Ancestral Glimpses » John Alden (1598-1687)

Personal data John Alden 

• He was born on September 15, 1598 in Southampton, Hampshire, ENGLAND.
• Alternative: He was born about 1599 in ENGLAND.
• Alternative: He was born about 1599 in prob Harwich, Essex, ENGLAND.
• Alternative: He was born about 1599 in Southampton, Hampshire, ENGLAND.
• Immigrated about 1620.
• (Arrival by Ship) in the year 1620 in Plymouth Colony, British Americaon the Mayflower.
• He died on September 12, 1687 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British America, he was 88 years old.
• He is buried on September 12, 1687 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British America.
• A child of George Joseph Alden and Jane Fowlk
• This information was last updated on January 26, 2018.

Household of John Alden

(1) He is married to Priscilla Mullins.

They got married on May 12, 1622 at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, British America, he was 23 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Mary Alden  1643-> 1688
2. Priscilla Alden  ????-> 1688
3. Elizabeth Alden  ± 1624-1717 
4. John Alden  ± 1626-1702 
5. Sarah Alden  > 1627-< 1688
6. Joseph Alden  > 1627-1697 
7. Jonathan Alden  ± 1632-1697 
8. Ruth Alden  1635-1674 
9. David Alden  ± 1646-1719 
10. Rebecca Alden  < 1649-< 1688 

(2) He is married to Priscilla Mullins.

They got married about 1644 at Plymouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, British America.

Child(ren):

1. Joseph Alden  ± 1627-± 1697 

Notes about John Alden

"It may be that JOHN ALDEN joined the Pilgrims from love of adventure, and that as Goodwin suggests, in his "Pilgrim Republic," PRISCILLA MULLINS was the chief inducement for him to remain.
"The rise of the young cooper was rapid in the esteem of his new found friends. " In 1627 BRADFORD, STANDISH, ALLERTON, WINSLOW, HOWLAND, ALDEN, and Prence agreed with the Adventurers in England to take over the whole trade of the Colony for six years, undertaking to pay all debts and arrange for the removal of the rest of the congregation from
Holland." For forty-three years ALDEN was Governor's Assistant; for thirteen. Treasurer of the Colony; for eight, a member of the Council of War. He often filled several of these offices at one time. After 1640 we find him one of the
seven colonists styled "gentleman."
He made his home in Duxbury, eight miles from Plymouth. The site of his well is still shown, near the "Old Alden House," which was built by his grand-son. Col. John Alden. As late as 1901, an Alden had always occupied the house. JOHN ALDEN'S Bible may be seen in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth. His autographs are rare. One of them was owned by the late Henry D. Forbes, of Boston, appended to a deed given on 8 Jan 1679-80, but never recorded. A photographic reproduction of this deed is in the seventh volume of the "Mayflower Descendant." Another autograph may be seen at the Boston
Public Library, at the close of a letter written by Gov. BRADFORD to Gov. Winthrop in 1631. The letter, a kind of state document, is signed
not only by the writer, but by several other prominent men of the colony, including JOHN ALDEN and Thomas Prence.
There are in existence two broadsides of doggerel rhyme, one of 66 lines, another of 100, printed on the occasion of JOHN ALDEN'S death. A reproduction of each is in the ninth volume of the "Mayflower Descendant." The first is full of pious hyperbole, and compares the Pilgrim with numerous Patriarchs of note, yet never to his disadvantage. The other broadside is in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. It is signed with the initials "J. C", which are supposed to indicate John Cotton. The poetry is indifferent, but there are no parallels so startling as in the first case. The author concludes the poem with some rhymes about a curious anagram made from the letters of the name lOHN ALDEN, viz.:
'END AL ON HI'

JOHN ALDEN and PRISCILLA* MULLINS had eleven children:
1. Elizabeth* Alden, born 1623±; md. 1644 William Paybody; died 1717.
2. John2 Alden, born 1626±; md. (1) Elizabeth (?) (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, widow of Abiel Everell; died 1702.
3. Joseph3 Alden, born 1627; md. Mary Simmons; died 1697.
4. Sarah2 Alden, born 1629; md. Alexander* Standish
(Miles1); died 1688 ±.
5. Jonathan* Alden, born 1632±; md. Abigail Hallet; died 1697.
6. Ruth* Alden, born 16—; md. John Bass; died 1674. She was ancestress of John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
7. Mary' Alden, born 16—; md. Thomas Delano, or De la Noye, of Duxbury; died 1699±.
8. David* Alden, born 1646; md. Mary Southworth; died 1719.
9. Priscilla* Alden, md. Samuel Cheeseborough.
10. Rebecca* Alden, of marriageable age in 1661.
11. Zachariah* Alden, said to be ancestor of William Cullen Bryant.

Source: D.O. S. LOWELL, A. M., M. D., Litt. D., Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy, Privately Printed, Boston, Massachusetts, (1920), pp. 54-55.

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Governor Bradford was again called to the chief magistracy, Governor. Prince was elected first assistant. The other assistants were Captain Standish, John Alden, John Brown, William Collier, Timothy Hatherly, John Jenny.

Source: An Historical Memoir of the colony of New Plymouth. Vol. I - Part the First. From 1620 to 1641. by Francis Baylies. (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins. 1830.), page 305.

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