When Thomas Allerton was born about 1692, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Isaac Allerton, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Kitchell, was 38. He died in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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New Haven is the home of Yale University. A The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873, when sole governance was transferred to the more centrally located city of Hartford.
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English:
habitational name from any of several places so called. Allerton on Merseyside, Chapel Allerton in Yorkshire, and others in Yorkshire were named in Old English as alra tūn ‘settlement by the alders’. One in Somerset (Alwarditone in Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfweard's settlement’; one in Yorkshire (Allerton Mauleverer, Alvertone in Domesday Book) is ‘Ælfhere's settlement’.
(Suffolk): probably a variant of Alderton .
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