Desire Cushman

Thomas married Ruth Howland on 17 Nov 1664 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth (daughter of John Howland, 13th signer of the Mayflower Compact and Elizabeth Tilley) was born in 1646 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 16 Oct 1675 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cushman

Thomas married Mary Allerton in 1636 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Isaac Allerton and Mary Leigh Norris) was born on 16 Jun 1616 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; died on 28 Nov 1699 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Allerton was born about 1616 in Leiden, Holland, to parents Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton. She came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 at about the age of four. Around 1636 she married Thomas Cushman. Thomas had come to Plymouth at the age of 13 on the ship Fortune in 1621 with father Robert Cushman, a prominent member of the Pilgrims' congregation in Leiden. Thomas and Mary had a surprisingly prosperous family: seven of their eight children survived to adulthood, got married, and provided at least 50 grandchildren. Thomas and Mary both lived to very old age, having never moved from Plymouth. Thomas died in December 1691, nearly reaching 85 years in age. Mary, who gave birth to and raised eight children, lived to the age of 83. Prior to her death in November 1699, she was the last surviving Mayflower passenger.

John married Elizabeth Tilley in 1624 in Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine, USA. Elizabeth was born on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England; died on 21 Dec 1687 in Gill, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
• Departure: 1621

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cushman


Robert Cushman the negotiator

Robert Cushman was responsible for making many of the arrangements prior to the journey aboard the Mayflower. This put his life in jeopardy along with other organizers, as they British government had grounds for an arrest by virtue of being a dissenter to the current religion, fleeing the country without legal permission. While in Holland the British still tried to arrest them. Whenever he returned to England he needed to be in hiding to avoid arrest. However, he still managed to negotiate with Weston and with the help of others to obtain provisions for the journey, and was also respponsible for negotiations with the Merchant Adventurers. He stayed behind when the Mayflower set sail, with the intention to sail on the "Speedwell," which the Puritans had purchased and had many difficulties eventually forced to return to England. While aboard he suffered from chest pains convinced him to remain that summer of 1620.

He sailed on "The Fortune" along with many others including Jonathan Brewster, son of Gov. Brewster.Shortly after arriving he preached sermon, "The Sin of Self-Love" in which he exhorted the assembly to take responsibilty for their financial debts to the many backers that helped finance their journey to America as Pilgrims. A short two weeks later he sailed back to London, England on the same ship along with beaver pelts and other goods alued at around 500 British Pounds, which cut their debt by aprox, half. Robert left his son Thomas, then 14, in the care of Bradford.The ship was seized by the French before she reached London, meaning a loss of income to the colony. Robert died in 1624/5 of the Plague. Thomas apopted by Bradford upon news of his death.

Source: Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, 2006.



ROBERT CUSHMAN (1576 - 1624)

Robert Cushman was a member of the Mayflower Group. He was sent over to England from Holland to buy supplies and work out financial arrangements with the merchants.

He started out on the Mayflower, but had to give up the voyage, probably without too great regret. He later sailed to New England on the "Fortune", sent from England. He was among 35 people who brought little in the way of food or other supplies. It soon developed that Cushman had come over only to persuade the Pilgrims to sign an agreement with the merchants - the one that they had refused to sign at Southampton, England. Also he had brought a letter telling them that a patent had been secured for them, and that if they would sign up and produce a cargo for the "Fortune", they would get supplies. They signed up. In fact, they almost had to, for the merchants by having the patent in their possession held the only legal title to the plantation.

Robert, married Sarah Reder on 31 Jul 1606 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Sarah was born in 1585 in Canterbury, Kent, England; died on 11 Oct 1616 in Saint Peters, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sara Reder Cushman

Birth:
1 585
City of Canterbury
Kent, England

Death:
Oct. 11, 1616, Netherlands

Born in the Netherlands.Wife of Deacon Robert Cushman and mother of Elder Thomas Cushman and Sarah Cushman Hoskins. Robert and Thomas migrated to Plymouth Colony aboard the "Fortune" 4 years after Sara's death.She is buried at St. Peters, Leiden, Zuid-Holland Province, Netherlands.

Family links:
Spouse:
Robert Cushman (1577 - 1625)*

Children:
Thomas Cushman (1608 - 1691)*
Sarah Cushman Hoskins (1615 - 1638)*

Burial:
Saint Peter's Cemetery
Leiden
Leiden Municipality
Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Created by: ReLyRoTh
Record added: Nov 26, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 12508965

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12508965&ref=acom

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Isaac Allerton
• Arrival: 1620, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: 1620, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
• Residence: 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Birth: 1586, England
Death: Feb., 1659
New Haven
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA

Isaac, his wife Mary Norris and daughter Mary Allerton immigrated to the colonies aboard the 'Mayflower' in November 1620. Isaac is the 5th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Isaac along with many of the 'First Comers' migrated from England to Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland Province Netherlands to practice religious freedom. He was Governor Bradford's assistant and in 1627 was elected by the colonists to return to London, England to negotiate the Plymouth Colony's buyout of the Merchant Adventurers, the investors who had originally funded the Colony.

Husband of Mary Norris and Fear Brewster. Father of Mary Allerton Cushman and Isaac Allerton, Jr. He is also the ancestor of Presidents Zachary Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Spouses:
Mary Norris Allerton (1590 - 1621)
Fear Brewster Allerton (1606 - 1634)*
Joanna Swinnerton Allerton*

Children:
Child Allerton (____ - 1620)*
Bartholomew Allerton (1613 - ____)*
Remember Allerton Maverick (1615 - ____)*
Mary Allerton Cushman (1616 - 1699)*
Baby Allerton (1620 - 1620)*
Sarah Allerton (1626 - ____)*
Isaac Allerton (1627 - 1702)*

Burial:
Center Church on the Green Churchyard
New Haven
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA


The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, also known as the "Saints", fleeing from religious persecution by King James of Great Britain. They traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 along with adventurers, tradesmen, and servants, most of whom were referred to as "Strangers".

The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 by most adult men (but not by most crew and adult male servants). The Pilgrims used the Julian Calendar, also known as Old Style dates, which, at that time, was ten days behind the Gregorian Calendar. Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship's 101 passengers, while the Mayflower was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.

Reasons for the Compact

The Mayflower was originally bound for the Colony of Virginia, financed by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London. Storms forced the landing to be at the hook of Cape Cod in what is now Massachusetts. This inspired some of the passengers to proclaim that since the settlement would not be made in the agreed upon Virginia territory, they "would use their own liberty; for none had power to command them....". To prevent this, many of the other colonists chose to establish a government. The Mayflower Compact was based simultaneously upon a majoritarian model (even though the signers were not in the majority) and the settlers' allegiance to the king. It was in essence a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival.

In November 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, named after the major port city in Devon, England from which she sailed. The settlers named their settlement "Plimoth" or "Plimouth", using the Early Modern English spellings of the early 17th century.

Although the original document has been lost, three versions exist from the 17th century: printed in Mourt's Relation (1622), which was reprinted in Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625), hand written by William Bradford in his journal Of Plimoth Plantation (1646), and printed by Bradford's nephew Nathaniel Morton in New-Englands Memorial (1669). The three versions differ slightly in wording and significantly in spelling, capitalization and punctuation. William Bradford wrote the first part of Mourt's Relation, including its version of the compact, so he wrote two of the three versions. The wording of those two versions is indeed quite similar, unlike that of Morton. Bradford's handwritten manuscript is kept in a vault at the State Library of Massachusetts.

Modern version:
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.

The 'dread sovereign' referred to in the document used the archaic definition of dread—meaning awe and reverence (for the King), not fear. Also, the document was signed under the Old Style Julian calendar, since England did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752. The Gregorian date would be November 21.

Signers

A list of 41 male passengers who signed the document was supplied by Bradford's nephew Nathaniel Morton in his 1669 New England's Memorial. Thomas Prince first numbered the names in his 1736 A Chronological History of New-England in the form of Annals. Because the original document has been lost, Morton (1669) is our sole source for the signers. Although he probably had access to the original document, he could not have known simply by inspecting it the actual order that it was signed. Morton's arrangement of names is probably not the arrangement of names on the original document, and the names may not have been arranged in any orderly fashion. Prince's numbers are based solely on Morton (1669) as he himself stated. His numbers are unfortunate because he could not have known the order that the original document was signed.

Morton's list of names was unnumbered and untitled in all editions although their order changed with successive editions. In his original 1669 edition, the columns were placed on two successive pages (15–16) forming six short columns, three columns of seven names each (headed Carver, Samuel Fuller, and Edward Tilley) on the first page and three columns of seven, seven, and six names each (headed Turner, Priest, and Clarke) on the next page.[6] In the second (1721) and third (1772) editions, the six short columns were joined into three long columns of 14, 14, and 13 names each on a single page (20). The first and fourth short columns were joined into the first long column (headed Carver with Turner halfway down), the second and fifth short columns were joined into the second long column (headed Samuel Fuller with Priest halfway down), and the third and sixth short columns were joined into the third long column (headed Edward Tilley with Clarke halfway down), changing their order. In the fifth (1826) and sixth (1855) editions, the names were also in three long columns of 14, 14, and 13 names each on one page (1826: 38, 1855: 26), but now they were placed in their original 1669 order. The first and second short columns formed the first long column (headed Carver with Samuel Fuller halfway down), the third and fourth short columns formed the second long column (headed Edward Tilley with Turner halfway down), and the fifth and sixth short columns formed the third long column (headed Priest with Clarke halfway down). Both long column orders appear in modern lists of unnumbered signers.

Prince numbered the names in their original 1669 Morton order (the same as the 1826/55 Morton order) on successive pages (85–86), two columns of eight names each on one page (headed 1 Carver and 9 Martin) and two columns of 13 and 12 names each on the next page (headed 17 Cooke and 30 Williams). The third (1852) edition placed these numbered names in two columns (the first column headed 1 Carver with 8 Samuel Fuller and 15 Edward Tilley below, and the second column headed 22 Turner with 29 Priest and 36 Clarke below) on a single page (172). He added titles (Mr. or Capt.) to eleven names given those titles by William Bradford in the list of passengers at the end of his manuscript.[1][10] He attributed the lack of Mr. Bradford to Bradford's modesty. Prince's numbered order of signers is now used to identify ancestors in genealogical charts.[6]

The following list of signers is organized into the six short columns of Morton (1669) with the numbers and titles of Prince. The names are given their modern spelling according to Morison (1966).[14]

Mr. John Carver
William Bradford
Mr. Edward Winslow
Mr. William Brewster
Mr. Isaac Allerton
Capt. Myles Standish
John Alden

Mr. Samuel Fuller
Mr. Christopher Martin
Mr. William Mullins
Mr. William White
Mr. Richard Warren
John Howland
Mr. Stephen Hopkins

Edward Tilley
John Tilley
Francis Cooke
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Tinker
John Rigsdale
Edward Fuller

John Turner
Francis Eaton
James Chilton
John Crackstone
John Billington
Moses Fletcher
John Goodman

Degory Priest
Thomas Williams
Gilbert Winslow
Edmund Margeson
Peter Browne
Richard Britteridge
George Soule

Richard Clarke
Richard Gardiner
John Allerton
Thomas English
Edward Doty
Edward Lester

Separatists

Priscilla (Mullins) Alden
Isaac Allerton
Mary Allerton
William Bradford
Dorothy Bradford
Love Brewster
William Brewster
Peter Browne
William Butten
John Carver
James Chilton
Mary Chilton
Francis Cooke
Humility Cooper
John Crackstone
Edward Doty
Moses Fletcher
Edward Fuller
Samuel Fuller
Constance Hopkins
Oceanus Hopkins
John Howland
Degory Priest
Thomas Rogers
Henry Samson
George Soule
Edward Tilley
John Tilley
Thomas Tinker
John Turner
William White
Resolved White
Peregrine White
Edward Winslow


Other Passengers

John Alden
John Billington
Francis Eaton
Stephen Hopkins
Christopher Martin
Elinor More
Jasper More
Mary More
Richard More
William Mullins
Myles Standish
Richard Warren


Native American associates

Squanto
Samoset
Hobomok
Massasoit
Corbitant


Volume 1:
http://www.archive.org/details/brewstergenealog190801jone

Volume 2 (with name index in the back for research):
http://www.archive.org/details/brewstergenealog190802jone

Isaac married Mary Leigh Norris on 4 Nov 1611 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Mary (daughter of Gov Edward Norris and Elizabbeth Pierpoint) was born in 1588 in Newbury, Berkshire, England; died on 25 Feb 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: 1590
Berkshire, England
Death: Feb. 25, 1621
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA

"Mayflower" passenger
Wife of Isaac Allerton, the 5th signer of the "Mayflower Compact".

She traveled to the Colonies with her husband and 3 children Barhlomew, Remember and Mary Allerton Cushman, who became the wife of Elder Thomas Cushman.

She was the first person to give birth in the Colonies (a stillborn born upon the Mayflower as it was docked in the harbor).

It is said that in the painting by Henry Sargent (1770-1885) entitled "Landing of the Pilgrims", Mary Norris Allerton is represented as having a fine face, rather beautiful, and as being of a "meek and quiet spirit". The painting was painted in 1818-1822 and is on permanent display at Pilgrim Hall Museum; Plymouth, MA.

COLE HILL MONUMENT:
Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.
Mary Norris Allerton is the 2nd inscription on the monument.


Family links:
Spouse:
Isaac Allerton (1586 - 1659)*

Children:
Child Allerton (____ - 1620)*
Bartholomew Allerton (1613 - ____)*
Remember Allerton Maverick (1615 - ____)*
Mary Allerton Cushman (1616 - 1699)*
Baby Allerton (1620 - 1620)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA


MARY NORRIS
Birth: 1590Berkshire, EnglandDeath: Feb. 25, 1621
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
"Mayflower" passenger
Wife of Isaac Allerton, the 5th signer of the "Mayflower Compact".

She traveled to the Colonies with her husband and 3 children Barhlomew, Remember and Mary Allerton Cushman, who became the wife of Elder Thomas Cushman.

She was the first person to give birth in the Colonies (a stillborn born upon the Mayflower as it was docked in the harbor).

It is said that in the painting by Henry Sargent (1770-1885) entitled "Landing of the Pilgrims", Mary Norris Allerton is represented as having a fine face, rather beautiful, and as being of a "meek and quiet spirit". The painting was painted in 1818-1822 and is on permanent display at Pilgrim Hall Museum; Plymouth, MA.

COLE HILL MONUMENT:
Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.
Mary Norris Allerton is the 2nd inscription on the monument.


Family links:
Children:
Child Allerton (____ - 1620)*
Barthalomew Allerton (1613 - ____)*
Remember Allerton Maverick (1615 - ____)*
Mary Allerton Cushman (1616 - 1699)*

Spouse:
Isaac Allerton (1586 - 1659)*

*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
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MARY NORRIS
Birth: 1590Berkshire, EnglandDeath: Feb. 25, 1621
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
"Mayflower" passenger
Wife of Isaac Allerton, the 5th signer of the "Mayflower Compact".

She traveled to the Colonies with her husband and 3 children Barhlomew, Remember and Mary Allerton Cushman, who became the wife of Elder Thomas Cushman.

She was the first person to give birth in the Colonies (a stillborn born upon the Mayflower as it was docked in the harbor).

It is said that in the painting by Henry Sargent (1770-1885) entitled "Landing of the Pilgrims", Mary Norris Allerton is represented as having a fine face, rather beautiful, and as being of a "meek and quiet spirit". The painting was painted in 1818-1822 and is on permanent display at Pilgrim Hall Museum; Plymouth, MA.

COLE HILL MONUMENT:
Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.
Mary Norris Allerton is the 2nd inscription on the monument.


Family links:
Children:
Child Allerton (____ - 1620)*
Barthalomew Allerton (1613 - ____)*
Remember Allerton Maverick (1615 - ____)*
Mary Allerton Cushman (1616 - 1699)*

Spouse:
Isaac Allerton (1586 - 1659)*

*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
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Created by: ReLyRoTh
Record added: Nov 25, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 12498353



Bio
Mary Norris was probably about 30 years old when she came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, estimated from the known age of her husband, and on her known marriage date. She married Isaac Allerton in Leiden, Holland in 1611, one of the first marriages amongst the Pilgrims after they had fled to Holland from England. Her marriage record indicates she was from Newbury, perhaps Newbury, Berkshire, England. She had children Bartholomew, Remember and Mary in Leiden, all of whom came on the Mayflower with her. She and Isaac buried a child, not yet named, at St. Peters, Leiden on 5 February 1620, and she gave birth to a stillborn son ten months later, on board the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, on 22 December 1620.
Mary died on 25 February 1621, during the height of the first winter when half the Mayflower passengers and crew died. Her husband Isaac, and her three children Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary, all survived, however. Isaac would later remarry to Fear Brewster, daughter of Plymouth's Elder William Brewster.
Source: Mayflower History Web Site, http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/MaryNorris.php

Edward married Rose Davis on 14 Feb 1579 in St Dionis Backchurch, London, England. Rose was born in 1559 in St Peter, London, England; died on 23 Jun 1596 in London, London, England; was buried in Newham, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gov married Elizabbeth Pierpoint. Elizabbeth was born in 1568 in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 25 Feb 1621 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]