. 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 . ore than two centuries it hasbeen owned and occupied by the same family, and could itspeak could relate much that would be of interest to- theirdescendants. As can be seen from the following picture it is a two-storysquare house, in its day one of the finest residences in thetown. The front faces the south, as was the custom inthose days. The windows were originally the small dia-mond shaped panes, but th
. 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 . ore than two centuries it hasbeen owned and occupied by the same family, and could itspeak could relate much that would be of interest to- theirdescendants. As can be seen from the following picture it is a two-storysquare house, in its day one of the finest residences in thetown. The front faces the south, as was the custom inthose days. The windows were originally the small dia-mond shaped panes, but these have been replaced by amore modem style. On the ground floor are four rooms. The front or Great Room, as our forefathers called the best room in fOHN ALDEN. 365 the house, is a large, square room, 25x25, with fireplace tomatch ; over the fireplace the walls are panelled. Theceilings are eight feet high and crossed by heavy, woodenbeams. A cupboard in one corner stiU stands where it wasplaced two hundred years ago. The upper part of the house contains four sleeping roomsincluding the great guest chamber, wherein is found theusual high four-post bed-stead, with canopy top, and other. OLD ALDEN HOUSE. old style furniture. Above all is the old attic room, fitreceptacle for dust and cobweb-covered wheels for spinningwool and flax, cards for combing and reels for winding,besides a multitude of other accumulations. The tableseen in the picture is of English oak, and came in the May-flower probably, as the property of the mother of it are some account books of the first John Alden,and beside it sits the present occupant, John Alden of theeighth generation. This is the oldest dwelling existing in New England, 366 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ALDEN, with three exceptions. The Old Fort, at Medford,which dates back to 1634, the Old Fairbanks House, inDedham, built in 1636, and the Old Stone House, at Guil-ford, Conn., in 1640. Here the Pilgrim John passed the remainder of a lif
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