Excerpt from The Ancestors and Descendants of Isaac Alden and Irene Smith, His Wife (1599-1903) An alden memorial with no mention of the voyage of the May flower, the landing of the Pilgrims, or the trials of the Plymouth colony, may seem an unusual departure from the common rule; but with so much available literature extant concerning those interesting and historic events, to treat of them here, even in part, would be but to thresh over the harvests of others. With the exception, therefore, of such data as seemed necessary to establish the full line of succession, the scope of this small work has been confined to new fields of research lying along a single tributary of the main stream of 'alden genealogy. 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.