Priscilla Mullins

1602 - 1685  (83 years)

• Name	Priscilla Mullins
  Birth	1602	Dorking, Mole Valley District, Surrey, England
  Gender	Female
  Immigrant	06 Sep 1620	Plymouth, Devon, England
  	Ship: Mayflower Arrived: 09 Nov 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Death	1685	Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Burial	Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  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
  Person ID	I4799	OurNorthernRoots | Bryan's Ancestry, Andrew's Ancestor
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	William Mullins,   b. ca 1572, Surrey, England d. 21 Feb 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Alice Poretiers,   b. 1575, London, Middlesex, England d. Apr 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1600	Surrey, England
  Family ID	F5862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Alden,   b. 1598, Harwich, Essex, England d. 12 Sep 1687, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1621
  Children	+ 1. Elisabeth Alden,   b. 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 31 May 1717, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island (Age 93 years)   2. John Alden, Jr.,   b. Abt 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 14 Mar 1702, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years) + 3. Joseph Alden,   b. 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 8 Feb 1697, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age 69 years) + 4. Ruth Alden,   b. 28 Nov 1637, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 12 Oct 1674, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts (Age 36 years) + 5. Rebecca Alden,   b. 1643, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts + 6. David Alden,   b. 1646, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 1 Apr 1719, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F719	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2025

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1602 - Dorking, Mole Valley District, Surrey, England Immigrant - Ship: Mayflower Arrived: 09 Nov 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts - 06 Sep 1620 - Plymouth, Devon, England Death - 1685 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Burial - - Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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