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The Last Will and Testament of his son, Meriday Price Jr., (who married
Elizabeth Micou) was probated on 1 April 1726 (King George County, Virginia,
Will Book 1, Page 36). (http://gedcom.surnames.com/burgess_jim/np74.htm)
He names several relatives but only one child, a son named Bourn Price
(nephew to Grace Price). Bourn Price settled in Washington Parish in
Westmoreland County, where his name turns up on a deed dated 3 February 1755.
(Recorded in King George and Westmoreland counties, abstracted online at
http://www.joepayne.org/reuben.htm) Note that his unusual first name happens
to be the surname of James Hambleton’s master, James Bourn. I find no one
else with this first name in the records of colonial Virginia.
The earliest appearances of the surname Bourne (by any spelling) in the
records of Virginia are said to be Benjamin Bourne in 1650 and James Bourne
in 1654. (http://www.genealogicaljourneys.com/surinfoa.htm) I am unable to
verify this claim, or to ascertain the counties in which they settled. The
first documented immigrants were John, Andrew, and Anne Bourne.
The Last Will and Testament of John Bourne, dated 23 October 1720, was
probated 20 June 1721 in Essex County, Virginia (Will Book No. 3, Page 258).
He named five sons (John, Andrew, Robert, Francis, and Henry) and two
daughters (Christian and Sarah), and willed “that my children shall not make
demands or enjoy these legatys given them till they attain to the age of
21 years or married,” which implies that all of them were minors. (See
transcription at http://www.sonic.net/~prouty/prouty/b2732.htm) On the same
website it is claimed that John Bourne the father had a sixth son named
James, but he is not named in the will, and he would have been of the wrong
generation to have owned a slave in 1699. The son is identified as John
Bourne III, and it is estimated that the father was born c. 1681 in Virginia.
It was his father, John Bourne I, who was the immigrant, and the James Bourn
to whom James Hambleton was a “servant” may have been his son or his nephew.
John Bourne II married Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Henry Johnson. His
will was signed and dated 3 October 1702 in Richmond County, on the “Northern
Neck,” directly across the Rappahannock River from Essex County. His will
was probated in Essex County. His will was witnessed by Peter Bourne (see
transcription at http://www.sonic.net/~prouty/prouty/b3000.htm#P7800); and
on 10 July 1703, in the estate papers of “Henry Johnson of St. Mary’s Parish,
Essex County, Planter,” the signatures of Edward Price and John Bourne appear
on the same document (Essex County Record Book No. 11, Page 28) – another
indication of a tie between the Price and Bourne families. The Last Will and
Testament of another Edward Price (probably his father) was proved in court
at Richmond County on 2 October 1695 by John Bourne and Andrew Bourne (see
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brookefamily/bourneandrewsr.htm).
According to the Mormon website, the wife of Edward Price Sr. was Anne Bourne
of Plymouth, Devonshire, England (the sister of John and Andrew Bourne).
Peter Bourne was named as a minor child in the estate papers of his father,
Andrew Bourne, whose estate was administered on 2 October 1700 in Richmond
County, Virginia. Andrew Bourne first appears in the Virginia records in
a Court Order dated 10 March 1690, naming “Andrew and John Bourne late of
Plymouth, Devon in England” as indentured servants who did “clandestinely
steal away” without “paying their passage.” (Stafford County Orders 1689-
1690, Item 50) Stafford County is west of King George and Westmoreland
counties. John, Andrew, and Anne Bourne were the original immigrants,
described in a letter dated 7 August 1847 from Daniel Bourne, writing to his
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