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Status summary

Completed as of October 8, 2020:

• Recruiting additional direct male-line Robert Latham descendants for NGS/WGS SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
• Y-DNA predicted to fall under R1a-M512.

Still to do as of October 8, 2020

• NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of Robert Latham to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines

Biography

For more information see Sherman, Robert M. & Verle D. Vincent (rev. by Robert S. Wakefield), Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 15, Chilton & More. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1997, reprinted 2013

First Generation

Robert Latham was born, presumably in England, about 1623, and died at (East) Bridgewater (Satucket) sometime before 28 Feb 1688. The date and circumstances of his emigration to New England are currently unknown. He married before 1650^[1] to Susanna Winslow. They had seven children; four daughters and three sons (James, Joseph and Chilton)

Second Generation

James Latham was born Marshfield abt 1658 and died Bridgewater bef 6 Feb 1738. He married Bridgewater bef Apr 1690 Deliverance Alger and they had five children (Bridgewater): Joseph (1690), Thomas (1693), Anne (1695), Susanna (1697), and Betty (1701).

Joseph Latham was born Bridgewater abt 1663 and died bef 9 Jul 1723. He married abt 1688 Phebe Fenner and they had at least two children (prob. Providence, RI): Phebe and Robert.

(Capt.) Chilton Latham was born Bridgewater abt 1672 and died East Bridgewater 6 Aug 1751. He married Bridgewater 6 Dec 1699 Susanna Kingman and they had eight children (Bridgewater): Charles (1701), Jane (1703), Arthur (1705), James (1708), Robert (1711), Joseph (1714-1777 unm.), Susanna (1717) and Mary (1720).

Third Generation

Joseph Latham was born Bridgewater aft Apr 1690 and died East Bridgewater bef 9 Oct 1758. He married Bridgewater 27 Nov 1717 Sarah Hayward and they had seven children: James (c1718), Joseph (1723), Betty, Nathaniel, Thomas, Sarah (1733) and Seth (b1738).

Thomas Latham was born East Bridgewater 30 Jun 1693 and died there in 1769. He married Bridgewater 19 Mar 1712 Deborah Hardin and they had ten children: Janet (1715), Deliverance (dau, c1716), Anne (c1718), Phineas (c1720), Rhoad (c1723), Rotheus (son, 1726), Beriah (dau, 1728), John (1730), Micajah (1732) and poss. James (1736).

Robert Latham was born aft 1688 prob. in Providence, RI. He died Smithfield, RI 14 Apr 1762. He married twice, first abt 1720 Catherine Bowdish and second Smithfield 10 Jun 1756 Lydia ____. By his first wife he had ten children: Mary, Phebe, Joseph, Robert, Arthur, Eleanor, William, John, Susanna and Catherine. By his second wife he had two more children: Zoriah (dau) and Benoni (son).

Charles Latham was born Bridgewater 18 Mar 1701 and died East Bridgewater 18 Feb 1761. He married Bridgewater Mar 1724 Susanna Woodward and they had six children (Bridgewater): Elizabeth (1725), Susanna (1727), Woodward (1729), Mary (1735), Chilton (twin, 1739) and Jane (twin, 1739).

Arthur Latham was born 16 Sep 1705 Bridgewater and died there in 1736. He married Bridgewater 1 Feb 1733 Alice Allen and they had two children (Bridgewater): Nehemiah (1733) and Jane (1736).

James Latham was born Bridgewater 16 Aug 1708 and died Chesterfield, NH 8 Jul 1792. He married abt 1739 Abigail Harvey and they had eight children (East Bridgewater): Abigail (1740), Arthur (1742), Mary (1744), James (c1746), Mehitable (1751), Susanna (c1755), Betty (1759) and Simeon (1761).

Robert Latham was born Bridgewater 16 Aug 1711 and died there abt 10 Dec 1788. He married three times, first Bridgewater 12 Jun 1751 Mary Johnson, second Bridgewater 17 Apr 1753 Bethiah HAYWARD Harris and third East Bridgewater 18 Nov 1778 Jerusha Hooker (Mitchell). By his first wife he had one son (Bridgewater): Robert Johnson (1752). It is believed he had no other children.

1. ↑ First child born Plymouth 2 Jun 1650

DNA results R1a-M512

Previous Y-DNA testing

The Latham surname DNA Project Subgrouping: "R-M198" has one individual, who states his Most Distant Known Paternal Ancestor (MDKPA) was Robert Latham of Bridgewater. He has not done any Y-SNP testing, but only a Y-37 STR test. FTDNA has predicted he falls under R-M512 and the Nevgen Haplogroup Prediction tool is only able to assign this individual to Haplogroup R1a.

Further needed testing

We need additional direct male-line descendants of Robert Latham to WGS/NGS test to both to refine the haplogroup further and delineate descendant clades.

References & External Links

• Sherman, Robert M. & Verle D. Vincent (rev. by Robert S. Wakefield), Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 15, Chilton & More. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1997, reprinted 2013
• wikitree profile for Robert Latham