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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alden , John , 1599 -1687 (search)
Alden, John, 1599-1687
A Pilgrim father ; born in England in 1599; was employed as a cooper in Southampton, and having been engaged to repair the Mayflower while awaiting the embarkation of the Pilgrims, concluded to join the company.
It has been stated that he was the first of the Pilgrim party to step on Plymouth Rock, but other authorities give this honor to Mary Chilton.
Alden settled in Duxbury, and in 1621 was married to Priscilla Mullins.
For more than fifty years he was a magistrate in the colony, and outlived all the signers of the Mayflower compact.
He died in Duxbury, Sept. 12, 1687.
The circumstances of his courtship inspired Longfellow to write The courtship of miles Standish.
They were as follows:
The dreadful famine and fever which destroyed one-half of the Pilgrims at New Plymouth during the winter and spring of 1621 made a victim of Rose Standish, wife of Capt. Miles Standish.
Her husband was then thirty-seven years of age. Not long after this event the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Depew , Chauncey Mitchell , 1834 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grady , Henry Woodfen 1851 -1892 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hale , Sarah Josepha (Buell) 1788 -1879 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pilgrim fathers, the (search)
Plymouth Rock.
The passengers on the Mayflower, on account of great privations and exposure in their winter houses at New Plymouth, sickened, and a large number of them died before the warm spring weather of 1621 arrived.
They were buried near the rock on which the great body of the Pilgrims landed.
Lest the Indians who might come there should see their weakness by the great mortality, the graves were seeded over, and the rock remained the enduring monument and guide.
Thomas Faunce, wh by the erection of a wharf, the venerable man was so affected that he wept.
His tears probably saved that rock from oblivion, a fragment of which was carefully preserved at New Plymouth.
Before the revolution the sea had washed up sand
Plymouth Rock and monument. and buried the rock.
This sand was removed, and in attempting to move the rock it split asunder.
The upper half, or shell, was taken to the middle of the village.
In 1834 it was removed from the town square to a position in f