Ancestry of
James Merrill

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Joseph Alden

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of James Merrill — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 672 
  • Father:
  • John Alden 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Mullins   
  • Birth Date:
  • AFT 22 May 1627 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth County, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Feb 1696/1697 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Simmons
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1660 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Alden

  Isaac Alden

  Joseph Alden Jr. (Ahnentafel No:336 )

  Mercy Alden

  Hopestill Alden

  Elizabeth Alden

  John Alden

• Sources for Joseph Alden

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Apr 1906, Vol. 60, p. 209.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Jul 1898, Vol. 52, p. 362.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 24.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 163, 184, 257, 298, 333, 390, 467, 533, 670, 696, 714, 737.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 18, 20.
  • ⁷ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), Page 37, [Birth].
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), Page 37, [Death].
  • ⁹ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 20, 37-39, 60.

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