Thomas Price (1740 - 1781)

Born 1740 in Wales [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1 Jun 1781 at about age 41 in Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Captain Thomas Price served with Washington District Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Thomas Price is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A093088.

Thomas was born about 1740. He passed away in 1781.

Battle of King's Mountain; Died at the Siege of Augusta, 1781 Capt. Price made the ultimate sacrifice for his country: he died during the Siege of Augusta. ^[1]

"Captain Thomas Price was wounded by a ball in the groin, ten minutes thereafter he died and was buried within the breastworks"^[2]

. ''BURIAL OF CAPTAIN THOMAS PRICE

NOTE BY K.Chambers: His FindAGrave Memorial burial location has been changed to St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery, which was built over the old Fort Cornwallis in Augusta, Georgia, which is where he was buried.

“...he was buried near the breastwork.” It is indicative that William Price made this statement in 1832 -- 51 years after his father’s death. He did not mention they later retrieved Captain Price’s body after the battle and re-interred him elsewhere in either his pension application or the 1786 Petition. Neither did Margaret Robertson Price in her widow’s pension application in 1843, nor George Price in his 1846 affidavit for Elizabeth Hampton Price’s widow’s application. No record or mention of the removal of Captain Price has been found.

It would have been extremely difficult for young William, age 19, to return to Augusta through South Carolina for several years, as it was still a hotbed of battles, skirmishes, and roving Indian bands. Captain Price’s partner, George Lewis, was blind in both eyes, and most of their friends were still engaged in the war.

The breastworks would have been the trenches, likely the trenches on the southeast side of Fort Cornwallis where they were located. The men who died that night would have been buried quickly on June 1st, due to heat and humidity of the hot Georgia summer. Whether the burial area was near the river or the other end of the trenches shown in the drawing by Mr. Rauch, is unknown.

Death

Death:

Date: 1781

Place: Augusta, Georgia, United States^[3]

Event

Research Notes

• Other possible birth location: Wales

• Two descendants that have taken a YDNA test prove that Captain Price was not the son of Rice Price (a completely different Haplogroup), or Rees Price, nor any other early American family. Unless a future test proves different, it appears Captain Thomas Price was an immigrant from either England or Wales.

Esmerelda Robinson Smith, a great great granddaughter, stated Thomas Price was born in Wales in 1740. She was the first woman to apply for DAR membership under his Patriot profile in 1931.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.google.com/books/edition/King_s_Mountain_and_Its_Heroes/6lv28UVzqUIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Thomas%20Price
2. ↑ https://tngenes.net/index.php/military/pension-transcriptions/211-price-william-revolutionary-war-pension-application-w-1072
3. ↑ http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=sarmemberapps&h=902446&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1735 Birth place: Wales Death date: 1781 Death place: Augusta, Georgia APID: 1,2204::902446

• Capt Thomas Price (1735-1781) on Find A Grave: Memorial #142989592 retrieved 25 November 2020

• Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls Note: APID: 1,2204::0

• Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC, Data provided by the website Carolana. (accessed 29 Jul 2022)

Trees

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=46092103&pid=1652

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Price-2944 created through the import of Misty_s ancestry.ged on Sep 16, 2012 by Misty Wood. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Misty and others.