PRICE, RICHARD (1783-1825)
PRICE, RICHARD, JP; b. 1783/84, s/o the Rev. Walter Price and Mary Woods; m. Abigail Hovey, d/o Aaron Hovey and Dorothy Price; d. Ludlow parish, 15 Oct 1825.
Richard Price was one of three sons of the Anglican clergyman Walter Price who settled in Ludlow parish in the first decade of the 19th century. Walter Price, a native of Carmarthenshire, Wales, was a curate in Dartmouth, England, before being sent to Newfoundland as a missionary around 1784. Some six years later he arrived in the new settlement on the Nashwaak River in New Brunswick, under auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He resigned from pastoral duties in 1799. In 1802 he was elected to the House of Assembly as a member for York County. He died in 1818.
Price grew up on the Nashwaak and migrated to the Miramichi as a young man. In 1813 he was appointed a justice of the peace. From 1817 onward he was a Ludlow parish school trustee. He had numerous other local appointments, including those of overseer of the poor and surveyor of lumber. Like all other early Ludlow parish settlers his basic work was as a farmer and lumberer.
Price was survived in 1825 by his wife, Abigail Hovey, and eleven children, including James L. Price. Soon after his death his place as magistrate and school trustee for Ludlow parish was taken by his older brother John Price (1782-1857).
Sources
[d] Royal Gazette 8 Nov 1825 / MacKinnon; NB Elections; Price Genealogy; Spray (ENC)
Remarques
i) Price's death notice in The Royal Gazette states that he was born in Devonshire, England, but researchers of the Price genealogy have contended that his father was stationed in Newfoundland from 1783 and that he was born there on 31 December 1784. ii) According to tradition, a curse was put on Price's family which would cause the children to marry their first cousins, and five of the ten children who lived to adulthood did so.