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Family of Isaac * ALLERTON and Fear BREWSTER

Husband: Isaac * ALLERTON (1586-1669)
Wife: Fear BREWSTER (c. 1590-bef1634)
Children: Sarah ALLERTON (1626- )
Isaac ALLERTON (1630- )

Husband: Isaac * ALLERTON

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Isaac * ALLERTON

Name: Isaac * ALLERTON1
Sex: Male
Father: Edward * ALLERTON (1555-1590)
Mother: Rose * DAVIS (1559-1596)
Birth 1586 St. Andrews Under Shaft, London, England
Immigration 1620 (age 33-34)
Arrived on the Mayflower
Census 1632 (age 45-46) Plymouth Colony, Plymouth, MA, US2
Occupation tailor
Religion -
Isaac Allerton and his wife were assigned pews in New Haven Meeting House 10 Mar 1646/7.
Will
Isaac Allerton, late of New Haven, deceased, "devoted most of the space to a list of the debts owing to him, and then order "my son, Isaac Allerton and my wife, as trustees to receive in my debts and to apy what I owe, as far as it will go and what is overplus I leave to my wife and my son Isaac, as far as they receive the debts to pay what I owe". The inventory, taken 12 Feb 1658/9, totaled 118 pds, 5 sh, 2 pence, and included "the dwelling house, orchard and barn with two acres of meadow".
Death 12 Feb 1669 (age 82-83) New Haven, New Haven, CT, US4,5
Burial Center Church on the Green Churchyard
New Haven, New Haven, CT, US

Wife: Fear BREWSTER

Name: Fear BREWSTER
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1590 (est)
Death bef 12 Dec 1634 (age 43-44) Plymouth Colony, Plymouth, MA, US

Child 1: Sarah ALLERTON

Name: Sarah ALLERTON
Sex: Female
Birth 1626

Child 2: Isaac ALLERTON

Name: Isaac ALLERTON
Sex: Male
Birth 1630

Note on Husband: Isaac * ALLERTON

MAYFLOWER!! Found reference in "The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660, p. 4. listing him as "prominent member of that colony (Plymouth), also traded at Machias, then the eastern trading-post on the Maine coast in 1633. On page 214 - Richard Vines and he traded along the coast "landed goods at Machias and there he set up a small wigwam and left five men and two murderers(small cannon) to defend it. and a shallop in 1633. The goods were soon taken, two of the men killed and the rest sent as prisoners to France by LaTour and his men.

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Adm frm of Leyden, Holland, Feb 7, 1514. m Nov 4, 1611, Mary Morris of Newbury, Eng who d, eb 25, 1620-1; he m. 2 1626, Fear, dau of eldr William Brewster, who d. in 1634; he m (3) Joanna______. He was a man of great enterprise active in the affairs of the Pilgram chh and colony. Came in the Mayflower; signe the Compact; was Asst, 1633;agent for the Colony in Eg, etc He deposed 24 (7) 1639 ae about 53 years. Carried on trade in Machias and Kennebec in Maine and at other coast points. Resided at Plymouth till about 21 (1) 1639, when he desired accomodations of Salem, near his son in law at Marblehead. Adm chh Sal 21 (1) 1647. Rem to New Haven. He was a brother of Zarah, wife of Godbert Godbertson. Ch Bartholomew, Remember (m. Moses Maverick), Mary (m. Thomas Cushman), Sarah. these came in the Mayflower and had shares of cattle in 1627; Isaac.

He d at New Haven about Feb 12, 1669.Son Isaac had the est., subject to the widow's life interest.

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Isaac, his wife Mary Norris and daughter Mary Allerton immigrated to the colonies aboard the 'Mayflower' in November 1620.

 

Isaac is the 5th signer of the Mayflower Compact.

 

Isaac along with many of the 'First Comers' migrated from England to Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland Province Netherlands to practice religious freedom.

 

He was Governor Bradford's assistant and in 1627 was elected by the colonists to return to London, England to negotiate the Plymouth Colony's buyout of the Merchant Adventurers, the investors who had originally funded the Colony.

 

Husband of Mary Norris and Fear Brewster.

 

Father of Mary Allerton Cushman and Isaac Allerton, Jr.

 

He is also the ancestor of Presidents Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.5

Sources

1"Find a Grave".
2"MA Early Census Records".
3Robert Charles Andeson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1632" (New England History Genealogical Society, 200).
4"Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 and 2".
5Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998).