Biographical Summary
Almost nothing is known about
Mayflower passenger John Allerton. He was apparently married
and living in Leiden, Holland, where he buried a child on 21 May 1616 at
St. Peters. His resided in the same neighborhood as Mayflower
passenger Isaac Allerton, so they were almost certainly related: perhaps
a brother. Isaac Allerton also had a sister, Sarah, who lived in
Leiden. William Bradford, writing about
1650 in his Of Plymouth Plantation, states that John Allerton
intended to return home to Leiden to help others make the voyage
over--after he had spent a year helping to build the colony.
However, his death the first winter prevented those plans from being
fulfilled.
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