Judah Alden (1750 - 1845)

Ancestors Descendants

Biography

Judah, son of Briggs and Mercy (Wadsworth) Alden, was born in Duxbury, MA on October 31, 1750. He married Welthea, daughter of Peleg and Lusanna (Samson) Wadsworth on February 17, 1780.

Judah was an officer in the Revolutionary War for which he was awarded a pension and a bounty land warrant for his service.

He started out as a Lieutenant in Col. Theophilus Cotton's regiment in 1775, then in Col. John Bailey's in 1776 becoming a Captain in 1777 and Brevet Major in 1783. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

His will, dated December 6, 1843 (codicil December 21, 1844) mentions daughters Lucia S. Smith, wife of Sylvanus, Welthea James, wife of William, and Mary Ann; sons John and Samuel.

Judah died in Duxbury on March 2, 1845 and was buried there at Mayflower Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ DAR
2. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
3. ↑ Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2022-09-12), "Record of Judah Alden", Ancestor # A001038.

• Heitman, Francis Bernard. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution (W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., Washington, DC, 1893); p. 65

• Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, comp., Alicia Crane Williams, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, John Alden, Volume 16, Part 3 of 5, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004), pp. 320-324

• Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG, Robert Moody Sherman, FASG, Ruth Wilder Sherman, FASG, comps., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Henry Samson, Volume 20, Part 3 of 3, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006), pp. 38-40

• Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 17 (birth); p. 212 (marriage); p. 346 (death)

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Secretary of the Commonwealth, (Boston: Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1896), vol. 1, p. 109

• Charles Winslow Hall, ed., Regiments and Armories of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, two volumes, (Boston: W.W. Potter Company, 1901), p. 398

• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, image from Ancestry.com

• The Pension Roll of 1835, image from Ancestry.com

• 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Town of Duxbury, image from Ancestry.com

• Find A Grave, Memorial #42306303

• Drake, Francis Samuel. Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (The Society, Massachusetts, 1873) Page 210-211