Richard was born July 21, 1794 and died July 8, 1865.
According to The Longstreth Family Records, 1909 (copy in D. presented by F. Thompson), Richard Price was a son of Joseph and Ann Price and a foremost merchant of Philadelphia.[1] The publication also featured their portraits (pictured in their wikitree profiles) on page 170.
His father Joseph was the son of Richard Price, who is reported to have come to Philadelphia from Wales. Joseph Price was married to Ann Callender, whose father was Thomas Callender. The grandmother of Richard Price was Rachel (Burson) Price, whose Wikitree profile is available but not currently connect to Richard Price.
Family History During the American Revolution
From the Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol II [2]
Capt. Thomas Callender, father of Ann (Callender) Price, and grandfather of the above-named children [Richard Price being one], was born in Scotland, and at sixteen ran away from home. He engaged with the captain of a ship sailing for America, and came to Philadelphia. He later followed the sea as captain of a merchant ship, and during the Revolutionary War, obtained Letters of Marque from Congress and fitted out his vessel as a privateer. Meeting with a British man-of-war and refusing to strike his colors, his vessel was fired upon, and he lost his life in the engagement which followed. Captain Callender had married in Philadelphia, Margaret Rourke. prior to going to sea as Captain of the privateer. He removed his family, a colored slave, and his furniture, to Quakertown, Bucks county, intending to bring them back to Philadelphia on his return. When the British took possession of Philadelphia, all the remaining property of Captain Callender was destroyed.
After the evacuation of the city by the British Army, Mrs. Callender returned to Philadelphia, and resided for many years in the family of Joseph Price, whose son her daughter later married, and where she died. She was remembered by her grandchildren as a very handsome woman, with beautiful hands and feet, who, at seventy years of age, embroidered beautifully without the use of glasses.
Verifying the Story of Thomas Callender
Research is needed to verify some details in the above Colonial Families account of Thomas Callender before making a Wikitree profile.
The inconsistencies between the only documented family lore and all other discovered documentation can be explained in a number of ways. Until more evidence is found, it is impossible to know which of these possibilities is the reality:
A) Callender was Carrying on Neutral Trade and Killed by American Privateers During Capture.
B) Callender was a Letter of Marque Holder, Killed by British, with his Ship Captured Prior to October 1776, and then Recaptured October 10, 1776.
I have created a page to sort it all out. See The Story of Captain Thomas Callender.
Anecdotal Quaker Info
Richard Price records show he and his wife Lydia (Longstreth) were active in the Quaker community.
Excerpt from the Longstreth Records:
Flushing Oaks. — Francis Thompson of Croydon, has presented to D
an urn-shaped article made from the white oak-tree at Flushing, Long
Island, under which George Fox preached, in 1672. Tin's interesting
article was presented by Lydia Williams Longstreth Price (1801-1843)*,
of Philadelphia, to her sister, Susan Morris Longstreth Thompson (1802-
1856) and by her to her son, Francis Thompson, the present donor.
Lydia Price received it from Sarah Hicks in 41110. 1842.
Death
Both Richard and his wife Lydia are buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.[3]
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