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A HISTORY
OF
THE ALLERTON FAMILY
IN THE UNITED STATES.
1585 TO 1885, AND A GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS
OF ISAAC ALLERTON, "Mayflower Pilgrim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620. BY
WALTER S. ALLERTON,
New York City, 1888. REVISED AND ENLARGED BY HORACE TRUE CURRIER,
Chicago. PUBLISHED BY
SAMUEL WATERS ALLERTON,
Chicago, Illinois.
1900. About 1646 Isaac Allerton became a permanent resident of New Haven, and at that place he lived the remainder of his life, although making occasional trips to New Amsterdam and Massachusetts. He built himself a "grand house on the Creek, with Four Porches," on a home lot of two acres. One of the "famous spots" in New Haven is the north-west corner of Union and Fair streets where the house stood. A tablet has been placed on the present building bearing this full inscription:--"Isaac Allerton, a passenger of the "Mayflower," lived on this ground from 1646 to 1659." It was in this house that the regicide Judges Whalley and Goffe found temporary shelter and concealment in 1661. Stiles, in his History of the Regicide Judges, says that they were protected by Mrs. Eyres, but in this he is in error, for, having been born in 1653, she was but eight years old at the time. It was Mrs. Johanna Allerton, the widow of Isaac Allerton, of the Mayflower, and Elizabeth Allerton, daughter of her son-in-law, Isaac2, who received and sheltered the judges. An old plan of New Haven in 1748, shows the house of Simon Eyres, a descendant of his in this location, and mentions Isaac Allerton as the original owner. When he lived there the house stood on a gentle declivity sloping down to the harbor in front and to the creek on the west, affording a view of the waters of the Sound even to the coast of Long Island, and it must have been just such a home as would be most pleasant for the last years of one who had been so long a follower of the sea. |
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