Priscilla Alden (nee Mullens) (1604 - 1680), noted member of Massachusetts's Plymouth Colony of "Pilgrims," was the wife of fellow colonist John Alden (c. 1599 - 1687); they married in 1623. She is known to literary history as the unrequited love of Captain Miles Standish, the colony's military advisor, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish." According to the poem, John Alden won Priscilla's hand in marriage after first wooing her on behalf of his friend, Standish.
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