PRIEST, Degory ^1666,1667

  Noted events in his life were:

• History: Plymouth Colony. ¹⁶⁶⁶ PRIEST, DEGORY - A 1620 Mayflower passenger, Degory Priest was in Leiden records as from London, a hatmaker, who married Sarah (Allerton) Vincent, sister of Isaac Allerton at Leiden 4 November 1611, and he was age forty in 1619 (Dexter, p. 630). He died at Plymouth 1 January 1620/21, leaving his widow and two daughters, who had come over from Leiden to Plymouth in 1623. See John G. Hunt, "Origin of Digory Priest, Early Settler in Plymouth, New England," NEHGR 111:320, for a clue as to his origin, but it should be kept in mind that the name is not as unique as it may seem, at least in the Devonshire area.

Degory married Sarah ALLERTON, daughter of ALLERTON and Unknown, on 4 Nov 1611 in Leiden, Holland.¹⁶⁶⁶ (Sarah ALLERTON died before 24 Oct 1633 ¹⁶⁶⁷.)