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The families of Lattin and Latting, in this country, are descended from Richard Lettin (or Letten, as the name appears in the earlier records) who emigrated from England to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1638-1639. No account of his English ancestry or descent. or of the place whence he came. has been preserved in the family; there existing only the tradition that he "came from England in old Pilgrim times." He was accompanied on his emigration to, and arrival in this country, by his wife and one or more children, and proceeded at once to Concord, in Massachusetts, where a settlement had then but recently been commenced by Capt. Simon Willard and others. The following petition, signed by him and some of his associates, found on the files of the General Court of Massachusetts, is the evidence of this fact. Whereas your humble petitioners came into this country about 4 years ago, and have since then lived at Concord, where we were forced to use what now we have, or the most of it, the convenience of the town being before given out: your petitioners having been brought up, in husbandry, of children, finding the lands about the town very barren and the meadows very wet and unuseful, especially those we now have interest in; and knowing it is your desire the lands might be subdued, have taken pains to search out a place on the north west of our town, where we do desire some reasonable quantity of land may be granted unto us, which we hope may in time he joined to the farms already laid out there to make a village; and so, desiring God to guide you in is and all other your weighty occasions, we rest your humble petitioners. Dated Sept. 7, 1643.

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