Moses Price, the youngest but one of ten children, worked in his early life at his trade of carpenter and builder; and, having bought with his earnings the shares of his brothers, he lived on the old homestead, which has remained in the Price name for more than a hundred years, and has been the home of five generations. He was a member of the Congregational church, the hardest working man in Belknap County, a leading citizen, prominent in town affairs, being often elected to office as a Republican, when the Democrats were in the ascendency. He was thrice married, first on March 30, 1826, to Theodate Page, who died October i, 1827, at the age of twenty-one; second, on December 25, 1829, to Sarah Page, who died November 19, 1854; and third, on March 24, 1858, to widow Judith Edgerly Gilman, whom he left a widow at his death in 1873. There was one child by the first marriage, Theodate P., who married Levi H. Mudget, of Gilmanton, N.H. By the second marriage there were two sons and two daughters; namely, Ebenezer Sewall, Mary P., Reuben W., and Martha E. Ebenezer Sewall married Mary Jane Clay and lived on the old homestead ; Mary P. married Benjamin Quincy Jewett, of Gilford, N.H. ; Martha E. was graduated at Gilmanton Academy and Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., and taught school a number of years in New Hampshire and in South Weymouth and Beverly, Mass. She is now a missionary at Inanda, Natal, South Africa, whither she went in 1877. Source: Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire by Biographical Review Publishing Company
Moses Price, the youngest but one of ten children, worked in his early life at his trade of carpenter and builder; and, having bought with his earnings the shares of his brothers, he lived on the old homestead, which has remained in the Price name for more than a hundred years, and has been the home of five generations. He was a member of the Congregational church, the hardest working man in Belknap County, a leading citizen, prominent in town affairs, being often elected to office as a Republican, when the Democrats were in the ascendency. He was thrice married, first on March 30, 1826, to Theodate Page, who died October i, 1827, at the age of twenty-one; second, on December 25, 1829, to Sarah Page, who died November 19, 1854; and third, on March 24, 1858, to widow Judith Edgerly Gilman, whom he left a widow at his death in 1873. There was one child by the first marriage, Theodate P., who married Levi H. Mudget, of Gilmanton, N.H. By the second marriage there were two sons and two daughters; namely, Ebenezer Sewall, Mary P., Reuben W., and Martha E. Ebenezer Sewall married Mary Jane Clay and lived on the old homestead ; Mary P. married Benjamin Quincy Jewett, of Gilford, N.H. ; Martha E. was graduated at Gilmanton Academy and Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., and taught school a number of years in New Hampshire and in South Weymouth and Beverly, Mass. She is now a missionary at Inanda, Natal, South Africa, whither she went in 1877. Source: Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire by Biographical Review Publishing Company
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