THE MAYFLOWER ANCESTORS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS

Hess-Nickson Family History

THE MAYFLOWER ANCESTORS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS

There are 4 of them and they are Isaac Allerton, Mary Norris Allerton (his wife), Mary Allerton (their daughter) and Degory Priest.

Here's what I know about them. They were all Puritans, having lived in the Netherlands since 1608, were they fled to avoid persecution. Here are my notes on each:

Isaac Allerton--By all accounts, "one of the busiest and most complicated men in early New England [TMG 1:38] With extensive holdings and numerous residences, "records for Allerton may be found in virtually every colony on the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean, including Newfoundland, New Netherland, New Sweden, Virginia, Barbadoes and Curacao."[TMG 1:38].  Born about 1586, died New Haven CT, after 1 Feb 1658/9 and before 12 Feb 1658/9 (Inventory). He married at Leiden, 4 Nov 1611 Mary Norris, a "single woman" from Newbury in England." He married at Plymouth between 1623 and 1627, Fear Brewster, daughter of William Brewster. He married third, Joanna Swinnerton.

Mary Norris Allerton--Aboard the Mayflower in 1620. She died 25 Feb 1622.

Mary Allerton--Born 16 June 1616, in Leiden, Netherlands. Married in March 1636, Thomas Cushman who arrived in the New World in 1623. She had 8 children. She died 28 Dec 1699, and was the last survivor of the Mayflower passengers.

Degory Priest--Born in 1579 or 1580 in London. He married Sarah Allerton 4 Nov 1611, in Leiden, Netherlands, and had a daughter, Sarah, born 1615. He was aboard the Mayflower, having left his family behind in Leiden. He died 11 Jan 1621. His wife remarried and arrived with her new husband in the New World in 1623.

The following is our direct line:

Isaac Allerton married Mary Norris, they had one daughter Mary.

Mary (b. 1616, d. 1699) married Thomas Cushman (b. 1608. d. 1691), they had 8 children, one of whom was Eleazar (b. 1656, d. 1723).

Eleazar Cushman married Elizabeth Coombs (b. 1662, d. 1723 and great granddaughter of Degory Priest), they had 6 childrren, one of whom was John (b. 1690, d. 1760).

John Cushman married Joanna Pratt (b. 1690, d. 1747), they had a son Charles (b. 1716, d. 1791)

Charles Cushman married Mary Harvey (b. 1720, d. 1810), they had a daughter, Mary (b. 1740, d. 1828)

Mary Cushman married Joseph Kellogg (b. 1738, d. 1825) and they had a son, Brigadier General Amos Kellogg (b. 1760, d. 1826). Amos fought in the Revolutionary War in the battles at Bennington and Saratoga as a member of Col. Seth Warners "Green Mountain Boys".

Amos Kellogg married Lucretia Harwood (b. 1764, died 1850) and they had a daughter, Sarah (b. 1783, d. 1859).

Sara Kellogg married Noah Loomis (b. 1782, d. 1848) and they had a son, Bohan Shepard (b. 1825, d. 1908)

Bohan Shepard Loomis married Laura A. Hart (b. 1827, d. 1911) and had a daughter, Martha Anna "Mattie", (b. 1858d. d. 1911).

Mattie Loomis married William Andrew Nelson (b. 1849, d. 1906) and they had a daughter, Grace Marie (b. 1888, d. 1970).

Grace Nelson married Frank Grant Hess (b: 1881, d: 1957) and they had two sons, Robert Nelson (b: 1915, d: 2004) and William Nelson Loomis (b: 1917, d: 2010).

William Nelson Loomis Hess married Maryellen Nickson (b: 1920, d: 2002) and they had three children, Julieanne (b: 1944), David Fredric (b: 1946) and Michael Allan (b: 1947, d: 2007).