Isaac Allerton and Johanna [Unk]

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Husband Isaac Allerton ¹

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           Born: Abt 1583-1585 - ? England
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           Died: 1659 - New Haven, New Haven Co, CT 2
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   Other Spouse: Mary Norris (      -1625) 2 - 4 Nov 1611 2

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   Other Spouse: Fear Brewster (Abt 1606-1634) 2 - 1626 2

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Wife Johanna [Unk] ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1682 - New Haven, New Haven Co, CT 2
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Allerton

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The exact time and place of his birth is not known to his descendants in America. He was of an old and honorable family of mixed Saxon and Danish descent that had been for many centuries located in the southeastern part of England. He was certainly born between the years of 1583 and 1585, and resided in London for some time prior to his removal to Holland, in 1609, when he was about twenty-six years old, and was thirty-seven when he came to Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is supposed that he was the son of Edward and Rose (Davis) Allerton. He is generally admitted to have been the wealthiest of all the Pilgrims, and was among the few who had the prefix of "Mr." attached to his name, which at that day indicated that he was of a superior family, or respectability. No one in the whole Leyden colony was more efficient and eminently useful in all their preparations for departure to America than he. When he sailed he had four children, all born in Holland: Bartholomew, Remember and Mary came with their parents in the "Mayflower," while Sarah remained behind to come later with an aunt.
Isaac Allerton was the fifth to sign his name to the celebrated "Compact," John Carver, William Bradford and two more only preceding him. His son-in-law, Degory Priest, was the twenty-ninth to affix his signature to the document, which had but forty-one names attached to it.
In September, 1621, a party of ten men went by water to view and explore the country at what is now known as Boston harbor; also to get acquainted with the Indians in that locality. The first headland at Nantucket was named "Point Allerton," which name it still retains. In the autumn of 1626 Mr. Allerton was sent by the colony to England for the purpose of obtaining supplies upon which to subsist. By a contract made, the entire trade of the colony was bound to William Bradford, Edward Winslow and Isaac Allerton for the period of six years. The men named assumed the little colony's indebtedness of twenty-four hundred pounds, they also agreeing to furnish the colony with "fifty pounds worth of hoes and shoes."
Like most of his descendants, Isaac Allerton was a man of quick temper and apt to resent an affront, and acted largely on his impulses. He was just and fair at all times, however. In 1634 his trading house was taken by the French and Indians and burned, as was also its contents. In 1635, on account of the liberality of his religion, he was notified to leave Marblehead, which he did. From 1636 to 1646 he lived at New Amsterdam, where he engaged in coasting and dealing in tobacco, having a warehouse at East River, near the present Maiden Lane, New York city. He made many voyages to Virginia and the West Indies. Governor Winthrop wrote of him in 1643:
"Three ministers which were sent to Virginia were shipwrecked on Long Island. Mr. Allerton, of New Haven, being there took great pains and care of them and provided them with a very good pinace and all things necessary."
In 1646 he became a permanent resident of New Haven, Connecticut, where he spent the remainder of his days, having built for himself "a grand house on the Creek with Four Porches," as the record reads. He died aged about seventy-five years, in 1659, and was buried in the old burying-ground at New Haven, Connecticut, but no monument ever marked his grave, as was the case in many other instances of the worthy Pilgrims, the reason being that at that time all gravestones had to be shipped from the Old World and were, necessarily, expensive.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 125.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 126.