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  • ID: I1
  • Name: John * Blunden Alden Sr.
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: ABT 1598 in Southhampton, England
  • Death: 12 Sep 1687/1689
  • Burial: Miles Standish Burial Ground, South Duxbury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts 1 2 3 4 5 6



    Marriage 1 Priscilla * Mullins b: ABT 1600/1605 in Dorking county, Surrey, England
    • Married: ABT 1621/1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    Children
    1. Has Children Elizabeth Alden b: ABT 1624/1625 in Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    2. Has Children John Alden Jr. b: ABT 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    3. Has Children Joseph Alden b: AFT 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    4. Has Children Sarah Alden b: ABT 1629 in Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    5. Has Children Jonathan Alden b: ABT 1632/1633 in Plymouth, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    6. Has Children Ruth * A Alden b: ABT 1634/1635 in Duxbury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    7. Has No Children Mary Alden b: ABT 1638
    8. Has Children David Alden b: ABT 1646 in Duxbury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts
    9. Has No Children Priscilla Alden b: ABT 1648
    10. Has No Children Rebecca Alden b: ABT 1649 in Duxbury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts

    Sources:
    1. Title: Comment
      Text: see pedigree for Shawn R. Blair at http://home.sprynet.com/~srblair/genea/d45.htm#P89.
    2. Title: Families of the Pilgrims John Alden, William Mullins
      Author: Hubert Kinney Shaw 1955, revised by Alicia Crane William
      Publication: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendents
      Text: 101 Newbury St. Boston Mass 02116
    3. Title: Comment
      Text: see also Edward Doty and
      Alden Genealogy.
    4. Title: Comment
      Text: from http://www.pilgrimhall.org/aldenjohn.htm

      JOHN ALDEN
      John Alden joined the Mayflower in England. At the time, he was about 21 years old. William Bradford writes that he "was hired for a cooper, at South-Hampton, where the ship victuled; and being a hopefull yong man, was much desired, but left to his owne liking to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed, and maryed here." John Alden was a cooper, or barrel-maker, by trade. John Alden married Priscilla Mullins, also of the Mayflower. The date of their marriage is not known. They were probably married by 1623 since Priscilla is not listed separately in the 1623 Division of Land. By the 1627 Division of Cattle, they were married and had two children, Elizabeth and John. The legend of the rivalry between Miles Standish and John Alden for the hand of Priscilla Mullins was first published in Rev. Timothy Alden's 1814 Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions. The story was popularized in the poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish, published by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1858. There is no documentation for the legend in the records of Plymouth Colony. For more information on "Love & Legend in Plymouth Colony," click HERE. John and Priscilla Mullins Alden had 10 children : Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Sarah, Jonathan, Ruth, Rebecca, Mary, Priscilla, and David. Alden became one of the Purchasers and Undertakers. He was an Assistant in the Colony government for many years and presided occasionally as deputy governor. He also served as colony treasurer and was a member of committees in charge of revising laws. John Alden was one of the founders of Duxbury. He owned several pieces of property but seems to have deeded all his real estate to his children during his lifetime. John Alden died intestate (without a will), but we do have an inventory of the property he owned at his death (click HERE for John Alden's inventory). Alicia Crane Williams has written a superb article on John and Priscilla Mullins Alden. "John and Priscilla, We Hardly Know Ye," America History Illustrated Vol. 23 No. 8 (December 1988), gives an excellent and readable overview of what is known about the Aldens. Ms. Williams has also done extensive work on the English background of John Alden and published "John Alden : Theories on English Ancestry" in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 39 No. 2, July 1989. The Alden homesite in Duxbury contains the excavated foundations of the first Alden home (c1627) as well as the still-standing 1653 Alden House. The homesite was acquired in 1907 by the Alden Kindred of America (the Kindred is comprised of descendants of John and Priscilla Mullins Alden). There are two excellent books on the Alden homesite. Pilgrim John Alden's Progress : Archaeological Excavations in Duxbury by Roland Wells Robbins focuses on examining the remains of the no-longer-standing house of 1627. Dorothy Wentworth's The Alden Family in the Alden House concentrates on the 1653 Alden House and its residents.
    5. Title: Comment
      Text: from http://www.pilgrimhall.org/mayfpass.htm

      Mayflower Passenger List
      The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first beginners and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England; and their families.

      *Mr. John Carver, Katherine his wife, Desire Minter, and two manservants, John Howland, Roger Wilder. William Latham, a boy, and a maidservant and a child that was put to him called Jasper More. *Mr. William Brewster, Mary, his wife, with two sons, whose names were Love and Wrestling. And a boy was put to him called Richard More, and another of his brothers. The rest of his children were left behind and came over afterwards. *Mr. Edward Winslow, Elizabeth his wife and two menservants called George Soule and Elias Story; also a little girl was put to him called Ellen, the sister of Richard More. *William Bradford and Dorothy his wife, having but one child, a son left behind who came afterward. *Mr. Isaac Allerton and Mary his wife, with three children, Bartholomew, Remember and Mary. And a servant boy John Hooke. *Mr. Samuel Fuller and a servant called William Button. His wife was behind, and a child which came afterwards. *John Crackston and his son John Crackston. *Captain Myles Standish and Rose his wife. *Mr. Christopher Martin and his wife and two servants, Solomon Prower and John Langmore. *Mr. William Mullins and his wife and two children, Joseph and Priscilla; and a servant, Robert Carter. *Mr. William White and Susanna his wife and one son called Resolved, and one born a-shipboard called Peregrine, and two servants named William Holbeck and Edward Thompson. *Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth his wife, and two children called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife. And two more by this wife called Damaris and Oceanus; the last was born at sea. And two servants called Edward Doty and Edward Lester. *Mr. Richard Warren, but his wife and children were left behind and came afterwards. *John Billington and Ellen his wife, and two sons, John and Francis. *Edward Tilley and Ann his wife, and two children that were their cousins, Henry Sampson and Humility Cooper. *John Tilley and his wife, and Elizabeth their daughter. *Francis Cooke and his son John; but his wife and other children came afterwards. *Thomas Rogers and Joseph his son; his other children came afterwards. *Thomas Tinker and his wife and a son. *John Rigsdale and Alice his wife. *James Chilton and his wife, and Mary their daughter; they had another daughter that was married, came afterward. *Edward Fuller and his wife, and Samuel their son. *John Turner and two sons; he had a daughter came some years after to Salem, where she is now living. *Francis Eaton and Sarah his wife, and Samuel their son, a young child. *Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Thomas Williams, Digory Priest, Edmund Margesson, Peter Browne, Richard Britteridge, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, Gilbert Winslow. *John Alden was hired for a cooper at Southampton where the ship victualed, and being a hopeful young man was much desired but left to his own liking to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed and married here. *John Allerton and Thomas English were both hired, the latter to go master of a shallop here, and the other was reputed as one of the company but was to go back (being a seaman) for the help of others behind. But they both died here before the ship returned. *There were also other two seamen hired to stay a year here in the country, William Trevor, and one Ely. But when their time was out they both returned.
      These being about a hundred souls, came over in this first ship and began this work, which God of His goodness hath hitherto blessed. Let His holy name have the praise.

      William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation,1650
    6. Title: Comment
      Text: see also Caleb Johnson's site
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