Priscilla Mullins was the only member of her family to survive the first Plymouth winter, and would go on to marry John Alden. She is well known in literary history as the unrequited love interest of Myles Standish in the fictional Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "The Courtship of Myles Standish," in which the military leader dispatched Alden to ask for Mullins's hand in marriage only to have her ask why he was not speaking for himself.
