Allerton (mtDNA)

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Status summary

As of November 25, 2020:

  • Little opportunity for mtDNA testing
  • Low priority

Paper Trail

Sarah Allerton was likely born at East Bergholt, Sussex the daughter of Bartholomew Allerton and Mary (Unknown).[1] She was the sister (eldest?) of Isaac Allerton. Sarah married three times: first (likely in England) John Vincent, second, Leiden 4 Nov 1611 and last, Leiden 13 Nov 1621 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: Mary, John, Samuel, Daniel, Peter, Mercy, Joseph and Aaron.

Sarah Priest was born about 1615[3] She married about 1632 to John Coombs. They had two sons: John and Francis.

Third Generation

Mary Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1633[4] and died in Cambridge 11 Feb 1701/2. She married John Swann 2 Mar 1655/6. They had eight children (all born Cambridge): Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, John, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer

Mercy Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1642. She married Cambridge 1662 Jeremiah Holman and had: Jeremiah, Abraham, Abigail, Deborah, Mehitable and Sarah (died young).

Fourth Generation

Mary Swann was born Cambridge 2 May 1659

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 Demerill) and Aaron (1701).

Lydia Swann was born Cambridge 28 Jul 1663

Hannah Swann was born Cambridge 27 Feb 1667

Mercy Swann was born Cambridge 1675 and died Arlington 24 Jun 1748. She married (as his second wife) 1706 John Perry (III) and they had Ebenezer (1707/8), Mercy (1709 m. David Gleason) and James (1711/2).


Abigail Holman was born Cambridge about 1674

Deborah Holman was born Cambridge about 1666 and died 3 Nov 1687. She married Robert Garfield

Mehitable Holman was born Cambridge 12 Nov 1667

Summary of findings

  1. NEHGR 173(2019):203
  2. Estimate, based on oldest child and date of parents marriage
  3. Estimate, based on younger child.
  4. gravestone has died "in ye 70th year of her age.


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 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