A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn Blunden Alden Sr 
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13Death12 Sep 1687, South Duxbury, Plymouth Co, Plymouth Colony, BCA11 Age: 87
BurialStandish Burial Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts742
FlagsMayflower Passenger
FatherGeorge Joseph Aulden (Alden) II (1573-1620)
MotherLady Mary Jane Fowlk (1576-1664)
Spouses
Birth1602, Dorking, Mole Valley District, Surrey, England11
Death1685, Duxbury Plantation (West Bridgewater), Plymouth Colony, BCA11 Age: 83
BurialStandish Burial Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts743
FatherWilliam Mullins (1572-1621)
MotherElizabeth Woods (1575-<1604)
ChildrenElisabeth (1623-1717)
Capt John (1626-1702)
Joseph Blunden (1627-1696)
Capt Jonathan (~1633-1697)
Sarah (1634-1674)
Ruth (1637-1674)
Mary (1638-)
Priscilla (1640-)
David (1646-1719)
Rebecca (1649-1688)
Notes for John Blunden Alden Sr
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, May 12,1622. 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
Inscription
Near here lyes ye body
of Mr. John Alden who died in Duxbury Sept ye 12, 1687 Aged Near 88 years;
erected by the Alden Kindred of America 193011
Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson
Inscription
Near here lyes ye body
of Mr. John Alden who died in Duxbury Sept ye 12, 1687 Aged Near 88 years;
erected by the Alden Kindred of America 193011