History of Bucks
County, Pa Volume 3 by William H. Davis
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PRICE FAMILY Elizabeth PRICE, second wife of Roger MOON, was
of Welsh origin and a daughter of Reese and Mary PRICE (or PREESE), who settled in Bucks
county about the year 1700. The ancestors of Mrs. Samuel C. MOON, of Morrisville, were Nathaniel and Sarah (BRIGGS-SHAW) PRICE, who emigrated from Rhode Island and
settled in Middletown township, Bucks county, near the present site of Langhorne about the
middle of the eighteenth century. They were
the parents of three children: Nathaniel, of whom a more particular account follows: Elizabeth, married Edward WORSTALL; and Susanna, married Thomas Jones. Sarah (BRIGGS-SHAW) PRICE died 10 mo. 22, 1808, in her eighty-seventh
year. Nathaniel PRICE, son of
Nathaniel and Sarah, born February 8, 1759, was received into membership with Friends and
married October 18, 1786, Ann Bailey, daughter of Edward and Ann (SATTERHWAITE) BAILEY, daughter of Edward and Ann (SATTERHWAITE) BAILEY, of Bucks county, and had three children:
(1) William, born September 14, 1787, died
June 4, 1852, married April 18, 1808, Mary MAHAM,
and had nine children: Cornelius, Mary, John,
Deborah, Ann, Amos, Susan, Catharine and William. (2)
John, born November 23, 1788, died April 5, 1867, married Rachel BURGESS, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (MATSON) BURGESS,
and had children: Daniel B., of whom an
account follows: Lydia B., Sarah Ann, and Phebe B., none of whom married, living and dying
near Fallsington, Bucks county. (3) Edith, born 1790, died 1792. Ann (BAILEY)
PRICE died January 8, 1791, and Nathaniel
married (second) December 13, 1792, Mary SPICER,
daughter of James and Rachel SPICER, and they
were the parents of four children: (4) Joseph, born March 10, 1793, married October 14,
1821, Eliza WILDMAN, and had children, Mary and
Elizabeth. (5)
Ann, born February 23, 1795, married 1819, Israel BURGESS, and had two children, William and Mary,
both of whom married into the LONGSHORE family. (6) Isaiah,
born December 20, 1798, married May 20, 1824, Margaret BURGES, daughter of William and Rachel BURGES, and had four children: Rachel, married Benjamin WOOLSTON; Ann, married a HANCE; Jane, married a CROSHAW; Martha, married Dr. William E. CASE, and has two sons, William and Philip of
Morrisville. (7) Rachel, born December 4, 1800, lived to an
advanced age at Langhorne, but never married. Mary
(SPICER) PRICE, the mother of the above named
four children, died December 8, 1829. Daniel B. PRICE, only son
of John and Rachel (BURGES) PRICE, was born
December 3, 1823. He was a successful farmer
and died at his residence, Brookdale farm, two miles from Fallsington, Bucks county, March
26, 1891, at the age of sixty-seven years. He
married, first, May 18, 1848, Hannah B. CHILDS,
of Le Raysville, New York, and they were the parents of four children: Rachel Anna, married Samuel C. MOON; Clinton, died young; Elizabeth, married John
W. TANTUM, of Wilmington, Delaware, and has
three children--Anna P., Lucy R. and John W. TANTUM,
Jr.; Mary C., remained single. The BURGES Family, with
whom the MOON and PRICE families are much intermarried, are
descended from Samuel and Eleanor BURGES, who
came from England in 1685 and settled in Falls township, on 200 acres of land purchased of
William PENN, for one silver shilling per acre,
the original deed for which is still in possession of their descendants. This land joined that on which James and Joan (BURGES) MOON
settled, and Samuel was probably a brother of Joan MOON. On this tract lying on both sides of the road now
leading through the village of Fallsington, all the Friends' meeting houses of Falls
Meeting have been built. In 1689, when the
Friends decided to build a meeting house, Samuel BURGES
gave them six acres on which the first meeting house and graveyard were located. The first building was of logs and the second of
brick. In the latter a school was kept for
many years in which the great-grandchildren of Samuel BURGES, living in 1855, remember attending,
being used as a school after the erection of the third meeting house, a little distant
from the first site and now (1905) used as a dwelling house. The fourth meeting house was erected in 1789 on
the first location, north of the graveyard and Newportville road, and is still used by one
branch of the society. The firth meeting
house was built in 1840, when a stone school house erected in 1799 was removed to make
room for it, the present school house being erected in 1817. The will of Samuel
BURGES, made in 1713,
mentions wife Eleanor, sons Joseph, Samuel, John and Daniel, and daughters Pricilla and
Sarah. Priscilla became the wife of Samuel BUNTING, and an account of her descendants is
given in this volume. Sarah married John HUTCHINSON
and an account of her descendants is also given in the RICKEY family.
Samuel, the son, a member of assembly in 1712, married Ann SNOWDEN, and had three children--Margaret, married
Joseph JACKSON; Rebecca, married Joseph CHURCH;
Ann, died single. Joseph BURGESS married
Hannah WILSON, had five children: Daniel, of whom a more particular account follows;
Joseph, married Deborah FISHER and removed to
Buckingham, later to Baltimore, Maryland, and subsequently to Virginia; had children;
Thomas, Sarah, John, Tacy, Martha and Daniel of whom Thomas married Elizabeth HENDRICKS, and removed to Highland county, Ohio,
about 1813; John, Sarah, and Hannah. John,
son of Samuel and Eleanor, married Mary DUER,
and had six children, Samuel Ellen, Jonathan, Mary, Susanna, and Martha. Daniel BURGES, son of
Samuel and Eleanor, was twice married, but left no issue, devising his farm, part of 600
acres purchased by Samuel, the pioneer in 1695, to his brother Joseph's son Daniel. Daniel BURGES, son of
Joseph and Hannah (WILSON) BURGES, married 6 mo. 17, 1750, Lydia SISOM, and had eight children: Joseph, born 3 mo. 31, 1752, married, 11 mo. 8, 1780, Sarah MATSON; Rachel, born 11 mo. 14, 1753, married
Moses MOON; Hannah, born 12 mo. 23, 1755,
married Joseph Child; Sarah, born 9 mo. 17, 1758, died at the age of ninety-six years;
Rebecca, born 10 mo. 26, 1763, married John BURTON;
Edith, born 3 mo. 15, 1766, married Joseph HEADLEY;
Phebe, born 6 mo. 20, 1769, died single in 1839; Amos, born 10 mo. 11, 1772, married Sarah
BOULTON, Daniel BURGES married (second), Sarah MOON and had two children; Daniel, born 10 mo. 15,
1780, married Deborah WOOD, and lived on the
homestead for some years and then removed to New York state; and Elizabeth, born 11 mo.
28, 1784, died at the age of eighteen years. Joseph BURGES, eldest son
of Daniel and Lydia, married Sarah MATSON,
and had eight children: Moses, born 8 mo. 17,
1781, married Ann HANCOCK; Lydia, born 8 mo.
28, 1783, and Amy, born 11 mo. 28, 1785, both died single; Daniel, born 4 mo. 30, 1787,
also died single; Rachel, born 7 mo. 26, 1789, married John PRICE; John, Joseph and Aaron, died young. Joseph BURGES
married, second, Deborah BAILEY and had one
child Mary born 12 mo. 24, 1803, died young. Moses
and Ann (HANCOCK) BURGES had eight children, Joseph, Sarah, Phebe,
Moses, Rebecca, Robert, Ann, and George, of whom Robert and Phebe still reside on the
ancestral homestead, and are nearing the sunset of life.
Anna PRICE MOON, Elizabeth PRICE TATUM, and Mary C. PRICE, daughters of Daniel B. and Sarah (BURGES) PRICE,
with their children are the only living descendants of Joseph and Sarah (MATSON) BURGES Text taken from page 213, 214 of: David, William W. H., A.
M. History
of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III Transcribed April 2001 by Donna J. Kling of Pennsylvania as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Early Family Project,
www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html Published April 2001 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at
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