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SAVAGE, VOL 1 DICT. FIRST SETTLERS OF N.E.
A
GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY
OF
THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND,
SHOWING
THREE GENERATIONS
OF
THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692,
ON THE
BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.
BY
JAMES SAVAGE,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR OF
WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.
WITH TWO SUPPLEMENTS
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
Baltimore
GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Originally Published
Boston, 1860-1862 ALLERTON, ISAAC, one of the pilgr. in the Mayflower, at Plymouth, 1620, at one time the richest of the Co. was an Assist. 1621, the sole offi- cer for three yrs. under the Gov. He brot. w. Mary, three ch. Bartholo- mew, Remember, and Mary. His w. d. 25 Feb. after land. and he m. 1626, Fear, d. of Elder William Brewster, by wh. he had Isaac, H. C. 1650; and prob. no more. This w. d. 1633, and when he liv. at New Haven, 1646, he had third w. Joanna, wh. is honor. after d. of her h. as having giv. shelter to the regicides, Goffe and Whalley, tho. with the usual felicity of tradit. the merit was ascrib. to her gr.d. (then a small ch.) and liv. to 1684. As agent for the Co. he went to Eng. three or four times, but gave not satisfact. in the latter visit; and on his private business was oblig. to go, more than once, of all wh. large statem. is seen in the Hist. of Bradford. In 1643, the Dutch, with wh. he had passed some yrs. hav- ing lost the confid. of his early friends bef. 1631, would employ him, with Underhill, to raise from the Eng. a force for their protect. against the Ind. but soon after he was sett. at New Haven, and there d. 1659, insolv. Largely he had speculat. at the Eastward and soon after dismiss. from the Plymouth agency, had a trading-house at Machias, destroy. 1633 by the French, met various disasters by shipwrecks of his fishing vessels, in prosecution of wh. business he sometime was engaged at Marblehead, and join. Salem ch. 1647; but seems almost always unlucky. His eldest s. Bartholomew m. and liv. in Eng. as Bradford first taught us; Remem- ber m. Moses Maverick of Salem; and Mary m. Elder Thomas Cush- man, and d. 1699, the last surv. of the blessed band of the first ship, for wh. we may feel suffic. esteem without accept. the report of her being " over 90 yrs. old." Sarah was the name often ascrib. to Maverick's w. and Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, Russell's Guide to Plymouth, the accos. of Judge Davis, in his Ed. of Morton's Memor. of Dr. Bacon in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 243, and of Cushman in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 265- 70, are all subject to no little correction since the contempo. Hist. of Bradford has been brot. to light. CRAMPTON, DENNIS, Guilford 1656, m. 16 Sept. 1660, Mary, d. of John Parmelee, had Hannah, Eliz. and Nathaniel, this last b. Mar. 1667, and she d. 16 of the same mo. By sec. w. Sarah, wid. of Nicholas Munger, had Sarah, b. 17 Dec. 1669; Thomas, 25 Nov. 1672; and John, 16 June 1675; liv. some yrs. at Eillingworth, but went back to G. bef. m. of third w. Frances, was liv. there 1685; and d. 31 Jan. 1690, leav. good est. He is the man, call. by Kellogg and Eirk (to wh. Gov. Endicot had issu. warrant for arrest of Whalley and Goffe, the regicides), Dennis Scranton, when they made report of their unsuccessful errand. Of this docum. not exceed. in curious detail by ally in N. E. hist. see Hutch. Coll. 334. Eliz. m. 1686, John Lee of Westfield, as his sec. w. and Sarah m. John Evarts as his sec. w. |
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