| Isaac Allerton, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | Isaac Allerton circa 1627 Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Died | after October 25, 1702 Narrow's Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia |
| Education | Harvard College |
| Spouse | Elizabeth (----) Elizabeth Willoughby Overzee Colclough |
| Children | Elizabeth Allerton Isaac Allerton Willoughby Allerton Frances Allerton Sarah Allerton |
| Parents | Isaac Allerton Fear Brewster |
Isaac Allerton Jr (c. 1627 – December 30, 1702), the son of Mayflower Pilgrim Isaac Allerton and Fear Brewster, and was a Colonel, Merchant, and trader in Colonial America. He was first in business with his father in New England, and after his father's death, in Virginia. He was a Burgess for Northumberland County and a Councilor of Virginia.
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He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, sometime after May 22, 1627 and before September 21, 1631; however, no birth record has been found for him.[1][2][3] He was the son of Mayflower Pilgrim Isaac Allerton[1] and his second wife Fear Brewster,[1][4][5][6] the daughter of Elder William Brewster,[7][8][9][10][11] the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony,[12] and passenger aboard the Mayflower and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact; and Mary Brewster. Fear arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts on July 10, 1623 aboard the Anne. Fear died sometime before December 12, 1634. His father had been married first to Mary Norris who died on February 25, 1621. He had 3 half-siblings: Bartholomew, Remember and Mary, the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower.[13] After Fear's death, he moved to the New Haven Colony, and by 1644 had remarried to his third wife, Joanna Swinnerton.
Because of the general ire of the Plymouth Colony against his father, he had moved to the New Haven Colony. As a result of the upheavals of losing his mother and his father moving away, the young Isaac became a member of the extended family of his grandfather William Brewster and eventually joined the family of William's son, Love Brewster.
His aunt, Sarah Allerton, was married to Degory Priest[14] who was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and one of the original 102 Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Sarah did not travel aboard the Mayflower; she arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts on July 10, 1623 aboard the Anne.
He was tutored by his grandfather Brewster prior to entering college.[15] He graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1650.[16][17]
Isaac married, as first wife, Elizabeth (...) in New Haven, Connecticut in 1652/3.[15] They had two children, Elizabeth (1653-1740) and Isaac (1655-?). When his wife Elizabeth died circa 1660, he moved his family to Northumberland County, in Virginia's Northern Neck. Initially he settled in Wicomico at the far eastern end of the county on land adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay and in the vicinity of the plantation of Richard Lee II. His daughter, Elizabeth, was born on September 27, 1653[18] in New Haven, Connecticut. She subsequently married Benjamin Starr, who was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, the grandson of Dr. Comfort Starr of Boston. Dr. Comfort Starr was a founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts and of Harvard College. He was a surgeon who emigrated from Ashford, Kent, England.[19] He is buried at King's Chapel Burying Ground, on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts and is the oldest cemetery in the city.[20][21] Following Benjamin Starr's early death, Elizabeth Allerton married Simon Ayers/Eyre of New Haven, a first cousin of her first husband.[22][23]
His son, Isaac,[18] (the third of the name) was born at New Haven on June 11 1655. He accompanied his father to Virginia when he was a child, but returned to New Haven about 1683 and lived there most of the remainder of his life.[15]
The following marriage and children information is no longer accepted by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants; see Mayflower Families Through Five Generations (Vol. 17: Issac Allerton) by Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret Harris Stover. [In 1663, Isaac married as his second wife the twice-widowed Elizabeth Willoughby (Overzee) Colclough.[24][25][15] She was the daughter of Captain Thomas Willoughby and widow of Simon Overzee and Major George Colclough.[24] They had three children:[18] Willoughby[26] (b. ca 1664), Frances[27] (b. ca 1668), and Sarah[28] (1670-1731).] As a tobacco planter-merchant Isaac probably constructed a wharf and warehouse (as his father had done in New Amsterdam) since financial success required both growing and transporting tobacco. Whether Isaac bought land from his neighbor Richard Lee II or acquired it over time is not known. He may have acquired the land from his marriage to Elizabeth, who would have acquired it from her previous marriages or from her parents.
In any event, Isaac's family became wealthy, with indentured servants, and owned a 2,150-acre (8.7 km2) plantation on the south side of the Rappahannock River.
In 1688, he along with Capt. George Brent of Stafford County, Virginia (former Governor of Maryland) and Capt. Lawrence Washington were named by their friend, Col. Nicholas Spencer[29] to serve as trustees of his estates.[30] Capt. Washington, named by Spencer as a trustee, was the younger brother of Lt. Col. John Washington and was born in 1635. The trustees named by Col. Spencer in his will received forty shillings for mourning rings.
In 1663 Isaac was a justice of Northumberland County. In 1667 he was a member of the "Committee of the Association of Northumberland, Westmoreland and Stafford Counties." He became a member of the Virginia militia and ultimately rose to the rank of colonel.[25] As a major in 1667, he served under Colonel John Washington, the great-grandfather of president George Washington,[15] in order to subdue Susquehannock and Doeg Indians, who were raiding settlements. Isaac served as justice of the peace and member of the House of Burgesses in 1676-77. During Bacon's rebellion Isaac was a member of the House of Burgesses but remained loyal to the governor. Isaac's family developed a close relationship with the family of Richard Lee II (1634-1713/14). Both Isaac and Richard Lee II were senior officers in the Virginia militia and both served as members of the General Court of Virginia. Records of the region indicate that Isaac and Richard Lee II participated in commerce, governmental affairs and social activities. Richard Lee II had a younger brother, Hancock (1652-1709)[31], who married Isaac's daughter, Sarah Allerton (1670-1731), following the death of Hancock's wife. In 1691 Isaac Allerton, Richard Lee II and John Armistead refused to take the oath recognizing William and Mary as England's rightful ruler.[15]
Hancock Lee was the son of Richard Lee I and his wife, Anne Constable[32] (c. 1621-1666) , possibly the daughter of Francis Constable and a ward of Sir John Thoroughgood, a personal attendant of Charles I, King of England (1600-1649). Sarah Allerton married Hancock Lee are the great-grandparents of President Zachary Taylor[33][34][35][36], through their daughter Elizabeth Lee and grandson Colonel Richard Taylor, an officer in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.[15] Another great granddaughter was Mary Willis Lee[37] (1755–793), the daughter of Hancock Lee II & Mary Willis[31] (1755–793). She married Ambrose Madison[38] (1755–793). He was the son of James Madison, Sr., the owner of a tobacco plantation in Orange County, Virginia; and the brother of James Madison[39] (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817) and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
He died between October 25, 1702 and December 30, 1702 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.[15][25]