Degory Priest

• Preferred Name: Degory Priest^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Hatter1615 in Leiden, Holland, Netherlands at LATI: N2.1596 LONG: E0.4934 with note: Degory Priest became a citizen of Leiden on 16 November 1615, and was called a hatter, and perhaps employed with Samuel Lee and Godbert Godbertson, other members of the Leiden congregation who were also hatter. (Wikipedia)
  
• 2: in He Was The 5Th Child And 4Th Son.
  
• FSID: LYXM-V3F
  
• Birth: 1579 in London, England with note: Information taken from list of Mayflower pilgrims. This is preferred date in the Mayflower Silver Books. Do not change it to the speculated date in the same book
  
• Death: 1 JAN 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N1.8833 LONG: E70.6333 with note: See the page from the silver book in the Memories section of this record. The silver books are the definitive source for mayflower passenger information. Do not change this date unless you have definitive proof from a Mayflower Society source that supports the change. If you do, cite the source.
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: "Mayflower" passenger and 22nd signer of the Mayflower Compact.Degory Priest married Sarah Allerton, sister of Isaac Allerton, who was the 5th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Father of Mary Priest and Sarah Priest Coombs.COLE HILL MONUMENT:Scene o
  
• Burial: 3 JAN 1621 in Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States at LATI: N1.9574 LONG: E70.6623
  
• Cenotaph: with note: Description: Cenotaph: Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. FindAGrave memorial # 12508363 FindAGrave
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Died at age 38.
  Details of Burial Unknown
  Findagrave.com MEMORIAL ID 12508363 -this is only a Centopath
  "Mayflower" passenger and 22nd signer of the Mayflower Compact.
  Degory Priest married Sarah Allerton, sister of Isaac Allerton, who was the 5th signer of the Mayflower Compact.
  Father of Mary Priest and Sarah Priest Coombs.
  COLE HILL MONUMENT:
  Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.
  (Findagrave.com)
  In support of the 400 Anniversary of the Mayflower, a lot of work was done to bring the passengers information in line with the Mayflower Silver Books. In September 2020 Family Search edited the birth date to that of 1579. this is the preferred date in the book. based on the text in the silver book, the other date is speculative. Please do not change this date unless you have supporting evidence from the GSMD that the preferred date has changed!
  This record is correct. Do not edit without substantiated sources.
  Mayflower Descendant II:118
  Wymans Genealogy & Estates of Charlestown 974.42
  New York Genealogy & Biography Record C44Wy 28:168-9 Vol. 2 pgs. 770, 778
  National Genealogy Vol. 5 pg. 9
  "Mayflower" passenger and 22nd signer of the Mayflower Compact.
  Degory Priest married Sarah Allerton, sister of Isaac Allerton, who was the 5th signer of the Mayflower Compact.
  Father of Mary Priest Pratt and Sarah Priest Coombs.
  COLE HILL MONUMENT:
  Scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the settlement's first bitter winter. Corn was planted over their unmarked graves so that the Native Americans should not know how many had perished.
  (April 8, 2022 by Belmark)
  
  Degory Priest
  Degory sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Before that he was a hat maker from London who was married to Sarah, Allerton sister to Isaac Allerton a pilgrim,
  degory was a signatory to the Mayflower Compa
  
  === 1. Mayflower Descendants and Their Marri ===
  1. Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriage for Two Generations after the Landing, Their children and Grandchildren p. 21 Image 31 child Mary, d. about 1689; married 1630 Phineas Pratt, d. Apr 19 1680. Children: John, SAmuel, Daniel, Peter, Joseph, Aaron, Mary, Mercy. 2nd child Sarah, m. John Coombs, had child Francis.
  ancestry.com
  2. Degory Priest Marriage 4 Nov 1611 to Sarah (ALLERTON) Vincent in Leyden, Holland (Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  Mayflower Marriages Degory Priest
  https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48109/images/MayflowerMarriages-001310-237?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=ppA78&_phstart=successSource&lang=en-US&pId=202331
  
  === Merged the sources back in from a restored record of Phineas Pratt ===
  By restoring the record of Phineas Pratt that had been deleted on a merge with Phinehas Pratt (as that record had all of Pratt's sources), I was able to merge the restored record to recover the sources for Degory that had been lost when Degory was wrongly merged with Phineas Pratt's record and deleted.
  
  === When this new record was added, all of Degory's sources were lost. ===
  Degory's original record with his ordinances and dozens of sources was lost when this record was added and his original record was merged out of existence. It looks like some of those sources are on his wife's record and others ended up on the record of Phinehas Pratt, which I swear I didn't merge Degory into regardless of what the changes show. This family was all straightened out (with the exception of John Priest) until GEDCOM bombs were thrown into the middle of it in the Spring and Summer of 2017.

• Notes:

  Description: Arrival of Mayflower from Plymouth, Devon, England in New Plymouth Colony
  
  New Plymouth Colony was the name of the colony founded by the Puritans, our Pilgrim forebears, and the village was named Plymouth after the port they sailed from in Devonshire, England on 6 September 1620 on the Mayflower.

• Notes:

  Description: Sailing of Mayflower from Plymouth, Devonshire, England for the final time for Plymouth, New Plymouth Colony
  
  History of Mayflower Puritans cites 6 September 1620 as the final departure, leaving the Speedwell in England because it was too unstable, having necessitated multiple returns to England for repairs to leaks after the original July 1620 departure. Their arrival in the New Plymouth Colony was recorded as (New Calendar dating) 21 November 1620.
  
  Made spelling correction.

• m. 4 NOV 1611 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

1. Sarah Priest, b. 1615 in Leyden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands     d. 1 AUG 1648 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Sarah Priest, b. 1615 in Leyden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands     d. 1 AUG 1648 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Title: Diggorne Preest, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records, 1600-2000" (Degory Priest Marriage 4 Nov 1611 to Sarah (ALLERTON) Vincent in Leyden, Holland)
   Author: "Nederland, Indexen van de Archieven, Primaire Archiefstukken (BS en DTB), 1600-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLR1-8VYK : 13 October 2017), Diggorne Preest and Sarah Vincent, Marriage 04 Nov 1611, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland; from database, openarchives (https://www.openarch.nl : 2016); citing Archiefnaam: Schepenhuwelijken (1592-1795), Deel: 198, Periode: 1611-1633, archive 1004, inventory number 198, record number , folio B - 004; Archiefnaam: Schepenhuwelijken (1592-1795), Deel: 198, Periode: 1611-1633; Erfgoed Leiden.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLR1-8VYK;
   Note: Degory Priest Marriage 4 Nov 1611 to Sarah (ALLERTON) Vincent in Leyden, Holland (Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) Mayflower Marriages Degory Priest https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48109/images/MayflowerMarriages-001310-237?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=ppA78&_phstart=successSource&lang=en-US&pId=202331
   
2. Title: Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-MayflowerDescendants&h=199857&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt;
   
3. Title: Degory Priest 1619 statement, link needs fixed, citation expanded
   Author: "Degory Priest1619 statement." Degory Priest1619 statement. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Sep. 2016. .
   Publication: Name: http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/cbc543d7-86f3-459b-913b-26c26eff4c9a/6118076/-1162758831;
   Page: A statement from Degory Priest in 1616 giving information on his wife Sarah Allerton and two daughter Mary and Sarah. And Sarah's first and third marriages .
   
4. Title: Wikipedia -- Degory Priest
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degory_Priest;
   
5. Title: Degory Priest in entry for Hester Priest, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
   Author: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7S2-P5B : 4 February 2023), Degory Priest in entry for Hester Priest, 1665.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7S2-P5B;
   Note: This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.
   
6. Title: Degory Priest on WikiTree
   Publication: Name: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Priest-39;
   
7. Title: Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/3718/records/8092;
   
8. Title: New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/2496/records/65007;
   
9. Title: Degory Priest, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVD-FG63 : 23 August 2022), Degory Priest, ; Burial, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America, Coles Hill Burial Ground; citing record ID 12508363, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVD-FG63;
   
10. Title: Degory Priest in entry for Mary Priest, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
    Author: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5ZD-QWR : 4 February 2023), Degory Priest in entry for Mary Priest, 1669.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5ZD-QWR;
    Note: This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.
    
11. Title: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Degory Priest, by Mrs. Charles D. Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret H. Stover; rev. by Margaret H. Stover, vol. 8., Plymouth, 2008
    Author: From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-<2015>. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/48509/1/1415585640
    Publication: Name: https://themayflowersociety.org/passenger-profile/passenger-profiles/the-priest-family/;
    Note: He married the sister of Isaac Allerton, Sarah Allerton, widow of John Vincent, at Leyden, Holland, (Netherlands) on Nov. 4, 1611. Degory Priest had two daughters, Mary Priest born circa. 1613, and Sarah Priest b.ca. 1615 at Leyden, Holland. He had no son. However, his widow, Sarah Priest, married a third spouse, Godbert Godbertson, on Nov. 13, 1621, in Leyden by whom she had a son, Samuel Godbertson.
    
12. Title: MayflowerHistory.com -- Degory Priest
    Publication: Name: http://mayflowerhistory.com/priest/;
    Note: BIRTH: About 1579. MARRIAGE: Sarah (Allerton) Vincent, 4 November 1611, Leiden, Holland, the sister of Isaac Allerton. CHILDREN: Mary and Sarah. DEATH: 1 January 1620/1 at Plymouth. Degory Priest deposed that he was 40 years old in a document signed in Leiden in April 1619; this would place his birth at about 1579 in England. On 4 November 1611, he was married to Sarah (Allerton) Vincent, the widow of John Vincent, and the sister of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton; Isaac Allerton was married to his wife Mary Norris on the same date. Dutch hatters at work, cir. 1635. Dutch hatters at work, cir. 1635. It has been suggested that Degory Priest of the Mayflower may have been the Degorius Prust, baptized 11 August 1582 in Hartland, co. Devon, England, the son of Peter Prust. However, given that the baptism appears to be about 3 years too late, and the fact that none of the Leiden Separatists are known to have come from Devonshire, I have my doubts this baptism belongs to the Mayflower passenger. Degory Priest was one of the earliest to have arrived in Leiden, so it seems more reasonable to suspect he is from the Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire region, the Sandwich/Canterbury region, the London/Middlesex region, or the Norfolk region: all of the early Separatists in Leiden appear to have come from one of these centers. Degory Priest became a citizen of Leiden on 16 November 1615, and was called a hatter, and perhaps employed with Samuel Lee and Godbert Godbertson, other members of the Leiden congregation who were also hatter. In 1617, Degory Priest had some kind of altercation with a man named John Cripps who was alleged to have been having an adulterous affair with Elizabeth wife of John Mos. He had some friends sign an affidavit stating he hadn't hit Cripps but only "touched his jabot." Degory shared his Leiden residence with a tobacco-pipe maker named Nicholas Claverly. Degory and wife Sarah had two children, Mary and Sarah. Degory came alone on the Mayflower, planning to bring wife and children later after the colony was better established. His death the first winter ended those plans. His wife remarried to Godbert Godbertson in Leiden on 13 November 1621, and they had a son Samuel together. Godbert, his wife Sarah, their son Samuel, and his step-children Mary and Sarah Priest all came on the ship Anne to Plymouth in 1623.