Johannes Preisz Sr. (1702 - 1724)

Born 24 Jun 1702 in Near Schwarzenau, Witgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Lenape) Preiss — married about 1722 (to 1724) in Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Province of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1724 at about age 21 in Indian Creek, Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Province of Pennsylvania

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Biography

Johannes Preisz Sr. has German Roots.

Johannes Preisz was born on 24 June 1702 near Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.^[1] the only known child of Johan Jakob and Margaret Unknown Preisch/Price.

In 1719, when he was in his mid-teens, he migrated to Pennsylvania with his parents, where the family settled in Germantown.

On 27 June 1721, his father, Rev Johan Jakob Preisz, had purchased 200 acres of land in what would become Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (then Salford Township, Philadelphia County).^{[citation needed]}. He was a small man in stature and imperfectly developed, and fearing his weakly son would not survive to have children to carry on the family name, Johannes Preisz was told to marry a beautiful Unami maiden, a healthy young Indian maiden, no doubt a member of the Lenape tribe who was selected for her physical perfection.

About 1722,^[2] when he was twenty, Johannes married Indian Maiden Lenape. She bore him two children, both sons:

1. Daniel Price
2. John Preisz, (the latter born after his father's death).

In 1724, when he was about twenty-two Johannes died of unknown causes on Indian Creek, Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Province of Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]}

In her sadness, Indian Maiden Lenape-Preisz went back to her Unami people, leaving the children with the grandfather to be raised. Clearly though she infused life into the family that has flourished for scores of generations.

Joannes Preisz was also a poet and published a book of work. After he died, on 7 Feb 1741, Jakob conveyed his entire 200 acre estate to the eldest grandson, Daniel.^{[citation needed]}

From Wanger, Price Genealogy

"[Johannes] was seventeen years of age when with his father he came to America. He was a weakly youth and his father feared he would not live to have issue. And yet so anxious was the parent to leave a name and posterity behind him that he encouraged his son to marry while still young. It is said that an Indian girl, on account of her excellent physique and good health, was selected and became his wife."

The Price family genealogist tells the story:

An excerpt from Wanger's A Genealogy of the Descendants of Rev. Jacob Price, Evangelist, p.3.

Family historian Paul Thompson writes:

"About 5 years ago, I attended a Stover Sister Reunion that brought together prominent families from Minneapolis, Chicago, and Des Moines to a little place called Panther Brethren Church in Dallas County, Iowa.

"I was delighted to share with the family the recent connection I had found to the indian blood line through the Price family. Those present were intrigued, but one older lady spoke saying that she could remember her grandmother, talking about the indian grandmother from her childhood. She had forgotten about it and hadn’t spoken much of it."

The Preiszes lived on Indian Creek, north and west of Harleysville, which is about 30 miles north northwest of Philadelphia

From Findagrave.com

Rev John Price

Birth: 1702, Germany; Death: 1724.

Father: Jacob John Jacob Preus Preisz Price b: AFT 1660 in Wittgenstein, Prussia; Mother: Margaret (nee unknown) Price b: AFT 1665.

Marriage 1 Unknown (nee unknown) Preisz Preiss Price b: ABT 1702; Married: in PA & resided Lower Salford Twp., Philadelphia Co. (now Montgomery Co.)

Children: 1.Daniel Preiss Price b: 11 DEC 1723 in Philadelphia Co. (now Montgomery Co.), PA; 2.John Preiss Price , Jr. b: ABT 1725 in Philadelphia Co. (now Montgomery Co.), PA.

Family links: Children: Daniel Price (1723 - 1804), John Price (1724 - 1803).

Burial: Price Cemetery, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ N.E., "Rev John Price," Findagrave.com. Record added: Oct 31, 2014. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138084273. Accessed 26 Aug 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.
2. ↑ A previous version of this profile claimed a specific date of 11 December 1722; I know of no source for this very specific date, and think it is of dubious veracity. [Prickett-120|Patricia Prickett Hickin], 28 May 2021.
3. ↑ Wilton Golson, "Rev John Price," Findagrave.com. Record added Jun 08, 2010. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53410310. Accessed 4 June 2020.

• Unsourced family tree handed down to Jennifer (Cook) Chambers.

• Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971

• Golson, Wilton. "Rev John Price," Findagrave.com. Record added Jun 08, 2010. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53410310. Accessed Prickett-120 14:27, 31 August 2017 (EDT).

• N.E., "Rev John Price," Findagrave.com. Record added: Oct 31, 2014. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138084273. Accessed 26 Aug 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

• Thompson, Paul. Email to Patricia Prickett Hickin, 7 Oct 2015.

• Wanger, Geo. F.P. A Genealogy of The Descendants of Rev. Jacob Price: Evangelist--Pioneer, compiled for The Price Family AssociationThe Evangelical Press, Harrisburg, PA, 1926.

• Phillips-Pellatt Ancestry Family Tree

• Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1721; Page Number: 126

Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.

• (www.findagrave.com/memorial/53410310/john-price : accessed 27 April 2021), memorial page for Rev John Price (1702–1724), Find a Grave Memorial ID 53410310, citing Price Cemetery, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Tom Myers (contributor 47272121) .

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data:Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.Indiana Yearly Meeting Minutes. Earlham College Friends Collection & College Archives, Richmond, Indiana.Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgments

• Robin (Felch) Craig imported the data for John Price from Felch Family Tree.ged Robin Craig,

• Rick Reed imported the data for Johannes (Preiss) Price Sr. from Verna_Nice_Ancestors_2016-09-02.ged on 6 Sep 2016.