Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Notes for Matthew Price
“Matthew Price, aged 20, and Jo. Price, aged 34, arrived on ‘The George,’ August 21, 1635.” (Hotten’s Original List)1668
“John Price recieved a grant for 150 acres of land in Henrico County in 1620. He appears to have had one if not more sons, for Mathew Price, John and heir of John Price, deceased, was granted 150 acres of lane in Henrico Court, May 23, 1638.” (Manuscript written by Mr. R. A. Brock, Richmond, VA.)1668
Rev. Benjamin Price, in his 1910 book, wrote:1668
MATTHEWES PRICE. (Son of John Price the Emigrant, 1620.)
"Mathewes Prices, of Henrico Co., Va., was born in Wales, 1615, and died in Henrico; was left by his parents to be educated in Wales, while they emigrated to America; but when 20 years old he came over in the ship 'George Jo. Severne' , 1635, — son of John Price of Henrico, came to Virginia in the 'Starr,' 1620." — (American Ancestry, Vol. XI., page 129.)
"Among the sons of John Price and Ann, his wife, is found one named Mathewes. Mathewes Price was born in Henrico County and one tradition says that he married a Miss Pugh of Wales; and another states a Miss Nelson. However, the marriage record or bond has not been found, and therefore it cannot be stated positively who Mathewes Price married." — (Manuscript written by Mrs. Eva Grant Maloney, Craig City, Va.)
"John Price received a patent for 150 acres of land in Henrico County in 1620. He appears to have had one if not more sons, for Mathew Price, son and heir of John Price, deceased, was granted 150 acres of land in Henrico Court, May 23, 1638." — (Manuscript written by Mr. R .A. Brock, Richmond, Va.)
"Mathew Price was granted 150 acres of land in Henrico County in 1638."— (Virginia Colonial Record, Vol. V.)
"Mathew Price, aged 20, and Jo. Price ,aged 34, arrived on 'The George,' August 21, 1635."— (Hotten's Original List.)
If John Price, the father of Matthewes, was born in 1584, and Mr. Brock is correct in saying that Matthewes became the "heir of John Price, deceased," in the year 1638, then John Price, the Emigrant, was about 54 years old at the time of his death. If John Price and Ann, his second wife, were married in 1623, and Matthewes were their son, he would be very young in 1638 to take charge of real estate. In my opinion Matthewes was the son of John and Mary, the Emigrants, 1620; he did not come with them and their son William to America; for he was too young at 5 years to endure the hardships and clangers of the New World. He may have been left by his parents to be educated in Wales, as such advantages did not exist in the Colony at such an early date.
Matthewes was an honorable free-holder and of course belonged to the gentlemen free-holders and the militia, for every honorable freeman (i. e., those not indentured or of the servant class), was mustered into service for the purpose of defending the countiy, and helping to build the Empire.
Among the sons of Matthewes Price was one named John, who came in for the land at the "Falls of James river and other Henrico lands."
“John Price recieved a grant for 150 acres of land in Henrico County in 1620. He appears to have had one if not more sons, for Mathew Price, John and heir of John Price, deceased, was granted 150 acres of lane in Henrico Court, May 23, 1638.” (Manuscript written by Mr. R. A. Brock, Richmond, VA.)1668
Rev. Benjamin Price, in his 1910 book, wrote:1668
MATTHEWES PRICE. (Son of John Price the Emigrant, 1620.)
"Mathewes Prices, of Henrico Co., Va., was born in Wales, 1615, and died in Henrico; was left by his parents to be educated in Wales, while they emigrated to America; but when 20 years old he came over in the ship 'George Jo. Severne' , 1635, — son of John Price of Henrico, came to Virginia in the 'Starr,' 1620." — (American Ancestry, Vol. XI., page 129.)
"Among the sons of John Price and Ann, his wife, is found one named Mathewes. Mathewes Price was born in Henrico County and one tradition says that he married a Miss Pugh of Wales; and another states a Miss Nelson. However, the marriage record or bond has not been found, and therefore it cannot be stated positively who Mathewes Price married." — (Manuscript written by Mrs. Eva Grant Maloney, Craig City, Va.)
"John Price received a patent for 150 acres of land in Henrico County in 1620. He appears to have had one if not more sons, for Mathew Price, son and heir of John Price, deceased, was granted 150 acres of land in Henrico Court, May 23, 1638." — (Manuscript written by Mr. R .A. Brock, Richmond, Va.)
"Mathew Price was granted 150 acres of land in Henrico County in 1638."— (Virginia Colonial Record, Vol. V.)
"Mathew Price, aged 20, and Jo. Price ,aged 34, arrived on 'The George,' August 21, 1635."— (Hotten's Original List.)
If John Price, the father of Matthewes, was born in 1584, and Mr. Brock is correct in saying that Matthewes became the "heir of John Price, deceased," in the year 1638, then John Price, the Emigrant, was about 54 years old at the time of his death. If John Price and Ann, his second wife, were married in 1623, and Matthewes were their son, he would be very young in 1638 to take charge of real estate. In my opinion Matthewes was the son of John and Mary, the Emigrants, 1620; he did not come with them and their son William to America; for he was too young at 5 years to endure the hardships and clangers of the New World. He may have been left by his parents to be educated in Wales, as such advantages did not exist in the Colony at such an early date.
Matthewes was an honorable free-holder and of course belonged to the gentlemen free-holders and the militia, for every honorable freeman (i. e., those not indentured or of the servant class), was mustered into service for the purpose of defending the countiy, and helping to build the Empire.
Among the sons of Matthewes Price was one named John, who came in for the land at the "Falls of James river and other Henrico lands."