settled in Rochester, N.H., and was one of the public men of the town.
Of the strictest integrity, and possessing sterling qualities of mind
and heart Mr. Lothrop was chosen to fill important offices of public
trust in his town and state. He repeatedly represented his town in the
Legislature, where his sound practical sense and clear wisdom were of
much service, particularly in the formation of the Free Soil party, in
which he was a bold defender of the rights of liberty to all men. He
died May 31, 1870.

VII. Daniel Lothrop, son of Daniel and Sophia (Horne) Lothrop, was born
in Rochester, N.H., August 11, 1831.

"On the maternal side Mr. Lothrop is descended from William Horne,
of Horne's Hill, in Dover, who held his exposed position in the
Indian wars, and whose estate has been in the family name from 1662
until the present generation; but he was killed in the massacre of
June 28, 1689. Through the Horne line, also, came descent from Rev.
Joseph Hull, minister at Durham in 1662, a graduate at the
University at Cambridge, England; from John Ham, of Dover; from the
emigrant John Heard, and others of like vigorous stock. It was his
ancestress, Elizabeth (Hull) Heard, whom the old historians call a
"brave gentlewoman," who held her garrison house, the frontier fort
in Dover in the Indian wars, and successfully defended it in the
massacre of 1689. The father of the subject of this sketch was a
man of sterling qualities, strong in mind and will, but commanding
love as well as respect. The mother was a woman of outward beauty
and beauty of soul alike; with high ideals and reverent
conscientiousness. Her influence over her boys was life-long. The
home was a centre of intelligent intercourse, a sample of the
simplicity but earnestness of many of the best New Hampshire