Notes for Rice PRICE

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Notes for Rice PRICE

In C. C. Gardner Collections, bound volumes in Rutgers Univ. Library, Special
Collections, there appears the following:
RICE PRICE
Aged 65 years, a resident of Morris township, Morris Co., N.J., declares "that he served in the Jersey line in the Regiment Commanded by Colo Briarly in Captain Lyons Company -- that he made his original application or declaration on the ninth day of
August 1818, that he has received a pension certificate which is numbered 9052 . . . that I am sixty five years of age by occupation a laborer, but unable to perform active labor by reason of general debility of body for more than six months past, I
have a wife aged about fifty six years, named Phebe in tolarable health and inabled to perform the common duties of the house, like other women of her years. I have seven children but they do not live in my family. I have residing in my family one
Grand child Susanna aged about twelve years which is bound to me and is dependant on me for support . . . I have a life estate in two acres of Land belonging to my wife--upon which there is a small house or hut." (Signs with an X.) Noted GMNJ 24:44.
Littell, page 336, describes Rice Price as "son of Samuel Price, of Warren Co." Loyalist Clarks & Badgleys, page 32, calls him son of Samuel and Phebe (Clark) Price of Warren, N.J.
[He would probably be 5th generation from Benjamin (1) Price.]
Note: There is a Deed recorded in Essex County Book B2 page 144, in 1816, by Rice Price and Phebe, his wife, to William Warren, covering property in Township of Westfield. In the metes and bounds description it runs along lands of Willcocks. It
is interesting to note that the mother-in-law of Jonas Price, son of Rice Price, was a Willcocks.
It is possible that the name "Rice" originally was Rys or Rees, as in Rys ap Price or Rys ap Rys.

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