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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



James, and David and several daugh- 

 ters, one of whom, Elizabeth, married 

 James Slack, of Hunterdon county in 

 1732. James Price, above mentioned, 

 married Elizabeth Ely, daughter of 

 George Ely, of Trenton, in 1737, and had 

 one son George. 



David Price, supposed to have been a 

 son of James of Maidenhead, was the 

 direct ancestor of Dr. Price. He was a 

 large landholder in the neighborhood 

 of Hopewell, New Jersey, and in 1756 

 purchased 200 acres of land in Middle- 

 town township, and died there in 1765, 

 leaving two sons, Nathan and James, 

 and four daughters, Rebecca, who mar- 

 ried Daniel Price of Kingwood, Hun- 

 terdon county. New Jersey, and doubt- 

 less a descendant of Benjamin Price, 

 who settled at Elizabethtown, New Jer- 

 sey, in 1677, whose son Daniel was 

 sheriff of his county in 1692; Eleanor, 

 who married Benjamin Stackhouse of 

 Bucks county in 1761; Sarah, who died 

 single in Merion, Philadelphia county, 

 in 1767; and Susannah, who married Jo- 

 seph Mahr, of Northampton county. 

 James Price, the second son, married 

 Sarah Huddleston, of Middletown, and 

 lived and died on the old homestead 

 there. 



Nathan Price was for some years a 

 resident of Bucks county, but removed 

 to Kingwood, Hunterdon county. New 

 Jersey, prior to 1775, where he became 

 a prominent citizen, and served as sher- 

 iff of the county, 1806-8. He is said to 

 have married a daughter of Timothy 

 Smith, sheriff of Bucks county, 1728-30, 

 and 1737-9. The children of Nathan 

 Price in 1767 as shown by the will of 

 his sister Sarah were : John, Rebecca, 

 Smith, Elizabeth, Sarah, Phebe, James 

 and David. 



Smith Price, second son of Nathan, 

 was born September 11, 1748. Both he 

 and his brother John were residents of 

 Plumstead township during the revolu- 

 tion, the latter serving as first lieuten- 

 ant of militia. Smith was a wheel- 

 wright by trade and followed that line 

 of work for r number of years in Plum- 

 stead. He later became a storekeeper 

 at Gardenville, and was a considerable 

 land owner in Plumstead. He married, 

 September i, 1776, before Isaac Hicks, 

 Esq., of Newtown, Martha Carver, born 

 December 21. 1756, died April 11, 1793, 

 daughter of Joseph Carvver, of Bucking- 

 ham, and had one son John, born May 

 IS. 1779- He married (second) Hannah 

 -^ and had children: Jonathan. Jo- 

 seph. Samuel, Smith. Mary and Bur- 

 roughs. He died October 17, 1816, at the 

 age of eighty-eight years. 



John Price, only surviving child of 

 Smith and Martha (Carver) Price, born 

 in Plumstead township May 15. 1779- 

 was a lifelong resident of Plumstead. 

 On his marriage in 1798 he settled on 

 his father's farm on the Durham road, 



below Gardenville, which he inherited 

 later under his father's will, and lived 

 there until his death, November 2, 1828^ 

 in his fiftieth year. He married, Janu- 

 ary 21, 1798, Elizabeth Kirk, born Oc- 

 tober 19, 1773, died January 11, 1849, 

 daughter of Stephen and Phebe (Fell) 

 Kirk, and granddaughter of Isaac and 

 Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, and of Ben- 

 jamin and Hannah (Scarborough) Fell, 

 the former of whom was born in Cum- 

 berland, England, in 1703. (See Fell, 

 Kirk, and Scarborough families in this 

 work). The children of John and Eliza- 

 beth (Kirk) Price were: Phebe, born 

 1799, died 1802; Charles M., born June 

 29, 1801, married Susan Rich; Martha, 

 born February 8, 1804, married Yeam- 

 ans Paul Jones; Kirk J., born Septem- 

 ber 24, 1805, married Sarah Brown; 

 Stephen K., born October 30, 1807, mar- 

 ried (first) Rebecca Carey and (second) 

 Nancy Flack; Sarah B., born October 7, 

 1809, married James Meredith; John N., 

 born September 19, 181 1, married Chris- 

 tianna Godshalk ; Hannah Brock, born 

 January 20, 1814, married Eleazer F, 

 Church, of Newtown: Smith, twin to 

 Hannah B:, married Harriet Opp; and 

 Preston, born September 30, 1816. 



John N. Price, son of John and Eliza- 

 beth (Kirk) Price, born in Plumstead, 

 September 19, 181 1, resided the greater 

 part of his life in Solebury township, 

 where he owned and operated a small 

 farm. After the death of his wife he re- 

 sided for a number of years with his 

 son Samuel G., in Plumstead and 

 Doylestown, dying at the later place 

 August 8, 1888, in his seventy-seventh 

 year. He married, December 27, 1832, 

 Christianna Godshalk, daughter of Sam- 

 uel and Sidney Godslalk, born April 

 20, 181 1, died February 19, 1865. Sam- 

 uel Godslalk w-as born November li, 

 177S, and died June 26, i860, and his 

 wife Sidney, whom he married in Febru- 

 ary, 1801, was born December 17, 1780, 

 and died May 30. 1850. The children of 

 John N. and Christianna (Godshalk) 

 Price were: Edmund M., born Novem- 

 ber 7, 1833, died at Lahaska, Bucks 

 county, August 12, 1893, was for many 

 years a veterinary surgeon in Bucking- 

 ham; Elizabeth H., born July i, 1836, 

 died April 2, 1856. married Walker Booz. 

 of Carversville; Sidney G., born Aug- 

 ust 16, 1840, married Joseph Mathews, 

 of Solebury, and is still Iiving;i John 

 Beatty, born April 17, 1842, died in a 

 military hospital at Mound City, Illinois, 

 August 19, 1863, from sickness contract- 

 ed in the army in the civil war, in Dur- 

 ell's Battery; Marj^ P., born November 

 26, 1843, married Harvey Fretz ; and 

 Samuel G.. born May 25, 1846. 



Samuel G. Price was born and reared 

 in Solebury township, and acquired his 

 education at llic public schools and at 

 Carversville Excelsior Normal Institute. 

 On leaving school he filled the po- 



