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Just a quick excerpt about
Priscillia Mullens, my ancestor.
Biographical Summary
John and Priscilla would go on to
have ten or eleven children, and have an enormous number of
descendants, including poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Presidents John
Adams and John Quincy Adams, and Vice President Dan Quayle.
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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.