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pounds of tobacco for his role in Stone's Rebel-
lion against the Puritan government, 1655. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND: received 300 acres, a gift
from Lord Baltimore, so that he would be "better
enabled to do us and our heirs acceptable serv-
ice," 1650. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated
on March 11, 1660/61, in St. Mary's County. LAND:
450 acres.
PRICE, THOMAS (1732-1795). BORN: on Sep-
tember 3, 1732, possibly in Philadelphia. IMMI-
GRATED: possibly, if so, by 1754. RESIDED: in
Frederick Town, Frederick County; also spent
time on the family plantation in Frederick County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: John Price of Phil-
adelphia, Pennsylvania. MOTHER: Rebecca King.
MARRIED by 1765 Mary (?-by 1806). CHILDREN.
SONS: probably Thomas (1753-?), resided Sug-
arland Hundred, Frederick County; Capt. Ben-
jamin (1767-1815), who married on July 7, 1795,
Sarah Clapham (1767-1822); Samuel (?-by 1806),
who resided in Kentucky; George; and William.
DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth (1765-1822), who mar-
ried Dr. Joseph Sim Smith; Rebecca; Mary (Polly),
who married George Calmes; Susannah, who died
intestate without issue; Matilda (?-1806), who
married Upton Beall after 1795. ADDITIONAL
COMMENT: Price is said to have arranged an ed-
ucation and professions for his two sons William
and Benjamin, and to have given his land to two
other sons. The other two died early, and the
land went to William and Benjamin. PRIVATE CA-
REER. EDUCATION: literate. SOCIAL STATUS AND
ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1767; Esq., by 1788. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: hatter, owned a shop in
Frederick Town; planter, by 1768. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conventions, Fred-
erick County, 1st, 1774, 2nd-3rd, 1774. LOCAL
OFFICES: justice, Frederick County 1763, 1768,
1769, 1770, 1772-1775 (quorum, 1772-1775) ap-
pointed 1782, did not qualify; visitor, Frederick
County public school, 1768; Committee of Cor-
respondence, Frederick County, elected, 1774;
coroner, Frederick County, 1774; Committee of
Observation, Frederick County, elected, 1775;
commissary for purchases, Frederick County,
commissioned 1780; militia receiver, commis-
sioned 1781; judge, Orphans' Court, Frederick
County, commissioned 1781. MILITARY SERVICE:
captain, Pennsylvania, 1759; captain, Maryland
Rifle Company, 1775, took part in the seige of
Boston; major, Smallwood's Maryland Regi-
ment, 1776, was stationed with the battalion at
headquarters in Annapolis; colonel, 2nd Regiment
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Maryland Line, enlisted December 10, 1776, re-
signed April 31, 1780. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: 2 slaves, 1783. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: owned 1 lot in Frederick Town,
Frederick County, and leased 4 others; leased 1
lot in Sharpesburgh, Frederick (later became part
of Washington) County; also leased 100 acres for
21 years in Frederick County; co-owner with
Charles Beatty (ca. 1736-1804), of 147 acres in
Frederick County. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: patented
78 acres in Washington County in 1776; between
1783 and 1788 purchased 1 lot in Hamburgh, Prince
George's County, and 68 acres in Frederick
County; purchased 30 acres in Frederick County
and 14 lots in Frederick Town, all confiscated
British property, in 1781 and 1782; sold 58 acres
in Frederick County in 1791. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: between March 4 and May 20, 1795; will
probated in Frederick County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: TEV, £1,556.17.6 current money (includ-
ing 10 slaves); FB, £1,067.14.8. LAND: owned at
least 129 acres and 3 lots in Frederick Town; 1 lot
in Washington, D.C.; no record of his other lots in
Frederick Town, Sharpesburgh, and Hamburgh.
PRITCHETT (PRICHARD, PRICHETT, PRIT-
CHARD), EDWARD (?-ca. 1761). BORN: of age
by 1711. NATIVE: second generation. RESIDED: in
Dorchester County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER:
Dr. John Pritchett (?-1711), who immigrated to
Dorchester County by 1669, a chemist. MOTHER:
Margery, daughter of John Price of Talbot County.
STEPMOTHER: Abigail. BROTHERS: Zebulon (1681-
1741/42), eldest child, who married Margery; John;
Phunback (Funback, Funbeck, Furbeck, Plum-
beck); and Lott (?-1777), who married Ann. SIS-
TERS: Mary, who married Henry Fisher; Jane,
who married first, Robert Leake, and second, ca.
1720, Timothy Macnemara; and Margery. HALF
SISTER: Phillis. MARRIED probably never. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILI-
ATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES: Gent., by 1727. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Dorchester County, 1722-1724,
1725-1727. LOCAL OFFICE, justice, Dorchester
County, commissioned 1734. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 202 acres in
Dorchester County (70 acres inherited from father;
132 acres, the remainder of 142 acres, by purchase
or patent). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: patented 40
acres in Dorchester County, 1724; sold 25 acres
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