 Abt 1612 - 1689 (77 years)
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| Name |
Marah PRIEST |
| Nickname |
Mary, Marra |
| Birth |
Abt 1612 |
Leiden, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Reference Number |
1477842 |
| Reference Number |
1502435 |
| Reference Number |
60 |
| WWW |
https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Priest-116 |
| Death |
Jul 1689 |
Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Person ID |
I200 |
Gummer |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
| Father |
Degory PRIEST, b. Abt 1579, England d. 1 Jan 1621, Plymouth Colony (Age 42 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah ALLERTON, b. Abt 1584, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England d. Bef 24 Oct 1633, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (Age < 49 years) |
| Marriage |
4 Nov 1611 |
Leiden, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden |
| Family ID |
F54 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Priest-653 and Priest-116 appear to represent the same person because: same spouse and data, Marah is correct name per Anderson's bio of her father linked in the LNAB profile Priest-116 |
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- [[Category: Mayflower Project Priest Family Work List]][[Category:Puritan Great Migration]][[Category: Leiden to Plymouth Pilgrim]]
[[Category: Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
{{Mayflower Family Member}}
== Biography ==Marah (aka Mary, Marrah) Priest, daughter of [[Priest-39|Degory Priest]] and [[Allerton-21|Sarah (Allerton) (Vincent) Priest]], was born about 1612,[Anderson, Robert Charles. ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633'', 3 vols., (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1995). Online with subsc. at [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image/?volumeId=12107&pageName=1526&rId=235192004 American Ancestors] and [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158320-00214?pid=65007& Ancestry.com], Vol. III, page 1526 PRIEST i.][ probably at Leiden, Holland. Her name is often given as "Mary", but it was Marah, meaning "bitterness" in Hebrew, taken from Ruth 1:20.][''A genealogical profile of Degory Priest'' published online by Plymouth Ancestors, A collaboration between Plimoth Plantation and the New England Historic Genealogical Society, at [https://web.archive.org/web/20170607113146/https://plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/priest_degory.pdf (PDF) Plimoth.org] (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 07 Jun 2017).]
===Migration===:Marah's father, Degory Priest, had come to New England aboard the ''Mayflower'' but died shortly thereafter.
:Marah was a passenger on the ''Anne'' that arrived at Plymouth Colony in New England in 1623. She and her younger sister Sarah Priest emigrated from Leiden with their mother Sarah (Allerton) (Vincent) (Priest) Godbertson, step-father Godbert Godbertson, and their son Samuel.[''Anne'' and ''Little James'' 1623 passenger list at [http://mayflowerhistory.com/anne MayflowerHistory.com].][Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Vol. II, "Passengers on the Anne and Little James, 1623" at [https://www.immigrantships.net/v2/1600v2/anne_james16230710.html ImmigrantShips.net]: arrived in Plymouth on 10 Jul 1623.]
===Marriage===:Marah married to [[Pratt-629|Phineas Pratt]] by about 1630[-1633.][ Phineas arrived on the ship ''Sparrow'' in 1622, first residing at Weymouth, then removing to Plymouth in 1623.][Anderson, Robert Charles. ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633'', 3 vols., (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1995). Online with subsc. at [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1514/23895873 American Ancestors], Vol. III, pages 1514-1518: PRATT.]
:Phineas is mentioned in William Bradford"s journal ''Of Plimoth Plantation'' He made the journey to Plymouth from Weymouth to warn the residents of a possible attack by the Indians. Miles Standish and a group of Plymouth men returned to Weymouth and dealt with the Indian treachery.[ Phineas wrote a personal account of his ordeal in his own vernacular.]
:Phineas' will was written on January 8, 1677/8 and proved on June 15, 1680. His inventory, including land, was valued at ''?£''40 16''s'' 6''d''. In his will he names: his beloved wife Mary, son Joseph Pratt, and his wife's share to be divided among the other children after her decease.[''Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871''. (Online database w/subsc. at AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/rd/14465/17922-co1/263970548 Probate Case #17922]: pages 1-20.]
:Apparently, the inventory did not include Phineas' land holdings at Dunstable and Nottingham, amounting to 300 plus acres, which was later assessed by the courts and divided among his heirs in 1738.
=== Children ===# [[Pratt-750|Mary]], born about 1633; died at Cambridge on February 11, 1702/3; married John Swan of Cambridge March 1, 1655/6.[Thompson , Neil D. ''John Latting of Oyster Bay and the Pratts'' in "The American Genealogist," (New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-). Online database - AmericanAncestors.org. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - ) w/ subsc. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/rd/13222/122/234975831 Vol. 74, 1999, pages 122-126].]# [[Pratt-759|Samuel]], born about 1637; married Mary Barker by 1668.[ ]
===Death===:Mary is likely the "Widow Pratt" who is noted in the Charlestown Town Orders as having died at Charlestown in July 1689.
===Timeline===* 1623: Her stepfather "Cudbart Cudbartstone" (sic), as a passenger on the ''Anne'', received six acres in the Plymouth division. This land grant was given to Godbert, his wife Sarah, their son Samuel, and to Sarah's deceased husband Degory Priest and her two daughters, Sarah and Mary Priest.[Anderson, Robert Charles. ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633'', 3 vols., (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1995). Online with subsc. at [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158319-00000?#?imageId=42521_b158319-00101 Ancestry.com]: Vol. II, pages 776-778 GODBERTSON.]* 1627: "Marra Priest" was named tenth, in the second company, along with her family members in the cattle division at Plymouth.["The Division of Cattle in 1627" in ''The Mayflower Descendant'', [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12165/149/137476398 Vol. 1, 1899, page 149]. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010).]* 1633: October 4: The inventory of the estate of her stepfather and her mother was taken, both having died without preparing wills.[ * 1633: October 28: Phineas Pratt was referred to in a further hearing regarding the goods of Godbert and Sarah Gobertson.][ * 1633: November 11: Phineas Pratt was appointed to take into his possession and preserve all the goods listed in the inventory of Godbert and Sarah.][ * 1633/4: March 10: Phineas Pratt exchanged 30 acres near the high cliff, possessed in the "right of Marah, his wife" for 30 acres near "Winslow's stand."][* 1640: August 3: The court confirmed that Godbert Gobertson had, prior to his death in 1633, given two acres of upland to his sons-in-law, John Coombs and Phineas Pratt in the marriages to his step-daughters.][* 1640: August 5: John Coombs and Phineas Pratt sold the two acres above mentioned.][* 1646: August 26: With the approval of his wife Mary, and her brother Samuel "Cudbert", Phineas sold his house, gardens, orchard, 50 acres of upland, two acres of meadow at Joanes River and six acres of upland meadow to John Cooke Jr.][* 1648: May 20: Phineas purchased a house and garden at Charlestown.][* 1651: Mary Pratt was one of the many female members of the church who petitioned the court in support of Rev. Mr. Marmaduke Matthews who had been accused of "offensive expressions" in his preachings at Charlestown and Malden.][Frothingham, Richard. ''The History of Charlestown, Massachusetts''. (Boston, MA: Charles Little & James Brown, 1845). Online at HathiTrust, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t2n594635&view=1up&seq=144 pages 126, 152, 156].]* 1662/3: January 21: Phineas Pratt and his wife Mary sold a woodlot at Charlestown to John Smith.[* 1672/3: January 1: Phineas and Mary Pratt, of Charlestown, and sold some 175 acres of land granted to Phineas in 1664 and 1665.][* 1680: April 19: Her husband Phineas Pratt died at Charlestown.][* 1681: In 1681, Widow Pratt and her son Joseph were granted "one common", an acre and a half , to be laid out by the town of Charlestown.][''Boston Records Commissioners Reports'' (Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, 1875) Vol. 3. Charlestown Land Records, 1638-1802 [https://archive.org/details/charlestownlandr00charl/page/190/mode/2up?q=pratt p. 190]]* 1683/4: February 5: The town ordered a small annual stipend be granted to widow Pratt.[ * 1686/7: March 7: The town widow Pratt's stipend was renewed.][ * 1738: July 31: In examining the estate of Phineas Pratt, the court commissioner's determined that each of the children should receive shares. Although some of these siblings were then deceased, it was not noted for all. Those listed were: the heirs of John, heirs of Peter; Samuel, Daniel, Mary, Joseph, Aaron and Mercy. The original estate inventory did not include all of Phineas' land holdings, including property at both Dunstable and Nottingham (now Nottingham, New Hampshire).]
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==Sources ==
:See also:*[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/3718/mayflowerbdii-002227.195?pid=48092& Ancestry.com]. "Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2." [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. from Roser, Susan E. "Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants." (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992): Mary Pratt.*Rapaport, Diane. "Ebenezer Perry, Son of John and Mercy (Swan) Perry of Cambridge, Mass.: Correcting ''Mayflower Families'' and Identifying a New Line of Descent from the Fifth Generation of Degory Priest," published in the ''Mayflower Descendant'' (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- ). Online database: [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/30243/21/0 AmericanAncestors.org], Vol. 59, 2010, pages 21-31 (son John).* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anne_and_the_Little_James Wikipedia]: The ships ''Anne'' and ''Little James''.* Macdonough, Rodney. ''[[Space:The Macdonough-Hackstaff Ancestry|The Macdonough-Hackstaff Ancestry]]'' (Press of S. Usher, Boston, 1901) [https://archive.org/stream/macdonoughhacks00macdgoog#page/n547/mode/2up page 461].* Wakefield, Robert. ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations''. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1994). Vol. 8, Degory Priest, pages 2-4 (not available online).* Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 31 Oct 2019), memorial page for Mary Priest Pratt (1612–Jul 1689), {{FindAGrave|34098395}}; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703): unsourced bio/no headstone photo.* ''[[Space:History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts|History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts]]'' (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): [https://archive.org/details/historytownhing02seymgoog/page/n111 Vol. III, page 115-116].
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