Individual Details
Colonel Samuel Pryor Sr
(1693 - Abt 1766)
== Biography =="Extracts from notes in the Mitchell family Bible, made by James Mitchel from personal recollection and conversations, correspondence, &c, with older members of the family...
"Grandmother's father, Colonel Samuel Pryor's parents were from England, and had settled in Caroline county, Va. He married a Miss Thornton, whose parents were also from England, and settled in Caroline, Hanover and Spotsylvania counties. They had ten children, eight sons, and two daughters: William, Samuel, John, Thornton, Robert, Luke, Frank and Joseph; the youngest of the brothers and least of them weighed 220 pounds. Nancy Pryor married Colonel Samuel Wells, judge of the County Court of Amelia county. Molly Pryor was born 15th November, 1730, and married Major William Berry, of Gloucester, Va., who died, leaving two daughters, Nancy and Prudence."
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"For the following account of the branch of the family to which Judge R. A. Pryor, of New York belongs, I am indebted to a member of the family:
"Samuel Pryor, first of the name known, married Prudence Thornton, said by tradition to have been a daughter of William Thornton, of Gloucester county. (An old Thornton Bible shows that this William Thornton had a daughter Prudence, born March 31, 1699.)
"As stated above, Nancy, daughter of Colonel Samuel Pryor, married Lawrence Wells or Wills, of Amelia county (son of Matthew Wills and Miss Moore, his wife, who lived in York [ ? Warwick county] on Mulbery Island). The son Lawrence, who married Nancy Pryor, removed to Amelia, and had seven sons and four daughters. From the diary of Rev. Theoderick Pryor, 1830, it appears that John Pryor, son of Colonel Samuel, went to the present Nottoway county, married, and had issue: 1. Richard; 2. Samuel; 3. Luke; 4. Philip; 5. Mary..." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 7; THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1900. P.A. Bruce, Editor. Pgs [https://archive.org/details/virginiamagazine07bruc/page/76/mode/2up/search/Pryor 76-77]
== Sources ==
"Grandmother's father, Colonel Samuel Pryor's parents were from England, and had settled in Caroline county, Va. He married a Miss Thornton, whose parents were also from England, and settled in Caroline, Hanover and Spotsylvania counties. They had ten children, eight sons, and two daughters: William, Samuel, John, Thornton, Robert, Luke, Frank and Joseph; the youngest of the brothers and least of them weighed 220 pounds. Nancy Pryor married Colonel Samuel Wells, judge of the County Court of Amelia county. Molly Pryor was born 15th November, 1730, and married Major William Berry, of Gloucester, Va., who died, leaving two daughters, Nancy and Prudence."
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"For the following account of the branch of the family to which Judge R. A. Pryor, of New York belongs, I am indebted to a member of the family:
"Samuel Pryor, first of the name known, married Prudence Thornton, said by tradition to have been a daughter of William Thornton, of Gloucester county. (An old Thornton Bible shows that this William Thornton had a daughter Prudence, born March 31, 1699.)
"As stated above, Nancy, daughter of Colonel Samuel Pryor, married Lawrence Wells or Wills, of Amelia county (son of Matthew Wills and Miss Moore, his wife, who lived in York [ ? Warwick county] on Mulbery Island). The son Lawrence, who married Nancy Pryor, removed to Amelia, and had seven sons and four daughters. From the diary of Rev. Theoderick Pryor, 1830, it appears that John Pryor, son of Colonel Samuel, went to the present Nottoway county, married, and had issue: 1. Richard; 2. Samuel; 3. Luke; 4. Philip; 5. Mary..." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 7; THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1900. P.A. Bruce, Editor. Pgs [https://archive.org/details/virginiamagazine07bruc/page/76/mode/2up/search/Pryor 76-77]
== Sources ==
Events
| Birth | 1693 | Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia | |||
| Death | Abt 1766 | Goochland, Goochland, Virginia | |||
| Reference No | 11295680 | ||||
| Reference No | 11990024 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Robert Pryor II (1663 - 1755) |
| Mother | Elizabeth "Betty" Green (1667 - 1761) |
| Sibling | Honorable John Pryor Sr (1695 - 1771) |
| Sibling | Luke Pryor (1702 - 1792) |
| Sibling | Daniel Pryor (1703 - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Pryor (1706 - ) |
| Sibling | Phillip Pryor (1710 - 1769) |