Name:                     Isaac ALLERTON^1,2,3,4,5

Sex:                         Male

 

Individual Facts

Birth                       abt 1586                                                 England

Death                     Feb 1658/59 (age 72)                            New Haven, New Haven Co., CT⁶

 

Marriages/Children

1. Mary NORRIS

Marriage                4 Nov 1611 (age 25)                             Leyden, Holland

Children                 Bartholomew ALLERTON (abt 1612 - abt 1658/59)

                                Remember ALLERTON (abt 1614 - bet 12 Sep 1652 and 22 Oct 1656)

                                Mary ALLERTON (abt Jun 1616 - 28 Nov 1699)

                                child ALLERTON ( - bur 5 Feb 1620)

                                stillborn son ALLERTON ( - )

 

2. Fear BREWSTER

Marriage                abt 1626 (age 40)                                  Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA

Children                 Sarah ALLERTON (abt 1627 - bet 1628 and 1651)

                                Isaac ALLERTON (bet 22 May 1627 and 1630 - Oct 1702)

 

3. Joanna SWINNERTON

Marriage                bef 1644 (age 58)                                  (poss.) Marblehead, MA

 

Notes (Individual)

Death: ["d. New Haven CT bet. 1 Feb 1658/9 (when he appeared in court) and 12 Feb. 1658/9 (date of inventory.)."  (Allerton, p.1)]

General: "MAYFLOWER PASSENGER" -- Signed Mayflower Compact.    "--- of London, tailor,  'the first Yankee trader'  Probably one of Ancient Brethren, Amsterdam; citizen Leyden, 1614; asst. governor, Plymouth, 1621-c.1631; ... Purchaser, 1626; Undertaker and London business agent, 1627-c.1631 ... died insolvent." (Saints.. p. 437)

"A Leiden Separatist and 1620 Mayflower passenger, Allerton was second in authority only to Bradford in the early years of the colony. However, Bradford felt that Allerton had abused the trust the colonists placed in him (see text), and Allerton left the colony in the 1630s for other parts."  (Plymouth Colony, p. 234)

After the death if his first wife, Mary Norris, he married Fear Brewster (b. about 1626) daughter of William and Mary Brewster of the "Mayflower."  Isaac and Fear had two children, Sarah b. 1627 and Isaac b. between 1627 and 1630.  Isaac married a third time (before 1644) to Joanna Swinnerton (they had no children of record).

 

 

Sources

1.  Willison, George F..  Book:  Saints and Strangers; Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers & Their Families, with Their Friends & Foes.  Orleans, MA; Parnassus Imprints, Inc., 1945.  p. 437.

2.  Stratton, Eugene Aubrey.  Book:  Plymouth Colony; Its History & People 1620-1691.  Salt Lake City, UT; Ancestry Publishing, 1986.  p. 234.

3.  Wakefield, Robert S., FASG.  Mayflower Families in Progress; ISAAC ALLERTON of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, Second Edition (& Third Edition).  General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992 (& 1996).  p. 1.

4.  Caleb Johnson, CalebJ@aol.com.  Genealogical Summary, Isaac Allerton, from internet, Mayflower Homepage.  Mayflower Homepage, 11/96.

5.  Cushman, Henry Wyles.  Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, From the year 1617 to 1855.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1855.  pp. 613-620.

6.  Wakefield, Robert S., FASG.  Mayflower Families in Progress; ISAAC ALLERTON of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, Second Edition (& Third Edition).  General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992 (& 1996).  p. 1.

 

Prepared by:

O. Keith Wheeler

Mad River, CA 95552

(707) 574-6595

 

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