My Mayflower Connection

About Degory Priest and His Descendants

The chart below reflects how our family is descendants of Degory Priest who was one of the passengers on the Mayflower. My great grandma Gladys Smith Mills is a descendant of Degory Priest.

Degory Priest was married to Sarah Allerton. Sarah's brother, Issac Allerton was also on the Mayflower. More information on Degory Priest can be found on these links:

	Degory and Sarah Allerton Priest from Mills Family Tree
	The Mayflower Passenger List

Mary 'Marra' Priest was Degory Priest's daughter. She married Phineas Pratt. Phineas Pratt wrote a full deposition, see 'The Deposition of Phineas Pratt regarding the planting of the Plymouth (1620) and Wessagusett (1622) Colony' on the first link below.

Mayflower Web Pages Full Texts of Pilgrim Writings

Degory Priest's and Phineas Pratt's genealogy data are documented in the Ancesty.com link below:

Great Migration Begins-Immigrants to New Eng.1620-33

My Mayflower Ancestry Chart

Degory PRIEST

bd. abt 1579, England

dd. 1 Jan 1621, Plymouth, Mass

| Mary 'Marra' PRIEST

| bd. abt 1613, Leyden, Holland

| dd. bef 22 Jul 1689, Charlestown, Suffolk, MA

| | Joseph PRATT

| | bd. 10 Jun 1637, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

| | dd. 24 Dec 1712, Charlestown, Massachusetts

| | | Mary PRATT

| | | bd. 16 Sep 1675, Charlestown, Suffolk, MA

| | | | Hannah EDMUNDS

| | | | bd. 3 Jan 1708, Lynn, Massachusetts

| | | | dd. 26 Jan 1741, Dudley, Worchester Co., MA

| | | | | bd. 22 May 1738, Dudley, Worchester Co., MA

| | | | | | bd. 1 Mar 1764, Dudley, Worchester Co., MA

| | | | | | | bd. 4 Apr 1798, Chester, Windsor Co., Vermont

| | | | | | | dd. 13 Oct 1874, Colchester, Chittenden Co., Vermont

Ellen Marie Severance married Franklin P. Smith and their daughter was Gladys Smith Mills who had told the family that we were Mayflower descendants.