Individual Details

Priscilla MULLINS

(1602 - 1685)

Events

Birth	1602	Weybridge, Dorking, Surrey, England
Marriage	Abt 1623	Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA - John ALDEN
Alt name	Abt 1623	Priscilla ALDEN
Death	1685	Duxbury, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Burial	Abt 1685	Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Biography	Abt 2001
Reference No		1691
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Families

Spouse	John ALDEN (1598 - 1687)
Child	Elizabeth ALDEN (1624 - 1717)
Child	Sarah ALDEN (1627 - 1688)
Child	Joseph ALDEN (1627 - 1697)
Child	John ALDEN (1627 - 1702)
Child	Jonathan ALDEN (1632 - 1697)
Child	Ruth ALDEN (1634 - 1674)
Child	Priscilla ALDEN (1639 - 1688)
Child	David ALDEN (1645 - 1719)
Child	Mary ALDEN (1645 - 1688)
Child	Rebecca ALDEN (1649 - 1723)

Father	William MULLINS (1572 - 1621)
Mother	Alice ATWOOD (1575 - 1621)
Sibling	William MULLINS (1593 - 1674)
Sibling	Sarah MULLINS (1598 - )
Sibling	Joseph MULLINS (1606 - 1621)

Notes

Burial

Birth: 1602
Weybridge, England Death: 1685
South Duxbury
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
American Colonial Figure. One of the charter members of the Plymouth Colony, arriving on the first voyage of the "Mayflower", her marriage to John Alden is the third known marriage in the Plymouth colony. Born in Dorking, Surrey, England, she was a young girl of 16 or 17 at the time of the sailing of the Mayflower in 1620 for America, when she arrived with her parents. When her parents died in the first winter ashore, in early 1621, a hard time when about half of the colony perished, she chose to stay with the Pilgrims even though she had a brother and sister surviving in England. Between the time of her parents' deaths in 1621 and her marriage to John Alden about 1623, it is not known whom she stayed with or how she survived. John married Priscilla Mullins about 1623, but the exact date has been lost to history. A legend of a rivalry between John Alden and pilgrim Miles Standish for Priscilla Mullins arose, and was first published in the book, "Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions" in 1814, by Timothy Alden. The story was popularized by the poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1858, however, there is no documentation of such a rivalry to have existed in any of the records of the Plymouth Colony. (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)

Family links:
Spouse:
John Alden (1598 - 1687)*

Children:
Elizabeth Alden Pabodie (1624 - 1717)*
Sarah Alden Standish (1627 - 1688)*
John Alden (1627 - 1702)*
Joseph Alden (1627 - 1697)*
Jonathan Alden (1632 - 1697)*
Ruth Alden Bass (1634 - 1674)*
Priscilla Alden Cheeseborough (1639 - 1688)*
David Alden (1645 - 1719)*
Mary Alden (1645 - 1688)*
David Alden (1646 - 1718)*
Rebecca Alden Delano (1649 - 1723)*
William Alden (1669 - 1729)*

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Inscription:
IN MEMORY OF MRS PRISCILLA ALDEN WIFE OF JOHN ALDEN WHO DIED IN DUXBURY ERECTED BY THE ALDEN KINDRED OF AMERICA 1930
Burial:
Myles Standish Burying Ground
Duxbury
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
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