UNKNOWN, Alice

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Mayflower passenger
• Mayflower: Yes
• Misc: 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Mayflower Pilgrim

Notes:

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mullins_(Mayflower_passenger)

In the March 2012 Mayflower Quarterly, noted Mayflower researcher and biographer, Caleb Johnson, presented a hypothesis that William Mullins first married Elizabeth Wood who gave birth to his first four children, and died sometime prior to 1604; whereupon, he married Alice_____ who gave birth to his youngest child, Joseph. In that article, he stated, “I here put together this very speculative hypothesis, and leave it up to future research to determine if there is any further evidence to support, or disprove, this possibility. It should be emphasized that this is a speculative hypothesis based on limited concrete data....”[21] Unfortunately, some have interpreted his hypothesis as factual rather than speculative. It has been nearly ten years since Mr. Johnson wrote that article in the Mayflower Quarterly and in his own words “no additional evidence, supporting or disproving that hypothesis, has been published since that time.”[22]

In October 2021, Mr. Johnson added a second paragraph to the profile of Alice Mullins in his website, Mayflowerhistory.com. The profile of Alice Mullins, as it is currently written follows in its entirety:

“Little is known about Alice, the wife of William Mullins. She is named only once: in the 1621 will of her husband William Mullins. It is not known if she is the mother of all his children, some of his children, or none of them. There is no evidence she had the Atwood or Poretiers surnames claimed by some 19th and early 20th century authors.

“Recent research into her origins, undertaken by Caleb Johnson and Simon Neal, has focused on the Browne, Dendy, Gardinar, Hammon, and Wood families of Dorking and Holy Trinity, Guildford. In 2012 (Mayflower Quarterly, 78:44-57),

Caleb Johnson published a speculative hypothesis that William Mullins may have married twice, first Elizabeth Wood, and second Alice, perhaps widow of either William or Thomas Browne (possibly making Alice the mother or aunt of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne). While the speculative hypothesis matches all the known facts, it is by no means proven. No additional evidence, supporting or disproving that hypothesis, has been published since that time.”[22]

Accordingly, this section has been revised to remove Elizabeth Wood as his first wife and conform the family to the presentation in Volume 16, Part I of Mayflower Families through Five Generations, commonly referred to as the Silver Books.[23]

Birth:
St Martin in The Field, London, England

Alice married MULLINS, William in 1595 in Dorking, Surrey, England. William (son of MULLINS, John and BRIDGER, Joane) was born in 1572 in Dorking, Surrey, England; died on 21 Feb 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married in 1595. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Mayflower passenger
• Mayflower: Yes
• Web Address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Alden
• Web Address: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/john-alden-priscilla-mullin
• Name: Priscilla Sara MULLINS
• Possessions: Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; www.alden.org/our_house/househistory.htm
• Residence: USA
• Arrival: 1620, Massachusetts, USA
• Misc: 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Mayflower Pilgrim
• Residence: 1640, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; The Alden home was built here
• Death: 5 Feb 1688, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Age at Death: 83

Priscilla married ALDEN, John on 12 May 1622 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. John (son of ALDEN, George and FOWLK, Jane) was born on 15 Sep 1599 in Harwich, Essex, England; was christened on 6 Jul 1600 in Hackney, Middlesex, England; died on 12 Sep 1687 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in South Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Mayflower passenger

Notes:

Died:
Died shortly after his parents

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Accused of witchcraft in Salem, escaped from jail to the home of a friend in Duxbury where he remained until the trials had ended
• Differentiator: Author of first-hand narrative of witch trials published by Robert Calef in More Wonders of the Invisible World
• Occupation: Sea Captain and Boston Merchant
• Religion: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; Charter member of Rev. Samuel Willard's Old South Meeting House and Third Church
• Residence: 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
• _MILT: 1691; Military Command during King William's War and involved in Naval battle off St. John
• Witch Trials Connection: 1692, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; Accused of witchcraft in Salem, escaped from jail to the home of a friend in Duxbury where he remained until the trials had ended

Notes:

The most picturesque career of any of the children of the Pilgrim was that of Captain John Alden of Boston.
Born in Plymouth about 1626, he passed his earlier years in Duxbury where the records show that he was admitted freeman in 1646. Three years later he removed to Boston, which was thenceforth to be his home, his dwelling being situated on a passage leading from Cambridge Street to Sudburv Street, and called after him "Alden's Lane," today known as Alden Street.
In his youth he became a mariner and in later years rose to eminence in his profession and acquired by means of it what was in his day something of a fortune. He was for some years master of a merchantman owned by John Hull, and later for many years commander of the armed vessel belonging to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay which supplied the Maine posts with provisions and stores. He also saw service in the French and Indian wars, and in 1691 a vessel in his charge was taken by a French frigate, and he and his son were made prisoners, not, however, for a long captivity.
But by far the most interesting episode in Captain Alden's career was his arrest and trial as a witch, and as of all those so accused he is the only one who has left us a written account of his experiences, his case is of exceptional interest. The narrative is given in Upham's "History of Witchcraft," as follows:
"John Alden, Sr., of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, mariner, on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1692, was sent for by the magistrates of Salem, in the county of Essex, upon the accusation of a company of poor distracted or possessed creatures or witches; and being sent by Mr. Stoughton, arrived there on the thirty-first of May, and appeared at Salem Village, before Mr. Gedney, Mr. Hawthorne and Mr. Corwin.
" Those wenches being present who played their juggling tricks, falling down, crying out, and staring in people's faces, the magistrates demanded of them several times who it was of all the people in the room that hurt them. One of these accusers pointed several times at one Captain Hill, there present, but spake nothing. The same accuser had a man standing at her back to hold her up. He stooped down to her ear; then she cried out, 'Alden, Alden afflicted her.' One of the magistrates asked her if she had ever seen Alden. She answered ' No.' He asked her how she knew it was Alden. She said the man told her so.
" Then all were ordered to go down in the street,where a ring was made; and the same accuser cried out, ' There stands Alden, a bold fellow, with his hat on before the judges ; he sells powder and shot to the Indians and French. . . . ' Then was Alden committed to the marshal's custody, and his sword taken from him; for they said he afflicted them with his sword. After some hours Alden was sent for to the meeting-house in the village, before the magistrates, who required Alden to stand upon a chair, to the open view of all the people.
" The accusers cried out that Alden pinched them then, when he stood upon the chair, in the sight of all the people, a good way distant from them. One of the magistrates bid the marshal to hold open Alden's hands, that he might not pinch those creatures. , Alden asked them why they should think that he should come to that village to afflict those persons that he never knew or saw before. Mr. Gedney bid Alden confess and give glory to God.
" Alden said he hoped he should give glory to God and hoped he should never gratify the devil:but appealed to all that ever knew him, if they ever suspected him to be such a person; and challenged any one that could bring in anything on their own knowledge, that might give suspicion of his being such an one. Mr. Gedney said he had known Alden many years, and had been at sea with him, and always looked upon him to be an honest man; but now he saw cause to alter his judgment. Alden answered, he was sorry for that, but he hoped God would clear up his innocency, that he would recall that judgment again; and added that he hoped that he should, with Job, maintain his integrity till he died.
" They bid Alden look upon his accusers, which he did, and then they fell down. Alden asked Mr. Gedney what reason there could be given why Alden's looking upon him did not strike him down as well, but no reason was given that I heard. But the accusers were brought to Alden to touch them; and this touch, they said, made them well. Alden began to speak of the Providence of God in suffering these creatures to accuse innocent persons.
" Mr. Noyes asked Alden why he should offer to speak of the Providence of God: God, by his Providence (said Mr. Noyes), governs the world, and keeps it in peace; and so went on with discourse, and stopped Alden's mouth as to that, Alden told Gedney that he could assure him that there was a lying spirit in them ; for I can assure you that there is not a word of truth in all these say of me. But Alden was again committed to the marshal, and his mittimus written.
" To Boston Alden was carried by a constable: no bail would be taken for him, but was delivered to the prison-keeper, where he remained fifteen weeks; and then, observing the manner of trials, and evidence then taken, was at length prevailed with to make his escape."
From the prison Captain Alden made his way to Duxbury, where he aroused his relatives in the middle of the night with the information that " he was flying from the devil and the devil was after him." He remained there for several months, until the witchery scare had subsided, when he gave himself up to the authorities at Boston and no one appearing against him, he was discharged, but with a temper forever after soured against any mention of witchcraft.
Captain Alden was married twice, each time to an Elizabeth. The first wife died before 1660, for this was the year in which he marriedElizabeth Everill, widow, who remained to share his home until 1695 or 96. He himself lived until 1702, when he died at the age of seventy-five. According to Ebenezer Alden's Memorial he was the father of fourteen children, at least four of whom died in early infancy. At the present day there are no descendants of Captain Alden bearing the name.
When he first came to Boston Captain Alden united by letter with the "First Church" of that city, but later joined the secession from that church which resulted in the organization of the " Third Church," afterward the Old South Church, of which he was thus a charter member. Today his gravestone is one of three preserved under the portico of the New Old South Church building at the corner of Copley Square in that city. The story of its recovery is given in the Boston Transcript for April thirty, 1870, as follows:
" Mr. Samuel Jennison, the owner of property on and about Carlton Place, has recently, on account of the widening ot Eliot Street, begun operations for the purpose of building there a new block. As the excavations have been going on some relics of the past have been dug up, including a lot of bones and quite a number of gravestones, some of them nearly whole. These are small slate stone tablets, such as may be seen in the King's Chapel, Granary, and other ancient buryinggrounds in the vicinity, and most of them have the old-fashioned death's head cut over their inscriptions."
The inscription upon Captain Alden's stone reads,
" Here lyeth the body of John Alden, Senior, aged seventy-five years. Deceased March fourteen, 1702." The stone was consecrated, in its present position, in 1884, Hamilton A. Hill delivering upon that occasion a memorial address.

Buried:
Stone preserved at the portico of the present Old South Church in Boston (original grave removed, stone found during excavation)

John married PHILLIPS, Elizabeth on 1 Apr 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1632 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 7 Feb 1695 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: USA

Notes:

Capt. Jonathan Alden was the youngest son of the Pilgrim,
John Alden, and was born about 1627. He lived on the
paternal domain, and was much employed in the civil atfairs
of the town, and a selectman for several years He was much
respected and honored by his townsmen, and inherited the
virtues of his father. He was admitted a freeman in 1657,
and chosen ensign of the company in 167i, afterwards lieutenant,
and then captain, and continued in this capacity until
his death, which occurred in February, 1697. He was buried
under arms on the 17th, when an Address was delivered at
the grave by Rev. Mr. VViswall, from which these passages
are selected, - Alden' s Epitaphs.
" .Neighbours and friends, we are assembled this day in a
posture of mourning, to solemnize the funeral of the present
deceased, to pay our last tribute of respect to a person well
known among us. I need not enlarge upon his character, but,
in brief, am bold to say thus much. He stepped over his
youth, without the usual stains of vanity. In his riper years
he approved himself a good Commonwealth's man ; and, which
is the crown of all, a sincere Christian, one whose heart was
in the house of God, even when his body was barred hence by
the restraints of many difficulties, which confined him at home.
He could say, in truth. Lord, I have loved the habitation of
thy house. He earnestly desired the enlargement of Jerusalem,
and inwardly lamented that the ways to Zion did mourn,
because so few did flock to her solemn feasts ; but is now
united to that general assembly, where is no more cause of
sorrow on that account.
" As to his quality in our militia, he was a leader, and I
dare say rather loved than feared of his company.
'• Fellow Soldiers, you are come to lay your leader in the
dust, to lodge him in his quiet and solemn repose. You are
no more to follow him in the field. No sound of rallying drum,
nor shrillest trumpet will awaken him, till the general muster,
when the Son of God will cause that trumpet to be blown,
whose echoes shall shake the foundations of the heavens and
the earth, and raise the dead.
" Fellow Soldiers, you have followed him into the field, appeared
in your arms, stood your ground, marched, countermarched,
made ready, advanced, fired, and retreated ; and all
at his command. You have been conformable to his millpdc
tary commands and postures, and it is to your credit. But,
let me tell you, this day he has acted one posture before your
eyes, and your are all at a stand! No man stirs a foot after
him ! But the day is hastening, wherein you must all conform
to his present posture,- I mean, be laid in the dust."
Mr. Wiswall, after olfering various solemn exhortations,
with scriptural quotations, concluded his address thus :-
" Fellow !:5oldiers ; Oh ! consider how dreadful it will prove,
if, after you have with a matchless bravery of spirit acted the
part of soldiers on earth, you should in the mean time forget
your Christian armor and discipline, and bo numbered among
those mentioned in Ezek. xxxii. 2(), 27, who, having been the
terror of the mighty in the land of the living, yet went down
to hell with their weapons of war, their iniquities remaining
upon their bones! which that you may all escape, follow your
deceased leader, as he followed Christ; and then though death
may for a short space of time tyrannize over your frail bodies
in the grave, yet you shall rise with him in triumph, when
the great trumpet shall sound, and appear listed in the nmster
roll of tlie Prince of the earth, the Captain of our eternal salvation."ommons@
hotmail.com.

Notes:

Birth:
First white woman born in new America

Buried:
Old Commons Burial Ground

Ruth married BASS, John on 13 Feb 1657 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. John (son of BASS, Deacon Samuel and SAVILLE, Anne) was born on 18 Sep 1630 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Sep 1716 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married ADAMS, Joseph Jr on 20 Feb 1688 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Joseph (son of ADAMS, Joseph Sr. and BAXTER, Abigail) was born on 24 Dec 1654 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Feb 1737 in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]