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William MULLINS

Male Abt 1568 - 1621  (~ 53 years)


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  • Name William MULLINS 
    Born Abt 1568 
    Gender Male 
    Died 21 February 1620/1  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Mayflower passenger.

      From NEHGS, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633; pp. 1315-1316:
      "WILLIAM MULLINS
      ORIGEN: Dorking, Surrey
      MIGRATION: 1620 in Mayflower
      FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
      OCCUPATION: Shoemaker (based on the contents of his estate).
      ESTATE: On 23 July 1621 administration on the estate of William Mullins was granted to "Sare Blunden alias Mullins filie naturali et legitime dicti defuncti" [Sara Blunden alias Mullins, natural and legitimate daughter of the said deceased] [MQ 34:10; Waters 254-55; MD 1:230-32 (all citing PCC 68 Dale)].
      In his will (probably nuncupative), dated 2 April 1621 and proved July 1621, William Mullins directed that from the £40 in the hand of Goodman WoodES "I give my wife £10, my son Joseph £10, my daughter Priscilla £10, and my eldest son £10, also I give to my eldest son all my debts, bonds, bills (only that £40 excepted in the hands of Goodman Wood)... with all the stock in his own hands"; to "my eldest daughter I give 10s. to be paid out of my son's stock"; "the goods I have in Virginia as followeth, to my wife Alice half my goods & to Joseph and Priscilla the other half equally divided"; "I have twenty-one dozen of shoes and thirteen pair of boots which I give into the Company's hands for £40 at seven years ... or as my overseers shall think good"; "and if they like them at that rate at the divident I shall have nine shares whereof I give as followeth, two to my wife, two to my son William, two to my son Joseph, two to my daughter Priscilla, and one to the Company"; "if my son Willoiam will come to Virginia I give him my share of land"; to "my two overseers Mr. John Carver and Mr. Williamson, 20s. apiece to see this my wil performed desiring them that he would have an eye over my wife and children to be as fathers and friends to them, also to have a special eye to my man Robert which hath not so approved himself as I would he should have done" [MQ 34:10; Waters 254-55; MD 1:230-232 (all citing PCC 68 Dale)].
      BIRTH; By about 1568 based on estimated date of marriage.
      DEATH: Plymouth 21 February 1620/1 ("February 21. Die Mr. William White, Mr. William Mullins, with two more" [Prince 184]).
      MARRIAGE: By 1593 Alice ________ (assuming she is the mother of all the chiodren); she died at Pllymouth in the first winter.
      CHILDREN:
      i. WILLIAM, b. say 1593; m. (1) by 1618 _____ ______ [MQ 39:83]; m. 2 Boston 7 May 1656 Ann (_____) Bell [BVR 56], widow of Thomas Bell. (William Mullins was in Duxbury by 1637, died apparently early in 1674, and had a daughter who married three times but had no children [MD 7:37-48, 179-83].)
      ii. JOSEPH, b. say 1596; d. Plymouth in the first winter.
      iii. SARAH, b. say 1598; m. by 1622 ________ Blunden.
      iv. PRISCILLA, b. say 1603; m. by about 1623 JOHN ALDEN.
      COMMENTS: In his accounting of the passengers on the Mayflower Bradford included "Mr. William Mullins and his wife and two children, Joseph and Priscilla; and a servant, Robert Carter" [Bradford 442]. In the listing of the fate of these passengers in 1651 he reported that "Mr. Mullins and his wife, his son and his servant died the first winter. Only his daughter Priscila survived, and married with John Alden; who are both living and have eleven children. And their eldest daughter is married and hath five children [Bradford 445].
      It has been suggested that he was the William Mullins of Stoke, Surrey, about 10 miles from Dorking [English homes 73-74; Brainard Anc 217]. This likely identification is aided by a 1616 Privy Council order that may have been a religious trial that motivated William to sell his holding in the Manor of Dorking and emigrate [English HOMES 73-74; BRAINARD ANC 217-218].
    Person ID I18214  Lowell&Block
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2020 

    Children 
     1. Priscilla MULLINS,   b. Abt 1602, Dorking, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1688, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 86 years)
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