 Bef 1620 - Aft 1684 (> 64 years)
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| Name |
Joanna SWINNERTON |
| Birth |
Bef 17 Mar 1620 |
England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Also Known As |
Swinnerton |
| Reference Number |
60 |
| Reference Number |
8542355 |
| Reference Number |
8937105 |
| WWW |
https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Swinnerton-27 |
| Death |
Aft 19 May 1684 |
New Haven, Connecticut |
| Person ID |
I188 |
Gummer |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
| Family |
Asst. Gov. Isaac ALLERTON, b. Abt 1586, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England d. Bef 12 Feb 1659, New Haven, New Haven Colony (Age < 73 years) |
| Marriage |
17 Feb 1644 |
New Haven, New Haven Colony |
| Family ID |
F233 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
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| Notes |
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== Biography =='''Joanna Swinnerton''' married Isaac Allerton, as his third wife, some time between 1634 and 1644. More research is needed to clarify her origins. They had no known children.
Discussion of origins/marriage::Newman Hall presented evidence of her origins by offering a New Haven deed from Isaac Allerton's daughter Elizabeth (Allerton) Eyre, dated 23 Dec 1703, which states that Elizabeth was the "granddaughter and heir-at-law to Joanna Swinerton after Joanna Alderton late of New Haven deceased." (New Haven Deeds, 4:49). Hall further suggests there may be a connection between a Job Swinnerton, who was in Salem as early as 1637, and Isaac Allerton's third wife. He noted that Isaac's second wife, Fear Brewster Allerton died 12 Dec 1634, probably in Salem or Marblehead, suggesting that the Swinnerton-Allerton marriage could have taken place in the Salem area not long after 1634.[Hall, Newman A., "Joanna Swinnerton: The Third Wife of Isaac Allerton, Sr.," ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register,'' 124 (1970): 133.]
:Anderson states in ''The Great Migration Begins'' that by 1644, Isaac Allerton had married his third wife, Joanna Swinnerton, who could be the "Mrs. Swinnerton" who received a grant of land at New Haven on 17 Mar 1640/1.[Anderson, Robert Charles. ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633'', (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011). Online at [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/35/23894394 AmericanAncestors.org], Vol. 1, pages 35-39.] Anderson explores Joanna's identity further in a 1992 article in the ''Mayflower Descendant'', noting that if the "Mrs. Swinnerton" who received a grant of a meadow lot in New Haven on 17 May 1640/1 was the person who married Isaac Allerton, then their marriage would have occurred after May 1641, probably in New Haven and before late 1644, when Joanna first appears in the records as Allerton's wife. Anderson questions whether the "Mrs. Swinnerton" in the 1640/1 land grant was Joanna or if it perhaps was her mother.[Anderson, Robert Charles, "On the Third Wife of Isaac Allerton," published in the ''Mayflower Descendant'' (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- ). Online database: [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/13643/124/0 AmericanAncestors.org], Vol 42, Jul 1992, page 124.]
On 17 Feb 1644/5, "Mr. Allerton coming from New Haven in a ketch, with his wife and diverse other persons, were taken in a great storm at northeast with much snow, and cast away at Scituate, but the persons all saved" [WJ 2:258].[ ]
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].
Joanna was still living in New Haven on 19 May 1684 when "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].[Anderson, Robert Charles. ''The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony, 1620-1633.'' (Boston, MA:New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006). Online at [https://mayflower.americanancestors.org/isaac-allerton-biography American Ancestors.org] (subscription site).]
== Sources ==
See also:
* Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 17 p. 1-3* Bartley, Scott Andrew. ''Who Was Joanna Swinnerton of New Haven?'', [[Space:The Mayflower Descendant|The Mayflower Descendant]] (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 2014) Vol. 63, [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/58444/214 Page 214-24]::* She was "born before 17 March 1619/20" and was living on 19 May 1684, but deceased by October 1696".
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