When John Adams Alden was born on 11 July 1763, in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Alden, was 31 and his mother, Mary C Adams, was 28. He married Hannah Daniels on 26 January 1786, in Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1780. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 13 April 1843, in Solon, Cortland, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Union Valley Cemetery, Union Valley, Taylor, Cortland, New York, United States.
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English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either Aldwin, Aldin (representing Old English Ealdwine with loss of -w-) or Middle English Alwin with an intrusive -d- (see Alwin ), or Aldan, a variant of the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Healfdene (see Haldane ).
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because of its situation below a high mountain Alden, from an unattested word ‘high, standing out’.
History: John Alden (c. 1599–1687) was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He moved from Plymouth to Duxbury, MA, c. 1627. Many of his descendants were merchant seamen, among them James Alden (1810–77), who twice circumnavigated the globe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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