2. DAVID2 PREECE (REES1PREES) was born 1691 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, and died 1745 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. He married SUSANNAH UNKNOWN Abt. 1724. She was born Abt. 1701 in Pennsylvania, and died Unknown.
Notes for DAVID PREECE:
There was controversy over who owned the land west of the Susquehanna River: William Penn or Lord Baltimore. There were many border episodes. The one David Priest was involved in was the Cresap Affair which occurred in 1736."Captain Thomas Cresap was engaged by Maryland to enlist and pay men to remove the German settlers from land Lord Baltimore claimed. The settlers were terrorized and men were killed, their doors were chopped down and their houses destroyed....The Provincial Judges of Pennsylvania authorized the Sheriff of Lancaster to apprehend Cresap on a charge of murder, and to take him by any means." In 1736 the sheriff of Lancaster County with 22 men, including David Priest surrounded Cresap's house and demanded he surrender. He refused. Subsequently the Pennsylvania groups set his house on fire. "In the confusion, one of Cresap's servants was shot dead. David Priest was accused by Maryland of the killing though some said the servant was killed accidentally by Cresap's men. David was never brought to trial. Source Ruth Priest Dixon.
David Prees (Preece)
4 August 1747 Emanuel Carpenter, Samuel Smith, James Gillespie and Samuel Anderson Esquires, Justices.
Vid Prees Deceased: Upon the petition of Susanna Prees and William Prees administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, dights and credits which are of David Prees late of Lancaster County deceased, setting forth that the personal estate of the deceasee was not sufficient to pay his just debts and that he died seized of four hundred acres of land Pennsborough Township in the said County and therefore prayed an order of this court to allow them to make sale of such part of the said land as should be sufficient with the personal estate to pay all the debts and bring up the children of the deceased and having exhibited an inventory of the personal estate of the deceased amounting to 131,,6,,0, and an account of debts oweing by the deceased at the time of his death amounting to 177, 3, 8-1/2 whereupon it appeared that the sum of 45, 17, 8-1/2 remained over and above the amount of the personal estate. The same was taken into consideration and examined.
And it is Ordered thereupon that the said Administrators be allowed to make sale of the said tract of 400 acres of land in order to enable them to discharge the debts of the deceased and to maintain the younger children and that ten advertisements be published that the same shall be exposed to sale on____ and that the administrators make return of their proceedings at the next Court.
Lancaster Co., PA, Miscellaneous Book 1742-1749, pg. 27
(David Prees/Preece died intestate)
Children of DAVID PREECE and SUSANNAH UNKNOWN are:
