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(I) Captain Myles Standish was born about 1584 in the parish of Chorley, Lancashire, England, which would indicate his belonging to Duxbury Hall, since this is between Stand- ish Hall and the Chorley parish church. It is probable that his lands were "surreptitiously detained" from him; at least that is what his will says; so we may believe that he began life without any considerable property. We know nothing of his history till we find him commis- sioned a lieutenant among the troops sent over
by Queen Elizabeth to help the Dutch to main- tain their cause against the Spanish. It is not known just how he happened to cast in his fortunes with the Pilgrims; but it is probable that when the English refugees came to Ley- den they made the acquaintance of the captain. At all events he became the shield and defense of our Forefathers, coming over in the first ship, the "Mayflower," in 1620. He lived in Plymouth till 1639, when he moved to the northern part of the harbor at Duxbury, and died there October 3, 1556, aged seventy-two. Myles Standish was an original proprietor of Bridgewater, and a principal member of the committee who purchased the plantation from Massasoit, the Indian sachem, in 1649. Cap- tain Myles Standish brought with him his wife Rose who could not endure the rigors of the New England climate, and died a month after the arrival of the "Mayflower," January 29, 1621. His second wife was named Barbara, and it is thought that she came over in the sec- ond ship in 1621. They had six children : Alexander, mentioned below; Miles, Josiah, Charles, Lora and John. Lora died before her father, and John died young. Miles Standish lived and died at the foot of the hill in Dix- bury, named after him "Captain Hill!"
(II) Alexander, son of Captain Myles and Barbara Standish, was born at Duxbury, Mas- sachusetts, in 1635, and died at the same place in 1702. He lived on the paternal estate at the foot of Captain's Hill, and was made a freeman in 1648. Like his father, he was twice married. The first wife of Alexander Standish was Sarah Alden, daughter of John and Pris- cilla (Mullins) Alden, who was born at Dux- bury in 1625, and died there in 1687. (See Alden I.) They had seven children: Miles, Ebenezer, whose sketch follows; Lorah, mar- ried Abraham Sampson; Lydia, married Isaac Sampson; Mercy, married Caleb Sampson; Sarah, married Benjamin Soule; and Eliza- beth, married Samuel Delano. The second wife of Alexander Standish was a woman whose maiden name was Desire Doten; but when she married Standish, she had already been twice a widow, first of William Sherman and second of Israel Holmes. The children of Alexander and Desire (Doten) (Sherman) (Holmes) Standish were three; Thomas, born in 1687; Ichabod, married Phebe Ring; and Desire, married a Weston.
(III) Ebenezer, second son of Alexander and his first wife, Sarah (Alden) Standish, was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1672, and died at the same place, March 9, 1755. He married at Plymouth, Hannah Sturtevant,
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who was born in that town, January 8, 1687, and died at Duxbury, January 23, 1759. They had seven children : Ebenezer, Zechariah, Moses, Hannah, Zeruiah, mentioned below, Sarah and Mercy.
(IV) Zeruiah, second daughter of Ebene- zer and Hannah (Sturtevant) Standish, was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, January 7, 1707 ; the date and place of her death are un- known. On May 20, 1724, she was married to Andrew Ring, who was born at Plymouth, March 28, 1695, and died at North Yarmouth, Maine, November 17, 1744. Among their chil- dren was Sarah, mentioned below.
(V) Sarah Ring, daughter of Andrew and Zeruiah (Standish) Ring, was born at Ply- mouth, Massachusetts, September 2, 1737, and died at South Brookfield, Massachusetts, June 22, 1809. She married Isaiah Cushman, who was born February 2, 1730, and died at Upper Canada, November 2, 1818. Among their children was Andrew, mentioned below.
(VI) Andrew Cushman, son of Isaiah and Sarah (Ring) Cushman, was born at Plymp- ton, Massachusetts, January 6, 1761, and died at Leeds, Maine, February 6, 1844. On July 2, 1788, he married at Winthrop, Maine, Bath- sheba Jennings, who was born at Sandwich, Massachusetts, August 12, 1769, and died at Leeds, Maine, May 12, 1842. Among their children was Betsy, mentioned below.
(VII) Betsey Cushman was born at Leeds, Maine, January II, 1814, and died at Lewiston, Maine, September 25, 1894. On May 1, 1839, she was married at Leeds to John Francis Gilmore, who was born at North Easton, Mas- sachusetts, May 10, 1816, and died at Leeds, November 2, 1845. Their daughter was Cath- erine Gilmore, who was born at Leeds, Feb- ruary 19, 1840, and was married at Auburn, Maine, January 10, 1860, to Roscoe Clinton Reynolds. (See Reynolds, IX.)
ALDEN This is a name of Teutonic-Scan- dinavian origin, being found in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden under such forms as Van Alden, Aul- den and Auldine. The prefix "al" or "el" in Anglo-Saxon meant brave, strong, noble, illustrious- as in Albert, "the nobly bright." "Dene" is an old spelling for the word Dane; hence we have Alden, the brave or noble Dane. This does not necessarily imply that the an- cestral Aldens were natives of Denmark, be- cause the term was applied in a general way to inhabitants of the northwestern portion of Europe; and even our Saxon forefathers some-
times called themselves Danes in very early times.
In England the name of Alden was wide- spread at the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. In the Domesday Book, the Conquer- or's census taken 1086, Aldens and Aldines are recorded in nearly all of the eastern coun- tries from Hertfordshire north to York. Many of them are entered as "tenants in capite," that is, as holding lands directly from the king. It is apparent from these records that many Aldens were men of importance and long establishment in England under the Sax- on rule. There are several coats-of-arms connected with the Alden name, but none of them is of ancient date. The earliest of which we have any record was granted to John Al- den of the Middle Temple in 1607. Guillim's "Display of Heraldry," published in 1610, speaks of it as follows: "He beareth Gules, three Crescents within a Bordure engrail'd Er- mine by the name of Alden." Another work gives the crest; "Out of a ducal coronet per pale, gules and sable, a demi-lion, or." The three crescents and the demi-lion seem to be the constant features in armorial bearings of this name, though one Alden coat has two bats' wings, both on the shield and on the crest.
No name among the early settlers of this country is associated with more romance than that of John Alden; and according to one writer, "No Pilgrim blood has percolated further through American society than that of Alden." Large families have been the rule, and it is estimated that a complete genealogy of the descendants of John and Priscilla Al- den would contain at least thirty thousand names. The first President Adams was a great-great-grandson, through John Alden's daughter Ruth, who married John Bass. Long- fellow traced his descent through John Al- den's eldest daughter Elizabeth, who married a Paybodie. Bryant was descended through Anna (Alden) Snell, daughter of Zachariah Alden, a younger son of John. Many bearing the Alden name have done good work in the professions, notably the ministry, and in vari- ous literary avocations, among them Mrs. Isa- bella Alden, better known as "Pansy," Dr. Joseph Alden, editor of Bryant's works, and his son, William L. Alden. But the most un- usual career of all was that followed by Gen- eral Tom Thumb, who, although his real name was Charles S. Stratton, had Alden blood in his veins.
(I) John Alden, the Pilgrim, was born in
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England in 1599, and died at Duxbury, Mas- sachusetts, September 22, 1687. He came to America in the "Mayflower," which landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 22, 1620. Governor Bradford wrote of him: "John Al- den was hired for a cooper, at South Hampton, where the ship victualed ; and being a hopeful young man, was much desired, but left to his owne liking to go or stay when he came here; but he stayed, and maryed here." From the very beginning he seems to have been one of the most useful men in the colony. As early as 1627 his name appears as one of the eight "Undertakers" who bought out the "Adven- turers," and assumed the financial responsibili- ties and indebtedness of the colony. From 1640 to 1650, almost continuously, he was deputy from the town of Duxbury to the Co- lonial councils, and in 1665 he was styled deputy governor. It is probable that John Al- den and Priscilla Mulliness (also written Mul- lens and Mullins) were married late in 1621 or early in the following year. Her father, William Mullines, and his wife and their son Joseph, all of Priscilla's family, died within a few months after the landing, and she was left without kin in the new world. The Alden- Mullines marriage must have been one of the first to take place in the colony, because their eldest child Elizabeth was the first white fe- male born on New England soil. John and Priscilla (Mullines) Alden had eleven children in all. Elizabeth, born 1623-24; Captain John, 1626; Joseph, whose sketch follows; Sarah, 1629; Jonathan, 1632-33; Ruth, 1634-35; Re- becca, about 1637; Priscilla; Zachariah, about 1641 ; Mary, about 1643; David, about 1646.
Elizabeth, the eldest child, married William Paybodie on December 26, 1644, and after liv- ing forty years in Duxbury, they moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island, their final home. Mrs. Elizabeth (Alden) Paybodie lived to be ninety-two, and saw her own granddaughter Bradford with a grandchild. It was this hap- pening which gave rise to the well-known couplet :
"Rise, daughter, to thy daughter run! Thy daughter's daughter hath a son !"
Captain John Alden probably had the most in- teresting career of any of the children. He moved to Boston where he became master of a merchantman, and for many years comman- der of the armed vessel belonging to the Col- ony of Massachusetts Bay, which supplied the Maine posts with provisions and stores. Dur- ing the witchcraft craze, Alden was one of those accused, and he was imprisoned in Bos-
ton, but made his escape after he had been confined fifteen weeks. His gravestone is one of three preserved under the portico of the New Old South Church in Boston ; he was a charter member of that organization. Sarah, the second daughter of John and Priscilla Al- den, married Alexander Standish, son of Cap- tain Myles and Barbara Standish, thus accom- plishing the union of the two families, and bringing about a sort of poetic justice, and possibly reconciling the doughty captain to his loss of Priscilla years before. (See Standish II.) Ruth Alden, the third daughter, mar- ried John Bass. The old record reads: "12 mo. 3d. 1657, John Bass and Ruth Aulden were married by Mr. John Aulden of Dux- bury." They had seven children: John, Samuel, Ruth, Joseph, Hannah, Mary and Sarah. Hannah, the second daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass, was married to Jo- seph Adams, of Braintree, and became the grandmother of President John Adams.
(II) Joseph, second son of John and Pris- cilla ( Mullines) Alden, was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1627, and died at Bridge- water, that state, February 8, 1697. He was named after Priscilla's brother, one of the first victims of that fatal winter following the landing of the Pilgrims. Joseph Alden moved to Bridgewater in 1679, where he held lands deeded him by his father. He seems to have been a man of good repute, and was often elected to local office. In 1659 he married Mary, daughter of Moses Simmons, and of this marriage were born five children: Isaac, Joseph, John, Elizabeth and Mary.
(III) Isaac, eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Simmons) Alden, was born at Bridge- water, Massachusetts, in 1660. On December 2, 1685, he married Mehitable Allen, who was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, January 20, 1685. They had nine children: Mehitable, Sarah, mentioned below, Mary, Isaac, Ebene- zer, John, Mercy, Abigail and Jemima.
(IV) Sarah, second child of Isaac and Me- hitable (Allen) Alden, was born at Bridge- water, Massachusetts, September 24, 1688. On October 13, 1712, she was married in that town to Seth Brett, who was born at Bridgewater. February 24, 1688, and died there January II, 1722. Among their children was Samuel, men- tioned below.
(V) Samuel, son of Seth and Sarah (Al- den) Brett, was born at Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts, August 22, 1714, and died at the same place, March 7, 1807. He married Han- nah Packard, December 21, 1737, who was
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born at Bridgewater, March 18, 1718, and died there February 14, 1802. Among their chil- dren was Isaac, mentioned below.
(VI) Isaac, son of Samuel and Hannah (Packard) Brett, was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, September 19, 1738, and on January 17, 1765, married Priscilla Jackson of that town. Among their children was Polly, mentioned below.
(VII) Polly, daughter of Isaac and Pris- cilla (Jackson) Brett, was born at Bridgewa- ter, March 1, 1777, and died at Auburn, Maine, May 19, 1866. She was married at Bridge- water, January 21, 1796, to Captain Ichabod Reynolds, who was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, March 27, 1773, and died at Auburn, Maine, April 3, 1855. (See Rey- nolds, VII.)
GLOVER The Worthies of England of this name are legion. Anciently written Glofre, then Glove in the
middle of the fourteenth century, and since that time the name appears only as Glover. The proverbial carelessness of New England clerks and recorders sometimes have it written Glouer. As to Christian names, William and John predominated in the middle of the four- teenth century. Sheriffs, gentlemen, heralds and heraldic writers, vicars, church-wardens, Robert the Martyr, heretics, authors, knights, attorneys-at-law, poets, merchants, members of parliament, benefactors, aldermen, have dignified and made historical the name of Glover, and America has not been lacking in men bearing the name who won honor and renown in the New World. The father of the earliest immigrant of the name in Amer- ica was Thomas Glover, tanner, of Rainhill Parish, Prescot, Lancashire, England, and his mother was Margery, daughter of John Deane, of Rainhill. They had eleven chil- dren, as follows: 1. Ellen, born 1595, married William Barnes. 2. and 3. John and Eliza- beth (twins), born and died July 27, 1599. 4. John (q. v.), August 12, 1600. 5. Henry, February 15, 1603, married Abigail
and came to New England 1640. 6. Annie, born and died 1605. 7. Thomas, 1609, mar- ried Deborah Rigby, of Cranston, November 24, 1664. 8. William, 1609, married Mary Bolton, of Rainhill, 1664. 9. George, 1611, married Margaret IO. Jane, 1612,
married
Watts. II. Peter, 1615, mar-
ried Thomas, the father, died at Rainhill, December 13, 1619.
(I) John, eldest son of Thomas and Mar- gery (Deane) Glover, was baptized in the
church of Rainhill Parish, Prescot, Lan- cashire, England, August 12, 1600. He in- herited large estates in Rainhill, Eccleston, Knowlsbury and other parishes in England when but nineteen years of age, and he was made an executor of his father's will, his mother being executrix. He lived on his es- tates, and in 1625 married and three children were born to him by his wife Anna, the last in 1629. He was a member of the London Company formed in England in 1628 to en- courage the early planting of New England. He was also a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of London, and held the rank of captain of that venerable company. He was also in fellowship with a lodge of Free Masons in London, and was sometimes called "the Worshipful Mr. Glov- er." His name appears in 1628 as one of the eighteen adventurers who subscribed £2,150 to the stock of the Adventurers for a plantation intended at Massachusetts Bay in New Eng- land in America," his share being £50. The gentlemen who composed this company, headed by Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight, were strictly Non-conformists and were styled Puri- tans. They set themselves apart for a holy work-that of planting a colony for religious growth and freedom. Mr. John Glover took passage with the other members of the Dor- chester company in the "Mary and John," which sailed from England, March 20, 1629- 30, and the vessel was under command of Captain Squeb Jr., probably arrived at Nall- tucket, May 31, 1630, where the first pas- sengers were put ashore, although they had the promise of the captain to land them at Charles Towne. Here some took boats and proceeded to their original destination, while others made their way to the Indian planta- tion called by them Mattapan, which is now known as Dorchester Neck, and about June I commenced a settlement and called the place Dorchester Plantation. Mr. Glover brought over with him a great number of cattle, pro- visions and implements, and several men- servants for the purpose of establishing a tan- nery, as the company required each member to establish some trade on his estate. This business he subsequently transferred to Bos- ton, where he was succeeded by his son Hobackuk. He had been made a freeman before he left England, accompanied by his wife Anna and three children, the youngest but one year old. He was a selectman of the town of Dorchester, 1636-50, a representative in the general court from 1636 to 1652, an assistant 1652-53, a commissioner to end small
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causes 1646-47, and he was appointed to im- portant duties by the general court outside the towns of Dorchester and Boston, he hav- ing "sat at judgment" in Salem, Charles- town and Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, and he also rendered valuable service in council in cases requiring judicial knowledge at Barnstable and other places in Plymouth Colony. He died at his home in the town of Boston, February II, 1653. The children of John and Anna Glover were: I. Thomas, born in Rainhill Parish, Prescot, Lancashire, Eng- land, January 8, 1627, married, in 1682, Re- becca, her father's name being unknown. 2. Hobackuk, May 13, 1628, married Hannah Eliot, of Roxbury. 3. John, October 11, 1629, married Elizabeth Franklin, of Ipswich, in 1688. 4. Nathaniel (q. v.). 5. Pelatiah, No- vember, 1637, married Hannah Cullick, of Boston.
(II) Nathaniel, the fourth son of John, im- migrant, and Anna Glover, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1630-31, died in Dorchester, May 21, 1657. He succeeded to the homestead at Dorchester when his father removed to Boston in 1652, and the same year he was married to Mary, daughter of Quartermaster John and Mary (Ryder) Smith, of Toxteth Park, England, immigrants to Dorchester, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Glover was admitted as a freeman upon taking the oath May 3, 1654, was a se- lectman of the town of Dunbarton, 1656-57. The children of Nathaniel and Mary (Smith) Glover, all born in Dorchester, were: I. Na- thaniel (q. v.). March 30, 1653. 2. John, February 15, 1654. 3. Anne, 1656, married William Rawson, of Boston. Nathaniel Glo- ver Sr. died in Dorchester, May 21, 1657, and his widow married, March 2, 1659-60, Hon. Thomas Hinckley, of Barnstable, who was subsequently made governor of Plymouth Colony, and by this marriage she had : Mercy, Experience, John, Abigail, Thankful, Ebe- nezer and Reliance Hinckley, who all grew up and married during her lifetime, except Ebenezer, who married after her death, which occurred July 29, 1703, in the seventy-third year of her age.
(III) Nathaniel (2), the eldest son of Na- thaniel (I) and Mary (Smith) Glover, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, March 30, 1653. In 1660 he was placed under the guar- dianship of his uncle Hobackuk Glover, of Boston, who succeeded his mother at the time of her marriage to Governor Hinckley, and removal to Braintree. He attended school in Boston and boarded with his grandmother,
Mrs. Anna Glover, and after her decease with his uncle and guardian. In 1672-73, at the age of twenty, married Hannah Hinckley, fourth daughter of Governor Thomas Hinck- ley by his first wife, Mary Richards, grand- daughter of Thomas and Welthea (Loring) Richards, early settlers of Weymouth. He carried on the business of tanning which he inherited and which had been carried on by father and grandfather since 1631. In 1700 he resigned the business to his eldest son, Nathaniel Jr., and the next year removed with his family to the Newbury Farm estate in Dorchester, which he partly inherited and partly owned by deed of gift from his uncle, John Glover. With his wife Hannah he was received in the church at Dorchester by own- ing the covenant on "the second day of the eighth month, 1677," and served the town first as constable and afterwards as selectman, 1683-1715. The children of Nathaniel and Hannah (Hinckley) Glover, all born in Dor- chester, were: I. Nathaniel, February 24, 1674, died when three days old. 2. Nathaniel, August 7, 1675, died the same year. 3. Na- thaniel, November 16, 1676, married Rachel March, of Braintree. 4. Mary, April 12, 1679, died after 1743. 5. Hannah, July 26, 1681, married Thomas Laws, of Marblehead. 6. Elizabeth, July 26, 1683, died unmarried April II, 1725. 7. John (q. v.), September 18, 1687. 8. Thomas, December 26, 1690, mar- ried Elizabeth Clough, of Boston. In 1687 Nathaniel Sr. made a division of land with Ebenezer Billings, who had purchased some of the rights in Newbury Farm, purchased by his grandfather from Mr. Pynchon when he removed from Dorchester to Springfield. Han- nah (Hinckley) Glover was born in Barn- stable, April 15, 1650, and died at Newbury Farm, in Dorchester, April 30, 1730. Her husband died at Newbury Farm, January 6, 1723-24, and husband and wife were buried in the Avent burial-ground, in the westerly part, and the gravestones remain with inscrip- tions worn by time as make the names and dates scarcely decipherable.
(IV) John (2), fourth son of Nathaniel (2) and Hannah (Hinckley) Glover, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, September 18, 1687. He married (first) Susannah El- lison ( 1690-1724), of Boston, January I. 1714, and (second) December 22, 1724, Mary Horton, of Milton, who died in Braintree, De- cember 19, 1775, aged seventy-one years. John Glover died in Braintree, July 6. 1768. The children of John and Susannah ( Ellison) Glover were: I. Susannah, born January 8,
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1715, married Lazarus Pope, of Stoughton. 2. John, April 4, 1717. 3. Joseph, June 16, 1720. 4. Jerusha, December 3, 1722, married Colonel William Burbeck. The children of John and Mary ( Horton) Glover were: 5. Nathaniel, born and died 1725. 6. Josiah, De- cember 2, 1726. 7. Elisha, January 9, 1729. 8. Nathanicl, December, 1730. 9. Ezra, January 25, 1732. 10. Enoch (q. v.), May 14, 1734. II. Mary, April 21, 1736, married Elijah Belcher, of Braintree. 12. Jacob, July 29, 1737, died in infancy.
(V) Enoch, eighth son of John (2) and Mary ( Horton) Glover, was born in Dor- chester, Massachusetts, May 14, 1734, and baptized in the First Church, Braintree, May 19, 1734. He was a landed proprietor and an innkeeper. His mansion house was one mile nearer Boston than the Dorchester "Four Corners," and in 1867 was the property of Edmund Wright, of Boston. He married, November 23, 1756, Susannah, daughter of Benjamin and Johannah ( Harris) Bird, of Dorchester. She was born in 1736, and died October 26, 1802. Their children were born in Dorchester as follows: 1. Johannah, Feb- ruary 3, 1758, married Aaron Bird, of Dor- chester. 2. Susannah, April 2, 1759, married Ebenezer Baker, of Dorchester. 3. Mary, Oc- tober 18, 1760, married Ebenezer Clap, of Dorchester. 4. Enoch, November 5, 1762, died unmarried February 13, 1817. 5. Eliza- beth, November 1, 1764, married Benjamin Lyon, of Dorchester. 6. Benjamin, April 29, 1766, died unmarried March 17, 1833. 7. Anna, January 17, 1768, married Stephen Walcs, of Dorchester. 8. Samuel (q. v.), born March 29, 1770. Enoch Glover, the father of these children, died in Dorchester, Novem- bcr 21, 1801.
(VI) Samuel, third son of Enoch and Su- sannah ( Bird) Glover, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, March 29, 1770. He married, Junc 1, 1796, Martha, daughter of Dr. Phine- has Holden ( 1776-1864), and granddaughter of Dr. William Holden, born in Cambridge, March 4, 1713, who practiced medicine in Dorchester. Samuel and Martha (Holden) Glover resided in Dorchester, near the home- stcad occupied by his father, and on land belonging to the homestcad estate. Here he cultivated choice fruit, propagating new va- rietics and marketing rare and beautiful speci- mens in the Boston markets daily during the fruit season. They had two children : I. Mar- tha Holden, born in Dorchester, August II, 1797, married Samuel Davis, of Brighton, Massachusetts. They removed to Cincinnati,
Ohio. 2. Phinchas Holden (q. v.), born Oc- tober 16, 1807. Samuel Glover died in South Boston, Massachusetts, suddenly on Decem- ber 13, 1837.
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