John Alden
John Alden (c. 1599 – 1687) was a passenger on the ship Mayflower.[1] He was hired in England to be the cooper (barrel-maker) aboard the ship during her 1620 voyage.[1] It is not known when or where he was born.[2]
The Mayflower left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620. There were 102 passengers and 30–40 crew. On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower reached land at Cape Cod hook. They landed on November 21. They wrote the Mayflower Compact, which made rules on how they would live and treat each other.[3][4] The Mayflower was supposed to land in the Virginia Colony, but the ship was too damaged and they were forced to land at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.[5]
Alden was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in November 1620.[3][6] In Plymouth Colony, he became an assistant to the Governor.[2]
Alden married Priscilla Mullins on 12 May 1622. They had ten children. He died on 12 September 1687.[1] John and Priscilla were buried in the Myles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury, Massachusetts.[7][2]
John Alden Media
- Cooper MET DP818784.jpg
Cooper by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, an 18th-century etching of a cooper holding barrel hoops
- The Mayflower Compact 1620 cph.3g07155.jpg
The Mayflower Compact 1620: an 1899 painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicts John Alden signing the document.[8]
- Houses of the Plimoth Plantation at Plymouth, Massachusetts.jpg
A view of the recreated Plimoth Patuxet, which includes a replica of John Alden's house seen second from the left
A romanticized, early-20th-century depiction of John and Priscilla Alden's courtship
- John Alden House in Duxbury, Massachusetts.jpg
Alden House Historic Site, likely built by John and Priscilla's son Jonathan Alden, c. 1700
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The historic marker at John Alden House
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Early-20th-century depiction of Priscilla and John Alden
Commemorative headstones placed in 1930 to honor John and Priscilla Alden
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "John Alden". MayflowerHistory.com. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Pilgrim Village Family Sketch". Archived from the original on 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eugene Aubrey Stratton. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 411-413
- ↑ George Ernest Bowman, The Mayflower Compact and its signers, (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920). Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document pp. 7–19.
- ↑ Stratton, 20.
- ↑ George Ernest Bowman, The Mayflower Compact and its signers (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920). Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document pp. 7-19.
- ↑ Memorial for John Alden [1]
- ↑ Library of Congress.
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