Family of John Alden (Mayflower Passenger)

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1.  JOHN2 ALDEN  (GEORGE1)1,2 was born Abt. 1598 in England (probably)3, and died September 12, 1687 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA3.  He married PRISCILLA MULLINS4,5,6 Abt. 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, daughter of WILLIAM MULLINS and ALICE UNKNOWN.  She was born Abt. 1603 in Dorking, Surrey, England, and died 1685 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA.

 

Notes for JOHN ALDEN:

 

Amer. (British-born) pilgrim. He was hired as a cooper by the London merchants who funded the Mayflower's expedition to the New World in 1620. Alden signed the Mayflower Compact and held various civic positions in the colony, incl. assistant to the governor (1623-41, 1650-86). He was mythologized as the first Pilgrim to set foot on Plymouth Rock and in H. W. Longfellow's poem as the stand-in for Miles Standish in his suit for Priscilla Mullins' hand in marriage. Alden in fact married Mullins in 1623.

 

More About JOHN ALDEN:

Immigration: November 11, 1620, Mayflower Passenger

Occupation: Cooper7

 

Notes for PRISCILLA MULLINS:

Pilgrim

 

More About PRISCILLA MULLINS:

Immigration: November 11, 1620, Mayflower Passenger

 

More About JOHN ALDEN and PRISCILLA MULLINS:

Marriage: Abt. 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

     

Children of JOHN ALDEN and PRISCILLA MULLINS are:

              i.   JOHN3 ALDEN, b. 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. March 14, 1701/02.

              ii.   JOSEPH ALDEN, b. 1624, Duxbury, Massachusetts.

             iii.   ELIZABETH ALDEN, b. 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. 1717, Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island; m. WILLIAM PABODIE8, December 26, 1644; b. Abt. 1619, England.

 

Notes for ELIZABETH ALDEN:

Elizabeth is said to be "the first white child to be born in New England"

 

Notes for WILLIAM PABODIE:

 "William, who grew up in Duxbury, Mass., is referred to in various documents of the period as a yeoman, boatman, planter, and wheelwright. He was also a land surveyor. On Nov. 1, 1648, four years after he was married, he bought from John Holland and Hopestill Foster of Dorchester, Mass., a dwelling house, garden, stables, land and meadow. He later bought additional tracts of land in Mattapoisett and Sepecan. At one point, on Oct. 27, 1680, he adjusted a boundary line between his lands and those of Mrs. Sarah Parke and William Brewster. He served as a Duxbury town officer and as a representative or deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, being repeatedly elected to the court from 1654 to 1663, then again in 1668, and continuously from 1671 to 1682. He was admitted a freeman of the colony June 5, 1651.

    "About 1684, he removed to Little Compton, then in Massachusetts but now in Rhode Island, where he had acquired a share in lands. Thus he established in Rhode Island what has come to be known as the Rhode Island branch of the family."

 

More About WILLIAM PABODIE and ELIZABETH ALDEN:

Marriage: December 26, 1644

 

             iv.   SARAH ALDEN, b. 1629; m. ALEXANDER STANDISH; b. Abt. 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth Co. MA.; d. July 06, 1702, Duxbury, MA.

             v.   JONATHAN ALDEN, b. 1632, Duxbury, Massachusetts; d. 1697.

             vi.   RUTH ALDEN, b. 1635; d. October 12, 1674; m. JOHN BASS; b. 1632; d. 1716.

            vii.   MARY ALDEN, d. 1667.

           viii.   PRISCILLA ALDEN, b. 1639; d. Aft. 1687.

             ix.   DAVID ALDEN 9, b. Abt. 1645, Duxbury, Plymouth, MA10; d. Abt. 1719; m. MARY SOUTHWORTH11,12, Abt. 1670; b. 1650; d. 1719.

 

Endnotes

 

1.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977).

2.  Rutherford, William, Genealogical History of Our Ancestors,  ([Lexington, Mo.] c1977).

3.  Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,  (General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), Vol. 16), Part 1, Family of John Alden, pg21.

4.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977), Shown as Precilla b: England.

5.  Genealogies of Rhode Island Families: from Rhode Island periodicals,  (Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983).

6.  Rutherford, William, Genealogical History of Our Ancestors,  ([Lexington, Mo.] c1977).

7.  Anderson, Robert Charles, The great migration begins : immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,  (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-), Vol I, pg21.

8.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977).

9.  Wheeler, W. A., Alden-Shedd Families - Part II.

10.  Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations,  (General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), Vol. 16), Part 1, Family of John Alden, pg20.

11.  Hills, Leon Clark, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,  (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. - Baltimore 1977).

12.  Wheeler, W. A., Alden-Shedd Families - Part II.