Mary Allerton

Mary Allerton Cushman (c. 1616 – 28 November 1699) was a Dutch settler of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts.

[1] She arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower when she was about four years old and lived there the rest of her life; she died aged 83.

Around 1636, she married Thomas Cushman, [3] who had come to Plymouth in 1621 at the age of thirteen on the ship Fortune with father Robert Cushman, a prominent member of the Pilgrims' congregation in Leiden.

Mary, who gave birth to and raised eight children, lived to the age of 83.

Prior to her death in November 1699, she was the last surviving Mayflower passenger.

Mary Allerton Cushman's grave on Burial Hill