Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Degory Priest

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2538 
  • Father:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1579 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jan 1620/1621 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Allerton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1611 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Leyden, Holland 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Priest

  Sarah Priest (Ahnentafel No:1269 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mayflower passenger

    Degory Priest was possibly Digorius, son of Peter Prust, baptized at Harland, Devonshire, England 11 AUG 1582.

• Sources for Degory Priest

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1516, 1526.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 273.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 6, 83, 155, 195, 324, 346-347, 361, 374, 380, 536, 680, 703, 727, 760, 775, 780, 806.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 571.
  • ⁶ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 1-3.
  • ⁷ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 414.

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