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Sarah Priest was born about 1615<ref>Estimate, based on younger child.</ref> She married about 1632 to John Coombs. They had two sons: John and Francis.
 
Sarah Priest was born about 1615<ref>Estimate, based on younger child.</ref> She married about 1632 to John Coombs. They had two sons: John and Francis.
  
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===Third Generation===
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Mary Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1633<ref>gravestone has died "in ye 70th year of her age.</ref> and died in Cambridge 11 Feb 1701/2. She married John Swann 2 Mar 1655/6. They had eight children: Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, John, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer
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Mercy Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1642. She married Jeremiah Holman and had:  Jeremiah, Abraham, Abigail, Deborah, Mehitable and Sarah (died young).
  
 
==Summary of findings==
 
==Summary of findings==

Revision as of 21:08, 25 November 2020

Status summary

As of November 25, 2020:

  • Little opportunity for mtDNA testing
  • Low priority

Paper Trail

Sarah Allerton was likely born at East Bergholt, Sussex the daughter of Bartholomew Allerton and Mary (Unknown).[1] She was the sister (eldest?) of Isaac Allerton. Sarah married three times: first (likely in England) John Vincent, second, Leiden 4 Nov 1611 and last, Leiden 13 Nov 1621 to Godbert Godbertson (aka Cuthbert Cuthbertson). Both Sarah and Godbert died between Jul - Oct 1633 in Plymouth.

Sarah is not known to have had any children by her first husband. By her second husband (Degory Priest) she had two daughters: Mary & Sarah. By her last husband she had one son Samuel.

Second Generation

Mary Priest was born about 1612[2] She married about 1630 Phineas Pratt. They had eight children: Mary, John, Samuel, Daniel, Peter, Mercy, Joseph and Aaron.

Sarah Priest was born about 1615[3] She married about 1632 to John Coombs. They had two sons: John and Francis.

Third Generation

Mary Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1633[4] and died in Cambridge 11 Feb 1701/2. She married John Swann 2 Mar 1655/6. They had eight children: Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, John, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer

Mercy Pratt was born in Plymouth about 1642. She married Jeremiah Holman and had: Jeremiah, Abraham, Abigail, Deborah, Mehitable and Sarah (died young).

Summary of findings

  1. NEHGR 173(2019):203
  2. Estimate, based on oldest child and date of parents marriage
  3. Estimate, based on younger child.
  4. gravestone has died "in ye 70th year of her age.


External links and references

  • Townsend, Mrs. Charles D., Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret H. Stover, ed. by Margaret H. Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: vol. 8: Priest General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008
  • Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals) Stewart Publishing Co., Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 312-15
  • Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 141-43