Happy Thanksgiving! My Mayflower Ancestors

I post this almost every year at Thanksgiving time.  This is the time of the year when people traditionally wondered "Did I have ancestors on the Mayflower?"  As we get closer to the year 2020, the 400th anniversary commemoration of the arrival of the Mayflower in New England, more and more people are asking that question.  It is estimated that over 20 million people around the world have an ancestor who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in the year 1620 aboard the Mayflower.

You might be a Mayflower cousin, too!


For a list of Mayflower passengers who left descendants, click here:
https://www.themayflowersociety.org/the-pilgrims/the-pilgrims

Here are my own lineages in alphabetical order with Mayflower passenger ancestors in bold:

Isaac Allerton(abt 1586 – 1659)and Mary Norris (1587 – 1621-died during  the “starving time” in the first winter on Cape Cod)

Remember Allerton (abt 1614 – 1656) and Moses Maverick

Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward

Martha Ward and John Tuthill

Martha Tuthill and Mark Haskell

Lucy Haskell and Jabez Treadwell

Nathaniel Treadwell and Mary Hovey

Jabez Treadwell and Betsey Jillings Homan

Eliza Ann Treadwell and Abijah Hitchings

Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis

Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Edward Doty (abt 1599 – 1635) and Faith Clark

Desire Doty and Alexander Standish

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Hope Howland and John Chipman

Hannah Chipman and Thomas Huckins

Hope Huckins and Benjamin Hamblin

Hannah Hamblin and Jonathan Crosby

Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson

Rebecca Crosby and Comfort Haley

Joseph Edwin Healey and Matilda Weston

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

John Tilley (abt 1571- 1620) and Joan Hurst (abt 1568 – 1621) both died in “starving time”

Elizabeth Tilley (1607 – 1687) and John Howland (1592 – 1673)

Desire Howland and John Gorham

Desire Gorham and John Hawes

Elizabeth Hawes and Thomas Daggett

Elizabeth Daggett and John Butler

Keziah Butler and Samuel Osborn

Samuel Osborn and Sarah Wass

Sarah Osborn and Charles Skinner

Ann Skinner and Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Isabella Lyons and Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Caleb Rand Bill and Ann Margaret Bollman

Isabella Lyons Bill and Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Donald Munroe Wilkinson and Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)

George Soule ( abt 1593 – 1680) and Mary Beckett

John Soule and Rebecca Simonson

 Rebecca Soule and Edmund Weston

Nathan Weston and Desire Standish

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

Captain Myles Standish (abt 1584 – 1656) and Barbara Unknown

Alexander Standish and Desire Doty

Desire Standish and Nathan Weston

Nathan Weston and Hannah Everson

Zadoc Weston and Mary Clements

Matilda Weston and Joseph Edwin Healey

Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil

Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my maternal grandparents)

For information about Mayflower passengers online see Caleb Johnson’s Mayflower History at

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

Some genealogy tips on finding Mayflower ancestors (a blog post from 2015 "Ten Things to Know about Researching a Pilgrim in your Family Tree")
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/ten-things-to-know-about-researching.html

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Mayflower Ancestors", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 23, 2017, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-thanksgiving-my-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ ALLERTON , a Mayflower Passenger

ALLERTON

My 11^th great grandfather, Isaac Allerton (1586 – 1659) arrived in New England on board the Mayflower in 1620 with his pregnant wife and three children.  His origins are unknown.  There was another passenger on board named John Allerton, but their kinship is unknown.  Isaac’s sister Sarah was married to fellow Mayflower passenger Digory Priest (they were married on the same day as Isaac and his wife, Mary Norris).   He was the fifth man to sign the Mayflower compact, listed after Carver, Bradford, Winslow and Brewster.  Only Brewster and Allerton used the prefix “Mr.”

Upon arriving in Cape Cod bay, many of the Mayflower passengers fell ill, and half died that first winter including John Allerton, and Isaac’s wife, Mary, and their new infant child born on board the ship.  Isaac was left a widower with three young children who survived the winter.  He remarried to Fear Brewster, daughter of Elder William Brewster, in 1623.

Isaac Allerton acted as a business agent in the colony’s dealing with the Plymouth Company in England.  He was named assistant governor to Bradford until 1624.  He returned to England in 1626 to obtain supplies for the colony and to renegotiate their agreements with the investors on paying off their debt. He returned again to England in 1628 for a grant for a trading post in Kennebeck, Maine.  He made  a third voyage in 1630, and he was dismissed as the agent for the colony for mishandling their funds.

In 1632 the trading post on the Kennebec River was destroyed by the French.  He set up another trading post at what is now Machias, and he began fishing out of Marblehead.  He is considered one of the founders of Marblehead, where he lived briefly.   He was persuaded to leave Marblehead for his religious views.  The post at Machias was destroyed by the French in 1634.  He removed from Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut, where he lived until his death in 1659.

Isaac Allerton is an ancestor to Presidents Zachary Taylor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Remember Allerton, my 10^th great grandmother, was only about five years old when she was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. She lost an infant sibling and her mother before they settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Her father and two other siblings survived.  She married Moses Maverick, and had six children. She died sometime between the baptism of her child in 1652 and 1656 when her husband remarried to Eunice, the widow of Thomas Roberts.   I descend from her third child, Abigail Maverick (1645 – 1686), my 9^th great grandmother.

Some ALLERTON resources:

(There are many, many resources available on Mayflower passengers, but these two books are the best in my opinion)

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume 1, pages 35 – 39 for a sketch on Isaac Allerton and his children.

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Seventeen: Isaac Allerton [one of the Silver books series], 1998, pages 1 – 3 for Isaac Allerton, pages 4 – 6 for Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton, and pages 9 – 10 for Abigail Maverick and Samuel Ward.  Martha Ward and John Tuttle are outlined on pages 26 – 27, and Martha Tuttle and Mark Haskell are on pages 65 – 66.

My ALLERTON genealogy:

Generation 1:  Isaac Allerton, born about 1586 in England, died between 1 and 15 February 1659, New Haven, Connecticut; married on 4 November 1611 in Leyden, Holland to Mary Norris, daughter of Edward Norris and Elizabeth, his wife.  She was born 1587 in Newbury, Berkshire, England, and died 25 February 1621 on board the Mayflower, off the coast of Cape Cod, New England. They had four children.

Generation 2:  Remember Allerton, born about 1614 in Leyden, Holland, died before 22 October 1656; married before 6 May 1635 in Marblehead, Massachusetts to Moses Maverick, son of John Maverick and Mary Gye.  He was baptized 3 November 1611 in Huish, Devonshire, England.  Six children.

Generation 3:  Abigail Maverick m. Samuel Ward

Generation 4:  Martha Ward m. John Tuthill

Generation 5:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 6:   Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 7:   Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 8:   Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan

Generation 9:   Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 12:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ ALLERTON , a Mayflower Passenger”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 29, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-allerton-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]).