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Thomas Price was born about 1735 in Culpepper County, Virginia, the first child of Kalem Price and Mary Bridges. He enlisted in Captain John Lewis’s Augusta County Company, Colonel Charles Lewis’s Virginia Regiment, for service during Lord Dunmore’s War. This war is considered and accepted by both the SAR and DAR as the opening engagement to the Revolution. On 10 October 1774, a Shawnee Indian wounded Thomas in the left arm during the Battle of Point Pleasant. He never fully recovered full use of this arm.
After the Revolution officially started, Thomas again enlisted, serving in Captain Given’s Augusta County, Virginia Militia, and saw action during the Battle of King’s Mountain in North Carolina on 7 October 1780.
Thomas applied for a pension on 23 March 1790, in which he was listed as having five young children. Due to his injury at Point Pleasant, he was granted a pension on 29 December 1790 in Randolph County, Virginia. About 1792, Thomas moved to Floyd County, Kentucky. After the death of his fourth wife, he moved with two of his sons to Posey County, Indiana. Thomas died on 12 November 1828 and was buried in the Bethsaida Church Cemetery at Stewartsville, Robb Township, Posey County, Indiana.
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