John Throckmorton (settler)

He emigrated from Norfolk, England to settle in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but religious tensions brought about his removal to Providence.

[4] Twenty years later, however, Anderson had evidently changed his view, stating that John Throckmorton of Salem and Providence was in fact the 1631 passenger on the Lyon and listing his own 1995 remarks as "incorrect.

"[5] Throckmorton may have been in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1635,[6] but the first definitive record of his presence in New England is in 1638 when he was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence Plantation, being named in the deed signed by Roger Williams in October of that year.

[7] The settlement was short-lived, however, and its fate was summed up by Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop in September 1643, who said that the Indians set upon the English who dwelt under the Dutch and killed "such of Mr. Throckmorton's and Mr. Cornhill's families as were at home.

"[3] He further added that these settlers "had cast off ordinances and churches, and now at last their own people, and for larger accommodation had subjected themselves to the Dutch, and dwelt scatteringly near a mile assunder.

[3] Gary Boyd Roberts has published a genealogy of John Throckmorton, showing him to be descended in the 15th generation from King Edward I of England and his wife Eleanor of Castile.

[6] John married a daughter of Richard and Penelope Stout of Gravesend, New York, and resided in Monmouth County, New Jersey.