Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Robert Latham
Abt 1623 - 1689 (~ 62 years)-
Name Robert Latham [1] Birth Abt 1623 [2, 3] Gender Male Death Between 14 Nov 1685 and 28 Feb 1689 East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts [2] Alternate death 1688 [3] Burial Old Graveyard, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts [3] Person ID I38377 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW Last Modified 18 Sep 2022
Family Susanna Winslow, b. Abt 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony d. Aft 14 Nov 1685, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 55 years) Marriage Bef 1650 [4] Children 1. Mercy Latham, b. 2 Jun 1650, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony d. Between 2 Feb 1685 and Jun 1698, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 34 years) Family ID F22541 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Sep 2022
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Notes - He was constable at Marshfield in 1643. He settled at East Bridgewater before 1667. On 3 June 1679 he was fined 10s. for being drunk twice.
"On 4 Mar. 1684/5 Robert was indicted for felonious cruelty causing the death of his 14 year old servant, John Walker. A jury found him guilty of manslaughter and he was sentenced to be burned on the hand and, since he owned no land, to have hias personal properly confiscated. The courts charged wife Susanna with complicity but she was never tried." [Mayflower Increasings, citation details below]
- He was constable at Marshfield in 1643. He settled at East Bridgewater before 1667. On 3 June 1679 he was fined 10s. for being drunk twice.
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Sources - [S6632] Gale Ion Harris, "Arthur1 Harris of Duxbury, Bridgewater, and Boston, Massachusetts, With an Account of His Apparent Grandson, Thomas Harris of Plainfield, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 159:261; 159:349, 2005.
- [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995.
- [S6634] Find a Grave page for Robert Latham.
- [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.
- [S6632] Gale Ion Harris, "Arthur1 Harris of Duxbury, Bridgewater, and Boston, Massachusetts, With an Account of His Apparent Grandson, Thomas Harris of Plainfield, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 159:261; 159:349, 2005.