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Benedict Cumberbatch

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John Alden Jr.

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2460 
  • Father:
  • John Alden 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Mullins   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1626 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Mar 1701/1702 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old South Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Phillips
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Apr 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Alden

  John Alden

  Elizabeth Alden

  John Alden

  William Alden

  Elizabeth Alden

  William Alden

  Zachary Alden

  Nathaniel Alden

  William Alden

  Zachariah Alden (Ahnentafel No:1230 )

  Sarah Alden

  Nathan Alden

  Sarah Alden

  • Notes: 

  • Accused of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. He broke out of jail and fled to Duxbury. He eventually returned to Salem "after the public reclaimed use of its reason" and was cleared by proclamation at the Superior Court in Boston in April 1693.

    Accused of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. He broke out of jail and fled to Duxbury. He eventually returned to Salem "after the public reclaimed use of its reason" and was cleared by proclamation.

• Sources for John Alden Jr.

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 50.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 23-24.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 121, 248, 338.
  • ⁴ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 43.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "John Alden (sailor)", (accessed 03/09/2013).
  • ⁶ 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, 27-37.

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