Allerton (mtDNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of November 25, 2020:
- Little opportunity for mtDNA testing
- Recruitment of individuals who are mtDNA descendants of Sarah Allerton. Folks who believe they are matrilineal (all female line) descendants should Read me First
IMPORTANT: Read me First
Paper Trail
For more information see: Townsend, Mrs. Charles D., Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret H. Stover, ed. by Margaret H. Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: vol. 8: Priest
First Generation
Sarah Allerton was likely born at East Bergholt, Sussex the daughter of Bartholomew Allerton and Mary ____.[1] She was the sister (eldest?) of Isaac Allerton. Sarah married three times: first (likely in England) John Vincent, second, Leiden 4 Nov 1611 Media:NL-LdnRAL_AR_1004_198_007.jpg.jpg, transcription) Degory Priest and last, 13 Nov 1621 (Media:NL-LdnRAL_AR_1004_198_127.jpg.jpg , transcription) to Godbert Godbertson (aka Cuthbert Cuthbertson). Both Sarah and Godbert died between Jul - Oct 1633 in Plymouth.
Sarah is not known to have had any children by her first husband. By her second husband (Degory Priest) she had two daughters: Mary & Sarah. By her last husband she had one son Samuel.
Second Generation
Mary Priest was born about 1612[2] She married about 1630 Phineas Pratt. They had eight children: John (c1631), Mary (c1633), Samuel (c1636), Daniel (c1640), Mercy (c1642), Joseph (c1645), Peter (c1647) and Aaron (c1649).
Sarah Priest was born about 1615[3] and died likely in England aft Aug 1648. She married about 1632 to John Coombs. They had two sons: John and Francis.
Third Generation
Mary Pratt was born Plymouth about 1632[4] and died Cambridge 11 Feb 1701/2. She married Cambridge 1 Mar 1665/6 John Swan and they had eight children (Cambridge): Samuel (1657-1678), Mary (1659 no further record), Elizabeth (1661), Lydia (1663 no further record), John (1665), Hannah (1667 no further record), Mercy[5] (c1670) and Ebenezer (1672).
Mercy Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1642 and died at Cambridge 11 Feb 1701. She married Cambridge 1662 Jeremiah Holman and had (all born Cambridge): poss. Abigail[6] Deborah, Mehitable (16670, Jeremiah (1670), Abraham (c1675) and Sarah (1678-1679).
Fourth Generation
Elizabeth Swan was born Cambridge 14 Jul 1661 and died before 11 Aug 1735. She married Malden 27 Jul 1687 Ezekiel Richardson and they had: Theophilus (1688-1688), Elizabeth (1689 unmarried in 1734), Theophilus (1691/2), Ezekiel (1694), Abigail (1696/7 m. Thomas Demery [Demerill])[7] and Aaron (1701).
Mercy Swan was born Cambridge abt 1670 and died Arlington 24 Jun 1748 (ae 78). She married (as his second wife) Watertown 19 Dec 1706 John Perry (III) and they had Ebenezer (1707/8), Mercy (1709 m. David Gleason) and James (1711/2).
Deborah Holman was born Cambridge about 1665 and died after Dec 1709. She married Watertown 3 Nov 1687 John Garfield but they apparently never had any children.
- ↑ NEHGR 173(2019):203
- ↑ Estimate, based on oldest child and date of parents marriage
- ↑ Estimate, based on younger child.
- ↑ gravestone has died "in ye 70th year of her age."
- ↑ According to the Priest Silver Book She was not the wife of Thomas Jewett.
- ↑ According to the Priest Silver Boos she may have been by Jeremiah's second wife, Susanna.
- ↑ This is the ONLY mtDNA line of Sarah Allerton (wife of Degory Priest) of the Fifth Generation published in the Priest Silver Book.
mtDNA testing
To date, no known matrilineal (all female line) descendant of Sarah Allerton, wife of Degory Priest, has publicly revealed where they have mtDNA test results. In addition, the Silver Book Volume 8 (Degory Priest) only names a single matrilineal descendant of the Fifth Generation (#65 Abigail Richardson) and the book only lists were she had one son. There are a number of females whose further record (after their birth) is currently unknown, so it is still possible the matrilineal line may continue to the present day, but more contemporary "paper-trail" records need to be discovered to flesh out any potential matrilineal lines.
External links and references
- Townsend, Mrs. Charles D., Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret H. Stover, ed. by Margaret H. Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: vol. 8: Priest General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008
- Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, Second edition 1995, 1996. pp. 85-86
- Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals) Stewart Publishing Co., Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 312-15
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 141-43
- The Priest Family - The Mayflower Society
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