Person:John Price (191)

Will Abstract

I John Price of Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, yeoman do make this my last will & Testament..

I dispose of my Estate as follows viz:

To my three daughters Hannah, Rebecca & Jane I give one acre of Land each on the end of my plantation adjoining Lancaster Road and wood for firing should they reside upon it & have use for it.

I likewise give to my daughters Hannah & Rebecca two hundred pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania apiece to my daughter Jane One hundred & fifty pounds like money, to my daughter Mary Gibson one hundred pounds exclusive of what I have already given her.

To my grand-daughter Lydia fifty pounds if she shall live to the age of twenty one hears but if she should die under age & without issue then the said Legacy of fifty pounds I bequeath to my said daughter Jane.

I give to my [dear wife Mary] Grandson John Gibson twenty pounds lawfull Money & to my wife Mary three hundred pounds with Suitable mainenance during life out of my plantation whereon I now live [with suitable __ maintenance] with choice of such part of my furniture as she may please to take to herself with such part of my dwelling house as she may have Occasion for & for my Oc'de? a horse for a hackney for her own use.

I give to my son Joseph & to his Heirs and Assigns Fifty acres of Land to be land off my Plantation adjoining his other Land so as to be most convenient to him & with least convenience to my other plantation as the parties concerned may agree amongst themselves.

I give to my brother in Law Robert Holland & Jane his wife during their Natural lives or the life of the Survivor of them two acres of Land on the west end of my plantation & Adjoining Robert Robert's Estate & Walter Watter's Estates with the use of dead wood for firing & Timber for building a dwelling house.

I give to my sister Jane five pounds current money of Penna.

I give to my son Edward & to his Heirs & Assigns five Acres of Land on the end of my place next the Lancaster road & five acres of woodland the most convenient thereunto & I give to my son John the remainder of my Plantation whereon I now live with the Appurtenances & to his Heirs and Assigns I give to my old Servent Sall, Tom & Will three pounds each & to my black boy Sapia twenty shillings his freedom when he arrives at the age of twenty one hears.

And I do empower my executor herein after named (to make sure of the residue of my real Estate) or the Survivor of them & the money if any overplus arising after paying the forgoing Legacies to be divided amongst my surviving Children & if there should not be sufficient Estate exclusive of the Land bequeathed to Joseph & John for paying the several Legacies above mentioned then it is my will that they pay the same in proportion to the Value of the land so left them.

And I do hereby appoint my sons Joseph, Edward & John to be the Executors of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this sixteenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety two ~

[Signed] John Price [Seal]

Signed sealed published & declared by the said John Price as his last will and Testament in the presence of us who have set our hands at his request as Witnesses hereunto:

Richard Tunis Junr. & Thomas ___

Personally came each each of the Witnesses the forgoing will and being Affirmed According to Law did say that they were personally present and did see John Price the Testator in the said Will named sign and Seal the same and Heard him, pronounce and declare the same to be his last will & Testament and at the doing thereof he was of perfect & Sound disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge that they subscribed their names as Witnesses thereto at the request of the Testator in his presence & in the presence of each other.

Be it remembered that on the Ninth day of October 1792 the foregoing will of John Price was proved in due form of Law and Letters Testamentary Granted unto Joseph, Edward and John Price Executors therein named they having first affirmed will and truly to perform the same & to render an Account according to Law ~ Given under my hand and Seal & Registered the 9th day of October 1792.

[Signature of Clerk] Register.

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   Joseph Price, a Quaker farmer, was the fourth generation of the Rees family to reside in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His great-grandparents, Edward and Mabby Rees, set sail from Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, on the ship Lyon, and arrived at the banks of the Schuylkill River near Pencoyd on August 14, 1682. Edward Rees was one of the founders of the Lower Merion Monthly Meeting. The name "Price" derives from the Welsh "Ap-Rees," "Ap" meaning "son of" or "descended from."
   Joseph's father was John Price, who died June 20, 1792. His mother, Mary, died March 18, 1808. John Price, his brother, was born March 16, 1772, and died October 30, 1801. A sister, Hannah, died January 15, 1796. Another sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" Price, was born ca. 1776 and died October 21, 1789. On June 1, 1797, Price wed Mary Walter . He was 43, she 27. Their first home was "Locust Hill." They had eight children. Mary died February 27, 1828, after a long illness.
   Price was an innkeeper, carpenter, sawmill operator, and coffin builder. He fought as a private in the American Revolution and attained the rank of major, Cavalry division, during the War of 1812. He was an elder in the Merion Friends Meeting. In 1794, Price was also involved in the construction of the Lancaster Turnpike. He cut and set the milestones along the new highway, the first of its kind in the country. In 1806, he served on a committee, appointed by the County Commissioners, to procure a site for the Montgomery Almshouse. Price died several months after his wife Mary, in 1828.
   
   http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/p/price1657.htm
   
   - marriage records show John Price married Mary Davis, not Mary Walter.

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   Price John June 20, 1792 Joseph Price's father. - Records of Merion Graveyard, by Thomas Wynn and C.E. Hires, 1702-1808
   - The Incompleted Records of Merion Burial Grave-yard 1682-1848, by Margaret Harvey. 1912. manuscript
   - Joseph Price Diary. 1789-1828
   
   http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/burial/merion/p.html

3.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/792542/person/122280099340/facts

4.   U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2014).

   Name: John Price
   Event Type: Birth
   Birth Date: 27 Aug 1721
   Birth Date on Image: 27 1721 Sixth
   Birth Place: Montgomery, Pennsylvania [then in Chester County, PA]
   Father: Rees Price
   Mother: Elizabeth Price
   Monthly Meeting: Radnor Monthly Meeting
   Historical Meeting Data:
   Search for this monthly meeting in the 'Quaker Monthly Meetings Index'
   Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
   Meeting State: Pennsylvania
   Meeting County: Montgomery

5.   United States. 1790 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M637).

   Name: John Price
   Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Montgomery, Pennsylvania
   Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 3
   Free White Persons - Females: 6
   Number of All Other Free Persons: 1
   Number of Household Members: 10