Mary (Garner) Price (1662 - bef. 1726)

Born 1662 in Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of John Lewis II — married 21 Feb 1683 (to 16 May 1697) in St Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia

Wife of Richard Price — married 1697 (to 26 Sep 1724) in St Stephens, Northumberland, Virginia

Descendants

Died before 20 Apr 1726 before age 64 in St Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

This profile is part of the Price Name Study.

Mary Garner, the daughter of John Garner and Susanna Keene, was born about 1662, in Westmoreland, Virginia. Her first marriage was to George Courtnell, Jr. in 1682. He died that same year. She married John Lewis on February 21, 1683, in St Stephens, Northumberland, Virginia, and, following his death in 1697, married Richard Price, in that same year, also in St Stephens.

Mary's will was dated 21 December 1724 and presented for probate at Northumberland Court 20 April 1726.^[1]

Will

In the Name of God Amen I Mary Price of the Parish of St. Stephens in the Couny of Northumberland, Widow being at present in sound & perfect health & reasonable understanding do make & ordain this this to be my Last will & Testament in manner & form following hereby revoking & making voyd all former wills & Testaments by me made Dated this twenty first Day of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundered & twenty four and in the Eleventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George in Great Britain & c.
Item I give & bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it me hoping by his infinite Mercy & by my dear Saviour Jesus Christ his intercession & by the merrits of his passion it shall at the Last day be reunited with my body & Glorified & I will that my body have Christian & decent buriall
Item I will that my just Debts be truly paid & as for my Goods & Estate which it hath pleased my Good God to bless me beyond any deserts of mine I give & bequeath them in the following manner
Item I give & bequeath unto my Son John Lewis one warming pan which was his fathers to be in full of his part of my whole Estate for that it has pleased God to bless him with a plentifull Estate
Item I give & bequeath to my Son James Lewis one feather bed & furniture o be paid him immediately after my decease by my Ext'r out of my Estate
Item I give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Ann Lewis, daughter of my Son Wm Lewis Dec'd my Largest Gold ring & Silver bodkin to be p'd immediately after my decease
Item I give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of my s'd Son William my next Largest Gold ring to be delivered as above
Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Vincent Lewis son of Wm Lewis Dec'd one Ewe & lamb to be delivered as above
Item I give & bequeath to my Grandson Pemberton Clayton one heiffer to be delivered to him immediately after my decease by my Ext'r
Item I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughter Mary Damerill daughter of Joseph Damerill my Son in Law all my wearing apparell to be delivered as within mentioned
Item I give & bequeath to my Grandson Lewis Toon son of my Son in Law Mark Toon Dec'd five thousand pounds of tobo to be paid him when he shall attain the age of twenty one years by my Ext'r
Item I give & bequeath to my Son Arjalon Price son of Richard Price Dec'd one Negro woman named Betty & her increase for ever
Item I give & bequeath unto my s'd Son Arjalon Price all & singular the rest Residue & remainder of my Estate of what nature kind or quality soever to him & his heirs for Ever & I do hereby Nominate & appoint him to be my full & whole Ext'r of this my Last will & Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed my seale the day & year within written

Mary (her M mark) Price

Sealed published & declared to
be her Last will & Testament
in presence of
George Boutt
Martha Boutt
William Boutt
Die Aprillis 20: 1726 this will was proved in Northumberland County Court to be the Last will & Testament of Mary Price Dec'd by the oaths of George Boutt Martha Boutt & Willaim Boutt witnesses thereto & is admited to be Recorded

Test, Rich'd Lee, Cl Cur

At a Court held for Northumberland County on the 8th of 8ber 1744 This Originall will of Mary Price Dec'd being found among the papers in the office of the afores'd County but not Recorded in the books was this day presented to the Court by Arjalon Price & on his motion the Same is to be Recorded & Certifyd

Test, James Fontaine, Cl Cur

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Kelly Sinclair for starting this profile.

• This profile was created by merging a number of imported profiles, but lacks documentary sources.

• WikiTree profile Garner-313 was created through the import of FISCUS Family Tree.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Liisa Small.

• WikiTree profile Garner-461 created through the import of Merten_Rappolee_Armstrong_2011-07-27.ged on Jul 27, 2011 by Peg Merten.

• WikiTree profile Garner-651 was created through the import of Rodgers Family Tree.ged on Feb 5, 2012 by Diane Rodgers.

• WikiTree profile Garner-725 was created through the import of Freeman Family Tree.ged on Aug 9, 2012 by Emily Freeman.

• Thank you to TinaSue Friel for creating WikiTree profile Garner-1272 through the import of My Family Tree - 2013-01-04 13-20-43.ged on Jul 12, 2013.

• Thank you to Rick Brown for creating Garner-1470 on 1 Dec 2013.

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ [1] Will of Mary Price dated 21 Dec 1724, proved 20 Apr 1726. Northumberland Co. Deeds Wills Inventories Book 1743-1749, p. 53.

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• Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [2]"Lewis, John & Courtnell, Mary (wid.); bef. 18 Oct 1682; bride was prob. the eld. dau. of Jn. & Susanna (KEENE) GARNER; she was the rel. of Geo. COURTNELL Jr. (d. NC c. 1682) she mar. (3) Rich Price..."http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txla/john_garner/aqwg01.htm.