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254 _VhzTing Family.
some John Alden in his stead, with proposals
of marriage to Priscilla Mullens. Everybody
knows how that wooing sped. 'Why don't
you speak for yourself, John ? " has become a
proverb. He did speak for himself: he gained
Priscilla, but he lost forever the friendship of
Standish, who resented, not apparently the re-
fllsal of the maiden, but the faithlessness of
the fl'aend. At any rate, in the autumn of
1623 he married Barbara, whose family name
the records do not give, but who arrived at
Plymouth in ' The Ann' in July of that year.
In 163 ° he removed to Duxbury, which had
been granted to him some time before ; which
he named for the seat of his family in Lancashire,
and where he had already spent some sum-
mers, living, by request of the inhabitants, in
Plymouth during the winter. The hill on
which his house stood is still known as Cap-
tain's Hill; and there, in I656, he died, leaving
a wife and five sons. History and tradition
have kept his memory for more than two cen-
turies,- the memory of a man small in Stature
and boyish in face; an upright, unselfish man,