Elizabeth (Allerton) Eyres (1653 - 1740)

Born 27 Sep 1653 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Starr — married 23 Dec 1675 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Wife of Simon (Ayers) Eyres — married 22 Jul 1679 (to about 1695) in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 17 Nov 1740 at age 87 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth Allerton, daughter of Isaac Allerton, was born 27 Sep 1653 in New Haven, died 17 Nov 1740 in New Haven and married first to Benjamin Starr on 23 Dec 1675 in New Haven and second to Simon Ayres/Eyres on 22 Jul 1679.^[1]

On 4 May 1680, "[w]hereas there was agreements between Mr. Isaac Allerton sometime of New Haven in the Colony of Connecticut now deceased and Will[iam] Holt of the aforesaid New Haven respecting a small quantity of land granted to the lots that butted on the Oystershell Field which proportion ofland the said Will[iam] Holt did make and pass over to the said Allerton ... and there having not yet been any written or recorded deed to declare the same now I Johanah the widow and relict of the said Allerton ... and well knowing the agreement with the said Holt and John Holt son of the said William . . . do both of them ratify and confirm the said agreement" [NHLR 1:38]. On 19 May 1684, "Elizabeth Eyer, formerly Elizabeth Allerton now wife of Simon Eyre of New Haven ... , having the reversion of a house that my grandmother Mrs. Johanna Allerton now dwells in situate in New Haven aforesaid with the appurtenances thereunto belonging . . . when it was in the possession of my deceased grandfather ... together with the house was bought by my father of my grandfather's creditors and given to me by my father Mr. Isaac Allerton to be possessed thereof as my propriety and right given me by my father after the death of my grandmother Mrs. Johanna Allerton which reversion ... I the said Elizabeth Eyre for good consideration me thereunto moving do give, grant and alienate ... unto my dear and loving husband Simon Eyre" [NHLR 1 :265].^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Early New England Families, 1641-1700. by Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist. Original Online Database: NEHGS, 2013 at AmericanAncestors.org[[$.
2. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony, 1620-1633. (Boston, MA:New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006). Online at American Ancestors.org (subscription site).

• Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 17 Isaac Allerton p. 19-20
• Early Families of New England. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) Entry under Thomas Starr's child Benjamin Starr
• Allerton Family by Walter Scott Allerton
• The Chapin Books by Gilbert W. Chapin
• Brewster Silver Book, Part 1, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants in 2014, children of Isaac and Elizabeth (_____) Allerton, page 176

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Allerton-81 created through the import of armstrongmelhornlegacy11252012.ged on Nov 29, 2012 by Milton Armstrong.