Elisabeth Pabodie

(as it is spelled on her head stone)

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Elisabeth Alden-Pabodie is considered the first white girl born in the Plymouth Coloney. She had 12 children and lived to be 94. Name is spelled Elisabeth.

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Elisabeth. Married William Pabodie, a civic and military leader of Duxbury where all thirteen of their children were born. They moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island where Elisabeth died in 1717 at the age of about 94. Their descendants were prominent in settling areas of Rhode Island and Connecticut. From Elisabeth’s line comes the one individual most credited with spreading the fame of John and Priscilla far and wide, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his "Courtship of Miles Standish."

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Siblings: John born circa 1627, Joseph born after 22 May 1627, Sarah born 1629, Jonathan born circa 1632, Ruth born 1634/5, Rebecca born pre 1649, Mary, Priscilla, and David born circa 1646.

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link to her grave site

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6868310

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ELISABETH ALDEN (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1624 in Plymouth, and died May 31, 1717 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. She married WILLIAM PABODIE Abt. December 24, 1644 in Duxbury, Mass., son of JOHN PABODIE. He was born Abt. 1619, and died December 13, 1707 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Described by a contemporary as, "dignified, a woman of great character, and fine presence, very tall and handsome," Elisabeth married William Pabodie on December 26, 1644. They settled in Duxburough (later Duxbury, Massachusetts), close to other Mayflower families, including the Brewsters and Standishes. William served as town clerk there, succeeding Alexander Standish, and held other jobs at various times as well, including yeoman, boatman, planter, and surveyor. When he became Duxbury town clerk, the town records having been destroyed in a fire, he very carefully recorded his own marriage and the births and marriages of his thirteen children. Interestingly, one of the thirteen, Priscilla, died at only three months old and the next girl child was given the same name.

Commons Burial Ground, Little Compton

In the Old Burying Ground in Little Compton, you can find a very special grave monument. It belongs to Elisabeth Alden, the first white girl born in New England. Her parents, John Alden and Priscilla Mullin (or Mullens), came to America on the Mayflower in 1620. Elisabeth, sometimes spelled "Elisabeth," was born in 1624 or '25 in Plymouth, the first of John Alden and Priscilla's ten children.

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Elisabeth Pabodie (1623–1717), daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, recognized as the first white girl born in New England

-------------------- Priscilla and John Alden had ten children, with a possible eleventh dying in infancy. It is presumed, although not documented, that the first three children were born in Plymouth, the remainder in Duxbury.

Elisabeth. Born 1623. Married William Pabodie (as it is spelled on his head stone), a civic and military leader of Duxbury, where all thirteen of their children were born. They moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island where Elizabeth died in 1717 at the age of about ninety-four. Their descendants were prominent in settling areas of Rhode Island and Connecticut. From Elisabeth’s line comes the one individual most credited with spreading the fame of John and Priscilla far and wide, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his "Courtship of Miles Standish."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a descendant of Elizabeth Pabodie and made her parents John Alden and Priscilla Mullins famous through his poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish."