The Story of a Pilgrim Family, from the Mayflower to the Present Time: With Autobiography, Recollections, Letters, Incidents, and Genealogy of the Author (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Story of a Pilgrim Family, From the Mayflower to the Present Time: With Autobiography, Recollections, Letters, Incidents, and Genealogy of the Author

The name of Alden has, for more than two centuries, been familiar to every son and daughter of New England. The Pilgrim John, who first brought it to these shores, was a man Of whom his numerous descendants are justly proud; not for his high station, great wealth or colossal intellect, but for his rectitude Of character, fidelity to duty, and his eminently pious, practical and useful life.

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