Note 44 — PART II Plymouth Reorganizes Financially

Allerton appears often in Winthrop’s Journal, and in Winthrop Papers, II, III; in Plymouth’s tax list and as an official, Records of Plymouth Colony, eds. N. B. Shurtleff, et al. (Boston, 1855–61), 1, 9, 21, 52. Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 241n., 244, 245, 250–251, 392. “Plymouth Colony, Wills and Inventories” (typescript), 1620–39, 4, 5; 1641–49, 44, for debts to Allerton. Allerton gave permission for his brother-in-law’s debts to be settled first with his other creditors, Recs. Plymouth Col., I, 20. Winthrop Papers, III, 437, July 1, 1637, Winslow’s remarks. For an estimate less harsh than Bradford’s see Andrews, Col. Per. Amer. Hist., I, 288–289, 289n.