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John Alden (c. 1598 - September 12, 1687) [1] was an English politician, settler, and cooper, best known for being a crew member on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower which brought the English settlers commonly known as Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
The John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites is a National Historic Landmark consisting of two separate properties in Duxbury, Massachusetts.Both properties are significant for their association with John Alden, one of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony who came to America on board the Mayflower and held numerous posts of importance in the colony.
Jonathan Alden was born c. 1632 in the seaside town of Duxbury [a] in Plymouth Colony. He was the fifth of ten children born to John Alden (c. 1598 –1687) and Priscilla Mullins (c. 1602 –c. 1685), who both arrived on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower.
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 1814. [4] Scholars have recently confirmed the cherished place of romantic love in Pilgrim culture, [5] and have documented the Indian war described by Longfellow. [6]
The two presidents and their descendants are also descended from John Alden, who came to the United States on the Mayflower. The Adams family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others being the Bush , Roosevelt , and Harrison families.
They had ten children: John, Susannah, Mary, Edward, Sarah, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, an unnamed child who probably died in infancy, and Benjamin. All but Benjamin married, and Benjamin's birth is the only one listed in the records of Plymouth colony. [3] The family moved to Boston sometime after the birth of Benjamin in 1653.
Memorial of the Descendants of the Hon. John Alden, 1867; An address, delivered in Hanover, N.H., before the Dartmouth Medical Society, on their first anniversary, Dec. 28th, 1819; Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1839.
She married John Alden, the cooper of the Mayflower, at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1623. Children of John and Priscila (Mullins) Alden, order uncertain, no birth nor baptismal records survive, the earliest born at Plymouth, others at Duxbury; all born before Bradford's 1650 list (proof for children from probate and land records):