Phineas Pratt
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Phineas Pratt, a joiner from London, was one of the first English settlers in New England and enrolled among the "First Comers" of Plymouth Colony. Pratt arrived as part of the company of Thomas Westo
Phineas Pratt's grave in Charlestown, Massachusetts
Degory Priest
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Degory Priest was a member of the Leiden contingent on the historic 1620 voyage of the ship Mayflower. He was a hat maker from London who married Sarah, sister of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton in Leiden. He
Phineas Pratt
…1623, when it still numbered about 32 dwellings, Pratt joined the Plymouth Colony and later married Mary Priest, the daughter of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest. In 1662, he wrote an account of the early days of the Wessagusett colony as part of a petition to the General Court of Massachusetts for "First Comer…
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899