First Triennial Report with the Proceedings of the Meetings Held at Avon, Mass., 1901, and at Duxbury, Mass., 1902-1903 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... MRS. ABBOTT'S ADDRESS. "John Alden has been to me a familiar name from my childhood up. When I was ten years old my father took me with him on a three-days journey in the one-horse shay, from our New Hampshire home to Plymouth. Many of the incidents of that journey are vivid in my memory still, my first sight of Boston, the seeing of John Quincy Adams (a loyal descendant of John Alden) in his own home in Quincy, of Plymouth and its surroundings, of being placed on my feet on the famous Plymouth rock, by my father, and being told that our ancestor was the first of the Mayflower Pilgrims who leaped upon that rock. Some of the incidents which I shall give today are a part of the whiling away of that interesting journey. I learned our family ancestral line before I knew all of the assembly catechism. John Alden's daughter, Ruth, married John Bass; his daughter, Sarah, married Ephraim Thayer; his daughter, Esther, married Moses French; his son, Jonathan, married Abigail Richards, who was also a descendant of John Aldenin another line; their son, Jonathan, married Rebecca Farrar; their daughter, the eighth of the eleven children, is thus in the seventh generation, in a direct line from lohn Alden, and in a double line from her grandmother down, and thus claims the right to be here today. 'We know comparatively little about the early life of our illustrious progenitor. He is supposed to have been a native of Great Britain, though but few of the name have been found in England. The name has been common in Germany. Our John Alden is known to have come from Leyden on that first voyage of the Mayflower, in 1620, when he was twenty-two years old. He was one of the signers of the compact adopted a few days before their finding a place of settlement. From the men's sta...

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