Person:John Price (173)

John Price was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• CIRCUIT COURT DEEDS. DEED BOOK No. 1. - Page 2.--2d September, 1789. Alexander St. Clair and Jane to John Price, 1/4 acre in Staunton, part of 26 acres added to Staunton by Legislature October, 1787. [Note: this acquisition appears to fit with this John Price, additional research may be needed]

Will Abstract

From Chalkley's:

• Page 283.--5th July, 1797. John Price's will, of Staunton, cabinet maker--To wife, Judith; to apprentice, James Wilson, cabinet maker's tools. Executors, wife Judith and Robert Douthat. Teste: Chesley Kinney, Henry Mowrey, W. Chambers, Richard S. Ellis. Proved, 19th September, 1797, by Mowrey and Ellis. Judith qualifies.

• Page 308.--27th March, 1798. John Price's estate appraised by Vincent Tapp, Henry Mowrey, Joseph Dickey.

• Page 342.--John Price's estate to Judith Price, executrix, Dr.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise listed]

• Vol. 1 - AUGUST 18, 1767. (114) John Price, indented servant, imported from Great Britain, binds himself to Joseph Ray for 4 years, to be taught to be a carpenter and joiner. [Note: is this possibly the same John Price "cabinet maker" whose will was filed in 1797? Needs additional research]

• Vol. 1 - AUGUST 19, 1780. Page (299) John Price, to whom William Hunter, orphan boy, was bound, petitions that he is about to move out of this State, and that William be bound to Francis Moore, to be taught leather breeches making, which is ordered.

• Vol. 1 - MAY, 1787 (N to Z). John Price and Judith, his wife, vs. William Anderson.--Slander.

• Vol. 1 - FEBRUARY 17, 1790. Page (203-204) William Hunter, apprentice of John Price.

• 15 December 1790, The Virginia Gazetta & Staunton Weekly Advertizer: William Hunter, apprentice, cabinet maker, abt. age 20, ran away from John Price, Staunton. (VGWA 15 Dec 1790) [Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-century Virginia Newspapers, by Robert Kirk Headley, pg. 175]

• Page 59.--Poll of election for two trustees for the town of Staunton, taken 1st January, 1793--For Michael Garber, 18, viz: Jacob Geiger, Robt Gratton, Andrew Cutler, Jno. Boys, Phillip Dyre, Robt. Bailey, Anthony Ingleton, Michael Syford, Jno. Gates, Geo. Weifford, Jno. Gunn, Jno. Backinster, Wm. Heginbotham, Wm. Brieze, Michael Cawley, Jno. Moore, Jno. Price, John Diddy. For Robert Douthat, 22, viz: Jacob Kinney, Daniel Donavan, Robt. McDowell, Peter Heiskell, Jno. Grates, Jos. Dickey, Jas. Barry, Samuel Merrila. Jas. Cochran, Jno. Gardner, Jas. McLaughlan, Jas. Mathews, Alex. Mason, Smith Thompson, Michael Cawley, Wm. Chambers, G. Christian, Jno. Price, Jno. McDowell, Alex. Humphreys. For James McGonegal, 4, viz: Michael Syford, Jno. Gunn, Jno. Backinston, Jno. Diddy. For Peter Heiskell, 25, viz: Jacob Geiger, Andrew Cutler, Jacob Kinney, Jos. Dickey, Jas. Barry, James Cochran, Wm. Heginbotham.

• Vol. 1 - APRIL 16, 1793. - (261) Sarah Devine, aged 10 the 9th of this November, 1792, to be bound to Thomas Shanklin. William Rice to be bound to Isaac Ong. James Wilson, aged 13 the 2d January last, to be bound to John Price. Lucy Wilson, aged 8 the 29th December last, to be bound to John Price. [Note: the James Wilson listed in this record is no doubt the same James Wilson that was provided John Price's "cabinet making tools" in his 1797 will].