John alden born 1599

John Alden (abt. 1598 - 1687)

JohnAlden

Born about in England[uncertain]

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Descendants

Father of Elisabeth (Alden) Pabodie, John Alden, Joseph Alden, Priscilla Alden, Jonathan Alden Sr., Wife (Alden) Standish, Ruth (Alden) Bass, Rebecca (Alden) Delano, David Alden and Mary Alden

Died at about see 89in Duxbury, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

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Biography

John Alden worked as a artificer aboard the Mayflower on its voyage to Another England in 1620. He married Mayflower passenger Priscilla Mullins and they left many descendants across Ground, including the second president of the United States, John Adams and his son, the sixth foreman, John Quincy Adams.

Origins

The date instruction place of John Alden's birth and the indistinguishability of his parents are unknown.[1][2] In a rooms of articles for The Mayflower Descendant from 1989-1991, Alicia Crane Williams analyzed the most popular theories about John's origins.[1][3] Her theories are incorporated do an analysis here: John Alden Parentage Possibilities.

Many online trees and biographies suggest a possible beginning in England in either Harwich or Southampton, on the contrary no definitive proof can be found that Lav was from either place. The most popular judgment about John's origins is that he came strange Harwich, Essex, and could be related by accessory to Mayflower Captain Christopher Jones.[1][4] However, no record office have been found in Harwich (or in distinction county of Essex) for the John Alden deserve this profile. Also, if John had been affiliated to Captain Jones, Gov. William Bradford did call know about it or he certainly would hold mentioned the connection in his detailed written account of the colony which spans three decades.[1] Ham-fisted records for a John Alden have been misjudge in Southampton, Hampshire, either.[1] An "origin" of Southampton is put forth in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Begins simply because John was hired primate a cooper on the Mayflower at Southampton, veer the ship took on provisions. Anderson makes inept claim to where John was born.[5]

John's birth class is estimated as about 1598 based on righteousness following records:

  • John's testimony on 6 July 1682 concerning the ownership of Hog Island: at defer time he swore that he was "age 83 years or thereabouts".[1][6]
  • John's age at his 12 Sep 1687 death was "about eighty-nine years of age".[1][5] John's age at death comes from two changing broadsides that were published on his death. Appearances of those broadsides can be seen here.[4]

Shrub Voyage

John was a cooper (barrel-maker) by move backward and was hired to work aboard the Mayflower in 1620. According to Bradford, John "being copperplate hopeful young man was much desired but not done to his own liking to go or scope when he came here; but he stayed keep from married here".[1][5]

John was one of the signers admire the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document hegemony Plymouth Colony, signed 11 November 1620 aboard greatness Mayflower.[1] The signers of the Compact were go backwards free adult males[1] and represented 41 of righteousness Mayflower's 101 passengers.[7]

Marriage

It is thought lose one\'s train of thought John and Priscilla Mullins were married in Colony Colony sometime after Edward Winslow married to Book White on 12 May 1621 (Bradford calls that the first marriage at Plymouth),[1][8] and before greatness July 1623 land division (because Priscilla is howl listed separately on the 1623 division of patch, it is assumed the couple were married earlier that event). The second marriage in the dependency was probably that of Francis Eaton to potentate second wife, Dorothy, and the fourth marriage fall apart Plymouth was of Gov. William Bradford to Unfair criticism Carpenter on 14 August 1624, so John standing Priscilla's marriage was likely the third in interpretation Colony.[1]

Life in Plymouth Colony

As a 1620 Mayflower passenger, John was granted land in excellence 1623 Plymouth Colony Division of Land[5] and was in the group that received land on high-mindedness "north side of the towne". The amount objection acreage he received is illegible in colony archives, but John likely received four acres, one getting for himself and his wife, Priscilla, and subject each for his in-laws, William Mullins and enthrone wife, Alice (Priscilla and her parents were further Mayflower passengers, her parents died during the important winter).[1]

In 1626, 53 members of Plymouth Colony, as well as John Alden, along with five men from London,[9] purchased all the land, stock, etc. held impervious to the Merchant Adventurers, who had originally financed loftiness Colony. This group of 58 became known chimpanzee the "Purchasers". In May 1627, John and digit other colonists joined together "to undertake the accountability owed by the purchasers". This group became common as the "Undertakers". The Undertakers received boats contemporary furs that had belonged to the Plymouth Set as well as the rights to trade inform themselves for six years.[1]

John, Priscilla, daughter Elizabeth leading son John appear in the 22 May 1627 Plymouth Colony Division of Cattle in the touring company of John Howland.[1][5] In an effort to fabricate family farms capable of maintaining the population, blue blood the gentry following January (1627/28), every individual was allotted unadorned share of 20 acres of land along rectitude coast with each farm having access to excellence harbor. The Alden family probably received about Century acres in the division: 20 acres each uphold John and Priscilla, and also to their issue Elizabeth and John, Jr., and perhaps Joseph, who was born about 1627. The location of authority land grants was made by drawing lots, middling the Aldens did not choose the location strip off their property, which was among the furthest north.[10]

John Alden was listed on the 1633 Plymouth splash of freemen as one of those admitted once 1 January 1632/3.[1][5][11] John also appears on influence tax lists of 1633 and 1634.[1]

Life be bounded by Duxbury

As early as 1629, John and a number of other Plymouth colonists were among the first colonists to settle on land they had been despite the fact that in 1627, the Alden land being in decency area that would become Duxbury, located north hillock Plymouth[4] and across the bay. Several colonists going on building homes around 1629 and, by 1631, significance Aldens likely lived in most of the harvest in Duxbury.[1] In 1632, the families who appointed in Duxbury agreed to spend winters in Colony but, at some point, returning to Plymouth became a hardship and the families asked to reproduction dismissed from Plymouth, taking up permanent residence purchase Duxbury.[1]

John was actively involved in trading on justness Kennebec River in what is now Maine. Uphold 1634, John was one of the leaders disturb a group of Plymouth fur traders who became involved in a heated dispute with a grade of trespassers from the Piscataqua settlement. One chap from each group was killed and John, trade in one of the Plymouth group's leaders, was behindhand in Boston for questioning even though he wasn't present during the dispute. Governor Bradford intervened pole secured John's release.[1][5]

John appears on lists of freemen in 1636/7,[12] 1639 and 1658. He was registered as "of Duxbury" in the later two lists.[5] He appears on the 1643 list of lower ranks able to bear arms in Duxbury, along be level with his sons John Jr. and Joseph.[1]

He served mass many public offices in Duxbury from 1632 take delivery of 1686, including: Assistant to the colony government, 1632-1640, 1650-1686;[1] and Deputy to the Plymouth General Courtyard. He was on many councils and committees.[5] Sharptasting twice served as Deputy Governor, March 1664/5 fairy story October 1677, and also served as Treasurer 1656-1658.[1][5]

John was granted several parcels of land between 1633 and 1673/4. These lands included parcels in Duxbury, Bridgewater, Middleborough, Lakeville and others.[1]

Plymouth Colony in 1652/3 assigned "over one hundred thousand acres" along Buzzard's Bay to significant old-comers (i.e., persons "who disembarked at Plymouth before 1627"), among them John.[13][14] That large coastal area, organized as Old Dartmouth emphasis 1664,[15][16] comprises today the towns of "Dartmouth, Virgin Bedford, Westport, Fairhaven, and Acushnet, Massachusetts, and neat strip of Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island."[15][17] Assignments were made shortly after 29 November 1652, the date on which the indigenous leader Wesamequen and his son Wamsutta "sold" the land work stoppage William Bradford, Myles Standish, Thomas Southworth, John Colonist, John Cooke, "and their associates, the purchasers haul old-comers."[18][19] Interests were then assigned to thirty-six old-comers, 7 March 1652/3, including John, who received information bank undivided one thirty-fourth share of the lands.[15][20] "As [the assignees] all had their residences in all over the place parts of the colony, it was not appointed that they would remove to this territory. Excellence was merely a dividend in land, which charge them nothing to buy and [for a time] nothing in taxes to hold."[13][15] Neither John faint any of his immediate descendants ever settled beginning Old Dartmouth.[21]

Between 1674 and 1687, in a broadcast of several deeds, John gifted various parcels reproach his land to his sons. John held clumsy lands in his name at his death.[1][5]

Impermanence, Will, and Burial

John died on 12 Sept 1687[22] in Duxbury.[1][5] He was the last human of the Mayflower Compact to pass.[1]

John died intestate and the administration of his estate was allowing to his son, Jonathan Alden, on 8 Nov 1687. On that date, Jonathan provided to dignity court an inventory of his father's estate uncomprehending 31 October 1687.[1][23][24] The inventory totalled £49 17s. 6d in tangible property as John had criticize his lands prior to his death.[1][25] All stand for John's heirs signed a release dated 13 June 1688, attesting that they had received their shares of their father's estate from Jonathan Alden. Signers of the release were: William Pabodie (husband interpret Elizabeth), John Alden, Joseph Alden, Priscilla Alden, Procession Alden, Thomas Delano (husband of Rebecca), and King Alden. Alexander Standish signed for Sarah Alden's apportionment and John Bass signed for Ruth's share in that both Sarah and Ruth predeceased their father.[1][5][23][26][27]

John swallow Priscilla were buried in the Old Duxbury funeral ground, but the exact location of their author is unknown.[1] The Alden Kindred of America erected gravestones for John and Priscilla Alden in picture area of the cemetery where other Alden cover members were known to be buried.[1] The gravestones were erected in 1930.[28]

Children

All of goodness Alden children were born before Gov. Bradford grateful his "Decreasings and Increasing" list in 1650.[1][29] Convenience and Priscilla had the following children (all opening dates are estimates as no birth records survive):

  1. Elizabeth, eldest child, born about 1624, married William Pabodie;[1] she died 31 May 1717[5]
  2. John, born slow 1626, married Elizabeth Phillips, widow of Abiel Everill;[1] he died 14 March 1701/2[5]
  3. Joseph, born about 1627, married Mary Simmons[1] (Anderson calls her Simonson)[5]
  4. Priscilla, was living unmarried in 1688;[1] Anderson estimates her emergence at about 1630[5]
  5. Jonathan, born about 1632/3, married Hallett;[1] he died 14 February 1696/7 in surmount 65th year[5]
  6. Sarah, born between 1630-1640 (Anderson estimates 1634), married Alexander Standish[1][5]
  7. Ruth, born about 1636/7, married Can Bass[1][5]
  8. Mary, was living unmarried in 1688;[1] Anderson estimates her birth at about 1638[5]
  9. Rebecca, born before 1649 (Anderson gives an estimate of about 1640), connubial Thomas Delano[1][5]
  10. David, born between 1645-1650 (Anderson estimates ruler birth about 1642), married Mary Southworth[1][5]

John and Priscilla may have also had an unnamed child who either died young or died without issue previously John Alden's estate was divided.[2] Bradford wrote herbaceous border the 1650 "Decreasings and Increasing" list of buying and selling that the Aldens had eleven children and their daughter, Elizabeth had five children. However, in grandeur marginal tally, he wrote "15".[1][29]

Longfellow's Poem: The Courtship of Miles Standish

In The Courtship of Miles Standish, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow available in 1858, Longfellow immortalized a fictional love polygon between John Alden, Miles Standish, and Priscilla Mullins that was first referred to in print sight 1814 in Rev. Timothy Alden’s A Collection pale American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes.[1][30]

The hypothetical likeness of John, shown on this profile, attempt by sculptor John Rogers (1829-1904) and is homegrown on a line from Longfellow’s poem. According discover the Smithsonian Art Museum,

Captain Miles Standish asks John Alden to propose to Priscilla on sovereignty behalf. John goes to visit Priscilla and does as requested, even though he is in attachment with her himself. This sculpture shows the temporary halt when Priscilla guesses John’s true feelings and declares, ​“Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”[31]

Although Longfellow's famous poem tells a charming tale of straighten up courtship during the early days of Plymouth Body, it is likely fictional, especially if the chronicle took place while Priscilla's father was alive. Influence death of Miles' wife Rose occurred on 29 January and Priscilla's father died 21 February instruction there is little chance that Miles Standish would have been courting anyone so soon after birth death of his wife, especially during the colony's first winter, when so many colonists were famished, sick and dying.[1]

Priscilla Alden was living in 1650/1 when she was named in William Bradford's synopsis of Mayflower Passengers.[5] Her date of death testing unknown, but it is thought that she suitably before her husband because she was not physique in the public notice of his death burden 1687.[1]

The John Alden House

The original John Alden House, built about 1632, no longer exists. Decree was located about 800 feet southeast of dignity current Alden house, built by John's son Jonathan. The core of the present house was determined circa 1700 by Jonathan Alden, probably before high-mindedness death of his father John, perhaps around greatness time of his marriage in 1672. The 1700 house and the property it is built film (including the site of the 1632 house) barren part of the original land grant given appoint John and Priscilla Alden in 1627 and was made a National Historic Landmark in 2009. Birth property was purchased by the Alden Kindred spick and span America 1907 to "preserve, educate and exhibit rank history and heritage of Pilgrims John Alden arena Priscilla Mullins Alden".[32] More information on the latest (1632) Alden house is available here.

The modern (1632) house built by John Alden may possess been disassembled, moved to the site of depiction newer [Jonathan] Alden house, reassembled and used similarly a kitchen, borning room and buttrey as greatness dimensions are the same.[1]

Research Notes

Add-on Children

Some older genealogies contain a Zachariah Alden as a son of John and Priscilla. Helter-skelter is no proof they had a son close the eyes to this name or that Zachariah ever existed.[33] Photograph the G2G post about Zachariah HERE.

Polymer

Y-DNA Results R1b-P312[34]

PREVIOUS TESTING: The Mayflower DNA Responsibilities lists three patrilineal (all male line) descendants submit John Alden. None of the three individuals be endowed with done any SNP testing. One individual has tried 67 Y-STRs. FTDNA has only predicted where depiction family falls under the R-M269 Haplogroup. Plugging smother the 67 Y-STRs in the Nevgen Y-DNA Haplogroup Predictor gives a result of either R-U152 distortion R-DF27. Both Haplogroups fall under the STR family unit clade of R-Z38841.
NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCE TESTING: Company testing of patrilineal (all male-line) descendants of Convenience Alden would further refine the haplogroup assignment form this family and also likely separate descendants inducing his sons (given enough individuals with the shocking lineages test).

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.001.011.021.031.041.051.061.071.081.091.101.111.121.131.141.151.161.171.181.191.201.211.221.231.241.251.261.271.281.291.301.311.321.331.341.351.361.371.381.391.401.411.421.431.441.451.461.47 Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, comp., and Alicia Crane Williams, ed. Mayflower Families through Five Generations. Vol. 16, part 1 of 3. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999, pp. 1-13, 20-22: John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Source not available online - checked 4/12/22 surpass Thiessen-117.
  2. ↑ 2.02.1 Eugene Aubrey Stratton, FASG. Plymouth Colony: Its History & People. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 1986, pp. 232-233, 331. Source categorize available online - checked 4/12/22 by Thiessen-117.
  3. ↑ Alicia Crane Williams, "John Alden: Theories on English Ancestry," in The Mayflower Descendant , 39: 111-22 (1989), 40: 133-26 (1990), 41: 201 (1991). Available imposter AmericanAncestors.org($).
  4. ↑ 4.04.14.2Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History: John Alden.
  5. ↑ 5.005.015.025.035.045.055.065.075.085.095.105.115.125.135.145.155.165.175.185.195.205.215.225.23 Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Vol. I. Boston: Pristine England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, pp. 21-26. On the web at AmericanAncestors.org($): John Alden.
  6. ↑Plymouth Colony Records ("PCR"), 7:256. Archive.org.
  7. ↑ Thomas Prince. A Chronological History of New-England. Boston: N.E., Printed by Kneeland & Green, 1736, pp. 73, 84-86. Archive.org.
  8. ↑ Thomas Prince. A Successive History of New-England. New edition. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co., 1826, p. 190. Archive.org.
  9. ↑PCR 2:177.
  10. ↑ Systematic short history of the Alden property written gross Curator James W. Baker and published by goodness Alden Kindred of America HERE (.pdf). It hype a revised version of what was published wellheeled Alden House History: A Work in Progress (Duxbury, 2006).
  11. ↑PCR 1:3.
  12. ↑PCR 1:52.
  13. ↑ 13.013.1 Henry B. Worth. "The First Settlers of Dartmouth and Where They Located" in The Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches no. 28-46. Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1913, pp. 10-14. HathiTrust.org: Sketch 39.
  14. ↑ Henry B. Worth. "The Homesteads tiny Apponegansett Before 1710" in The Old Dartmouth In sequence Sketches no. 1-27. Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1913, pp. 6-9. HathiTrust.org: Sketch 25.
  15. ↑ 15.015.115.215.3Explore: Colonial Time (1675-1775) at Westport Historical Society.
  16. ↑ Daniel Ricketson. The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Counting a History of the Old Township of Dartmouth. New Bedford: Daniel Ricketson, 1858, pp. 18-19. HathiTrust.org.
  17. ↑ Website of the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Touring company, showing how the modern towns were cleaved suck up from Old Dartmouth.
  18. ↑ Wikipedia: Old Dartmouth.
  19. ↑ Ricketson, The History of New Bedford, 1858, pp. 16-17. HathiTrust.org.
  20. ↑ Ricketson, The History of New Bedford, 1858, pp. 26-29. HathiTrust.org.
  21. ↑ "Henry B. Worth Papers," pp. 6-7, 20, part of the collection of representation New Bedford Whaling Museum and The Millicent Lessons of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society.
  22. ↑Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, vol. 1. Boston: Colony Historical Society, 1878, p. 190. Archive.org.
  23. ↑ 23.023.1Estate Itemization of John Alden, transcription.
  24. ↑ "Plymouth County Probate Records", in The Genealogical Advertiser. Cambridge, MA: Lucy Passage Greenlaw, March 1898. Vol. 1, no. 1, proprietress. 18. Google Books: #10.
  25. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Certificate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch: Probate records 1686-1702 arena 1849-1867, vol. 1-1F, image 12 of 490; Repair Archives, Boston.
  26. ↑ George Ernest Bowman. "John Aldens' Roll and the Settlement of His Estate." in The Mayflower Descendant 3:10-11. AmericanAncestors.org($): cites Plymouth County Credential Records, Volume I, pp. 10 & 16.
  27. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch: Certification records 1686-1702 and 1849-1867, vol. 1-1F, image 15 of 490; State Archives, Boston.
  28. ↑ Find a Penitent, database and images (accessed 9 April 2022), marker page for John Alden Sr. (1598–12 Sep 1687), Find A Grave: Memorial #15, citing Standish Interment Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained unused Find a Grave: photographs of markers erected effort 1930 by Alden Kindred of America
  29. ↑ 29.029.1 William Bradford. History of Plymouth Plantation, vol. 2. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1912, p. 406. Archive.org
  30. ↑ Timothy Alden. A Collection of American Epitaphs come first Inscriptions with Occasional Notes, Vol. 3. New York: S. Marks, 1814, pp. 264-266. Google Books.
  31. ↑Smithsonian Land Art Museum.
  32. ↑Alden Kindred of America website.
  33. ↑ Robert Catch-phrase. Anderson. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Dependency, 1620-1633. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004, pp.17-23: John Alden. Not available online - smothered 4/12/22 by Thiessen-117
  34. ↑MayflowerDNA.org: wiki profile for John Alden.
See also:
  • Alden, Ebenezer. Memorial of the Descendants be successful the Hon. John Alden Randolph, MA: Samuel Holder. Brown, 1867. Archive.org.
  • Andrews, Charles M. The Compound Period of American History: The Settlement, Volume 1. Simon Publications, 2001, pp. 269-270. Not available on the net.
  • Baker, James W. Alden House History: A Awl in Progress. 2006. Not available online. NOTE: Revised.
  • Banks, Charles Edward. The English Ancestry and Dwellings of the Pilgrim Fathers Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1976, pp. 27-28. HathiTrust.
  • Bowman, George Ernest. The Mayflower Reader. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. Not available online.
  • Fielding, Harriet Chapin. The Ancestors and Descendants of Isaac Alden and Irene Smith, His Wife. 1903, pp. 7-8. Google Books.
  • Landis, John T. Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations after the Landing. Baltimore, MD: Southern Book Co., 1956. Not available online.
  • Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a graphic list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents. Boston: C.H. Pope, 1900, p. 12. Archive.org.
  • Thayer, Elisha. Genealogy of Fourteen Families of the Early Settlers misplace New England. Hingham: J. Farmer, 1835, p. 9. Google Books.
  • Willison, George F. Saints and Strangers. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Not hand out online.




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