Mary Price1

#29733, (31 March 1681 - 29 February 1704)
Father*Robert Price1 (c 1645 - 1715)
Mother*Sarah Webb1 (c 1647 - 1704)

Family

Samuel Smead b. 1669, d. 1731
Children 1.Sarah Smead8 (1700 - 1704)
 2.William Smead8 (1701 - 1704)
Her married name was Smead.2 
Birth*31 March 1681She was born on 31 March 1681 at Northampton, Massachusetts.1 
Marriage17 March 1698/99She married Samuel Smead, son of William Smead Jr and Elizabeth Lawrence, on 17 March 1698/99 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.2 
Death*29 February 1704She died on 29 February 1704 at Massachusetts at age 22; Deerfield Massacre.2,3 
29 February 1703/4She was killed in the Deerfield Raid and Massacre on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts; Deerfield French and Indian raid.4,5,6,7 

Citations

  1. [S1020] Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Northampton 1620/1650–1893/1988, unknown repository, unknown repository address, Northampton BMD Book F, p. 21, img. 456/2650. Mary, dau. of Robert and Sarah Price, b. 31 Mar 1681. Hereinafter cited as Mass. Town and Vital Records: Northampton.
  2. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), Genealogies p. 301.
  3. [S1229] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Deerfield 1675–1898, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, transcript, p. 182, img 116/481: "Mary Smead, wife to ye head of ye family was with two of her children – was slain by ye enemy, Feby 29, 1704."
  4. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  5. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  6. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  7. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  8. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, Genealogies p. 301–302.