Editing Degory Priest (section)

== Children of Degory Priest and his wife Sarah (Allerton) Priest ==
* Mary Priest was born about 1612 and died in Charlestown in 1689. She married [[Phineas Pratt]] by 1633 and had eight children. The family moved to Charlestown about 1646. Pratt was a person of note in Plymouth history, coming on the ship Sparrow in 1622, being one of [[Thomas Weston (merchant adventurer)|Thomas Weston's]] settlers at the failed Weymouth settlement, and coming to Plymouth in 1623.<ref>Eugene Aubrey Stratton, ''Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691'' (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Pub., 1986), pp. 23-24</ref><ref>Pilgrim Hall Museum [http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/phineas_pratt.htm Phineas Pratt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101032212/http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/phineas_pratt.htm |date=2013-11-01 }}</ref>
* Sarah Priest was born about 1614, went to England by October 1646, and may have died there, date and place unknown. She married John Coombs about 1632 and had two sons. For reasons that are not known, possibly the demise of her husband, Sarah traveled to England about 1645 and left her two sons, John and Francis Coombs, in the care of William Spooner, who had agreed to their maintenance. It is believed that Sarah never returned to [[Massachusetts Colony]], either having died on the voyage, or in England.<ref name="plimoth.org"/><ref name="Johnson p. 198"/>