Joseph Pryor Sr.

1753 - 1812  (59 years)

• Name	Joseph Pryor Sr.
  Birth	1753	Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	1812	Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I13126	Clan Montgomery
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2005

  
  

  Father	Col Samuel Pryor,   b. 1699, , , Maryland
  Mother	Prudence Thornton
  Family ID	F4306	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary,   b. 1751
  Children	1. Joseph Pryor Jr.,   b. 1 Dec 1767, South Carolina, USA d. 1851, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F4269	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Joseph Pryor. The following quotes are from "A Seed-bed of the Republic, The Early History of Southwest Virginia" by Robert Douthat Stoner. The Pryor Family entries were further arranged by Miss Katherine Reynolds of Houston, Texas, 1971. Prominent Citizens, JOSEPH PRYOR, having come from Hanover County into Botetourt, purchased lands on the south side of the James, adjoining Poague, in 1773. He promptly became active in the affairs of his community and on 11 May 1773, was granted a license for an ordinary at his home on James River. He was a lieutenant and a captain of the militia in the 1774-1780 period, and in 1792 was appointed inspector of the warehouse at Crows Ferry. He, John Pryor and Nicolas Pryor were also members of Capt. Mills Company of militia in 1783. In 1787, he acquired 400 acres of land on the head of Looney's Mill Creek.