From the words of his father in the "Prior Family Association papers of 1898":
"When I came to this country I brought nine children with me. My wife and
children never had had the measles. The tenth day on our journey my fourth
daughter (Lydia) was taken sick, we was then on the water, as we came
five hundred miles by water. We was forty days on our journey and before
we got there my wife and chidren all had the measles and began to have the
Ague fever. And for three years there was not a well day in my family
from one to seven at a time. Our next neighbors was at that time about
seven miles away from us, except Indians, and they was kind and friendly."
From the words of his father in the "Prior Family Association papers of 1898":
"When I came to this country I brought nine children with me. My wife and
children never had had the measles. The tenth day on our journey my fourth
daughter (Lydia) was taken sick, we was then on the water, as we came
five hundred miles by water. We was forty days on our journey and before
we got there my wife and chidren all had the measles and began to have the
Ague fever. And for three years there was not a well day in my family
from one to seven at a time. Our next neighbors was at that time about
seven miles away from us, except Indians, and they was kind and friendly."
Family Members
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Sally "Sarah" Prior Darrow
1781–1847
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William Prior Sr
1783–1872
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David Prior
1784–1866
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Elisha Prior
1786–1867
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Mary "Polly" Prior Kennedy Little
1789–1880
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Judith Prior
1791–1862
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Gurden Prior
1793–1885
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Lydia Prior
1794–1842
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Jerusha Culver Prior Prior
1797–1845
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Charles Coatsworth Pickney "CCP" Prior
1799–1879
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Eliza Prior
1801–1874
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Abigail Prior
1803–1807
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Joseph Prior
1805 – unknown
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Erastus E.L. Prior
1809–1866
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