Isaac ALLERTON38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 was born 1583 in ENGLAND44, 45, and died 1658 in NEW HAVEN CT. He married Mary NORRIS on 11 Nov 161146, 47.
Notes for Isaac ALLERTON: Isaac Allerton, known as "The Origianl Yankee Trader" (1583 - 1658) was one of the original Pilgrim fathers who came on the Mayflower to settle the Plymouth Colony in 1620. Allerton is an ancestor to Presidents of the United States Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He is believed to have been born in London, England, about 1583) and was trained as a tailor. A religious non-conformist, he followed the Scrooby exiles to Leiden, Holland as a young man. He married his first wife, Mary Norris, in November 1611 in Leiden.
Accompanying Isaac and Mary on the Mayflower were their three children: Bartholemew, Remember, and Mary, and a servant boy named John Hooke. Mary Allerton and Hooke died in the first winter at the Plymouth Colony. Mary had delivered a stillborn son while they were on the ship in Plymouth Harbor. Allerton remarried Fear Brewster, the daughter of William Brewster in 1626. With her he had another son naming him Isaac Allerton Jr.
Allerton quickly rose to prominence among the Pilgrim leaders, serving as William Bradford's assistant governor during the early years of the colony. He later served as one of five assistant governors. In 1627, he became one of the eight "undertakers" of the colony's debt and made several voyages to London to negotiate with the colony's creditors.
While serving as the colony's business agent, Allerton apparently began several personal business ventures using the colony's credit as collateral. Whe these ventures failed,he placed the colony in great debt. Also, Allerton was asked to bring over trade goods to sell to the natives, however, Allerton brought over retail goods to sell to the colonists and fishermen who came over every year. Later on Allerton did not mark which goods were his and which belonged to the colony. When the goods were unloaded, Allerton took the most expensive items leaving the Plymouth colonists with the cheaper goods. In 1629 Allerton brought Thomas Morton back to New England, and allowed him to live in his house; this got the Plymouth colonists very upset. This rendered Allerton permanently persona non grata in Plymouth.
Settling in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Allerton established a profitable fishing business. Fear Brewster died in 1634, and Allerton married Joanna Swinnerton sometime between 1634 and 1644. He was soon commanded by the Massachusetts authorities to leave the colony. He relocated to New Amsterdam in 1643. Two years later, he moved again to the new English settlement at New Haven, Connecticut, where he continued his activities as a merchant.
Allerton died in February 1659 in New Haven and was buried under the town common. Although his estate, when inventoried, appeared to be large, he was in fact found to have died insolvent.
His daughter, Mary Allerton Cushman, was the last survivor of the Mayflower company.
More About Isaac ALLERTON: 1: Bef. 2: Bef. 48, 49 Arrival: 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts.50, 51, 52 Date born 2: 1583, England.53, 54, 55, 56 Date born 3: 158657, 58, 59 Date born 4: 1586, London, England.60, 61, 62 Custom: Leiden, Holland.63, 64, 65 Died 2: 1658, New Haven CT.66, 67 Died 3: 165968, 69, 70 Died 4: Feb 1659, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.71, 72, 73
More About Isaac ALLERTON and Mary NORRIS: Marriage: 11 Nov 161174, 75
Children of Isaac ALLERTON and Mary NORRIS are:
+Mary ALLERTON, b. Jun 1616, Leyden, Holland76, 77, 78, d. 28 Nov 1699, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA79, 80, 81.
Isaac ALLERTON (b. 1583, d. 1658)
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