- March 6, 1809, 217 years ago — Death of Thomas Heyward Jr..
- March 6, 1724, 302 years ago — Birth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
- March 7, 1707, 319 years ago — Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- March 7, 1699, 327 years ago — Birth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
Priscilla Alden
ALDEN, Priscilla, wife of John Alden, one of the “Mayflower” company, born in England about 1602; died in Duxbury, Mass., about 1680.
She was one of the celebrated band of Puritans who came to Plymouth in 1620, and was the heroine of Longfellow’s poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” She was left an orphan in early life, and came to America in the family of William Mullins, whose daughter she is supposed to have been. She married John Alden in 1621, and lived with him in Duxbury, where they reared a large family.
Her grave is in the old burying-ground at Duxbury, near that of her husband.
Source:
Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887. Patriot Echoes Archive
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