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Personal data Elizabeth Alden 

• She was born on May 31, 1624 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.Sources 2, 3
• She died on May 31, 1717 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, she was 93 years old.Sources 1, 2, 3
• She is buried in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA.Sources 2, 3
• A child of John Alden and Priscilla Mayflower Mullins

Household of Elizabeth Alden

She is married to William Pabodie.

They got married on December 24, 1644 at Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, she was 20 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Martha Pabodie (Forbes)  1650-1711
2. William Pabodie  1664-1744

Notes about Elizabeth Alden

Death: Date: 31 May 1717 Place: Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, USAia.ment. It belongs to Elizabeth 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. Elizabeth, sometimes spelled "Elisabeth," was born in 1624 or '25 in Plymouth, the first of John and Priscilla's ten children., very tall and handsome," Elizabeth married William Pabodie (or Paybody or Peabody) 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.s that would become Little Compton, and he also, along with Constant Southworth, performed the surveying work behind the purchases.ll part of Plymouth Colony), and several of their children and grandchildren followed and established their own families there. William traded on his employment experience in Duxbury to become Little Compton's first town clerk, a position that he held well into his old age. He also served as a school teacher. Around 1690, William and Elizabeth built a home on West Main Road. Much changed and expanded, it's now known as the Peabody-Wilbour Farm. (The "Wilbour" was Isaac C. Wilbour, who lived there in the 1890s, and the appearance of the house today reflects the tastes of his day. It originally was a simple two-story building consisting of four rooms).four. Her obituary in the Boston Newsletter said in part, "She was exemplary, virtuous and pious, and her memory is blessed. She left a numerous posterity. Her granddaughter Bradford is a grandmother." In fact, it's estimated that at the time of her death she had eighty-two grandchildren and 556 great-grandchildren!

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