Search results
Of the Mayflower passengers accorded biographies in the Dictionary of American Biography, the least considered by the public at large is Isaac Allerton (ca. 1586-1659).Yet Allerton was a proper Saint (Leyden Separatist), was fifth to sign the Mayflower Compact, and in the earliest years of Plymouth Colony was second only to Bradford in rank and power.
Isaac's parents Bartholomew and Mary Allerton were the first Mayflower family to separate from the Anglican Church in East Bergholt, Suffolk in 1594. Isaac rebelled against King James I and the Anglican Church when he and his sister Sarah emigrated to the Netherlands to join Pastor John Robinson’s Separatist congregation in Leiden.
Isaac Allerton was one of the original Mayflower pilgrims who settled the Plymouth Colony in 1620. Born in London around 1585, he was a tailor by trade, and a religious non-conformist. Conflicts within the Plymouth Colony forced him to leave, and he settled in Marble Harbor in Massachusetts, where he established a thriving fishing business.
Allerton's Son Isaac, 1630-1702. Allerton had two sons, His first son, Bartholomew, was born in Leiden (ca 1612), sailed on the Mayflower but retuned to England after 1627. His second son, Isaac, was born to Fear in 1630 and was among nine men in the seventh class to graduate from Harvard in 1650.
Isaac Allerton. Isaac Allerton ( c. 1560 – 1659) was born in England. In 1620, he travelled on the Mayflower with his wife, three children and apprentice John Hooke. [1] [2] Allerton belonged to the religion which was not allowed in England. In 1614 he and his family moved to Leiden Netherlands where he worked as a tailor.
Isaac Allerton was alive on 1 February 1658/9 when he appeared in court in New Haven to dispute a debt. He was deceased by 12 February 1658/9, when the inventory of his estate was presented. Isaac Allerton's will was presented 5 July 1659 at New Haven. His estate inventory was dated 12 February 1658/9 at New Haven.
Isaac Allerton (ăl´ərtən), c.1586–1659, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth Colony. Possibly a London tailor, he was a merchant in Leiden before going to America on the Mayflower. From 1626 to 1631, acting as the agent of Plymouth Colony, he was often in England.
