Colonel Briggs Alden

1723 - 1796  (73 years)

• Name	Briggs Alden
  Prefix	Colonel
  Born	8 Jun 1723	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Group	Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower
  Group	Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
  	Descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin of the Mayflower
  FamilySearch ID	LWYL-VFB
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWYL-VFB
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	42305495
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42305495
  Died	4 Oct 1796	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Buried	Aft 4 Oct 1796	Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I102738	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2019

  
  

  Father	Colonel John Alden,   b. 1681, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Jul 1739, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Hannah Briggs,   b. 8 Apr 1684, Scituate, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 8 Feb 1739/40, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 55 years)
  Married	12 Jan 1708/09	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F38489	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Wadsworth,   b. 7 Sep 1724, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts ,   d. 23 Apr 1812, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 87 years)
  Married	19 Nov 1741	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Major Judah Alden,   b. 31 Oct 1750, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts ,   d. 12 Mar 1845, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 94 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2019
  Family ID	F38488	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 8 Jun 1723 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Married - 19 Nov 1741 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Died - 4 Oct 1796 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Buried - Aft 4 Oct 1796 - Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Notes

  From Findagrave: Son of John Alden and Hannah Briggs and Mayflower descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Col. John Alden dies in 1739, his wife Hannah Briggs Alden dies soon after. Their oldest son Samuel, living in England, becomes the owner of the Alden family home, while another son, Briggs Alden, continues to live in the house with his family. Samuel Alden dies in England in 1757 (age 44), leaving the house to his brother, Briggs. Briggs marries Mercy Wadsworth 18 Nov 1741, daughter of Ichabod Wadsworth (1686-1745) and Margaret Marshall (1702-1773). They live in the house and raise a family of 8 children until his death in 1796. Children of Briggs and Mercy Wadsworth Alden are Hannah (1743-1790) John (1744-1766) Son (1746-1746) Deborah (1748-1793) Major Judah (1750-1845) Nathaniel (1752-1833) Edith (1754-1815) Abigail (1755-1800) Samuel (1757-1779) Amherst (1759-1804). The John and Priscilla Alden Sites property consists of the c. 1700 Alden house and the c. 1632 original Alden Homestead site. The property owes it significance to the cultural impact of The Courtship of Miles Standish, a poem about the courtship of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, written by Alden descendant Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published in 1858. The public embraced the poem. It became one of the most popular national origin stories in American folklore. The property also is the location of important archeological fieldwork and analysis by Roland Wells Robbins (1908-1987), a pioneer in the field of historical archeology, making the site of national significance in the development in this field. Robbins located and excavated a foundation of the original Alden home in 1960, which yielded nationally significant data that shed light on the lifeways of the first English settlers in North America.