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.
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