Sarah Allerton (abt. 1626)

Born about 1626 in Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Sarah Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton and his second wife, Fear Brewster, was born about 1626 in Plymouth Colony.^[1][2] Sarah was alive during the cattle division of 1627,^[3] but was not mentioned in William Bradford's 1651 account of the Mayflower Increasings.^[1]

In the 1627 cattle division, "The second lot fel to Mr Isaac Allerton & his Companie ioyned to him his wife ffeare Allerton. To this lot fell the Greate Black cow came in the Ann to which they must keepe the lesser of the two steers, and two shee goats. Isaac's children Bartholomew, Remember, Mary, and Sarah, were part of this group.^[4]

Whether she married and when she died is not known. Robert Charles Anderson in "Great Migration Begins" adds only "no further record",^[2] as does the Mayflower Society.^[1]

Migration?

In A History of the Allerton Family in the United States, Walter S. Allerton reports that Sarah was born in January 1618, immigrated in 1623 aboard the Anne in the care of her aunt, Sarah (Allerton) Priest.^[5] However, Sarah's aunt had married in 1621 to Godbert Godbertson and traveled aboard the Anne as Sarah Godbertson,^[6] along with her husband and their two daughters. No mention is made of niece Sarah Allerton. It is more likely that Sarah was born in Plymouth Colony and did not migrate at all.

Possible Marriages

John Priest

Some assume she was the Sarah ______ who married about 1647 to John Priest (b. 1616), supposed son of Degory Priest and Sarah Allerton, with whom she had a son, John Priest (1648–1704). Sarah Allerton would have been John Priest's first cousin (daughter of Isaac Allerton, while Degory's wife was a sister of Isaac).^[7]Torrey Vol. 2, page 1233 (2011) shows "Priest, John (-1704) & 1/wf Sarah____ by 1679; Woburn/Lancaster {Charlestown 777}". The Mayflower Society does not accept that this Sarah married John Priest. See John Priest's profile for further discussion.

Moses Maverick

According to researcher Walter S. Allerton, Sarah married in 1637 to Moses Maverick of Marblehead, had many children and she died in 1655 or 1656.^[5] This theory has been disproved, as Moses Maverick did not marry Sarah Allerton, but instead married to her half-sister, Remember Allerton, who died by 1656.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 17, "Family of Isaac Allerton", edited by Robert S. Wakefield, compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, and Margaret H. Stover, pub. 1998
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011). Online at AmericanAncestors.org, Vol. 1, page 37.
3. ↑ Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston 1855-1861).
4. ↑ Pulsifer, David (editor). Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England; printed by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by New Plymouth Colony. Vol. 12 (1861) Deeds, &c. Vol. 1 1620-1651 & Book of Indian Records for their lands. (Boston: Press of William White 1861) p. 9
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Allerton, Walter S., A History of the Allerton Family in the United States. (Chicago: S.W. Allerton, 1900). Online at Archive.org, page 30. NOTE: His info on Sarah has been largely disproved.
6. ↑ Shurtleff Stevens, Anne. Anne 1623 passenger list.
7. ↑ Foster, George Everett. The Priest Family: a Collection of Data, Original, Contributed and Selected, Concerning Various Branches of the Priest Family. (Ithaca, NY: West Hill Press, 1900) pages 121, 124 Sections: John Priest of Woburn and John Priest the elder at link to microfilm locations and Archive.org
8. ↑ Landis, John T. Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing. (Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.), page 12.