Alden (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of March 12, 2016:
- Alden Kindred of America society contacted
- Recruiting Alden for Y Elite test
Paper trail
First Generation
John Alden is believed to have been born about 1599. He was employed by the Mayflower company as a cooper (barrel-maker) and given the ability to decide whether he would remain with the colonists at New Plimouth or return to England with the Mayflower crew in 1621. John decided to stay at New Plimouth and married Priscilla Mullins (daughter of Mayflower passenger William Mullins). It is believed they were married prior to the 1623 land division (as Priscilla was not named and other single women were named in this division). The Alden family was one of the original settlers who moved away from the core Plymouth settlement. He died at Duxbury on 12 Sep 1687, being one of the last surviving Mayflower Passengers. He & his wife Priscilla were presumably buried at the Miles Standish Burying Ground in Duxbury.[1]
John and Priscilla had ten children, six daughters & four sons (John, Joseph, Jonathan & David)
Second Generation
John Alden was named at the bottom of his family grouping in the May 1627 land division. This likely means he was born about this time in New Plimouth, before the family moved to Duxbury. He married Elizabeth Phillips and John died in 1701. They had eleven children (four daughters & seven sons: William (1663-1664), William (1665-1667), Zachariah (1667-1672), Nathaniel (1668-1701 m. Hepzibah Mountjoy), William (1669-1728 m. Mary Drury), Zachariah (1672-1709 m. Mary Viall) & Nathan (1677-1701)
Joseph Alden was born sometime after the 1627 land division. He married Mary Simmons and died in 1696. Joseph & Mary had seven children (four daughters & three sons: Isaac (1666-1727 m. Mehitable Allen), Dea. Joseph (1667-1747 m. Hannah Dunham) & John (1675-1730 m. Hannah White)
Capt. Jonathan Alden (1632-1697) married Abigail Hallett and they had six children (three daughters & three sons: John (1681-1739 m. Hannah Briggs), Andrew (1684-c1775 m. Lydia Stanford) & Jonathan (1686-1770 m. Elizabeth Arnold & Mehitable Allen))
David Alden (1646-1718) married Mary Southworth and they had six children (four daughters & two sons: Benjamin (1690-1741 m. Hannah Brewster) & Capt. Samuel (1688-1781 m. Sarah Sprague)
- ↑ This was the only town cemetery at this time. It is remotely possible John & Priscilla may have been buried on their family farm.
Results
Previous testing
The Mayflower DNA Project lists three direct male line descendants of John Alden, but none of them have done any SNP testing. FTDNA only predicts the family falls under M-269. However, punching in the 67 STR results in the Nevgen Y-DNA Haplogroup Predictor indicates the family likely fall under either U152 or DF27[1]. Futher SNP testing will refine the Haplogroup and define the Alden family clade.
- ↑ both clades fall under a clade defined by a STR Z38841 below R-P312
