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Priscilla Mullins
b.Abt 1602 Dorking, Surrey, England
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m. Bef 1593
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m. 12 May 1622
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--Priscilla Mullins, died after 1687, our most celebrated ancestress was left alone in a strange land by the deaths of both parents and her brother, soon after her arrival at Plymouth. Tradition paints her as very beautiful, of dark complexion, slender and graceful. Her marriage to has been chronicled in Chapter XII. One must pause here for reflection. William and Alice Mullins passed out of life under a deep cloud. They very likely felt that their coming to a new world had been a ghastly mistake. If the veil of the future could have been lifted, if they could have seen their Priscilla a year or so later, as the bride of the handsome favorite of the Mayflower Company, and in after years the proud mother of an illustrious family of eleven children, destined to be the ancestress of Presidents, poets, and authors of distinction, if they could have seen the multitudes of little Priscillas to be named for their beautiful daughter, and the greater multitudes of men and women From "Memoirs of the Leonard, thompson and Haskell Families" - With the exception of Pocahontas whose story falls into period between 1607-12, Priscilla is first well known heroine of American Romance and will always be known as such whether she did or did not say "Prithee why do you not speak for yourself, John?" She is famous from Longfellow's poem about Myles Standish and John Alden - " speak for yourself John". Priscilla accompanied her parents on the Mayflower to Plymouth Colony. The only proven Mullins descendants today are those of Priscilla and John Alden. "Priscilla was a dark-haired orphan." John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden had ten children, 69 grandchildren and nearly 500 great-grandchildren. From Governor Bradford's Accounting of the Mayflower Passengers mr William Mullines, and his wife; and .2. children Joseph, & priscila; and a servant Robart Carter. mr Molines, and his wife, his sone, & his servant dyed the first winter. Only his dougter priscila survied, and maried with John Alden, who are both living, and have .11. children. And their eldest daughter is maried & hath five children.[GEB Note:See N. E. Memorial, p. 22.This entry is in a different hand.] Edward Winslow, died; 1655; Remember (Allerton) Maverick, died about 1652. also Priscilla (Mullins) Alden and Bartholomew Allerton both of whom Bradford mentions as living in 1650, but the years of their decease cannot be stated with any approach to accuracy. From Mayflower Web Pages. Caleb Johnson © 1997 William Bradford's Mayflower passenger list This is the passenger list Governor William Bradford wrote for his History, Of Plymouth Plantation, which he wrote between 1630 and 1654. What follows is a transcript of how his journal actually read - the original spelling and punctuation are maintained here. Bradford actually writes the passenger list twice - the first time he simply lists the passengers, and the second time he tells what happened to each person or family. The names of those which came over first, in ye year .1620. and were (by the Blesing of God) the first Beginers, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England. (And their families.) mr William Mullines, and his wife; and .2. children Joseph, & priscila; and a servant Robart Carter. These being aboute a hundred sowls came over in this first ship; and began this worke, which god of his goodnes hath hithertoo blesed; let his holy name have ye praise. And seeing it hath pleased him to give me to see. 30. years compleated, since these beginings. And that the great works of his providence are to be observed. I have thought it not unworthy my paines, to take a veiw of the decreasings, & Increasings of these persons, and such change as hath pased over them, & theirs, in this thirty years. It may be of some use to such as come after; but however I shall rest in my owne benefite. I will therefore take them in order as they lye. mr Molines, and his wife, his sone, & his servant dyed the first winter. Only his dougter priscila survied, and maried with John Alden, who are both living, and have .11. children. And their eldest daughter is maried & hath five children. See N. E. Memorial, p. 22. Of these 200 persons which came first over, in this first ship together; the greater halfe dyed in the generall mortality; and most of them in .2. or three monthes time. And for those which survived though some were ancient & past procreation; & others left ye place and cuntrie. yet of those few remaining are sprunge up above .160. persons; in this .30. years. And are now living in this presente year . 1650. beside many of their children which are dead and come not within this account. And of the old stock, (of one, & other) ther are yet living this present year. 1650. nere .30. persons. Let the Lord have ye praise; who is the High preserver of men.
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