Thomas Price, Sr., Continental Army

Not the son of John Price, of Essex County

Not the son of Sarah Wilkinson who was married to a different John Price, wikitree Price-12876.

3. THOMAS2 PRICE (JOHN1) was born 22 April 1750 in ,Frederick, VA1, and died Aft. September 1835 in IN. He married RUTH Bef. 1782 in VA. She was born 1760 in VA, and died Aft. 1830.

Notes for THOMAS PRICE:

Declaration-State of Indiana, Monroe County. On this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty-two personally appeared before me (the undersigned) Stephen P. Seall, one of the judges of the circuit court of said county being a court of record and I being an associate judge of said court, said circuit court being composed of a President and two associate judges, Thomas Price, a resident of said county and state aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 4th of June 1832. That He entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was born on the twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and fifty in the then county of Frederick in the state of Virginia. His fathers name was John. He resided in said county and state with the exception of six years until this applicant entered into the service in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the month of September. He volunteered in said United States service of infanty in the Virginia Militia in the company of Michael Reader commanded by Colonel Gibson in the Brigade commanded by General Hand for a period and tour of three months, a new county having been formed between and out of the said county of Augusta and the county of Frederick. This applicant though still residing in his old neighborhood was now living in said new county called Shenandoah. He was rendezvoused and entered the service in said last named county in said month of September. He was marched thence to Fort Pitt now Pittsburgh at the forks of the Allegany and Monogahalia Rivers against the Indians thense he was marched down to Fort Wheeling where he was stationed upwards of a month. He was marched homeward and dismissed on the way at Cape Capon River. He served said tour of three months faithfully and to the acceptance of his said officers. He received no written discharge. In the year seventeen hundred and eighty-two, he then re-enlisted in the month of January, the company to which he belonged being called upon to furnish a certain number of men. He, with the number required, volunteered and entered into the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia of infantry for a tour of thee months in the company commanded by Captain John Seahorn. He thinks he was not attached to any Regiment. He entered the service in the county of Shenandoah in said state. He was marched and served as a guard in charge of the prisoners taken by General Morgan at the Battle of the Cowpens. From Shenandoah county he guarded said prisoners to Winchester, Virginia to the Barrick there, where they and this applicant as a guard was stationed about three months when he was marched guarding said prisoners to the Maryland line where the Maryland militia took charge of the prisoners, and he was there dismissed some time in April 1782. Name of the county not recollected. Without any written discharge. In last mentioned year (1782) this applicant again volunteered in the service of the United States in the militia in the same manner as in said last and second tour in the month of September about the 22nd day in the company of Infantry by Captain Martin Naul. He (living) was at said county of Shenandoah when he volunteered and entered the service, thense was marched to Little York River, Yorktown in Virginia near the seacoast. On the other side of the river where was stationed the British Light Horse. He joined the regiment commanded by Colonel Elias Edmonds or Edmondson under the command of General George Washington at Headquarters. He was ordered and was employed at ditching, entrenching and making breastworks. He commenced entrenching and making breastworks at the distance of about six miles from Cornwallis and progressed successfully until he _______ in ________ at Quarters where they were about to plant some of Washingtons great cannon when Lord Cornwallis surrendered. About Wednesday was the surrender. He was employed filling up the trenches for the British to march out to stack arms which they did on Friday. On Saturday he marched in charge of said prisoners up through Virginia to the Potomac River where he was dismissed, the prisoners being put under guard of the Maryland Militia. He served in said last tour three months. He states his age from a recollection of the record, he knows not what became of it. He never received any written discharge. He served in all said times and tours nine months faithfully and to the acceptance of his officers. He received perhaps about 25 cents a day during said last tour which altogether for the whole tour was not worth 50 cents in _________. He has never received any other pay for any of said services. Said pay being in Continental paper money. He lived in said county of Shenandoah five years after the war. He then removed to Pulaski County Kentucky, resided there thirty-two years, then removed to Monroe County, Indiana where he resided for two years and now resides. He has no documentary evidence of any part of his services nor does he know of any persons whose testimony he can or could procure except the certificates herewith. He relinquishes hereby every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. He is unable to attend court by reason of age and weakness. He also states there is no clergyman convenient whose certificate he can procure. Thomas X (his mark) Price, Mr. John Hansford, James Everman, and James Smock residing in the neighborhood of Thomas Price hereby certify that we are all well acquainted with the said Thomas Price who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about eighty-two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. I, the said John Hansford, have been well acquainted with the said Thomas Price from my infancy. I being thirty-three years of age, about twenty years of which time I have resided in the same neighborhood with him, during all which time he was reputed and believed where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution. Sworn to and subscribed the year , day, month aforesaid. John Hansford, James Smock, James Everman

Dunmore County was formed from Frederick County in 1772 and named in honor of Lord Dunmore, then Govenor of Virginia (1771-1776). His loyalty to England made the name unacceptable, and it was changed, by Act of the State Legislature in Oct., 1777, to "Shanando". The County orginally embraced not only present Shenandoah, but also about two-thirds of Page and half of Warren, and included this territory at the time of the Revolution. Thus the men enrolled under Capt. Michael Reader were from what is now Page County, and those enrolled under Capt. Joseph Bowman were from what is now Warren County. This is evident from a comparison of the names on the muster rolls with the names on the census lists her published and on the lists of the 1785 census published in "A History of Shenandoah County, Va.," by John W. Wayland.

Prices from List of Michael Reader's Company "Bird--Samuels Papers" Dunmore County VA: Anger Price, Edward Price, Even Price, Meredeth Price, Meredth, Juner, Price, John Price, Thomas Price, Zachery, Sener, Price, and Zachery, Juner, Price.

Shenandoah County Deeds, Book F, page 525. Abstract: Between Thomas Price and Ruth his wife of the County of Shanandoah (to) Casper Miller of aforesaid County... Consideration of twenty pounds ...Tract of Land Containing by estimation Ninety Acres more or less being part of a greater Tract of Land formerly granted to Lawrence Goar of Culpeper County by deed from the Proprietors Office bearing date 10th of April 1751 and said Lawrence Gore conveyed sd. Land to John Price Father to said Thomas & the sd. John Price Senr. by his last Will and Testament did Leave the said Ninety Acres of Land and the said Thomas Price his son and the said Thomas Price and Ruth his wife doth convey same...Corner to Edward Price Deceased...Wit: John Rickabacker, James Herris, Jacob Kiblinger Signed Thomas (x) Price, Ruth (x) Price Recorded: 26 Oct 1787.

From Kentucky Land Warrants: Book 23, page 329, Grants south of the Green River:

Gabriel Slaughter, Govenor and acting Govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky...know ye that by virtue and in consideration of certificate 454 (state price paid without interest) granted by the county court of Pulaski in 1802 agreeably to an act of assemby for settling and improving the vacant lands in the commonwealth, there is granted by the said commonwealth unto Thomas Price assee of John Ingram who was assee of Amos Evans, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred acres by survey bearing date the 29th day of August 1817, lying and being in the County of Pulaski on the waters of Buck Creek and bounded as followeth, to wit: Beginning on a lyne (line) at Alexander Evans corner which was William Fears corner thence running North fourty four East 80 poles to a red oak then South 86 East 58 poles to a sugar tree thence South four East 132 poles to a red oak South 32 East 48 poles to a dogwood and white oak thence South 6 East 18 poles to two white oaks on a conditional line thence with said line South 58 West 40 poles to a buckeye and beech thence North 37 West 190 poles to the beginning with it appurtanances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtanances to the said Thomas Price and heirs forever. In witness whereof the said Gabriel Slaughter, Govenor of the commonwealth of Kentucky had hereunto set his hand and caused the seal of the said commonwealth to be affixed at Frankfort on the 17th day of December in the year of our Lord 1818 and of the commonwealth the 27th. By the Lieutenant Govenor Gabriel Slaughter, John Pope Secretary. The above referenced land sold to son Thomas Price Jr. 16 December 1824.

More About THOMAS PRICE:

Census 1: November 1775, Dunmore County VA

Census 2: 1810, Pulaski County KY p147

Census 3: 1820, Pulaski County KY p46A

Census 4: 1830, With Thomas Jr. Pulaski County KY p.14

Fact 1: 25 October 1787, Sale of inheirited land Shenandoah County VA

Fact 2: 05 September 1796, Shenandoah County VA Deed Record Bk K p425

Fact 3: 1800, Taxpayer Buck Creek Pulaski County KY

Fact 4: 29 July 1817, Land Grant Buck Creek Pulaski County KY

Fact 5: 24 November 1818, Land Grant Buck Creek Pulaski County KY

Fact 6: 16 December 1824, Land sale to son Thomas Jr. 1817 Grant

Fact 7: 23 December 1826, Land sale to Amos Chaney 1818 Grant

____________ PRICE, .THOMAS Monroe Counts Born-April 22, 1750, Frederick Co., Virginia. Service-Pri. in CO. under Capt. Rader, Col. Gibson’s Regt., Vir. Line, 9 mos. Proof-Pension claim S. 31917. Roster of Soldiers and Patriots http://bloomfield.lib.in.us/uploads/4/9/0/2/49026837/roster.pdf

Thomas Price was born on April 22, 1750, in Frederick, Virginia, the son of Sarah and John. He married Ruth in 1782 in Virginia. They had seven children in 19 years. He died in September 1835 in Shelby, Indiana, having lived a long life of 85 years.

Thomas Price was born 22 April 1750 in Frederick County (Revolutionary War Pension Application) His siblings named in the will of their father John Price Sr. are not children of a John Sawyer Price and Sarah Randolph. The family is clearly identified in a 1796 Shenandoah County Deed Record Book K page 425.

References

• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/t/o/Darlene-M-Stone/GENE2-0002.html...
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/971019/person/-164...
• familysearch.org memories for John Price ID K6HR-MWJ