Alden, AWL duhn, John and Priscilla, came to America on the Mayflower in 1620. They became husband and wife, probably in 1622. They were among the first Mayflower passengers to be married in America. The Aldens had 11 children. Their descendants include President John Quincy Adams and American poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant. Longfellow wrote about the couple's marriage in his fictional poem The Courtship of Miles Standish. About 1632, the Aldens moved to Duxbury, Massachusetts.