with which you honored me, I now give you such notices of him, as I can hastily glean from our town and colony records.

The first instance in which I find Mr. Allerton named, is in the record of a "General Court for the Jurisdiction,' 27th Oct., 1643, at which "a proposition and request" were "made by Captain Underhill, and Mr. Allerton, by instructions from the Dutch Governor, and some of the freemen of that jurisdiction, for the raising of one hundred soldiers out of these plantations of the English, and armed and victualled, to be led forth by Captain Underhill against the Indians, now in hostility against the Dutch, to be paid by bills of exchange into Holland."

This is in keeping with the information of your friend's manuscript, that in 1646, Allerton was an inhabitant of New Amsterdam. As to the answer given to this proposal, it will suffice to say, that the Court, "though they were affected with a due sense of so much Christian blood, both Dutch and English, under the Dutch Government, lately shed by the Indians," declined the proposal, both because they did "not clearly understand the rise and cause of the war," and because they were restrained by the articles of confederation, with the other New England Colonies.

At what time Mr. Allerton began to reside in New Haven, I have not ascertained. It must have been however, before the 10th of March, 1646-7, for at that time "the names of the people, as they were seated in the meetinghouse," were put upon record; and "Thomas Nash, Mr. Allerton, Bro. Perry," were assigned to the second seat of "the cross seats at the end." I need not say, that the "Mr." prefixed to Allerton's name, is a sign of some special respect. "Brother Perry," who was one of his seat-mates, was at that time, the Secretary of the town.

From that time, to the period of his death, I find him occasionally mentioned in the records. For example, at a Court held at New Haven, August 6, 1650, “Mr. Allerton's fence was complained of. Jno. Cooper and the Marshall informed the Court, that Mrs. Allerton hath had warning of it three times; and yet the fence is not mended, but two places remain still defective, as Jno. Cooper says. The Court ordered, that Mr. Allerton pay two shillings for

the two defective places, each time they have been warned." The same report about Mr. Allerton's fence, was repeated from one Court to another, and an additional fine of two shillings ordered each time, till December, when "Mr. Evance said Mrs. Allerton desired him to acquaint the Court with the case." The explanation was, that there had been all along, a misunderstanding between her and John Cooper, about the locality of the fence complained of. "The Court said they must rest in John Cooper's report, because he is in public trust for this matter of fences ;" and therefore it was "ordered, that Mr. Allerton pay for the two defects at present, two shillings." All this goes to show, that though Mr. Allerton had his domicil in New Haven, he was, like the Allerton of Plymouth, a man whose business carried him away from home.

At a Court, Nov. 2, 1652, "William Paine and Robert Meaker, were complained of for absence at training. The Court was informed, that Mr. Allerton that morning sent to Mr. Goodyeare to get them free, because of some urgent occasion about his vessel. The Court considering that he did send to ask leave, and it was upon that occasion, and the time the vessel hath lain, and the afflicted state of Mr. Allerton otherwise, did for this time pass it over, without a fine." Methinks this must have been the same Allerton "the unlucky," whose misfortunes, as enumerated in your note, came so thick, in the loss of "wigwam" in 1633, "pinnace" in 1634, and "bark" in 1635.

I do not remember to have noticed any thing else particularly characteristic, till we come to the settlement of his estate. "An inventory of the estate of Isaac Allerton, late of New Haven deceased, taken Feb. 12, 1658," was presented to the Court, on the 5th of April, 1659. Mrs. Allerton, being asked whether there was any Will left by her husband, "answered there was, but she thought that her son had it with him, who was now gone from home." On the 5th of July, the son having returned, presented his father's Will, but the estate being greatly involved, the business was referred to the Court of Magistrates in October. At that Court "the writing presented as the last will and testament of Isaac Allerton," though informal

and without date, was sworn to by John Harriman and Edward Preston, the subscribing witnesses, as "sealed and subscribed by Mr. Allerton deceased, whilst he had the use of his understanding and memory, in a competent degree.'

The "writing" was little else than a few hasty memoranda of debts due to him, which he desired his son Isaac, and his wife to receive and to pay out to his creditors “as far as it will go." It begins thus:

"An account of debts due at the Dutch. First, 700 and odd guilders from Tho. Hall, by arbitration of Captaine Willet and Augustine Harman about Captaine Scarlet, which I paid out," &c.

Among the debts due to him, there were 900 guilders from "John Peterson the Bore" [qu. boor?] "as by George Woolseye's books will appear;" from Richard Cloufe, as George Woolseye's book will make appear, I think 900 guilders, but his estate being broken, I desire that what may be gotten, may be laid hold on for me;" from Henry Brasser "for rent for 18 months from the first October, 1656, to the last of May, '58: for three rooms at 3 guilders a week." He adds, "There is £20 in George Woolseye's hand, that came from Mr. Thomas Mayhue for me." Then, after the sentence constituting his son and wife trustees, he adds, as if it were an afterthought, a memorandum of "a parcell of book lace in Captain Willet's hands, 1300 and odd guilders." Next is the place of the Seal, which is followed by these two sentences, "My brother Bruster owes me fourscore pounds and odd, as the obligations [make] appear. Besides all my debts in Delloware Bay and in Virginia, which in my booke will appear, and in Barbadoes what can be got.

ISAAC ALLERTON, Senior."

The widow and son, both declined the trust of settling the estate, though he was urged as being "the deceased's eldest or only son." Trustees were therefore appointed by the Court. Captain Gookin was one of the creditors. Isaac Allerton, the son, purchased of the creditors, his father's dwelling-house, orchard and barn, with two acres of meadow."

In a late volume of records, I find a deed dated Oct. 4, 1660, by which Isaac Allerton, not naming any place to which he belonged, or at which he was, at the time of executing the instrument, alienates to his "mother-in-law, Mrs. Johanna Allerton, the house that she now dwells in at New Haven New England," with all the furniture in it, and the lands and appurtenances belonging to it, and also some other personal property, to hold and enjoy during the term of her life, and afterwards to return into the possession of his daughter, Elizabeth Allerton and her heirs, and in case of her dying without issue, then to return to him, the first donor, and his heirs and executors, without intermission. To this deed, after it was recorded, was added in the margin of the book, the following "true record" of a postscript. "This deed, though never witnessed when granted, I do hereby confirm to all intents and purposes, as if it had then been authentically witnessed, and do sign and seal the same in the presence of

March 10, John Sallmon. 1682-3.

William (W. C.) Corfield.

his mark.

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ISAAC ALLERTON."

Seal.

From all these notices, it appears that Isaac Allerton, the pilgrim, whose second wife was Fear Brewster, left at his death only one son Isaac, who graduated at Harvard, in 1650 (see the Appendix to Prof. Kingsley's Centennial Discourse); and a third wife, Johanna, the step-mother of that only son. It appears further, that the son removed to a distance from New Haven, perhaps to Maryland, as Hutchinson says, perhaps to England; and that he had a daughter Elizabeth. From the perfect silence of the will and other documents, respecting any surviving daughters of the elder Allerton, it may be conjectured, though not certainly inferred, that there were none. From the terms of the deed, signed by the younger Allerton, we may reasonably conclude, that at the date of the deed in 1660, and probably at the date of the postscript, more than

twenty years later, he had no son; so that we may presume, that in him the race of Isaac Allerton, in the male line at least, became extinct.

As a New Haven man, called by an occasion to act the part of "Old Mortality," I was pleased to ascertain the fact, that among the "garnered dust" which consecrates our public square, is the dust of one of the pilgrims of the Mayflower, the fifth in order of the signers of that memorable compact, signed at Cape Cod, Nov. 11, 1620. To you as a Plymouth man, who have so well fulfilled the "sacred duty" of "renewing to the eyes of posterity, the decaying MEMORIAL' of the zeal and sufferings of the forefathers, and thereby trimming, as it were, the beacon light which is to warn future generations to defend their religion," to you of whom it may be said, that "to talk of the exploits of the pilgrims' is the delight, as to repair their monuments had been a business of his life," and who have been so "profuse in the communication of all the minute information, which you have collected concerning them, their wars, and their wanderings," the time which I have spent in thus ascertaining the burial-place, and relating all that we can now know of the latest calamities of Isaac Allerton, will not seem to be wasted.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,
LEONARD BACON.

New Haven, 15th Jan. 1838.

Postscript.-Perhaps the inference on the first line above is unwarranted. From a hasty examination of the record of births, marriages and deaths, since writing the above, I have ascertained the following particulars.

"Elizabeth Allerton, the daughter of Isaac Allerton, Junr., was born 27th Sept., 1653."

"Isaac Allerton, the son of Isaac Allerton Junr., was born the 11th day of June, 1655."

Elizabeth Allerton, was married to Benjamin Starr, 23d Dec., 1675. Allerton Starr, their son, was born 6th Jan. 1676-7.

Benjamin Starr died, as appears from the Probate records, in 1678. His widow, Elizabeth Allerton, was mar