Fear Allerton (née Brewster; - before December 12, 1634) was a woman in

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She was the third daughter of ''

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William Brewster and his wife Mary Brewster, born in

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. Her early years, and indeed her whole life, were full of unrest. In 1608 she moved, along with the other pilgrims, to

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(and later

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). Fear was only 14 when her parents and two younger brothers,

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and Wrestling, left for America on the ''

''. She was left in the care of her older siblings, Jonathan (born in 1593) and

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(born in 1600). Jonathan joined the pilgrims in 1621 on board the ''Fortune''. Fear arrived in America with Patience in 1623. Fear married

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, another Mayflower pilgrim, around 1623 or 1627. He was 20 years her senior. They had a daughter, Sarah, born about 1627. Sarah probably died young. They also had a son,

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, a colonial merchant and colonel, born between 1627 and 1630. Richard Taylor, a direct descendant of Isaac Jr., was the father of the 12th President of the United States,

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. Fear died young, but the exact date is unknown. On December 12, 1634, Governor

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reported to his son that both Fear and her sister Patience Brewster Prence had died, writing a "pestilent fever hath taken away some at Plimouth, amonge others Mr. Prence the Governor his wife and Mr. Allerton's wife."

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