John Alden, of the Mayflower

1598 - 1687  (89 years)

• Name	John Alden
  Suffix	of the Mayflower
  Born	1598	Harwich, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Group	Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower
  Group	Famous Historical Figure
  	Famous People
  Group	Immigrant Ancestors
  	Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls
  Group	Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
  	Descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin of the Mayflower
  Group	Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger on the 1620 sailing of the Mayflower - Founder of the Plymouth Colony
  FamilySearch ID	LQR9-JCJ
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LQR9-JCJ
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	15
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15
  Died	12 Sep 1687	South Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Buried	Aft 12 Sep 1687	Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I4097	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2019

  
  

  Family	Priscilla Mullins, wife of John Alden,   b. 1602, Dorking, Surrey, England ,   d. 1685, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 83 years)
  Married	Abt 1623
  Children	1. Elisabeth Alden,   b. 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 31 May 1717, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island  (Age 93 years)   2. Sarah Alden,   b. Abt 1627, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. Bef 13 Jun 1688, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 61 years)   3. Joseph Alden,   b. 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 8 Feb 1696/97, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)   4. Jonathan Alden,   b. 1632, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 14 Feb 1697/98, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age 66 years)   5. Ruth Alden,   b. Abt 1637, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 12 Oct 1674, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 37 years)   6. Rebecca Alden,   b. Abt 1643, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. Between 12 Jun 1696 and 5 Oct 1722, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 53 years)   7. David Alden,   b. 1646, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 1 Apr 1719, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 73 years)
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F1427	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1598 - Harwich, Essex, England Died - 12 Sep 1687 - South Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Buried - Aft 12 Sep 1687 - Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Badges		Immigrant Ancestor of Halls of New England
  		Mayflower Passenger

  
  

• Notes

  American Colonial Figure. One of the charter members of the Plymouth Colony in America, he arrived on the first voyage of the "Mayflower". At the time of the sailing of the vessel in 1620 for America, he was about twenty-one years old. William Bradford, second governor of the colony, wrote that John Alden was "hired for a cooper, at South Hampton (England), where the ship victualed (brought on food for the voyage); and being a hopeful young man, was much desired, but left to his own liking to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed and married here." His trade of cooper (barrel maker) was one of the vital trades needed by the colonists. John married fellow Mayflower pilgrim Priscilla Mullins, about 1623, but the exact date has been lost to history. He became one of the Purchasers and Undertakers for the colony, serving also as Assistant in the Colony government, Deputy Governor, Colony Treasurer, and a member of the committee in charge of revising laws. He was one of the founders of Duxbury, Massachusetts, and owned several pieces of property. Although he died without a will, an inventory of his property at the time of his death was taken in November 1687. A legend of a rivalry between himself and pilgrim Miles Standish for Priscilla Mullins arose, and was first published in the book, "Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions" in 1814, by Timothy Alden. The story was popularized by the poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1858, however, there is no documentation of such a rivalry to have existed in any of the records of the Plymouth Colony. (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)