Pricilla Mullins

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Priscilla Mullins Alden from Wikipedia.

• Emigration: On the Mayflower. ^122,123
Priscilla Mullins was born probably in Dorking, Surrey, England, to William and Alice Mullins. She, her parents, and her brother Joseph all came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. Her entire family, herself excepted, died the first winter. She was shortly thereafter, in 1622 or 1623, married to John Alden, the Mayflower's cooper, who had decided to remain at Plymouth rather than return to England with the ship. John and Priscilla lived in Plymouth until the late 1630s, when they helped found the neighboring town of Duxbury.

• Children. ⁴⁴⁶
• Elizabeth, b. abt 1624; m. Plymouth 26 (or 20) December 1644 William Pabodie; she d. Little Compton 31 May 1717. (Her tombstone at Little Compton gives her age at death as "in the 94th year of her age," but as the current monument was erected in 1882, this may not have been on the original stone.)

• John, b. abt 1626; m. Boston 1 April 1660 "Elizabeth Everill, widow, relict of Abiell Everill, deceased" (although the correct date should probably be 1659, as a child was born to John and Elizabeth Alden on 17 December 1659, and in the original form of the vital records, given in the second of the following citations but not in the first, this record is imbedded among others for 1659) [NEHGR 18:333 and NEHGR 52:162]; she was born before 1640, daughter of William Phillips, and m. Boston 6 July 1655 Abiel Everill; John Alden d. 14 March 1701/2

• Joseph, b. abt 1627 (in list of men able to bear arms in 1643, and therefore at least 16 [PCR 8:189]); m. by abt 1660 Mary Simons, daughter of Moses Simons or Simonson and Sarah .

• Priscilla, b. abt 1630; living unm. in 1688.

Johnathan, b. abt 1632; m. Duxbury 10 December 1672 Abigail Hallett; he d. Duxbury 14 February 1696/7 "in the 65 year of his age" [NEHGR 52:365]. (The date on the tombstone is 14 February 1697, but the double-dating problem is resolved by the probate papers, as administration on the estate was granted on 8 March 1696/7 .

• Sarah, b. abt 1634; m. by about 1660 Alexander Standish (date based on approximated birthdates of children [NEHGR 52:363-65]).

• Ruth, b. abt 1636; m. Braintree 3 February 1657/8 John Bass.

Mary, b. abt 1638; living unm. in 1688.

Rebecca, b. abt 1640; subject of unfounded rumor that she was "with child," 1 October 1661; m. in 1667, before 30 October, Thomas Delano [NEHGR 102:83, 86].

• David, b. abt 1642; m. by 1674 Mary Southworth, dau. of Constant Southworth and Elizabeth Collier (in his will, dated 27 February 1678, Constant Southworth bequeathed to daughter Mary Alden.

NEHGR = New England Historic & Genealogical Register, published by New England Historic Genealogical Socitey

Pricilla married John Alden Spring 1621 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, British American Colonies.^558a (John Alden was born in 1599 in Harwich, Essex, England ^558a and died on 12 Sep 1687 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts ¹⁰⁶.)