Joshua Alden and Louisa Fletcher

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Husband Joshua Alden ¹

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           Born: 10 Jun 1785 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 1
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           Died: 2 Nov 1846 - Bristol, Kendall Co, IL 1
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         Father: Isaac Alden (1755-1822) 2
         Mother: Irene Smith (1757-1834) 1

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       Marriage: 15 Nov 1827 1

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Wife Louisa Fletcher ¹

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Joshua Alden

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He ran away from the home in Oswego County, New York, and became a sailor; was seized by a “press gang” in Liverpool, and compelled to do duty on board a British man-of-war for a long time, finally escaping by swimming five miles to a Spanish ship; learned their language and shipped on a Spanish vessel bound for Chili. He later became captain, and followed the seas until forty years of age, when he re­turned to the home he had left as a boy. He lived for several years at Ashville, New York; then moved with his family to Clai­borne parish, Louisiana, and in 1846 to Bristol, Illinois, where he died.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 561.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 560.