{"id":12000,"date":"2015-11-30T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=12000"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:25:22","slug":"mayflower-hat-maker-degory-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-hat-maker-degory-priest.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Hat Maker: Degory Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a descendant of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest?
\nIf you are, then please tell us your line.<\/p>\n

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Painting: \u201cThe Mayflower Compact, 1620,\u201d by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899. Source: Library of Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Wikipedia, Degory Priest:<\/p>\n

was a hat maker from London who married Sarah, sister of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton in Leiden. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact in November 1620 and died less than two months later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Searching in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I can easily find hundreds of articles about descendants of other Mayflower Pilgrims such as Thomas Rogers, Stephen Hopkins or Dr. Samuel Fuller \u2013 but, articles about Degory Priest descendants \u2013 not so much.<\/p>\n

I only found six persons who mentioned their descent from him in their obituaries, such as this one for Patricia Sayward.<\/p>\n

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Amesbury News (Amesbury, Massachusetts), 17 March 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Patricia A. (Woodward) Sayward\u2019s (1929-2009) obituary<\/a> tells us that \u201cshe was a descendant of Degory Priest\u201d and that she had two ancestors who fought at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. She was active in both the Mayflower Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

Here are the other five individuals I found whose obituaries mentioned that they were descendants of Degory Priest:<\/p>\n