BORN: England, c1583-1586
DIED: between 1 and 12 February 1658/9, New Haven, CT
MARRIED:
Mary Norris of Newbury, England, 4 November 1611, Leyden, Holland
Fear Brewster, dau. of William Brewster of the Mayflower, c1626.
Joanna Swinnerton, between 1634 and 1644, possibly at Marblehead, MA
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ANCESTRAL SUMMARY:
Isaac Allerton was born in England about 1583-1586, but his parentage has not been
identified. He may be related to Mayflower passenger John Allerton, but no relationship
between them has been documented. Isaac Allerton is found in several Leyden records, and
his sister Sarah married Degory Priest there on the same day as Issac's marriage to Mary
Norris. A John Allerton and a Robert Allerton can also be found in Leyden records.
On 18 June 1618 in Leyden, Isaac Allerton, tailor, made a sworn statement for Nicholas
Claverly, witnessed by Degory Priest. On 9 January 1619, Isaac Allerton made agreement
with Alice Gallant, widow of John Hooke and current wife of Henry Gallant, to apprentice
her twelve-year old son John Hooke to Isaac Allerton, to learn the tailor trade. John
Hooke came with Isaac on the Mayflower, but died the first winter.
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Will of Isaac Allerton
At a Court of Magistrates Octob. 19. 59
A writeing presented as the last will & Testament of Isaac Alerton, late of Newhaven
deceased, wth an account of certaine debts, dew to him; & from him;
An account of Debts at the Dutch first, 700. & odd gilders from Tho: Hall by
Arbitration of Captaine Willet, & Augustine Harman; about Captaine Scarlet wch I paid
out,
And there is 900 gilders owing by John Peterson the Bore, as by Georg Woolseyes booke will
appeare; & severall obligations thereto, from Richard Cloufe owes, as Georg Woolseyes
Booke will make appeare; I thinke 900. gilders, but his Estate being broken. I Desire that
what may be gotten may be layd hold on for mee,
Due from william Goulder 270, od gilders, by his Bill appeares;
Due from John Snedecare a shoomaker 150, od gilders as by his acco appeares.
from the widdow of the Hanc Hancson due as by severall Bills & accounts;
Peter Cornelioussen 120. od guilders as by ye account will appeare.
Due from Henry Brasser for rent for 28 moneths, from the first October 1656. to the last
of May 58: for three roomes at 3 gilders a week. I am in his Debt for worke of the old
acco wch must be Deducted;
156 Isaac Allerton's Will and Inventory.
there is 20 li in George Woolseyes hand, that came fro. mr Tho Maybue for mee
There is 420. oaf. gilders that I owe to Nicholas, the ffrenchman, & a Cooper I owe
something to, wch I would have that 201; in Georg Woolseyes hand, & the rest of that
in Henry Brassers hand to them two;
And now I leave my son Isaac Allerton and my wife, as Trustees to receive in my debts,
& to pay what I owe, as farr as it will goe & what is overpluss I leave to my wife
and my sonne Isaac, as far as they receive the Debts to pay what I owe;
In Captaine Willetts hand. a pcell of booke lace 1300 & odd. guilders Wch I left in
trust with Captaine Willett to take care of: Seale
My brother Bruster owes mee foure score pounds & odd. as the obligations will appeare.
Besides all my Debts in Delloware Bay & in Virgenia wch in my booke will appeare,
& in Barbadoes. what can be gott; Witness. Isaac Allerton Senior John Harriman
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Estate Inventories of the Pilgrims
Isaac Allerton (d. 1658/9)
Sea chest, mortar and pestel, spectacles, old hat and cap, eight jars and a case of
bottles, six stools and three old chairs
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
William Bradford, c1650, included in his passenger list of the Mayflower: "Mr
Isaack Allerton, and Mary his wife; with .3. children Bartholomew, Remember, and
Mary. and a servant boy, John Hooke." He later wrote "Mr. Allerton his wife died
with the first, and his servant John Hooke. His son Bartle is married in England but I
know not how many children he hath. His daughter Remember is married at Salem and hath
three or four children living. And his daughter Mary is married here and hath four
children. Himself married again with the daughter of Mr. Brewster and hath one son living
by her, but she is long since dead. And he is married again and hath left this place long
ago. So I account his increase to be eight, besides his sons in England." On
September 26, 1636 Isaac made a deposition in Boston stating he was aged about 53 years.
Isaac Allerton has a relatively small number of descendants compared to other
Mayflower passengers, but is an ancestor to Presidents Zachary Taylor and Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
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SOURCES:
Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families in Progress: Isaac Allerton for Four Generations
(Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992).
Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1:36-39 (Boston: New England Historical
and Genealogical Society, 1995).
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison (New York: Random House,
1952).
William Bradford and Edward Winslow. A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and
Proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth . . .. (John Bellamie: London,
1621).
Newman A. Hall, "The Children of Isaac Allerton," Mayflower Quarterly
47(1981):14-18.
Newman A. Hall, "The Unproved Allerton Family Lineage," Mayflower Quarterly
45:23-24.
Newman A. Hall, "Allerton of Virginia," Virginia Genealogist 32:83-92.
Newman A. Hall, "Joanna Swinnerton: The Third Wife of Isaac Allerton, Sr.," New
England Historical and Genealogical Register 124(1970):133.
Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Carl Boyer, 3d: Santa Clarita, 1995).
Charles T. Gehring, translator. New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch Deleware Papers,
volumes 18-19, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981).
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Descendants of Isaac Allerton
First Generation
1. Isaac Allerton was born about 1586 in England. He died about 1 Feb
1658/1659 in New Haven, CT. Isaac married (1) Mary Norris on 4 Nov 1611 in Leyden,
Holland. Mary was born
in Newbury, England.
They had the following children:
2 M i. Bartholomew Allerton was born about 1612 in Leyden, Holland. He died
about 15 Oct 1658 in Bramfield, Suffolk, England.
Bartholomew married (1) Margaret.
Bartholomew also married (2) Sarah Fairfax in probably, Rumbough, Suffolk,
England.
3 F ii. Remember Allerton was born about 1613 in Leyden, Holland. She died
about 12 Sep 1652.
Remember married (1) Moses Maverick before 6 May 1635.
4 F iii. Mary Allerton was christened Jun 1616 in Leyden, Holland. She died
28 Nov 1699 in Plymouth, MA.
Mary married (1) Thomas Cushman about 1636 in Plymouth, MA.
5 M iv. son Allerton was born 22 Dec 1620 in Plymouth Harbor, MA. He died 22
Dec 1620 in Plymouth Harbor, MA.
Isaac also married (2) Fear Brewster, daughter of William Brewster [Elder] and
Mary Wentworth on 25 Feb 1620 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA. Fear was born about
1606/1607 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She died before 12 Dec 1634 in
Plymouth, Plymouth, MA.
They had the following children:
6 F v. Sarah Allerton was born about 1627 in Plymouth, MA. She died young.
7 M vi. Isaac Allerton Jr. was born about 22 May 1628 in Plymouth, MA. He
died about 25 Oct 1702 in Westmoreland, VA.
Isaac married (1) Elizabeth about 1652.
Isaac also married (2) Elizabeth Willoughby about 1663 in Norfolk county, VA.
Isaac also married (3) Joanna Swinnerton before 1644 in possibly, Marblehead,
MA.
Ship Manifest!
His Signature!
Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton married Elder William
Brewster's daughter, Fear. He is an agent for the Plymouth colonists during the 1627
negotiations with the Merchant Adventurers (financial backers) of the colony.
One of the Leiden Separatists who came over on the Mayflower,
Isaac Allerton was from London and was born ca1585. He worked as a tailor
in Leiden and even took on an apprentice, John Hooke, who traveled with him to America. He
had three wives, Mary Norris, Fear Brewster, and Joanna Swinnerton. Allerton was the first
assistant governor in Plymouth Colony and acted as the colony's agent in London. He died
in New Haven, Connecticut in the latter part of 1658.
Fear (Brewster) Allerton, a member of the Leiden Separatist
congregation, came over in 1623 with her sister, Patience. She bore two children and died
ca1634 during an outbreak of plague.
