Mordecai Price (abt. 1660 - 1715)

Born about 1660 in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Parsons) Price — married about 1692 in Maryland

Descendants

Died 8 May 1715 at about age 55 in Anne Arundel, Province of Maryland

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This person is a direct ancestor of President Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States. ^[1]

Biography

This profile is part of the Price Name Study.

Mordecai was a Friend (Quaker)

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No birth record for Mordecai Price has been found. He was likely born around the West River area of Anne Arundel County, Maryland around 1660. Mordecai was mentioned on a memorial with a death date of 8 May 1715.^[2] No proof of his parentage has been found, but some researchers have placed him as the son of Thomas Price and Elizabeth Johnson.

It is difficult to know where Mordecai Price lived since early land records of both Anne Arundel and Calvert counties were destroyed by fire. He was definitely living in the West River area of Anne Arundel County in 1705 as there is a record of the marriage of Elizabeth Price, daughter of Mordecai & Mary Price of Anne Arundel County at West River, to Thomas Carr in the minutes of the West River Meeting of Quakers. ^[3]

According to the 1707 debt book of the Lord Proprietor, Mordecai held a 116 acre tract called Locust Neck in his own right and 18 acres of the same tract for the orphans of Anthony Holland. He also owned 50 acres called Papa Ridge and 50 acres. called Greenwood. ^[4]

Marriage & Family

Mordecai was married to Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Isabella Parsons. Mordeai was in a family history or pedigree.^[5] No record of the births of their children has been found in Quaker records, but the marriages of three of their children: Elizabeth, Mary & Mordecai Jr. are all entered in West River minutes.^[3] We know the names of the Price children (and birth years) through the will of Mary Price dated 8 May 1718 as follows: ^[6]

1. John
2. Thomas
3. Rachel
4. Hannah
5. Benjamin
6. Stephen
7. Mordecai
8. Leah
9. Elizabeth
10. Mary
11. Sarah

Death

There is no record of the death of Mordecai Price. An inventory of his estate was taken in 1715 in Anne Arundel County.^[7] An accounting of the estate is available at the Maryland Archives in Annapolis in Liber 1, folio 333, 337 dated 1718.

Sources

1. ↑ Mordecai Price: He was also an Ancestor of President Richard Nixon … JULY 9, 2014 / LIZZIE3622: https://historyandnovelty.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/mordecai-price-he-was-also-an-ancestor-of-president-richard-nixon/
2. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #33481544 (accessed 29 July 2023)
   Memorial page for Mordecai Price I (1660-8 May 1715); Maintained by Bonnie Huish (contributor 46938507).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Peden, Henry C. Jr. “Quaker Records of Southern Maryland” Willow Bend Books, Westminster:2000
4. ↑ IBarnes, Robert W. “Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759” Baltimore, MD: Clearfield 1989
5. ↑ Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: "Settlers by the Long Grey Trail"
   Original data: Harrison, J. Houston. Settlers by the Long Grey Trail. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 49354 #101230 (accessed 29 July 2023)
6. ↑ Mary died leaving a will dated: 8 May 1718,- Proved: 15 June 1718 naming children, John, Thomas, Benjamin, Stephen, Mordecai, Rachel, Hannah, Elizabeth wife of Thomas Carr, Leah Ford, Mary, and Sarah Price, and grand daughter Mary Carr; estate was admin. 4 Nov 1726, by Thomas Carr and named Dec's daughter Mary, w. of Jonathan Hanson; est. Was adm. 10 Nov. 1729, naming William Wheeler as the husband of Constant, widow and administrator. Of Stephen Price, and a daughter. Who married Thomas Taylor ; est. Was adm 25 May 1728; Mordecai and Mary had issue; Elizabeth, b. 1865, m. Thomas Carr on 22 Oct. 1705 at West River Meeting; Stephen, b. 1687; Mary, b. 1688/9, m. 1st. 29 Aug. 1718, Jonathan Hanson, and 2nd. Dr. George Walker; John b.1690; Leah, m. 1 Jan 1711 at All hallows Par., in A A Co. Md. to Thomas Ford;, Hannah, m. 1st. William Tipton, and 2nd John Bosley; Isabella, m. William Wheeler; Mordecai, b. 1702; Sarah, b.. April 1705, m. Thomas Taylor in Oct. 1725; Rachel, b. 1706, m. Dennis Garrett Cole; Benjamin, b. 1709, m. Elizabeth Hewett on 22 June 1730; Thomas, b. 1 Jan 1722; Samuel, b. 1713. So, really Mary Parson Price death should look more like this: Bef. 15 June 1718. It's unlikely that she died on the day of writing her will. It happens and it's possible, but the Date of death is probably more likely somewhere between the date of writing dated 8 May 1718 - the Proving of her will 15 June 1718. Submitted by Cathi Gross
7. ↑ Prerogative Court Inventories Liber 36C folio 250, Maryland Archives

Lois Jeannette (Baltzly) Carr and Charles Edgar Carr, The Passing Shadows of the Carr Clan, Pioneers of Jefferson, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne Counties, Ohio, Their Ancestors and Descendants, 1658-1976, (privately printed, unknown publisher), 1976.