There is no birth or baptismal record for Ruth Alden, daughter of John Alden and his Wife Priscilla Mullins. Dates vary, about 1634/5 from Mayflower Increasings;[1]
about 1637 based on marriage in 1657 from the 1999 Mayflower Families;[2] also 1643 from the Alden Kindred Website. She was probably born in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony where the family moved in 1632.
Ruth Auldin married John Basse, in Braintree, Massachusetts, by "Mr. Jno Auldine of Duxbery," 3 Feb 1657.[3][1][4] A transcription error was made and a date 13 Feb 1657 was in the "Early Records of Boston published in Vol 12 of New England Historical and Genealogical Register[5]
She passed away on October 12, 1674 at Braintree, Massachusetts.[6][1]
There is a modern memorial to the Bass family in the Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, US[7] Mary is probably not buried there.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13499872/ruth-bass : accessed 05 January 2022), memorial page for Ruth Alden Bass (28 Nov 1637–12 Oct 1674), Find A Grave: Memorial #13499872, citing Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Nat Woo (contributor 48195282) .
Source: Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford and Williams, Alicia Crane, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 16 Part 1 of 3, John Alden, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002. P45-47.
Source: Genealogy of Mary Jane Bradway, Married Asa Rufus Snow Compiled by Kearney W. Greenwald and wife Frieda Greenwald rom Research by Bette Bradway, a professional genelogist worker.
Source: Genealogies of the Families Of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850 Author: Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, AB Publication: Including the modern town of Randolph & Holbrook and the city of Quincy, after the separation from Braintree in 1792-3.
Ancestry.com. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data:
Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992.
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
According to the 2002 edition of the Alden Silver book, John and Ruth (Alden) Bass did NOT have a child named Phillip. His profile should be detached from the parents. (Esther Littleford Woodsworth-Barnes, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 16, Part 1, The Descendants of John Alden, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002. "The Silver Book" Page 47)
Alden-2200 and Alden-1 appear to represent the same person because: It appears that Alden-2200 is a duplicate of Alden-1, Ruth Alden who married John Bass. If this is the case, could you complete a merge?
Alden-2181 and Alden-1 appear to represent the same person because: This is the same person - birth dates are not same, but similar. Spouses same, parents same.
This was NOT MY ENTRY! Roland Goodwin
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