♦ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (1926– ): Publisher of the New York Times (1963-1992). SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY In 2019, Caleb Johnson, Sue Allan and Simon Neal published their findings on the English origins of Isaac Allerton ( NEHGR 173:197-205). Allerton became an active merchant trader, engaging in transactions and trade with many neighboring colonies including the Dutch at New Netherlands; New Sweden; Virginia; Massachusetts Bay; and Barbados. After driving the colony deeper into debt with ill-advised business opportunities, he was eventually removed and replaced by Edward Winslow. ♦ Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982): Poet, Writer. Descendant of Pilgrims William Bradford and William and Mary Brewster. ♦ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882): Poet. ♦ Zachary Taylor (1784-1850): 12th President of the United States. Shop for gifts, books & publications, GSMD 2020 merchandise, custom members-only items, and more. Login to the Members Only section for the Magazine, our GSMD partnership benefits, and more! ♦ Frances Perkins Wilson (born Fannie Coralie Perkins) (1880–1965): U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. He was elected assistant to Governor Bradford in 1621, and continued in that capacity well into the 1630s. Descendant of Pilgrims William and Mary Brewster, John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. Descendant of Pilgrims Isaac Allerton and William and Mary Brewster.STATESMEN/WOMEN ♦ John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (1953– ): 43rd Governor of Florida. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster.♦ Phillips Brooks (1835-1893): Episcopal clergyman, Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, lyricist of "O Little Town of Bethlehem." ♦ Julia Child (1912-2004): American Chef. ♦ Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962): Actress, Model. Allerton soon began to take advantage of his position by engaging in some personal trading deals, and engaging the Pilgrims' joint-stock company in business ventures they had not authorized. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. They demonstrate he was almost certainly the son of Bartholomew and Mary Allerton of East Bergholt, Suffolk, and belonged to the same recusant community as Mayflower passenger Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow. ♦ Hugh Hefner (1926-2017): Publisher, Founder of Playboy magazine. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden.♦ Ina Donna Coolbrith (born Josephine Donna Smith) (1841–1928): American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Choose from our many books that feature Pilgrim history, genealogy, literature, and arts. Most of the women's death dates were not recorded, but we do know that Rose Standish died on January 29, Mary Allerton died on February 25, and Elizabeth Winslow died on March 24. He was probably also related, perhaps a brother, to Mayflower passenger John Allerton. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, and William Mullins. Leave a lasting memory in Plymouth. WRITERS/POETS ♦ William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): Poet. In 2019, Caleb Johnson, Sue Allan and Simon Neal published their findings on the English origins of Isaac Allerton (NEHGR 173:197-205). Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. Descendant of Pilgrims John Alden, Francis Cooke, Edward Fuller, Stephen Hopkins, William Mullins, and Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren. ♦ Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (1937– ): American Novelist. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Pricilla (Mullins) Alden and William Bradford. Stay up to date with Mayflower happenings and sign up for our monthly newsletter: The Pilgrim Press! Isaac Allerton Sr. (c. 1586 – 1658/9), and his family, were passengers in 1620 on the historic voyage of the ship Mayflower.Allerton was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact.In Plymouth Colony he was active in colony governmental affairs and business and later in trans-Atlantic trading. ♦ Nathaniel Gorham (1738-1796): Signer of the United States Constitution. General Society of Mayflower Descendants - All Rights Reserved. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Elinor Billington and Francis Billington. What do Marilyn Monroe, George Bush and Dr. Spock have in common? ♦ Deborah Sampson (1760-1827): Woman who served in the Continental Army disguised as a man during the Revolutionary War. ♦ Zachary Taylor (1784-1850): 12th President of the United States. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. ♦ Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885): U.S. General and 18th President of the United States. . Descendant of Pilgrim John and Elinor Billington, and Francis Billington. ♦ George Robert "Bob" Crosby (1913-1993): Big Band Leader, Vocalist, Brother to Bing. ♦ Cokie Roberts (1943–2019): Journalist, Author. Born in Lancashire, England in 1584 to unidentified parents, he fought as a young man against the Spanish in the Netherlands, … Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. ♦ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (1903-1977): Actor, Singer. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster.♦Alonzo Hersford “Lon” Cushing, Lieutenant Colonel (1841-1863): Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014, 151 years after his death at the Battle of Gettysburg, defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge. ♦ John Lithgow (1945- ): Actor, Musician, Author. Descendant of Pilgrims Isaac Allerton, Francis Cooke, John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Degory Priest, John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley, and Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren. Cabinet. The patent referred to the size of the colony: " . Problems with the latter regarding … He travelled to the New World to live in religious freedom. Of Plymouth Plantation is regarded as one of the most elegant examples of the Puritan “plain style”—the literary style that stresses simple sentence constructions and a relatively small vocabulary. Warwick Charter or Patent from the Council for New England, Plymouth Colony's 3rd Patent, Granted 13 Jan. 1630. Descendant of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. William Bradford (1590 – 1657) was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Francis Cooke, John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley, and Henry Samson.♦ Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933): 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). Descendant of Pilgrim Francis Cooke. Copyright © 1994-2020, MayflowerHistory.com. Twitter: @MayflowerCaleb | YouTube: Mayflower History. Descendant of Stephen and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins. Other good examples … Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. CELEBRITIES ♦ Countess Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump (1841-1919): Wife of Tom Thumb. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Prisiclla (Mullins) Alden.♦ Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson) (1860–1961): Renowned American folk artist, having begun painting in earnest at the age of 78. ♦ James A. Garfield (1831-1881): 20th President of the United States. LOVE BREWSTER, b. say 1607; m. Plymouth 15 May 1634 Sarah Collier [PCR 1:30], daughter of WILLIAM COLLIER [PM 128]. Plymouth by 1627 ISAAC ALLERTON [Bradford 218,242; PM 10]. Descendant of Pilgrim Edward Fuller. BIRTH:  About 1587, probably at East Bergholt, Suffolk, the son of Bartholomew and Mary Allerton. ♦ Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945): 32nd President of the United States. ♦ John Quincy Adams (1767-1848): 6th President of the United States. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Allerton is an ancestor of Presidents of the United States Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. ♦ Dick Van Dyke (1925– ): Actor, Comedian, Writer. . Death on the Nile (2021) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. After the death of his wife Fear in 1634, he retreated to the New Haven Colony and married there to Joanna Swinnerton. ♦ Jerry Van Dyke (1931– ): Actor, Comedian. … Isaac had a sister named Sarah who also resided in Leiden, and who married future Mayflower passenger Degory Priest. Descendant of Pilgrim Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren.♦ Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920): 22nd Vice President of the United States, the 31st Governor of New York and the U.S. Minister to France, in which capacity he placed the first rivet in the construction of the Statue of Liberty. Isaac Allerton is one of the most complex figures in early Plymouth Colony. DEATH: Between 1 and 12 February 1658/9 at New Haven. Possibly you!While it is believed that these people are Mayflower descendants, not all have membership in GSMD or have been vetted by the Historian General's office.PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS ♦ John Adams (1735-1826): 2nd President of the United States. Isaac Allerton and Edward Ashley were two of the passengers (Ibid, p. 219). ." Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and is an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.He was the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel.. Isaac's name means "he will laugh", reflecting the laughter, in disbelief, of … ♦ Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900): American Painter. Descendant of Pilgrims Isaac Allerton, Francis Cooke, John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Degory Priest, John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley, and Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren. The plain style is often regarded as a stylistic analogy for the Puritans’ simple, sparse lifestyle. Can you trace your lineage from one of the Mayflower Pilgrims? ♦ Christopher D'Oiler Reeve (1952-2004): Actor, Superman. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. ♦ George Orson Welles (1915-1985): Actor, Director, Producer. ♦ Ashley Tyley Ciminella Judd (1968- ): Actress. Called the "Sweet Singer of California", she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state. ♦ Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944): American Graphic Artist, Creator of the Gibson Girl. He became the second Governor of Plymouth Colony and served for over 30 years. [Details of this recent discovery of Allerton’s origins are in New England Historical and Genealogical Register 173(Summer 2019):197--205].FIRST MARRIAGE:  Mary Norris on 4 November 1611 at Leiden, Holland.SECOND MARRIAGE:  Fear Brewster, about 1626, at Plymouth, the daughter of William Brewster.THIRD MARRIAGE:  Joanna Swinnerton, sometime between 1634 and 1644, probably at Marblehead.CHILDREN (by Mary):  Bartholomew, Remember, Mary, an unnamed child buried in Leiden, and a stillborn son born in Plymouth Harbor.CHILDREN (by Fear):  Sarah and Isaac.DEATH:  Between 1 and 12 February 1658/9 at New Haven.SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. ♦ Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979): 41st Vice President of the United States, 49th Governor of New York. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. Descendant of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton. ♦ General Leonard Wood (1860–1927): U.S. Army major general and Medal of Honor recipient; Governor General of the Phillipines from 1921 to 1927; Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1910 to 1914; Governor of Moro Province from 1903 to 1906; Governor General of Cuba from 1899 to 1902. Add a brick to our Society garden. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. One of the best sources for tracing family history, the latest United States Census available to us, the 1940 Census, had an official enumeration date of April 1, 1940. Census records provide us with a snapshot of life for everyone in the United States on enumeration day. He married three times, sired seven children, was the fifth signer of the Mayflower Compact, served as an … ♦ Richard Gere (1949–): Actor. ♦ John Hay "Jock" Whitney (1904-1982): U.S. ROYALTY ♦ Marie-Chantal Miller (1968– ): Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark. ♦ Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899-1992): Producer, Writer. Descendant of Pilgrims Isaac Allerton and William and Mary Brewster. ♦ Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933): Artist and Designer. All Rights Reserved. ♦ Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003): Actress. ♦ George Eastman (1854-1932): Inventor of the Kodak camera and roll film. ♦ George W. Bush (1946– ): 43rd President of the United States. Descendant of Pilgrim Thomas Rogers.♦ Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814): Signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. Descendant of Pilgrim Stephen and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland.♦ Daniel Leonard (1740–1829): Lawyer from colonial Massachusetts and a Loyalist in the American Revolution; Chief Justice of Bermuda (1782 – 1806); and in 1821 revealed himself to be "Massachusettensis." Most of the women died in February and March. ♦ Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951): 30th Vice President of the United States. ♦ Clinton "Clint" Eastwood (1930– ): Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Politician. In 1609, he was apprenticed to London blacksmith James Glyn, but he broke out of the contract within a couple years and went to Leiden, Holland, where on 4 November 1611, when he married Mary Norris. ♦ Joanne Woodward (1930– ): Actress. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, PO Box 3297, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 02361-3297, Email Support – support@themayflowersociety.org, © 2012-2021. Descendant of Pilgrim William White, Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins and Richard Warren. Descendant of Pilgrim Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, and William Mullins. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Francis Cooke, John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley. Descendant of Pilgrims William Bradford, and William and Mary Brewster. Descendant of Pilgrim John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Descendant of Pilgrim William and Mary Brewster. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford. Descendant of Pilgrim John Alden and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, William Mullins, and Edward Doty. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Francis Cooke, John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley, and Henry Samson.♦ Howard Brush Dean III (1948– ): Physician, 79th Governor of Vermont, U.S. Representative. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. Bradford kept a journal of the history of the early life in Plymouth Colony.It is called Of Plymouth Plantation. Descendant of Pilgrim Edward Doty. He was the individual sent to handle most of the buyout negotiations with the London investors that commenced in 1627, and continued through the early 1630s. Descendant of Pilgrims William Bradford and William and Mary Brewster. they have increased their plantacon to neere three hundred people. ♦ George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018): 41st President of the United States. Governor General of the Mayflower Society from 1915 to 1921. ♦ George B. McClellan (1826-1885): Major-General, Commander of the Union Forces, Civil War. ♦ Noah Webster (1758-1843): Lexicographer, Writer. Captain Myles Standish (c.1584 – 1656) was a Mayflower passenger who accompanied the Pilgrims as the commander of their militia, but was not a Pilgrim in the religious sense of the group. Descendant of Pilgrims John and Elinor Billington and William and Mary Brewster. . ♦ John Trumbull (1756-1843): American Painter. Descendant of Pilgrim William Bradford.♦ Eliphalet Remington (1793–1861): Founder of Remington Arms Company. Isaac Allerton was one of the original Pilgrim fathers who came on the Mayflower to settle the Plymouth Colony in 1620.