Death and Burial
Degory Priest died in Plymouth Colony on January 1, 1621 and was buried in the Coles Hill Burial Ground in an unmarked grave as with so many who died that winter, of the general sickness that befell. He is named on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Coles Hill, Plymouth. The grave of his wife, Sarah Allerton Priest Godbertson is unknown.
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