Mary (Morton) Price (1733 - abt. 1771)

Born 12 Nov 1733 in Goochland, Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of William Price — married about 1755 in Lunenburg County, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1771 at about age 37 in Prince Edward, Virginia

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Biography

Mary was born November 12, 1733, probably in Goochland County, Virginia to Joseph Morton, Jr. and his first wife.^[1][2] She passed away about 1771.

Research Notes

• 14 Sep 1750, Joseph Morton to daughter Mary wife of William Price, all of Amelia, love and affection, 250 acres more or less bound by John Biggers, Riches and John Biggs' lines, to great branch that runs through Biggs' plantation to the Buffalo River; patent to Joseph Morton dated 20 Sep 1745, part conveyed to Obadiah Woodson
  

witnesses: Jacob Michaux, Josiah Morton, Stephen Morton

Court 26 Oct 1752, Joseph Morton, Jr. presented deed to be recorded,
Samuel Cobbs, Cl. C.^[3]

Mary was born before her father removed to what is now Prince Edward County. He had appeared in Goochland records as early as 1731.^[4] She is not the daughter of Joseph's wife Agnes Woodson. Her mother is supposed to be a Mary Goode of Henrico (later Chesterfield), who died young. Mary (Goode) Morton's parents are in dispute.

There is also some confusion about whether Mary survived her husband. However that would preclude his second marriage to Mary Gaines, which happened when his son William Price, Jr. was only 15 years old. William Sr. was survived by his second wife Mary.

Sources

1. ↑ Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society and Knowles Center, Family Bible Collecting Project, Morton family of Charlotte County, VA, some of whom migrated to Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, TN, 2006. https://tsla.tnsosfiles.com/general/BibleRecords/MTGS/MORTONBible.pdf NB: these dates have been published elsewhere in family histories
2. ↑ Morton Family of Henrico, Prince Edward and Brunswick Counties, Virginia, James W. Allen, The William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul., 1931), pp. 212. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1921025#
3. ↑ Deed books, 1734-1869, Virginia. County Court (Amelia County), Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1948, (DB4:456-457) film 30432 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKW-MSPY-P?i=514&cat=282005
4. ↑ Order and minute books, 1728-1880, Virginia. County Court (Goochland County), Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1948, (OB3:18) film 31671 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-4Y5W?i=306&cat=401120 Joseph Morton received bounty for wolves heads

• Will books, 1765-1904, Virginia. County Court (Charlotte County), Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949, (WB1:292-294), film 30776 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9PH-T9ZK?i=210&cat=368051 Father's Charlotte County Will