Individual Details

In formation on George's descendants if from The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, p.112 "The Aldrich Family" where it is said most of the information is from The George Aldrich Geneology" by Alvin James Aldrich, 1971.

George is believed to be the immigrant ancestor who settled first in Dorchester, later moving to Braintree, MA. He was one of the first proprietors of Mendon in 1667. Eleven children are noted.

[Genealogical And Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, MA, Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1907, Vol. III,p. 40-]
George Aldrich (1) was the immigrant ancestor of the Aldrich family of Mendon and Uxbridge. He is the progenitor of Ralph Edward Aldrich of Douglas, Massachusetts. The name was spelled Aldridge and Oldridge in the early records, and some branches of the family still prefer the spelling Aldridge, but the famous Rhode Island family and the descendants in Worcester county, Massachusetts, have for many generations adopted the spelling Aldrich. George Aldrich was born in Derbyshire, England, about 1605. He was a tailor by trade. He sailed for America, November 6, 1631. He married in England, September 3, 1620, Catherine Seald. She was born in 1610 according to her deposition made June 18, 1670, when she gave her age as sixty years. Aldrich was admitted a freeman December 7, 1636. He settled first in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and he with his wife Catherine was a member of the Dorchester Church in 1636. He lived in Braintree from 1640 to 1663, when he settled in Mendon...
p. 41-Children of George and Catherine (Seald) Aldrich were: Abel; Joseph, ancestor of Senator Aldrich and the Rhode Island family, married Patience Osborne; he was born June 4, 1635; Mary; Miriam, buried at Braintree, January 27, 1640; Experience, died at Braintree, February 2, 1642. The following children were born at Braintree: John April 2, 1644; Sarah, January 16, 1646, married ___Bartlett; Peter, April 14, 1648; MErcy, June 17, 1650, married ___ Randall; Miriam, March 16, 1652; jacob, February 28, 1653, of whom later; Matithiah (as the old clerk chose to spell Martha), July 10, 1656, married ___Dunbar.

[A Branch of the Aldrich Family in America, Earl Preslar Aldrich, Jr., ScD, Penobscot Press, p. 16]
George Aldrich, a founder of Dorchester, Braintree, Mendon, and perhaps Swansea, all in Massachusetts, died 1 March 1683.
Massachusetts State Archives, Columbia Point, Boston, Index of a "mis'l docket" book, Vol. 6, p. 531
In the name of God Amen-I George Aldrich being weak in body but of sound understanding dispose of my Estate as followeth:
Item--I leave my house and Land and whole Estate with my beloved wife during her life.
Item--I give to my daughters Mary Aldrich, Sarah Bartlett and Mercy randall and Martha Dunbar twelve pence apiece to be paid by my Executrix.
Item--I give all my wearing Clothes to my eldest Son Joseph Aldrich.
Item--I give to my son John Aldrich all my Bookes after my wifes decease.
Item--I give to my grandchild John Aldrich Son of Joseph Aldrich thirty Shillings upon condition that he lives with his grandmother during her life according to his fathers promise.
Item--I give to my youngest son Jacob Aldrich all my Lands after my wifes decease, Its hereby intended all my Land Paid out or to be Paid out with all rights and privileges thereto belonging--I make my beloved wife sold Executrix of my whole Estate--I make my son Jacob Aldrich overseer of this my will. Dated Mendon on the second day of November 1682. by me George Aldrich
Signed in the presence of us-Josiah Chapin, Joseph White

Birth	Abt 1605	Derbyshire, England
Marriage	3 Sep 1629	Derbyshire, England - Katherine Seald
Death	1 Mar 1683	Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Burial		Old Cemetery, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts

Spouse	Katherine Seald (1610 - 1691)
Child	Joseph Aldrich (1635 - 1701)
Child	Jacob Aldrich (1653 - 1695)