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Elisabeth Pabodie

(as it is spelled on her head stone)

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

Elisabeth Alden-Pabodie is considered the first white girl born in the Plymouth Coloney. She had 13 children and lived to be 94. Name is spelled Elisabeth. https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=55718+david+hyde+pierce...

Note: One of their children is not posted; 6) Priscilla Pabodie (1652-1653)(F) was born on 16 Nov 1652 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. She died on 2 Mar 1652/1653 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. Died as infant, age 3 months. As result their 7th child a girl born in 1653 was named Priscilla

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."

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.

link to her grave site

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

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.

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."

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• (III) Samuel (2) West, son of Samuel (I) and Tryphosa (Partridge) West, was born December 23, 1672, and died about 1763. He lived in Duxbury, and after 1723 in Lebanon, Connecticut, and was one of the organizers, in 1730, of the Goshen Church of Lebanon. He married, June 30, 1709, Martha Delano, daughter of John and Mercy (Peabody) Simmons, and widow of Ebenezer Delano. 'Her grandmother, Elizabeth (Alden) Peabody, was the daughter of' John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of the "Mayflower." Issue of Samuel (2) and Martha West: Amos, born May 29, 1710; Nathan, of whom further; Sarah, born November 8, 1712; Moses, born March 4, 1716. .....
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Her parents were Priscilla and John Alden of the Mayflower.

Elizabeth Pabodie (1623–1717), also known as Elizabeth Alden Pabodie or Elizabeth Peabody, was allegedly the first white woman born in New England.[1]

Elizabeth Pabodie was born Elizabeth Alden in 1623, the first-born child of the Plymouth Colony settlers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, who were both passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. She married William Pabodie (Peabody), a leader of Duxbury, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1644. All thirteen of their children were born in Duxbury before Elisabeth eventually moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island in the 1680s. She died on May 31, 1717 in Little Compton and was buried in the cemetery on Little Compton Common, officially called Old Commons Burial Ground. Her memorial is on Find A Grave as memorial #6868310. [1]

Elizabeth Alden and William Pabodie gave birth to a daughter named Lydia, and to a son, also named William. Lydia was their first born, and married a man named Daniel Grinnell Jr, they married in 1683, and had 13 children together. William the younger and his wife Judith had a daughter Rebecca Peabody who married the Reverend Joseph Fish. Their daughter Mary Fish Noyes Silliman[2] married Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790), and they were the parents of Benjamin Silliman, the first person to distill petroleum, and grandparents of Benjamin Silliman, Jr.. The Sillimans were Yale professors of chemistry who started the Chemistry Department at Yale, a forerunner of the Sheffield Scientific School. Benjamin Silliman, Jr. married Susan Huldah Forbes, giving birth to Alice Trumbull Silliman, who married William Richardson Belknap (1849-1914). It is through this lineage that the Belknap and Humphrey families of Kentucky descended. Other descendants of Elizabeth Alden Pabodie and William Pabodie include Priscilla Pabodie, Rebecca Pabodie, Eleanor Belknap Humphrey (1876-1964), William Burke Belknap the younger, Alice Belknap Hawkes, Dr. Edward Cornelius Humphrey, Alice Humphrey Morgan, economist Thomas MacGillivray Humphrey, and Barbara Morgan Meade, co-founder of the Washington, D.C. bookstore, Politics and Prose.

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

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 15 2018, 18:18:35 UTC

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 16 2018, 5:39:35 UTC