Degory Priest

Abt 1579 - 1621  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Degory Priest
  Birth	Abt 1579  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jan 1621	Plymouth Colony   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I40731	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	1 May 2024

  
  

  Family	Sarah Allerton,   b. Abt 1584   d. Bef 24 Oct 1633, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (Age ~ 49 years)
  Marriage	4 Nov 1611	Leiden, Netherlands   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Priest,   b. Abt 1612, Leiden, Netherlands d. Jul 1689, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age ~ 77 years)
  Family ID	F23855	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was a hatter. He arrived on the Mayflower and died in the first winter. His 1611 marriage record in Leiden calls him "of London", but he may have been born elsewhere. In 1957 John C. Hunt published a record of a "Digorius Prust", son of Peter Prust, baptised 1582 in Hartland, Devon. Further research has failed to firmly identify the Mayflower passenger with the person in this record, although it has confirmed that the given name Degory was unusually common in Hartland and vicinity, and that the surname Priest and its variants were also common in that region.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S7559] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 8, Family of Degory Priest, Second Edition, originally compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield, and Margaret Harris Stover, and re-edited by Margaret Harris Stover. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008. [S4435] Caleb Johnson, Sue Allan, and Simon Neal, "The Origin and Parentage of Mayflower Passenger Isaac Allerton in East Bergholt, Sussex." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 173:197, 2019.