History Of Sussex & Warren County by Snell Published 1881 Page 402 B Picture of J. H. Price The progenitors of the Price Family in Frankford Township were Robert and Samuel Price, who, with their brother John came from Connecticut, and settled here among the first white men who found a home inn this part of New Jersey. It is related of Robert hat when a small boy he and his mother were taken prisoners by the Indians at one of the massacres in the Eastern States and marched off together. She being somewhat conversant with the language of the savages, soon learned from their conversation and gestures that she was to be dispatched, and immediately communicated the intelligence to her son. She told him that he must not cry when they kill her , or they would kill him too. She only marched a few rods farther before she was killed. The boy was eventually adopted by one of the squaws as her child, she having lost one of her own a few days previous. He lived with the Indians until he was over twenty-one years old, and was then rescued by his friends. It was a long time before he became thoroughly reconciled to civilized society, and he sometimes expressed a desire to return to the Indians, but the feeling gradually wore away after his release. He removed to Franklin , Sussex County, NJ. John only remained a short time in Franklin, and returned to Connecticut, and subsequently became a mariner, and was never heard of afterwards, which business he and his brothers had previously followed on their own account, until they lost several valuable cargoes by wreckage. Samuel and Robert remained where they settled, the latter on lands about the Plains Church, now occupied by Z. Simmons, and the former on lands at present owned by Elijah Martin and William Luntz. Samuel died in 1768, age seventy-five years, and both he and his wife, Sarah, who died in 1761, age fifty-five years, were buried in the cemetery near the Plains Church," which the Prices had laid out for a burial-place. Samuel is thought to have been married prior to his settlement in New Jersey, and left tow sons, Zachariah , grandfather of our subject, and Francis. Robert left children, the descendants of whom are mostly settled in Ohio and other Western States. Zacharaih , son of Samuel, born Sept. 22,1743, married in 1772, Mary Depue, a lady of Huguenot extraction, who was born Oct. 20, 1754. Their children were; Samuel; Henry; Sarah, wife of Zacharaih Price; Mary, wife of Joseph Hill' Zachariah; Elizabeth. Wife of Jonathan Hill; Jerusha, wife of Joseph Coult; Francis, father of ex-Govenor Price, of New Jersey; Racheal; Joanna, wife of Jonathan Hill; John and Robert. Nancy, do you live in Sussex County, the Sussex Library has this book. Other wise if you want the rest, send me you home addie and I will photo copy the page. Yours in genealogy Joanne