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If true, our Mayflower ancestor was none other than the famed cooper John Alden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden. After landing in the colonies, he married Priscilla Mullins, another Mayflower passenger. John’s story is fascinating to me – truly a classic American rags-to-riches tale. John was a poor cooper in England, of unknown parentage. When he arrived in theContinue reading “Mayflower Rumors: John Alden and Priscilla Mullins”