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- Source Information: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
Colonel William Gray Price Jr., of the Third Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Armory Board of Pennsylvania, since its organization in 1905, was born in the
city of Chester, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1869, and comes of English, Welsh and Dutch ancestry. His paternal
ancestors were among the early English settlers in what is now the State of Delaware.
Colonel Price is a lineal descendant of Peter Alricks, a nephew of Jacob Alricks, who was selected as director and commissary general of a colony sent out by the burgomasters of Amsterdam
to form a settlement on the Delaware, in the territory transferred to them by the Dutch West India Company, in payment of a debt, of which territory Fort Cassimer, on the site of New Castle,
Delaware, was the virtual centre, and accompanied his uncle to the Delaware as an official of the colony.
William Gray Price Jr., son of William Gray and Jennie E. (Campbell) Price, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1869. He is now engaged in the coal business in Philadelphia. He
served as second lieutenant of Company B, Sixth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, as first lieutenant of Company C, Sixth Regiment Infantry, National Guard, and is now a member of the
Third Regiment, National Guard, and a member of the Armory Board of Pennsylvania since its organization in 1905. He married Sallie P. Eyre, daughter of the late Joshua P. Eyre, of Chester.
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1869 - Abt 1960 (91 years)