Children of Degory Priest and His Wife Sarah
- Marah was born about 1612. She married Phineas Pratt by about 1633 and had eight children. She died in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1689. Her name is often given incorrectly as “Mary”.
- Sarah was born about 1614. She married John Coombs about 1632 and had two sons. By October 1646 she went to England and presumably may have died there.
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