Person:Samuel Price (32)

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, County 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.

1.   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.

2.   National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.

   Name: Samuel Price
   Birth Date: 30 Aug 1750
   Birth Place: Chester, Dela, Pennsylvania
   Death Date: 30 May 1801
   Death Place: Chichester, Dela, Pennsylvania
   SAR Membership: 35001
   Role: Ancestor
   Application Date: 31 Jul 1936
   Spouse: Ann Richards Price
   Children: Samuel Alrich Price