Jacob Price (Preiss)

  General Notes:

From History of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, 1884...

Jacob Price or Preus was a purchaser, in 1720, of two hundred acres from Derrick Johnson, on Indian Creek, where he settled in 1721.
Jacob Price was a preacher among the Dunkards or German Baptists in Germany, and came from Witgenstein, in 1719, in company, it is stated, with Henry Slingluff. After a brief stay at Germantown with those of their denomination, he removed in 1721, to his purchase by Indian Creek, in this township, which, in 1734. is represented to be one hundred and fifty acres. He soon erected a saw-mill on that stream, and did an extensive business. There has since been added a chopping-mill and later a grist-mill, owned now by J. K. Shutt. His son John married and settled down here, and had two sons, -Daniel and John. The latter moved to Franklin County, Pa., in early life. Daniel had thirteen children, of whom five sons and two daughters left descendants.
The Price family has produced no less than seventeen ministers In the Dunkard Church. John Price, son of Jacob, was a poet as well as a minister, Christopher Saur, of Germantown, having published, in 1753, a small collection of his hymns. Elder William "W. Price, who was born in 1789 on a part of the old homestead, in 1814, became a minister, which position he retained until his death, in 1849. He was the author of a number of German hymns, besides translating from the English some of the most popular, which were collected and published by J. E. Pfautz, at Ephrata, in 1838.

Jacob married.