Early in life, at the age of about twenty-seven, he probably emigrated with "his brethren of the faith" to Holland; and thence in the May Flower, with his wife and four children, to America. It is at Plymouth that we first find him, as an active, influential and valuable member of that colony; and his name, whenever it is spoken of by themselves or others, is uniformly placed the fifth in the list. Gov. Bradford, after the death of Gov. Carver, is always placed first; Elder Brewster, second; Mr. Winslow, third; Captain Standish, fourth; and Isaac Allerton, fifth; and that was, undoubtedly, his true social, religious, political and conventional standing in that community. And such has been, also, the opinion of contemporaneous writers as well as subsequent historians. To be so near the head in a body of men, who, with great truth, may be said to have laid the corner stone of this great nation, and who commenced a system of government which led to the Declaration of Independence and all the immense results that have proceeded from it, is no small honor. In his organization he was, undoubtedly, of the nervous temperament. Hence he was active, changeable, bold and enterprising. Trade, commerce and the fisheries of which he was the founder in New England-were his principal employments, and for which he was admirably fitted. He had a better education than most of his contemporaries, and, therefore, was well qualified to establish and carry on commercial transactions. At one time he must have been quite wealthy. But losses by land and by sea, to which men engaged in trade must always be exposed, reduced his property towards the close of his life. But of his usefulness to the colony and the puritan cause there can be no doubt. Nor do we find his perfect integrity in business any where doubted. As a man — as a Christian-as a member of that martyr band, to whom, under Providence, we owe so much— Mr. A. was always, and justly prominent. And at the age of more than seventy years, he was "gathered to his fathers," and coming generations will bless and honor his memory.1 "Then be honor'd the day when the May Flower came, And honor'd the charge that she bore; The stern, the religious, the glorious men, Whom she set on our rough, native shore." [NOTE. We had prepared a complete genealogy of the Allertons, and regret that the size of this volume prevents us from inserting it entire.] A circumstance in proof of that fact has recently come to the writer's knowledge. A ship, built in 1838, called the "Isaac Allerton," after the old Pilgrim, who was an enterprising merchant, and the founder of the coasting business in New England, is now owned by Messrs. Nelson & Son, New York city, and is used in the line of packets between that city and New Orleans. Nearly two hundred years after his death, his name is thus remembered and honored. There is also an "Allerton Place" at the head of "Cushman street,” in the northerly part of the village of Plymouth, laid out in 1846. Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff is also a local de cerd Mary Alerton; of Richard Waton: Hopsons; of Francis Cooke; a. fof Marv. 1510. a native of the town of Camer, in Plymood whose maiden rame Was Sy Shaw was of i parents has inaunted a large porton of Page nat averyor, WDiam Shur let, who is supposed Plymouth for th in Fig the year 16, settled list on a^vicuh, väence beru 1831. From the me Couere her Arts and Dector in Me hicine, in 1821, 2 evidence of the interest he has for bis t ced that he now holds the obees of S seciation of the Alarani, and to University. On the 18th of July 1836. bFliza, dajenter of Hiraca Sm had the folto ving issue: Nathaniel Badstruci, born 16 Max+1 |