Author: Lothrop, Reuel
Biography:
Lothrop, Reuel (b 1789: ancestry.com)
A Tennessee census of 1860 gives his birthplace as Massachusetts and his occupation as Teacher. By that time he was living in Lincoln TN with a daughter, Mary Lathrop. In 1814, however, when he published his hymns as a "reformed sinner," he was living and working in New Hampshire. He is identified as the printer on some short publications from Meredith Bay NH in 1815-16. In 1816 he was ordained as a Baptist preacher. He became pastor of the congregation in Sutton NH but is also described as an Elder of the congregation in Cavendish VT (just across the state border) in 1819 and as leader of a peace society in Wilton NH in 1824--by which time he was married to Sally Spaulding, with whom he had at least two children. His wife died in 1831 and was buried in Cavendish. There is no reliable record of Lothrop's later years apart from the 1860 census; the place and date of his death are not known. (ancestry.com 24 Nov. 2019; History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties [1885] 631)