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Family of Isaac * ALLERTON and Mary * NORRIS

Husband: Isaac * ALLERTON (1586-1669)
Wife: Mary * NORRIS (1588-1620)
Children: Bartholomow ALLERTON (c. 1612- )
Remember * ALLERTON (1614-1655)
Mary ALLERTON (c. 1616- )
Isaac ALLERTON (c. 1618- )
Marriage 4 Nov 1611 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands1,2

Husband: Isaac * ALLERTON

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Isaac * ALLERTON

Name: Isaac * ALLERTON3
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, US4
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, US6,7
Burial Center Church on the Green Churchyard
New Haven, New Haven, CT, US

Wife: Mary * NORRIS

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Mary * NORRIS

Name: Mary * NORRIS
Sex: Female
Father: Edward * NORRIS (1565-1603)
Mother: -
Birth 1588 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Death 25 Feb 1620 (age 31-32) Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US5
Burial Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US

Child 1: Bartholomow ALLERTON

Name: Bartholomow ALLERTON
Sex: Male
Birth 1612 (est)

Child 2: Remember * ALLERTON

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Remember * ALLERTON

Name: Remember * ALLERTON
Sex: Female
Spouse: Moses * MAVERICK (1611-1686)
Birth 1614 Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands
Immigration 1620 (age 5-6)8
MAYFLOWER!!
Death 12 Sep 1655 (age 40-41) Salem, Essex, MA, US3

Child 3: Mary ALLERTON

Name: Mary ALLERTON
Sex: Female
Spouse: Thomas CUSHMAN (c. 1610- )
Birth 1616 (est)

Child 4: Isaac ALLERTON

Name: Isaac ALLERTON
Sex: Male
Spouse: Elizabeth (c. 1620- )
Birth 1618 (est)

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.7

Note on Wife: Mary * NORRIS

MAYFLOWER! Birth: 1590Berkshire, EnglandDeath: Feb. 25, 1621PlymouthPlymouth CountyMassachusetts, USA"Mayflower" passengerWife of Isaac Allerton, the 5th signer of the "Mayflower Compact". She traveled to the Colonies with her husband and 3 children Barhlomew, Remember and Mary Allerton Cushman, who became the wife of Elder Thomas Cushman. She was the first person to give birth in the Colonies (a stillborn born upon the Mayflower as it was docked in the harbor). It is said that in the painting by Henry Sargent (1770-1885) entitled "Landing of the Pilgrims", Mary Norris Allerton is represented as having a fine face, rather beautiful, and as being of a "meek and quiet spirit". The painting was painted in 1818-1822 and is on permanent display at Pilgrim Hall Museum; Plymouth, MA.COLE HILL MONUMENT:Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.Mary Norris Allerton is the 2nd inscription on the monument.3

Sources

1"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).
2"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".
3"Find a Grave".
4"MA Early Census Records".
5Robert Charles Andeson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1632" (New England History Genealogical Society, 200).
6"Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 and 2".
7Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998).
8"Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900".