William Latham (abt. 1609 - bef. 1651)

Born about 1609 in England

Died before 1651 before about age 42 in Bahama Islands, West Indies

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Biography

Unproven Birth and Parents

There was a William Latham baptized on 4 February 1608/9 in Eccleston by Chorley, Lancashire, England, son of Hugh and Eline Latham. He would be the right age to be the mayflower passenger William Latham. Eccleston by Chorley is the area Myles Standish came from.^[1][2]

Mayflower

1620. William Latham, a boy, came on the Mayflower as a servant to John Carver.^[3] He was about 11 years old at that time. In 1641, he was deposed at age 32 years.^[4] Because he came as a servant to John Carver, Wikipedia lists William Latham as part of the Leiden group.

Records

• 1627. William was the seventh person in the eleventh company of Gov. William Bradford.^[5]
• 25 Mar 1633 and 27 Mar 1634. Plymouth Tax list. assessed 9s in both years^[6]
• July 1633 and March 1636, Myles Standish was appointed to mow William's meadowland.^[7]
• 8 Nov 1633 William "Lathan" a creditor for £1 0s listed in the inventory of Francis Eaton.^[8]
• March 1635 He witnessed a property deed for Edward Bumpass.^[9]
• 5 June 1638 William "Lathame" fined 40s. "for entertaining of John Phillips into his house contrary to the act of the Court."^[10]
• 6 July 1638, a deed showed that he and John Phillips had a crop of indian corn.^[11]
• 26 Dec 1639 William Lathame of Duxburrow, planter sold his dwelling 20 acres of land and one acre of meadow to Ralph Patrick for the sum of £26 13s 4d. ^[12] He went to Marblehead in Massachusetts Colony.^[2]
• 8 July 1641 William Latham of Duxbury planter aged 32 years deposed.^[4]
• About 1643. There is no record of his marriage to Mary, but Governor Winthrop made note of her infidelity in his journal. They left Marblehead. and settled in Marshfield.^[2]
• August 1643 Returned to Marshfield. William was on the list of Men able to bear arms.^[13]
• 21 March 1644. Mary was hanged after being arrested in Plymouth and sent back to Plymouth.^[2]
• 28 Oct 1645 William Lathame and Roger Cooke complained against John Barker and Ann his wife. Ann burned their house accidently.^[14] According to the History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, the fire place in Marshfield, in 1648.^[15]

Wife

"On 24 February 1643/4, a warrant was issued against William Latham's wife Mary for adultery. Governor Edward Winslow of the Plymouth Colony wrote:

"Whereas divers and sundry complaints have come in to me from Weymouth sent and delivered by godly and credible persons against Mary the wife of William Latham late of Marblehead but now at Marshfield for adultery committed upon the body of the said Mary by one James Brittain of Weymouth. And having apprehended the said Mary and examined her, have sent her with the examination according to my duty to that Government where the fact was committed.[http://mayflowerhistory.com/latham ^[16]

After 1645 and Death

John Carver's "servant boy Latham, after more then 20. years stay in the country, went into England, and from thence to the Bahamy Hands in ye West Indies, and ther, with some others, was starved for want of food."^[3]

Children

• None
  • He was NOT the father of Robert Latham. See that profile and the g2g discussion associated with it for details.

Sources

1. ↑ Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History.com William Latham
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Johnson, Caleb. "Hanged for Adultery: The Untold Story of Mayflower Passenger William Latham's Wife Mary" in Mayflower Quarterly 75 [2009] 49-53
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation. (Boston 1856) p. 447, p. 450
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Lechford, Thomas. Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641. Cambridge : J. Wilson, 1885 p 421
5. ↑ PCR: Pulsifer, David (ed.) Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England Vol. 12 Deeds, &c. Vol. 1 1620-1651 & Book of Indian Records for their lands. (Boston:Press of William White, 1861) p. 12:12
6. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel (ed.) Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England Vol. 1 Court Orders 1633-1640 PCR 1: 11, 28
7. ↑ Plymouth Colony Records: 1:14, 40
8. ↑ Mayflower Descendant 1:200
9. ↑ Plymouth Colony Records: 1:33
10. ↑ PCR 1:87
11. ↑ PCR 12:31
12. ↑ PCR 12:54
13. ↑ PCR 8:196
14. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel (ed.) Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England Vol. 8 Judicial Acts 1636-1692 (1857) PCR 7:41
15. ↑ Mitchell, Nahum. HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER, IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS; Henry T. Pratt, Bridgewater, 1897; p. 222; Wm L was at Plymouth 1623, at Duxbury 1637, at Marshfield 1643, where his house was burned 1648
16. ↑ "Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History.com] William Latham

• Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "William Latham", The Piligrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society 2004 p. 304
• Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
• Source: Bradford's History on line at https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth00bradgoog - print version: Bradford's History "Of Plymouth Plantation", Wright & Porter Printing Company,Boston, 1898.
• Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers
• Source: AMES, AZEL. The May-Flower and Her Log, July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621, Chiefly from Original Sources. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907, pp. 166-195. http://www.Ancestry.com
• Mayflower Society - Passengers Who Died With No Known Descent