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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...
Priscilla Alden (née Mullins, c. 1602 – c. 1685) was a noted member of Massachusetts 's Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims and the wife of fellow colonist John Alden (c. 1599 – 1687). They married in 1621 in Plymouth.
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Priscilla Mullins exact date of birth is unknown but thought to have been about 1602 at Dorking, Surrey, England. She was the daughter of William Mullins. William Mullins was married to a woman named Alice (surname unknown), but there is no documentation to determine whether or not Alice was his first wife or Priscilla's mother. Priscilla was in he...
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mtDNA Results H6a1a9 +204C 6182AThe Mayflower DNA Project lists three matrilineal (all female line) descendants of Priscilla (and her mother Alice). All three have taken the full mtDNA test, which tests every single base pair of the mitochondrial DNA. All three fall under the H6a1a9 haplogroup. One of them has two additional mutations (309.2C & C16234T) which must have occurred somewhere in this individual's maternal line of descent.In addition, one individual (who has not joined the Mayflowe...
Johnson, Caleb. Mrs. Alice Mullins.. Mayflower History Online.General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Passengers with Living Descendants. (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org.)At least 20 profiles were merged together to make up this one. One of the contributors, Michael Stephensonpassed away during the initial work on the combined profile.
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- February 5, 1680
- John Alden
John married at Plymouth, circa 1623, Priscilla Mullins who came on the Mayflower with her parents, William and Alice Mullins, and her brother Joseph. Priscilla alone survived the first winter. John died 12 September 1687 and was buried at Duxbury.
It is believed that Priscilla passed away only a few years before her husband (around 1680), and she was buried at the Miles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury. Her grave’s exact location is unknown, but there is a marker there in her honour.
Nov 4, 2021 · Courageously, Priscilla Mullins decided to stay in Plymouth, where her father lay buried on Cole’s Hill. As the lone survivor of her family, she resolved that she would not give up. One incident in the life of Priscilla Mullins has been made famous by the poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Myles Standish.”
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Sep 10, 2020 · Priscilla Alden is buried in the Myles Standish Burial Ground alongside her husband, John Alden. While the original location of their graves is unknown, commemorative stones were later placed near the headstone of their son Captain Johnathan Alden .
