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which granted authority to their elected leaders and entitled them to establish their own plantation within the bounds of
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Several artifacts attributed to John Alden are exhibited at major museums. These include the halberd blade discovered in the 1960 archaeological dig at the Alden first house site in
Duxbury, the Alden family bible, and a mortar and pestle attributed to John and Priscilla Alden, all of which are
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In 1626, the colony's financial backers in London, known as the
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John Alden was the last survivor of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. He died in Duxbury on September 12, 1687. Both he and his wife Priscilla were buried in the Old Burying Ground in South Duxbury. The precise location of their graves is not known as markers either were not placed or have
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of Duxbury delivered a sermon. It is the first known instance of a sermon being delivered at a Plymouth Colony burial indicated changing religious customs. Prior to this, burials were simple affairs without religious ritual.
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1778:Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage and War
1912:"Alden home in Duxbury named national landmark"
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2065:The Biographical Dictionary of America
1871:"A Genealogical Profile of John Alden"
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2000:. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock.
1937:. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1852:"John Alden, 17th Century Documents"
1684:. Dublin, NH: Yankee Publishing, Inc
1676:Horrocks, Alyson (October 8, 2019).
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1954:The Alden Family in the Alden House
2752:People from Duxbury, Massachusetts
2635:Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
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1992:Willison, George Findlay (1945).
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911:Plymouth Ancestors, "John Alden"
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1626:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
1570:Banks, Charles Edward (1962) .
563:The Courtship of Miles Standish
229:The Courtship of Miles Standish
2019:History of the Town of Duxbury
1918:. Quincy, MA: Gannett Co., Inc
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1642:The Salem witch trials reader
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1952:Wentworth, Dorothy (2000) .
1889:Stratton, Eugene A. (1986).
1757:"Mayflower Wheelock Carbine"
1663:. Historical Marker Database
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475:Establishing Plymouth Colony
254:Myles Standish Burial Ground
27:Crew member on the Mayflower
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1781:. New York: Penguin Books.
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1759:. National Firearms Museum
1620:Goodwin, John A. (1920) .
1557:. Alden Kindred of America
1521:. Alden Kindred of America
1452:Pilgrim Society, "Religion
1114:Historical Marker Database
785:Bridgewater, Massachusetts
731:National Historic Landmark
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558:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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1682:New England Today
1583:978-0-8063-0017-7
1426:New England Today
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