The Mayflower Connection to Descendants of Dorothy Treado and Vernon Wescott 

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My grandmother Dorothy Treado is a 10th generation descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, two of the 50 Mayflower passengers who survived their first winter in the New World.  They married, and so Dorothy’s descendants are all blood relatives of the first Pilgrims to colonize the United States.  

According to Wikipedia:  John Alden (c. 1598 – September 12, 1687) was a crew member on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower which brought the English settlers commonly known as Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. He was hired in Southampton, England as the ship’s cooper, responsible for maintaining the ship’s barrels. He was a member of the ship’s crew and not a settler, yet he decided to remain in Plymouth Colony when the Mayflower returned to England. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact.

He married Mayflower passenger Priscilla Mullins, whose entire family perished in the first winter in Plymouth Colony. The marriage of the young couple became prominent in Victorian popular culture after the 1858 publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fictitious narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish. The book inspired widespread depictions of John and Priscilla Alden in art and literature during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Alden was one of Plymouth Colony’s most active public servants and played a prominent role in colonial affairs. He was annually elected to the Governor’s Council nearly every year from 1640 to 1686. He served as Treasurer of Plymouth Colony, Deputy to the General Court of Plymouth, a member of the colony’s Council of War, and a member of the colony’s Committee on Kennebec Trade, among other posts. 

John and Priscilla Alden had ten children. 1688.  For more information on John, and his connection to the Cushnoc Trading garrison on the Kennebec River, Augusta Maine, click here.

Rebecca was born about 1640, the nineth of their 10 children. She married Thomas Delano in 1677 and had nine children. She died between June 12, 1696 and October 5, 1722.[1] She is buried in Old Burying Ground in Duxbury.

He was the last surviving signer of the Mayflower Compact upon his death in 1687. The approximate location of his grave in the Myles Standish Burial Ground was marked with a memorial stone in 1930. The site of his first house in Duxbury is preserved and marked with interpretative signs. The Alden Kindred of America began as a society of John and Priscilla’s descendants, and it maintains the Alden House Historic Site in Duxbury, Massachusetts—likely built by Alden’s son Capt. Jonathan Alden.

1 John Alden Sr d: 12 Sep 1687, 7th ggrandfather of Dorothy Treado

      + Priscilla Mullins d: 05 Feb 1688

…… 2 Rebecca Alden d: 12 Sep 1688, 6th ggrandfather of Dorothy Treado

……       + Dr Thomas Delano d: 13 Apr 1723

…… …… 3 Dr Benoni Delano d: 05 Apr 1738, 5th ggrandfather of Dorothy Treado

…… ……       + Elizabeth Drew d: 21 Aug 1733

…… …… …… 4 Rebecca Delano d: 06 Jan 1750, 4th ggrandmother of Dorothy Treado

…… …… ……       + Amasa Turner d: 17 Feb 1784

…… …… …… …… 5 Nathaniel Turner d: 15 Jan 1823, 3rd ggranfather of Dorothy Treado

…… …… …… ……       + Anna Gross d: 07 Sep 1806

…… …… …… …… …… 6 Samuel Turner d: 21 Sep 1857, 2nd ggrandfather of Dorothy Treado

…… …… …… …… ……       + Mary Cook d: 09 Mar 1851

…… …… …… …… …… …… 7 George Turner d: 20 Apr 1898, great grandfather of Dorothy Treado

…… …… …… …… …… ……       + Clarissa Farnham d: 08 May 1887

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… 8 Lucia Turner d: 11 Dec 1899, grandmother of Dorothy Treado

…… …… …… …… …… …… ……       + Byron Stockwell d: 16 Oct 1912

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 9 Lilla Stockwell d: 10 Aug 1947, mother of Dorothy Treado

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… ……       + Joseph Treado II d: 31 Oct 1935

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 10 Gertrude Treado d: 11 Apr 1952

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 10 Byron Treado Sr d: 25 Jan 1990

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 10 Dorothy Treado d: 16 Feb 1988

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… ……       + Vernon Wescott d: 27 Nov 1974

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 10 Thelma Treado d: 09 Feb 1988

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 10 Madeline Treado d: 23 Jun 1980

…… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… …… 10 Charles Treado d: 15 Jul 1983

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