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3 unusual facts about John Alden


John Doane

Records show that on January 2, 1632/33 Governor Bradford, Captain Standish, John Alden, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Fuller, Sr., and John Doane and other notables were ordered by the court to assess taxes on the colonists payable in grain or the equivalent.

Maggie Kirkpatrick

In 1960, at the age of 19, Kirkpatrick took her first professional acting job, with the theatre impresario John Alden with his John Alden Shakespeare Company.

Ron Shand

Shand was then one of the original members of the John Alden Shakespearean theatre Company that toured all the capital cities of Australia.


Augustus B. R. Sprague

He was also descendant from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

Helen Pitts Douglass

A descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Alden, who sailed to America on the Mayflower, Pitts graduated from Mount Holyoke College (then called the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1859.


see also

John Alden Dix

John Alden Dix (December 25, 1860 – April 9, 1928) was the 38th Governor of New York from January 1911 to December 1912.