Hannah (Price) Evans (abt. 1656 - 1741)

Born about 1656 in Llanfor, Merionethshire, Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Ellis (David) Davies — married 22 Apr 1703 (to before 17 Mar 1720) in Merion Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Wife of Thomas (ap Evan) Evans — married 14 Nov 1722 (to 12 Oct 1738) in Goshen Monthly Meeting, Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 29 Sep 1741 at about age 85 in Goshen, Chester, Province of Pennsylvania

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Biography

Hannah (Price) Evans was born in Merionethshire, Wales.

Hannah was a Friend (Quaker)

This profile is part of the Price Name Study.

Hannah Richards or Price, born in 1656, sister to Jane, wife of Cadwalader Morgan, of Merion, and to Edward Price, who came to Pensylvania before 1685-6, and daughter of Richard Gryffyth ap Rhys, or Prees, and Price, of Llanvawr or Lanfor parish in Merioneth, a member of the Friends Penylln Monthly Meeting, near Bala, whose will dated 26 11mo 1685, was filed at St Asaph registry in 1686. His will describes him as of Glanlloidiogin. Llanfor parish. Witnesses were Edward Nicholas, Thomas ap Robert, Lowry v Thomas, Rees Evans, and Cadwalader Ellis. To Edward Prees, alias Price (of Merion), eldest son (after he came over here he sent to Wales for "some intelligence of his Pedigree" which he received about 1700, and is extant); Jane, eldest daughter, wife of Cadwalader Morgan; daughter Hannah, wife of Rees John William [aka Rees Jones]; grandchildren William John, and Catherine John, children of John William; and son Thomas ap Richard, the executor, who received all of the estate of his father. Thomas renounced the trust, when the Court gave the administration to Edward Nicholas, of Cynlas.^[1][2]

Birth

Hannah Price was born about 1656 in Llanfor, Merionethshire, Wales.

Emigration

She boarded on the ship Vine and arrived at the Colony of Pennsylvania on 17 September 1684. The ship's master was William Preeson.

Marriage

Hannah Price married first, Rees John William [aka Rees Jones].

After Rees’s death, Hannah, his "relict' [widow], married secondly at the Merion Monthly Meeting, on 22. 2mo. 1703 [22 April 1703], Ellis David/Davies, of Goshen Twp., a widower, who was buried, 17. 1 mo. 1720.^[3][4]

Hannah Davies, the widow of Ellis David/Davies, married thirdly, Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd Twp. at Merion Monthly Meeting on 14. 1 mo. 1722 [14 March 1722].^[5]

Death

Mrs. Hannah Evans died on 29 November 1741 in Chester County, colonial Province of Pennsylvania.

• Fact: will (4 Jan 1754) Whitpain, Twp., Montgomery, Pa.
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Having set sail on the ship " Vine of Liverpoole," William Preeson, Master, was the family of Rees John William with his wife Hannah, and their three children Richard, Evan, and Lowry, they arrived in Philadelphia the 17th of the Seventh-month, 1684, from a places near Dolgelly, Merionethshire, Wales. His wife Hannah, was of a good family, a woman of character, and interested in the religious Society of Friends of which she was a member. She was the daughter of Richard ap Griffith ap Rhys. He had assumed the surname of Price, and at the time of his death was a resident of the Parish of Llanfawr, County Meroneth Wales.

Hannah's father was a member of Penllyn Meeting, held near Bala. His name appears often signed to papers issuing from that meeting, such as certificates of removal, of those desiring to remove to the colonies. Page 75- "Merian in the Welch Tract"

• Fact: Burial Goshen, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Sources

1. ↑ Browning, Charles H. "Families and Lands of Second Arrivals." Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1912. 132. Internet Archive. Archive.org, 31 July 2009. Web. 2016. <https://archive.org/stream/welshsettlemento00brow#page/252/mode/1up>.
2. ↑ Browning, Charles H. "Families and Lands of Second Arrivals." Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1912. 133. Internet Archive. Archive.org, 31 July 2009. Web. 2016. <https://archive.org/stream/welshsettlemento00brow#page/254/mode/1up>
3. ↑ The widower Ellis David/Davies of Goshen married the widow, Hannah (Price) Jones at Merion Meeting on 22 Second Month [April] 1703.
4. ↑ James E. Hazard, Quaker Records: Radnor Index, vol. 7 of Abstracts of the Records of Monthly Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Swarthmore, Pa.: Friends Historical Library, 2009)
5. ↑ Browning, Charles H. "Families and Lands of Second Arrivals." Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1912. 133. Internet Archive. Archive.org, 31 July 2009. Web. 2016. <https://archive.org/stream/welshsettlemento00brow#page/254/mode/1up>

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 15 August 2020, 13:32), entry for Hannah Price(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L1HL-SF5); contributed by various users.

See also:

• Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA:

• James A. Quinn, Historian, Gwynedd Friends Meeting.JONES and JOHN family histories at Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Pennsylvania). Page created March, 2009. Last updated May 2012.

• Lloyd, Howard W. Lloyd Manuscripts: Genealogies of the Families of Awbrey-Vaughan, Blunston, Burbeck, Garrett, Gibbons, Heacock, Hodge, Houlston, Howard, Hunt, Jarman, Jenkin-Griffith, Jones, Knight, Knowles, Lloyd, Newman, Paschall, Paul, Pearson, Pennell, Pott, Pyle, Reed, Sellers, Smith, Thomas, Till, Williams, Wood. Lancaster, Pa: Press of the New Era Print. Co, 1912. 165. Internet Archive. Archive.org, 22 February 2010. Web. 2016. <https://archive.org/stream/lloydmanuscripts00byulloy#page/165/mode/1up>

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