Brief Life History of Mehitabel
When Mehitabel Alden was born on 27 April 1732, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Alden, was 26 and her mother, Abiah Edson, was 26. She married Joshua Packard on 1 January 1755, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died before November 1796, in Winthrop, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kents Hill Cemetery, Readfield, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Mehetabel in entry for Caleb Packard, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mehetable Alden, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Mehitable Alden Packard, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1730–1808 Male
1732–1796 Female
Children (5)
1758–1833 Male
1759–1835 Male
1761–1809 Male
1765–1836 Male
1768–1839 Female
Parents and Siblings
1705–1783 Male
1706–1749 Female
Siblings (9)
1729–1776 Female
1732–1796 Female
1734–1795 Female
1736–1816 Male
1738–1807 Male
+4 More Children
World Events (6)
1750
Age 18
1760
Age 28
1776
Age 44
Name Meaning
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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