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- Search Terms: DEGORY PRIEST
Database: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
OCCUPATION: Hatter (when admitted as a citizen of Leiden) [Leiden 216].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division "Cudbart Cudbartsone" received six acres as a passenger on the Anne in 1623 [PCR 12:6]; four of these six shares would be for the deceased Degory Priest, his widow Sarah and his two daughters. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division "Marra Priest" and "Sarah Priest" were the tenth and eleventh persons in the second company, just after their mother and stepfather [PCR 12:9].
BIRTH: About 1579 (aged about forty in 1619 [Dexter 630]).
DEATH: Plymouth 1 January 1620/1 [Prince 287].
MARRIAGE: Leiden 4 November 1611 [NS] "Sara Vincent, widow of Jan Vincent" [MD 7:129-30; Leiden 216]; Priest is said to be of London. She was sister of ISAAC ALLERTON and married (3) Leiden November 1621 (betrothed 25 October 1621 [NS]) GODBERT GODBERTSON [Leiden 101].
CHILDREN:
i MARY, b. say 1612; m. by about 1630 PHINEAS PRATT.
ii SARAH, b. say 1614; m. by about 1632 JOHN COOMBS.
COMMENTS: Bradford includes "Digory Priest" in his list of those on the Mayflower, and in his accounting of 1651 says that Priest "died soon after ... arrival in the general sickness," but "had his wife and children sent hither afterwards, she being Mr. Allerton's sister" [Bradford 443, 447].
In 1957 John G. Hunt published the 1582 baptism for a "Digorius Prust" in Hartland, Devonshire [NEHGR 111:320]; although there is nothing to connect this with Degory Priest of London, Leiden and Plymouth, it is a useful clue.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Degory Priest and his descendants have been given full and definitive treatment in the eighth volume of the Five Generations project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret Harris Stover, and edited by Robert S. Wakefield (Plymouth 1994).
Type=Database/Book
Book/Periodical Name=The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
Date of Research/Discovery=01 August 2000
Quality of Data=Good
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