Priscilla Mullins, wife of John Alden

1602 - 1685  (83 years)

• Name	Priscilla Mullins
  Suffix	wife of John Alden
  Born	1602	Dorking, Surrey, England
  Gender	Female
  Group	Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower
  Group	Famous Historical Figure
  	Famous People
  Group	Immigrant Ancestors
  	Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls
  Group	Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
  	Descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin of the Mayflower
  Group	Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger on the 1620 sailing of the Mayflower - Founder of the Plymouth Colony
  FamilySearch ID	LR92-T7W
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR92-T7W
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	749
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/749
  Died	1685	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Buried	Aft 1685	Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I4098	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2019

  
  

  Family	John Alden, of the Mayflower,   b. 1598, Harwich, Essex, England ,   d. 12 Sep 1687, South Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 89 years)
  Married	Abt 1623
  Children	1. Elisabeth Alden,   b. 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 31 May 1717, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island  (Age 93 years)   2. Sarah Alden,   b. Abt 1627, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. Bef 13 Jun 1688, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 61 years)   3. Joseph Alden,   b. 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 8 Feb 1696/97, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)   4. Jonathan Alden,   b. 1632, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 14 Feb 1697/98, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age 66 years)   5. Ruth Alden,   b. Abt 1637, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 12 Oct 1674, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 37 years)   6. Rebecca Alden,   b. Abt 1643, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. Between 12 Jun 1696 and 5 Oct 1722, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 53 years)   7. David Alden,   b. 1646, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony ,   d. 1 Apr 1719, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  (Age 73 years)
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F1427	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1602 - Dorking, Surrey, England Died - 1685 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Buried - Aft 1685 - Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Badges		Immigrant Ancestor of Halls of New England
  		Mayflower Passenger

  
  

• Notes

  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)