Samuel Throope

Samuel Throope (1745-1776) was the eldest child of Thomas Throope Jr. and his second wife Elizabeth Man. He was baptized in the Congregational Church. He worked as a leather dresser. In 1768, he married Eliza Pearse in St. Michael’s Anglican Church. Samuel and Eliza had three children: Pamela, Mary, and George, who were baptized at St. Michael’s. In 1774, as part of a town-wide effort, he sent a sum of six shillings to support the people of Boston (that city’s port having been recently closed by the British).