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Données personnelles John Alden 

• Il est né le 6 juillet 1598 dans Harwick, Essex (Southampton, Hampshire, ) England.Source 1

  ID: I00847 Name: John ALDEN Sex: M Birth: 1599 in England Death: 12 SEP 1687 in Duxbury, MA _FA1: Mayflower Passenger Marriage 1 Priscilla MULLINS b: ABT 1602 in England Married: ABT 1622 in Plymouth, MA Children Elizabeth ALDEN b: 1623 inPlymouth, MA John ALDEN b: 1626 in Plymouth, MA Joseph ALDEN b: 1627 in Plymouth, MA Sarah ALDEN b: 1629 in Plymouth, MA Jonathan ALDEN b: 1632 in Plymouth, MA Ruth ALDEN b: 1634 in Plymouth, MA Rebecca ALDEN b: 1637 in Plymouth, MA Priscilla ALDEN b: 1639 in Plymouth, MA Zachariah ALDEN b: 1641 Mary ALDEN b: 1643 in Plymouth, MA David ALDEN b: 1646 in Plymouth, MA
  
  Origin: Southampton; Migration: 1620 on Mayflower; First Residence: Plymouth; Removes:Duxbury 1632 Alicia Crane Williams has reciently concluded...by entering "Southampton" under Origin we are only taking note of Bradfords statement that Alden was hired at that port; we are not implying that he was born or raised there.

• Alternative: Il est né le 6 juillet 1598 dans Southampton, Hampshire, England.
• Alternative: Il est né le 15 septembre 1598 dans Harwich, Essex, England.
• Il a été baptisé le 15 septembre 1598 dans Harwich, Hampshire, England.
• Professions:
• Cooper.
• Cooper on Mayflower.
• Mayflower passenger; Cooper, Magistrate of Plymouth.
• “was hired for a cooper, (barrel maker)...".
• .

  Cooper, Carpenter, Assistant Governor, Cooper on the Mayflower, Ship Captain, Pilgrim emigrated on the Mayflower to Plymouth Colony in Mass., Commander of the troops on the Mayflower;, Mayfower Crew, Signed Mayflower compact, Politician, Colony Treasurer Modified

• Résidant:
• en l'an 1630: Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
• en l'an 1630: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America.
• en l'an 1632: Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
• en l'an 1632: Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America.
• en l'an 1650: Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America.
• (Middle name) .

  In various places, Blunden has been used as the middle name for John Alden. However, as far as I know, there is no evidence that this the case.

• (Alt. Birth) le 6 juillet 1598 dans Harwich, Essex, England.
• (Arrival) environ 1620 dans Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony: Ship named Mayflower.
• (Immigrattion) en l'an 1620 dans Mayflower Passenger.
• (Event 1) en l'an 1633 dans Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America: Assistant for the Colony for Gov. Winslow.
• (Alt. Death) le 12 septembre 1687 dans South Duxbury, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
• (Alt. Burial) le 12 septembre 1687 dans Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
• (FindAGrave.com) dans Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British North America: Memorial ID #15.
• (Alt. Death) le 12 septembre 1687 dans South Duxbury, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
• (Middle name) : In various places, Blunden has been used as the middle name for John Alden. However, as far as I know, there is no evidence that this the case..
• (Event 1) : Was a signer of the Mayflower Compact.
• Il est décédé le 12 septembre 1687 dans Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, il avait 89 ans.
• Alternative: Il est décédé le 12 septembre 1687 dans Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, il avait 89 ans.

  Oorzaak: Y

• Alternative: Il est décédé le 22 septembre 1687 dans Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, il avait 89 ans.
• Alternative: Il est décédé le 22 septembre 1687 dans Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, il avait 89 ans.

  Oorzaak: Y

• Il est enterré le 13 septembre 1687 dans Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
• Un enfant de Thomas Alden et Isabel
• Un enfant de George Joseph Alden et Jane Jones
• Un enfant de George Joseph Alden et Jane Jones
• Un enfant de Thomas Alden et Isabel
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 5 juin 2019.

Famille de John Alden

Il est marié avec Priscilla Mullins.

Ils se sont mariés le 12 mai 1622 à Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, il avait 23 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Elizabeth Alden  1623-1717 
2. John Alden  1626-1702 
3. Joseph Alden  1627-1697 
4. Sarah Alden  ± 1629-1688 
5. Jonathan Alden  1632-1697 
6. Ruth Alden  1634-1674 
7. Mary Alden  1638-1699
8. Priscilla Alden  1639-1688
9. David Alden  1646-1719 
10. Rebecca Alden  1649-1688 

Notes par John Alden

Endowment date should probably be 1889, not 1989.

ID: I00847 Name: John ALDEN Sex: M Birth: 1599 in England Death: 12 SEP 1687 in Duxbury, MA _FA1: Mayflower Passenger Marriage 1 Priscilla MULLINS b: ABT 1602 in England Married: ABT 1622 in Plymouth, MA Children Elizabeth ALDEN b: 1623 inPlymouth, MA John ALDEN b: 1626 in Plymouth, MA Joseph ALDEN b: 1627 in Plymouth, MA Sarah ALDEN b: 1629 in Plymouth, MA Jonathan ALDEN b: 1632 in Plymouth, MA Ruth ALDEN b: 1634 in Plymouth, MA Rebecca ALDEN b: 1637 in Plymouth, MA Priscilla ALDEN b: 1639 in Plymouth, MA Zachariah ALDEN b: 1641 Mary ALDEN b: 1643 in Plymouth, MA David ALDEN b: 1646 in Plymouth, MA

William Bradford wrote, in his history Of Plymouth Plantation: "John Alden was hired for a cooper [barrel maker] at Southampton where the ship [Mayflower] victualed, and being a hopeful young man was much desired but left to his own likingto go or stay when he came here; but he stayed and married here." and later wrote "John Alden married Priscilla, Mr. Mullin's daughter, and had issue by her as is before related." John Alden was an assistant for the Plymouth colony for many years, and was deputy governor for two years. His marriage to Priscilla Mullins was the subject of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, "The Courtship of Myles Standish", which although a classic has little factual basis. John and Priscilla were among the founders of the town of Duxbury. In 1634, John Alden was on the Kennebec River assisting in the forceful removal of John Hocking who was illegally fishing and trading on land that had been granted to the Pilgrims. Hockings refused to leave, and when the party arrived at his ship by canoe to board and remove him, he shot and killed Moses Talbot. In return, Hockings was shot and killed. The Massachusetts Bay Colony took matters into its own hands, and arrested John Alden (even though he was not the one who fired the shot). Myles Standish was sent by Governor Bradford to obtain Alden's release, which he successfully did. In his later years, John Alden was on many juries, including even a witch trial--though in Plymouth's case, the jury found the accuser guilty of libel and the alleged witch was allowed to go free. Plymouth Colony only had two witch trials during its history, and in both cases the accuser was found guilty andpunished. John and Priscilla Alden probably have the largest number of descendants of any Mayflower passenger, but with stiff competition from Richard Warren and John Howland. They are ancestors to Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Vice President Dan Quayle. ------------ --------------------- That is all that is known about the origins of John Alden. Efforts to locate his birthplace and parentage have so far been inconclusive. Although he joined the Mayflower at Southampton, co. Hampshire, England, no records have been found of John in Southampton, and he was not necessarily a native of that place. Several theories regarding the origins of John Alden were discussed in The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 39:111-121 and vol. 40:133-136. Of these theories, the one with the most prospects is that of the Harwich Alden family. A John Alden of Harwich married the daughter of William Russell, a merchant ofthat town. When William Russell wrote his will on 1 August 1586, he mentioned his son-in-law John Alden who was at that time in captivity in Spain (these were the years just before the Spanish Armada when English and Spanish ships competed for rule of the seas). He also mentions a number of children of John Alden. Interpretation of Russell�s will seems to indicate that the captured John Alden had two sons named John. John �the elder� was probably the child of an earlier,unknown, first wife; and John �the younger� was the child of William Russell�s daughter. Other children of the captured John Alden were Peter, William and Thomas. Any of these sons could have been the father of John Alden of the Mayflower. The most appealing facet of the Harwich theory is that William Russell�s son Robert, brother of the Elizabeth Russell who married the captured John Alden, married the widowed mother of Captain Christopher Jones of the Mayflower. Thus, if this theory is correct, Capt. Jones would have been this step-son of our John Alden�s great-uncle! Certainly, this theory offers ample opportunity for John Alden to have learned about Captain Jones�s trip to New England and to gain the job of cooper/carpenter for the voyage. Unfortunately, no records have been found in Harwich or the county of Essex of a John Alden who could be ours. If Captain Jones was related to John Alden, William Bradford did not know if it when hewrote his history or he almost certainly would have mentioned the connection. John, himself, left us no information about his past. We estimate the year of his birth as 1598 using John�s own deposition and a broadside published upon his death. In the deposition made on 6 July 1682 John stated he was �aged 83 yeers or thereabouts� (Plymouth Colony Records, Judicial Acts, Part 2, p. 32; The Mayflower Descendant vol. 3:120-121, which would indicate he was born between 6 July 1598 and 6 July 1599. When John died on 12 September 1687, a broadside published to commemorate the occasion stated he was �about eight-nine years of age,� indicating he was born between 12 September 1687 and 12 September 1598 (The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 9:129). Combining the two ranges results in an estimated birth date between 6 July and 12 September 1598 or thereabouts. Thus John was a about twenty-two years old in 1620 and very likely had just finished an apprenticeship in cooperage or carpentry. No letters, no family Bible, no journal, no writings survive for either John or Priscilla. All that survives is the story of their courtship. Priscilla Mullins was the daughter of William Mullins, also a passenger on the Mayflower with his wife Alice and son Joseph. William, Alice and Joseph all died in the terrible sickness and deprivation of the first winter in Plymouth. Priscilla, who as probably still too young to be married, was orphaned, her only surviving kin her brother and sister in England. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow celebrated the story of how Priscilla attracted the attentions of the newly-widowed Captain Myles Standish, who asked his friend John Alden to propose on his behalf only to have Priscilla ask, �Why don�t you speak for yourself, John?� Most of the world draws its image of the Pilgrim story from Longfellow�s epic narrative poem, The Courtship of Myles Standish. The basic story was apparently handed down in the Alden family and published by John and Priscilla�s great-great-grandson, Rev. Timothy Alden, in his Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions in 1814 (264-271). Rev. Timothy�s facts are not always correct (he was not born until 1736, fifty years after John�s death), and he embellishes in the typical style of his day, but his account of the famous courtship and description of John is as close to the original as we can get: Mrs. Rose Standish, consort of Captain Standish, departed this life, on the 29 of January 1621. This circumstance is mentioned as an introduction to the following anecdote, which as been carefully handed down by tradition. In a very short time after the decease of Mrs. Standish, the captain was led to think, that, if he could obtain Miss Priscilla Mullins, a daughter of Mr. William Mullins, the breach in his family would be happily repaired. He, therefore, according to the custom of those times, sent to ask Mr. Mullins� permission to visit his daughter. John Alden, the messenger, went and faithfully communicated the wishes of the captain. The old gentleman did not object, as he might have done, on account of the recency ofCaptain Standish�s bereavement. He said it was perfectly agreeable to him, but the young lady must also be consulted. The damsel was then called into the room, and John Alden, who is said to have been a man of most excellent form with a fair and ruddy complexion, arose, and, in a very courteous and prepossessing manner, delivered his errand. Miss Mullins listened with respectful attention, and at last, after a considerable pause, fixing her eyes upon him, with an open and pleasant countenance, said, prithee John, why do you not speak for yourself? He blushed, and bowed, and took his leave, but with a look, which indicated more than his diffidence would permit him otherwise to express. However, he soon renewed his visit, and it was not long bef ore their nuptials were celebrated in ample form. Obviously, in addition to the inevitable distortions of stories told and retold over the years, the Rev. Alden had already taken some poetic license with the family story before Longfellow took over. There would have been very little time between the death of Rose Standish on January 29th and the death of William Mullins on February 21st, if all of this took place while Mullins was stillalive, and there is little chance even the flamboyant Captain Standish would have been courting Priscilla during those desperate months of sickness and starvation in the winter of 1621. A grain of truth probably exists in the family tradition, but most of the story that found its way to Longfellow�s poem is pure imagination. The marriage date of John and Priscilla is also unknown. They were certainly married at Plymouth. We know that William Bradford�s marriage to Alice Carpenter 14 August 1624 was the fourth marriage in Plymouth Colony (The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 30:4). The first was that of Edward Winslow and Susannah White in 1621. Francis Eaton�s marriage to his second wife, Dorothy, maidservant to the Carvers, was possibly the second (TAG, 72:308-309). John Alden and Priscilla Mullins is likely the third. Since Priscilla is not listed in the 1623 division of land (which probably took place in early 1623/4 — see below), it is assumed their marriage took place before that list was made and, therefore, John Alden�s share included that of his wife. By the division of cattle in May 1627, the Aldens had two children, Elizabeth and John. No birth records for any of the Alden children survive, but from the death record of Elizabeth Alden it appears she was born about 1624-5 and was the eldest child. This places John and Priscilla�s marriage about 1623. Since no birth or baptism for Priscilla has been found, we can only make a wild guess that she may have been about sixteen to eighteen in 1620, slightly too you ng to marry in the first year or two after she was or

Origin: Southampton; Migration: 1620 on Mayflower; First Residence: Plymouth; Removes:Duxbury 1632 Alicia Crane Williams has reciently concluded...by entering "Southampton" under Origin we are only taking note of Bradfords statement that Alden was hired at that port; we are not implying that he was born or raised there.

http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history/ Alden, John John Alden, b. 1599?, d. Sept. 12, 1687, was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to America in the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. Thereafter he held various public offices, including that of deputy governor of Massachusetts (1664-65, 1667). The unfounded details of his wooing of fellow Pilgrim Priscilla Mullens (or Molines)--whom he did marry--were the subject of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish."

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

Endowment date should probably be 1889, not 1989.

ID: I00847 Name: John ALDEN Sex: M Birth: 1599 in England Death: 12 SEP 1687 in Duxbury, MA _FA1: Mayflower Passenger Marriage 1 Priscilla MULLINS b: ABT 1602 in England Married: ABT 1622 in Plymouth, MA Children Elizabeth ALDEN b: 1623 inPlymouth, MA John ALDEN b: 1626 in Plymouth, MA Joseph ALDEN b: 1627 in Plymouth, MA Sarah ALDEN b: 1629 in Plymouth, MA Jonathan ALDEN b: 1632 in Plymouth, MA Ruth ALDEN b: 1634 in Plymouth, MA Rebecca ALDEN b: 1637 in Plymouth, MA Priscilla ALDEN b: 1639 in Plymouth, MA Zachariah ALDEN b: 1641 Mary ALDEN b: 1643 in Plymouth, MA David ALDEN b: 1646 in Plymouth, MA

William Bradford wrote, in his history Of Plymouth Plantation: "John Alden was hired for a cooper [barrel maker] at Southampton where the ship [Mayflower] victualed, and being a hopeful young man was much desired but left to his own likingto go or stay when he came here; but he stayed and married here." and later wrote "John Alden married Priscilla, Mr. Mullin's daughter, and had issue by her as is before related." John Alden was an assistant for the Plymouth colony for manyyears, and was deputy governor for two years. His marriage to Priscilla Mullins was the subject of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, "The Courtship of Myles Standish", which although a classic has little factual basis. John and Priscilla were among the founders of the town of Duxbury. In 1634, John Alden was on the Kennebec River assisting in the forceful removal of John Hocking who was illegally fishing and trading on land that had been granted to the Pilgrims. Hockings refused to leave, and when the party arrived at his ship by canoe to board and remove him, he shot and killed Moses Talbot. In return, Hockings was shot and killed. The Massachusetts Bay Colony took matters into its own hands, and arrested John Alden (even though he was not the one who fired the shot). Myles Standish was sent by Governor Bradford to obtain Alden's release, which he successfully did. In his later years, John Alden was on many juries, including even a witch trial--though in Plymouth's case, the jury found the accuser guilty of libel and the alleged witch was allowed to go free. Plymouth Colony only had two witch trials during its history, and in both cases the accuser was found guilty andpunished. John and Priscilla Alden probably have the largest number of descendants of any Mayflower passenger, but with stiff competition from Richard Warren and John Howland. They are ancestors to Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Vice President Dan Quayle. ------------ --------------------- That is all that is known about the origins of John Alden. Efforts to locate his birthplace and parentage have so far been inconclusive.Although he joined the Mayflower at Southampton, co. Hampshire, England, no records have been found of John in Southampton, and he was not necessarily a native of that place. Several theories regarding the origins of John Alden were discussed in The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 39:111-121 and vol. 40:133-136. Of these theories, the one with the most prospects is that of the Harwich Alden family. A John Alden of Harwich married the daughter of William Russell, a merchant ofthat town. When William Russell wrote his will on 1 August 1586, he mentioned his son-in-law John Alden who was at that time in captivity in Spain (these were the years just before the Spanish Armada when English and Spanish ships competed for rule of the seas). He also mentions a number of children of John Alden. Interpretation of Russell�s will seems to indicate that the captured John Alden had two sons named John. John �the elder� was probably the child of an earlier,unknown, first wife; and John �the younger� was the child of William Russell�s daughter. Other children of the captured John Alden were Peter, William and Thomas. Any of these sons could have been the father of John Alden of the Mayflower. The most appealing facet of the Harwich theory is that William Russell�s son Robert, brother of the Elizabeth Russell who married the captured John Alden, married the widowed mother of Captain Christopher Jones of the Mayflower. Thus, if this theory is correct, Capt. Jones would have been this step-son of our John Alden�s great-uncle! Certainly, this theory offers ample opportunity for John Alden to have learned about Captain Jones�s trip to New England and to gain the job of cooper/carpenter for the voyage. Unfortunately, no records have been found in Harwich or the county of Essex of a John Alden who could be ours. If Captain Jones was related to John Alden, William Bradford did not know if it when hewrote his history or he almost certainly would have mentioned the connection. John, himself, left us no information about his past. We estimate the year of his birth as 1598 using John�s own deposition and a broadside published upon his death. In the deposition made on 6 July 1682 John stated he was �aged 83 yeers or thereabouts� (Plymouth Colony Records, Judicial Acts, Part 2, p. 32; The Mayflower Descendant vol. 3:120-121, which would indicate he was born between 6 July 1598 and 6 July 1599. When John died on 12 September 1687, a broadside published to commemorate the occasion stated he was �about eight-nine years of age,� indicating he was born between 12 September 1687 and 12 September 1598 (The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 9:129). Combining the two ranges results in an estimated birth date between 6 July and 12 September 1598 or thereabouts. Thus John was a about twenty-two years old in 1620 and very likely had just finished an apprenticeship in cooperage or carpentry. No letters, no family Bible, no journal, no writings survive for either John or Priscilla. All that survives is the story of their courtship. Priscilla Mullins was the daughter of William Mullins, also a passenger on the Mayflower with his wife Alice and son Joseph. William, Alice and Joseph all died in the terrible sickness and deprivation of the first winter in Plymouth. Priscilla, who as probably still too young to be married, was orphaned, her only surviving kin her brother and sister in England. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow celebrated the story of how Priscilla attracted the attentions of the newly-widowed Captain Myles Standish, who asked his friend John Alden to proposeon his behalf only to have Priscilla ask, �Why don�t you speak for yourself, John?� Most of the world draws its image of the Pilgrim story from Longfellow�s epic narrative poem, The Courtship of Myles Standish. The basic story was apparently handed down in the Alden family and published by John and Priscilla�s great-great-grandson, Rev. Timothy Alden, in his Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions in 1814 (264-271). Rev. Timothy�s facts are not always correct (he was not born until 1736, fifty years after John�s death), and he embellishes in the typical style of his day, but his account of the famous courtship and description of John is as close to the original as we can get: Mrs. Rose Standish, consort of Captain Standish, departed this life, on the 29 of January 1621. This circumstance is mentioned as an introduction to the following anecdote, which as been carefully handed down by tradition. In a very short time after the decease of Mrs. Standish, the captain was led to think, that, if he could obtain Miss Priscilla Mullins, a daughter of Mr. William Mullins, the breach in his family would be happily repaired. He, therefore, according to the custom of those times, sent to ask Mr. Mullins� permission to visit his daughter. John Alden, the messenger, went and faithfully communicated the wishes of the captain. The old gentleman did not object, as he might have done, on account of the recency ofCaptain Standish�s bereavement. He said it was perfectly agreeable to him, but the young lady must also be consulted. The damsel was then called into the room, and John Alden, who is said to have been a man of most excellent form with a fair and ruddy complexion, arose, and, in a very courteous and prepossessing manner, delivered his errand. Miss Mullins listened with respectful attention, and at last, after a considerable pause, fixing her eyes upon him, with an open and pleasant countenance, said, prithee John, why do you not speak for yourself? He blushed, and bowed, and took his leave, but with a look, which indicated more than his diffidence would permit him otherwise to express. However, he soon renewed his visit, and it was not long bef ore their nuptials were celebrated in ample form. Obviously, in addition to the inevitable distortions of stories told and retold over the years, the Rev. Alden had already taken some poetic license with thefamily story before Longfellow took over. There would have been very little time between the death of Rose Standish on January 29th and the death of William Mullins on February 21st, if all of this took place while Mullins was stillalive,and there is little chance even the flamboyant Captain Standish would have been courting Priscilla during those desperate months of sickness and starvation in the winter of 1621. A grain of truth probably exists in the family tradition, but most of the story that found its way to Longfellow�s poem is pure imagination. The marriage date of John and Priscilla is also unknown. They were certainly married at Plymouth. We know that William Bradford�s marriage to Alice Carpenter 14 August 1624 was the fourth marriage in Plymouth Colony (The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 30:4). The first was that of Edward Winslow and Susannah White in 1621. Francis Eaton�s marriage to his second wife, Dorothy, maidservant to the Carvers, was possibly the second (TAG, 72:308-309). John Alden and Priscilla Mullins is likely the third. Since Priscilla is not listed in the 1623 division of land (which probably took place in early 1623/4 — see below), it is assumed their marriage took place before that list was made and, therefore, John Alden�s share included that of his wife. By the division of cattle in May 1627, the Aldens had two children, Elizabeth and John. No birth records for any of the Alden children survive, but from the death record of Elizabeth Alden it appears she was born about 1624-5 and was the eldest child. This places John and Priscilla�s marriage about 1623. Since no birth or baptism for Priscilla has been found, we can only make a wild guess that she may have been about sixteen to eighteen in 1620, slightly too you ng to marry in the first year or two after she was or

Origin: Southampton; Migration: 1620 on Mayflower; First Residence: Plymouth; Removes:Duxbury 1632 Alicia Crane Williams has reciently concluded...by entering "Southampton" under Origin we are only taking note of Bradfords statement that Alden was hired at that port; we are not implying that he was born or raised there.

http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/history/ Alden, John John Alden, b. 1599?, d. Sept. 12, 1687, was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to America in the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. Thereafter he held various public offices, including that of deputy governor of Massachusetts (1664-65, 1667). The unfounded details of his wooing of fellow Pilgrim Priscilla Mullens (or Molines)--whom he did marry--were the subject of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish."

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