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John Price, of Chester Co., PA
Facts and Events
Records in Pennsylvania
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 2 - Savage vs. Eyre--O. S. 206; N. S. r3-Answer filed 1804, says about 40 years ago Robert Lyre [Eyre] married Ann Price, daughter of John Price, who lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and about eleven years thereafter removed to Virginia. On 12th September, 1770, John Price made his will. Elisha and Samuel Price were brother and uncle of Ann. Robert had (at least) two children, John and Hanna; also sons, Robert and Adam. Will of John Price of Lower Chichester, Chester County, Pennsylvania: 'Wife Elizabeth; daughter Ann, wife of Robert Eyre; son Samuel; daughter Hannah Price; daughter Sarah Price, infant; son John, infant; daughter Elizabeth; sister Sarah Price. Dated 12th December, 1770. Recorded in West Chester. Deed dated 7th April, 1796 between Robert Eyre of Norbon Parish, Berkeley County, yeoman, to Elisha Price of Chester Borough, Counly of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Samuel Price of Lower Chichester, Pennsylvania, and Ann Eyre, wife of Robert, and Robert Eyre, Jr. 250 acres in Berkeley [corrected]. Deed dated 18th April, 1796, by Robert Eyre to William Boyd, 277 acres on Mill Creek in Berkeley, conveyed by grantee to grantor on same date. Proved in Berkeley 25th April, 1796. Deed dated 23d June, 1800, by Richard Ridgway, Robert Eyre and Ann and James Stephenson. Mortgage conveys part of 1,000 acres patented to Morgan Morgan 12th November, 1735?, and conveyed by Morgan [corrected] to Zackwell Morgan in 1761, and to Robert Rutherford in 1768, to James Seaton in 1769, to Robert Eyre in 1777. Recorded in Berkeley 24th June, 1800. Deed 18th September, 1801, by Robert Eyre, Sr., to Adam Eyre, part of 742 acres patented by Fairfax to James Crumbley, Ist February, 1754 [corrected], conveyed by Henry and William Crumbley, sons of James, to Robert Rutherford, 25th October, 1766 [corrected]; by him to Richard Colvert, 8th February, 1768; by him to Wm. Boyd, deceased, 1st August, 1769, and which Wm. Boyd holds as heir to Wm. Boyd, deceased; by him to Robert Eyre, 18th April, 1796 [corrected], on Mill Creek, in Berkeley County. Recorded in Berkeley [corrected] 26th April, 1802. Deed 28th September, 1801, by Robert Eyre, Sr., to Robert Eyre, Jr., part of 1,000 acres above. Recorded in Berkeley 26th April, 1802. Thomas Reese deposes in Berkeley County, 1806, he lived in Berkeley upwards of 40 years. Deed 7th April, 1796 [corrected], by Robert Eyre to Elisha Price and Samuel Price of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Ann Eyre.
References
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Wills of Chester County Pennsylvania 1766-1778, abstracts of Jacob Martin, 1995, 1999, FamilyLine Publications and WillowBend Books, Westminster, MD p.71
PRICE, JOHN. Lower Chichester. December 12, 1770. December 13, 1773. Provides for wife Elizabeth. To daughter Ann wife of Robert Eyre use of my plantation in Brandywine Hundred containing about 100 acres during life of her husband and then to her and her heirs. To son Samuel plantation whereon I now live in Chichester consisting of several contiguous tracts containing in the whole about 100 acres with grist and saw mills, also plantation adj. bought of Jno. Pierce containing about 80 acres. To daughter Hannah Price £900. To daughter Sarah Price £900 at 21 or marriage. To son John all that tract of land in Lower Chichester purchased of Thomas Clayton containing 32 3/4 acres and lot of woodland containing 2 acres, also messuage and lot in Chichester at wife's decease, also £900 at 21. To daughter Elizabeth £700 at 21 or marriage. To my sister Sarah Price £25. Remainder to Hannah, Sarah, John and Elizabeth. Rev. Geo. Craig guardian of 2 youngest children, John and Elizabeth. Executors: Friend Elisha Price and son John. Wit: John Smith, Richard Riley, Levi Lloyd.
Wills of Delaware County, Pennsylvania 1789-1835, compiled by Robert G Swift, 1998, FamilyLine Publications, Westminster, MD p.55
PRICE, JOHN, Esq., Lower Chichester. December 12, 1770 - [See below.] Wife Elizabeth, children: Ann EYRE, Samuel, Hannah, Sarah, (minor), John (minor), Elizabeth, (minor), sister Sarah PRICE, Rev. Geo. CRAIGE to be guardian of John and Elizabeth. House and lot in town of Chester purchased of Richard LAWRENCE adjacent to James ROWAN'S land to wife during life. Plantation in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, adjoining Naaman's Creek to dau. Ann, wife of Robert Eyre (not subject to control of her husband), and to her children. To son Samuel, the home farm purchased of Charles NORRIS, John CLOUD and Moses MOORE, with grist mill, saw mill and extension to river Delaware purchased of John PIERCE. To John the LAWRENCE parcel, the Thomas CLAYTON tract to lines of Elisha PRICE, Hannah and Adam CLAYTON, woodland bought of Richard LAWRENCE; also legacies to Hannah, Sarah, John and Elizabeth. Exrs: Friend Elisha PRICE and son Samuel PRICE. Wits: John SMITH, Richard RILEY and Levi LLOYD. The docket gives this as from a certified copy from the Chester County Docket, the original being lost. Certified September 20, 1784. Letters of administration granted to John CROZER April 27, 1802. #202.
https://www.chester.pa-roots.com/wills/price_john_1773.htm
- Descendants of John Price, abt 1722 - abt 1773.
- Jordan, John W. (John Woolf). Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania: genealogical and personal memoirs. (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911)
pg. 1443-1444.
Elizabeth Alricks, daughter of Peter and Dorcas (Land) Alricks, married (first) John Stalcop, and (second) John Price, of Lower Chichester township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, a miller and farmer and large landowner, who died in 1773, leaving six children: Ann, wife of Robert Eyre; Samuel, of whom presently; Hannah, Sarah, John and Elizabeth. His wife Elizabeth survived him.
Samuel Price, son of John and Elizabeth (Alricks) Price, was born in Lower Chichester township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1750. He was one of the active patriots of this section at the beginning of the Revolutionary struggle, being a member of the first Committee of Safety and Observation chosen at Chester, December 20, 1774, and active in the cause throughout the war, also serving as a private in Captain William Prior's company, Chester County Militia, which was mustered into the service of the United States, June 22, 1777 at Chestrer. He inherited from his father the homestead of the latter in Lower Chichester, containing 180 acres and having thereon grist and saw mills. he died in Lower Chichester township, probably in 1807. Samuel Price married Ann Richards, daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Wills) Richards, of Aston township, Chester, now Delaware County, Pennsylvania, who married (second), March 24, 1814, Joseph Marshall, Esq.
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