Mayflower Connection
Are we descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims?

• John Alden:  Sailed on the Mayflower as "cooper". He signed the Mayflower Compact and married Priscilla Mullins in one of the first marriages in Plymouth, Mass. Their first child is one of the first European children to be born in the colonies.

• Elisabeth/Elizabeth Alden Paybodie (Pabody/Pabodie):  Daughter of John and Priscilla Alden

• Lydia Pabodie Grinnell:  Daughter of Elizabeth and William Pabodie

• Jemima Grinnell Chalker:  Daughter of Lydia and Daniel Grinnell. She married Abraham Chalker

• Isaac Chalker:  Son of Jemima and Abraham Chalker

• William Chalker:  Son of Isaac and Sarah Chalker

• Randolph Washington Chalker:  Son of William and Nancy Chalker

• Thomas Sidney Chalker:  Son of Randolph and Sarah Chalker

• Selwyn Thomas Chalker:  Son of Thomas and Mary Chalker (our grandfather)

Other famous descendants of John and Priscilla Alden:  John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Marilyn Monroe, Calvin Coolidge, Orson Welles, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow wrote the famous poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish". It was about the "love triangle" between Priscilla, John Alden, and Miles Standish.

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