The Alden Family in the Alden House

Few families stemming from colonial America can boast of as many consecutive years in one house as the Aldens. Beginning with John Alden, Pilgrim, and his wife Priscilla, sixteen Aldens owned the house over a period of more than 240 years, when it was acquired by the largest of Alden families, the Alden Kindred of America in 1907.

The house itself, built in 1653 and probably including part of the 1628 first Alden house, stands on a knoll on the original Alden land, the old farm grown to woodlot now but the house almost unchanged from Pilgrim times.

Dorothy Wentworth in this friendly history has caught the spirt of the house and its people, an extraordinary family, virile and talented, surviving the difficult early years, producing leaders in the colony, the commonwealth, and the country.

Interested to read further ... look for the book by Dorothy Wentworth!

For some views of the house, visit the Alden House Museum's virtual tour.