Excerpt from The Story of a Pilgrim Family, From the Mayflower to the Present Time: With Autobiography, Recollections, Letters, Incidents, and Genealogy of the Author The name of Alden has, for more than two centuries, been familiar to every son and daughter of New England. The Pilgrim John, who first brought it to these shores, was a man Of whom his numerous descendants are justly proud; not for his high station, great wealth or colossal intellect, but for his rectitude Of character, fidelity to duty, and his eminently pious, practical and useful life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.