What is Priscilla Mullins Alden?
{{Infobox Person |name = Priscilla (Mullins) Alden |image = JohnRogers WhyDontYouSpeak.jpg |image_size = |caption = Priscilla Mullins and John Alden |birth_name = Priscilla Mullins |birth_date = ca. 1602 |birth_place = [[Surrey]], [[England]]? |death_date = ca. 1685 |death_place = [[Plymouth Colony]] |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = [[Myles Standish Burial Ground]] |residence = |nationality = [[British]] (Subject of King [[James I of England]]) |citizenship = |other_names = |known_for = ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]'' passenger (1620) |education = |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = |home_town = |title = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |boards = |spouse = [[John Alden]] (m. 1623) |partner = |children = |parents = Col. William Mullins, Sr. and Alice Mullins |relations = Joseph Mullins (brother), Capt. William Mullins, Jr. (brother), Col. John Mullins (grandfather) |callsign = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Priscilla (Mullins or Mullens) Alden''' (ca. 1602 – ca. 1685) was a passenger on the ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]'' in [[1620]] when it sailed from [[England]] to [[North America]]. She married [[John Alden]] in [[Plymouth Colony]] in 1623, and bore him ten or eleven children. The couple founded Duxbury, north of Plymouth. She died in 1685 and is buried in the [[Myles Standish Burial Ground]]. She is the [[heroine]] of [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]'s 1858 [[poem]], ''[[The Courtship of Miles Standish]]''. ==Early life== Her birthplace and parents are not known with certainty. She may have been born in [[Surrey]] to Col. William Mullins, Sr. and Alice Mullins. She sailed to the [[New World]] with her parents and brother Joseph. These three died the winter of 1620-1621. ==Marriage== Priscilla married [[Jo