy EELLS,   b. Abt 1742   d. 7 Jul 1833 (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	5 Nov 1761  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas LATHROP,   b. 11 Sep 1762   d. 28 Dec 1817 (Age 55 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F6918	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2019

  
  

• Sources

  [S10825] Rev. E.B. Huntington, A Genealogical Memoir of the LO-LATHROP Family in this Country, Embracing the Descendants as far as known.