. The story of a pilgrim family from the Mayflower to the present time : with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. John Alden in his 83rd year . ng this service that his fathers housewas burned, and as is supposed the town records burnedwith it as they were lost about this time. He owned landnear the Alden estate, but lived at the Standish farm, twomiles distant. The house now standing on Captains Hill,was built by him in 1666. It is a small, gambrel-roofedbuilding, shingled on two sides, and is in a good state ofpreservation. Here the son of Mile
. The story of a pilgrim family from the Mayflower to the present time : with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. John Alden in his 83rd year . ng this service that his fathers housewas burned, and as is supposed the town records burnedwith it as they were lost about this time. He owned landnear the Alden estate, but lived at the Standish farm, twomiles distant. The house now standing on Captains Hill,was built by him in 1666. It is a small, gambrel-roofedbuilding, shingled on two sides, and is in a good state ofpreservation. Here the son of Miles Standish and thedaughter of John Alden and Priscilla lived many died in 1702. The date of his wife Sarahs death isnot recorded. By her he had seven children. He marrieda second wife, who died in 1723. 374 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ALDEN. RUTH Married John Bass of Braintree, and from this union de-scended John Adams and John Quincy Adams, presidentsof the United States. She died in 1674. Married Thomas Delano of Duxbury, son of Philip Delano,(or De La Noy)who came in the Fortune, in was an influential man in the town. By her they hadone son, Thomas, Jr. She died young. I. CHAPTER OF THE ALDEN FAMILY. COL. BRIGGS ALDEN, ON of Col. John and Hannah Briggs Alden, wasborn at the old homestead, Duxbury, June 8, 1723,where he lived and died. His wife was MercyWadsworth (who belonged to the family of Wadsworthancestors of the Poet Longfellow, on the maternal side).He was father of nine children. He died at the age ofseventy-four. His son Samuel was mortally wounded in anexpedition to the Penobscot river against the British, in1778, under command of Gen. Lovell, The second officerin command was Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, who built a beau-tiful mansion in Portland, Me., afterward occupied by hisson-in-law, Stephen Longfellow, father of the poet. Briggs Alden was youngest son of Col. John. He earlydeveloped the military tastes inherited from his father andgrandfa
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