John Alden, (Mayflower Passenger)
Abt 1598 - 1687 (89 years)
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Name John Alden [1, 2, 3] Suffix (Mayflower Passenger) Born Abt 1598 Harwich, Tendring District, Essex, England 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Died 12 Sep 1687 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA [1, 2] Buried Abt 12 Sep 1687 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA [1, 2] - Myles Standish Burying Ground
1687 Headstone John Alden Person ID I192 BriggsFamily Last Modified 10 Apr 2022
Family Priscilla Mullins, (Mayflower Passenger), b. Abt 1602, Dorking, Surrey, England , d. Abt 1685, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 83 years) Married Abt 1623 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA [3, 4] Children + 1. Elizabeth Alden, b. Abt 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 31 May 1717, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 93 years) [natural]2. John Alden, Jr, b. 22 May 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 14 Mar 1702, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 75 years) [natural]3. Sarah Alden, b. 1627, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 13 Jun 1688, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 61 years) [natural]4. Jonathan Alden, b. 1632, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 14 Feb 1697, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 65 years) [natural]+ 5. Ruth Alden, b. 28 Nov 1637, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States of America , d. 12 Oct 1674, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America (Age 36 years) [natural]6. Mary Alden, b. 1638, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA , d. 13 Jun 1688, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA (Age 50 years) [natural]7. David Alden, b. 1646, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1 Apr 1719, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 73 years) [natural]8. Rebecca Delano, b. Jan 1649, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 12 Sep 1688, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 39 years) [natural]Last Modified 10 Apr 2022 Family ID F63 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - Abt 1598 - Harwich, Tendring District, Essex, England 
Married - Abt 1623 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA 
Died - 12 Sep 1687 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Buried - Abt 12 Sep 1687 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Mayflower Passemger 1687 Headstone John Alden
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Sources - [S46] Find A Grave, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), 1687 Find A Grave John Alden.
John Alden, Sr
Birth 1598
Harwich, Tendring District, Essex, England
Death 12 Sep 1687 (aged 88–89)
South Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Myles Standish Burying Ground
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Memorial ID
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
Family Members
Spouse
Priscilla Mullins Alden 1602–1685 (m. 1622)
Children
Elisabeth Alden Pabodie 1624–1717
John Alden 1626–1702
Sarah Alden Standish 1627–1688
Joseph Alden 1627–1697
Jonathan Alden 1632–1697
Ruth Alden Bass 1637–1674
Mary Alden 1638–1688
David Alden 1646–1719
Rebecca Alden Delano 1649–1688 - [S46] Find A Grave, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S59] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 415.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: MSL.
- [S59] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), 1623 Marriage Alden Mullins.
Name: Priscilla Mullins
Gender: Female
Birth Year: 1602
Spouse Name: John Alden
Spouse Birth Place: En
Spouse Birth Year: 1599
Marriage Year: 1623
Marriage State: MA
Number Pages: 1
- [S46] Find A Grave, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), 1687 Find A Grave John Alden.
