Nancy (--?--)
Some genealogical notes call her Nancy Price, others indicate that Mary Price was Samuel's first wife and Nancy Barnes was his second. There is one genealogy that calls her Dorcas Nancy (Barnes) (Price) Hocker, wife of Philip Hocker. Convoluted to say the least.
Born: 1754, Frederick Co., Maryland
Died: after 1815
Buried: unknown
Married: 1783 Montgomery Co., Maryland Samuel Hocker as his second wife.
Records:
1781 - Jan. 12 - Montgomery Co., Maryland - Weaver Barnes will does not mention a daughter Nancy or a daughter married to Samuel Hocker. He does mention his daughter Dorcas Hocker, grandson Weaver Hocker, son of Philip Hocker his implied son-in-law.
1800 - Lincoln Co., KY - Samuel Hocker paying taxes in Lincoln Co., Kentucky
1813 - Lincoln Co., KY - Nancy is mentioned in her husband Samuel's will:
I lend my beloved wife Nancy Hocker during her life that part of my Tract of land lying North East of McKinney's Creek to include my dwelling house and all the land lying on the same side of the creek whereon my dwelling house stands. I also lend her during her life the following negroes (Viz) Abram, Rachel and Beck together with two of my first choice horse beasts, that may be among my stock at my decease. Also two good feather beds and furniture one half of my crop of every description one third of all kinds of my stock excepting horses one third of my household and kitchen furniture, the whole of my farming utensils and my wagon and gears all of which I lend my wife during her life and at her death to be disposed as shall be directed in this my last will. I give and bequeath my wife Nancy Hocker fifty dollars in cash.
1815 - Lincoln Co., KY - Samuel Hocker's estate probated, unclear if Nancy is still living.
1981 - Letter from Adele Sneed to Mrs. Dunn:
I could not establish that Samuel Hocker's wife was Nancy Price.
Children:
Richard Weaver
Samuel
Joseph
Elizabeth
John
Research to pursue:
Some say that Samuel had only one wife: Mary/Ann Price which could be morphed into Nancy of the will. She is said to be the daughter of Thomas Price, but I have no further information about him.
DAR application - says a Thomas Price colonel in Maryland Troops
Thomas Price b. Sept. 3, 1732, d. May 9, 1795 md. Mary Bearly.
known children:
Elizabeth b. 8/3/1765, d. 1825 md. 2/26/1789 Lt. Joseph Sim Smith
Colonel Price member of the Quorum 3rd June 1774 to 1776 he was one of the Justices of the Frederick County Court, which pronounced 25th Nov. 1765 the invalidity of the Stamp Act by committing John Darwall, clerk of the court to the custody of the sheriff for refusing to issue writs without stamps.
He was appointed 20 June 1774 a member of the Committee from his county to attend the General Congress at Annapolis & was elected 18 November 1774 member of the County Committee for carrying out the Congressional resolutions.
24 Jan. 1775 elected member of the Committee of Observation & of the Committee of Correspondence for Frederick County. He was appointed Captain of the Frederick County Riflemen by the Committee of Observation 21 June 1775 & in that capacity took a prominent part in the siege of Boston.
Scharf, History of Maryland "On the 25th July 1776 Major Thomas Price with Nicholson of the Defense fitten [fitting] out an expedition to drive the enemy away from St. Georges Island which proved unsuccessful. Major Thomas Price however placed a battery on Cherry Field Point and drove the Sloop of War Towney out of the St. Georges River early in August. The enemy entirely abandoned the Island having [leaving] several galleys and some stores behind. In 1776 Thomas Price held the rank of Major, Daniel H. Thomas Jenifer in a letter to Colonel Smallwood dated Annapolis 24th August 1776, says that the Convention offered Major Thomas Price a commission as Brigadier General of the Maryland part of the Flying Camp which he declined. He was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Maryland Regiment, Maryland Line June 1st 1777. Colonel Price had a brother, Benjamin Price, who also served in the Revolutionary War and in St. Clair's Indian War. He was killed in the battle of Miami. The family Bible containing date of birth and death of Colonel Thomas Price was destroyed in the terrible fire which occurred in Cumberland Maryland many years ago."
McHenry's History of Maryland
Scharf's History of Maryland, pg. 269
The US published Archives Record Books of the State deposited at the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland Gazetre [Gazetteer] and other contemporaneous newspapers on file at the rooms of the Maryland Historical Society.
Maryland Troops in the American Revolution 1900: pages 5, 28, 41, 150, 152, 238, 293-294, 299, 320-321, 327, 363, 379, 447, 521, 573
I'm not finding a will for suitable Thomas Price in either Maryland or Kentucky.
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