ALDEN, JOHN one of the "Pilgrims" who in 1620 emigrated to America in the "Mayflower" and founded the Plymouth Colony. He was a settler of Duxbury (Mass.), where he lived for most of his life. From 1633 until 1675 he was an "assistant" to the governor of the Colony, frequently acting as governor. At the time of his death on Sept. 12, 1687, he was the last male survivor of the "May flower" company. He is remembered chiefly because of a popular legend, put into verse as The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry W. Longfellow, concerning his court ship of Priscilla Mullins, whom he married in 1623, after having wooed her first for his friend, Miles Standish.