Person:Zachariah Price (4)

American Revolution Veteran

Biography of Zachariah Price

Zachariah, son of Samuel Price and Sarah Perrin was born in 22 Sept 1743 in Papakating, Sussex County, New Jersey^[5]. He was a farmer, and a soldier throughout the whole of the American Revolution^[5]. He married Mary DePew (Depue), born in Sussex county, New Jersey, October 20, 1754^[5]. In Snell's book, Zachariah Price is listed as a citizen who served as a chosen freeholder of Newton Township in 1786^[2]. The list, from the formation of the township down to the year 1791, is from an old volume of records of the "Justices and Freeholders of Sussex County"^[1].

Zachariah served in the American Revolution in Major Westbrook's Battalion and the New Jersey state militia^[1][2]. He is listed in both the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution^[1]. The Office of the adjutant General of Trenton, New Jersey lists his service as follows:

• Zachariah Price - Served as a Private, Captain Jacob Stoll's Company, Colonel Aaron Hankinson's Second Regiment, Sussex County Militia; Private, State Troops, in 1780 (troops raised under the Act of June 7, 1780, to serve until January 1, 1781); served in Sussex County under the command of Major Samuel Westbrook; received Certificate No 420, amounting to £0:6:8, for the depreciation of his Continental pay in the Sussex Milita^[6].

Zachariah and his wife, Mary DePuy [DePue] are both buried in the "Price Family Burial Ground" in Frankford Plains, Sussex, New Jersey^[4].

His will was dated 8 Dec 1806.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Daughters of the Amercian Revolution
   A093129.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Snell, James P. History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey: with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881)
   p 73, p 258.
3.   Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910)
   Vol 1, p277.
4. ↑ Find A Grave.

   Zachariah Price

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910)
   p 278.

   The linage of Zachariah is given.

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Revolution Record of Zachariah Price