Frances (Allerton) Travers (bef. 1669 - bef. 1702)

Born before 1669 in Westmoreland Co., Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Travers — married 1 Jul 1685 in Rappahannock Co., Virginia

Descendants

Died before 20 Feb 1702 at about age 33 in Richmond Co., Virginia

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Biography

Frances Allerton was the daughter of Isaac Allerton Jr. and his second wife Elizabeth Willoughby widow of Simon Overzee and George Colcough.^[1]

Frances Allerton married Samuel Travers on 1 Jul 1685, Northern Neck of Virginia. ^[2]

Frances and Samuel had the following children:

• Elizabeth (Travers) Tarpley, born about 1688
• Rebecca (Travers) Colston
• Winifred (Travers) Hornby
• Frances Travers

Sources

1. ↑ Walter S. Allerton, “Isaac Allerton’s Will,” Mayflower Descendant 7 (1905): 173–6.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data:Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649–1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003. Samuel Travers and Frances Allerton, 1 Jul 1685.(https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/5063/images/gpc_marriedwellandoften-0370?usePUB=true&_phsrc=mpZ35&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=6683)

• Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 17 Isaac Allerton p. 21-22.
• Scott E. Tracy, “Mayflower Descendant Col. John Tarpley (1720-1786/7) Richmond County, Virginia,” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 50, no. 2 (Richmond: Virginia Genealogical Society, May 2012), 121-42.
• Barbara Lambert Merrick, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 24 Part 1, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014. "The Silver Book" Page 337
• Ancestry.com. Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data:Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995. (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61175/images/colonialfamiliesii-000963_10?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.98652758.979802738.1605460860-1307439399.1605460860&pId=450030221)
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 17 February 2021), memorial page for Frances Allerton Travers (1668–1721), Find A Grave: Memorial #221691763, citing North Farnham Episcopal Church Cemetery, Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Gathering Roots (contributor 47213048) .