Edward Reece (ap Rhys, Preese or Price)

• General Notes
  • http://edward-morgan.blogspot.com/2007/11/family-of-james-morgan-of-durham.html
    
    
    Merion MM notes-
    
    Catharine Rees, child of Edward and Mabby* Rees of Wales, died Oct. 23, 1682. 
    (8th Mo. 23, 1682) and was buried at Merion.
    This is the first recorded burial.  Edward Rees (ap Rhys, Preese or Price)
    one of the “adventurers” on the “Ship Lyon” gave the ground for a burial place
    before the erection of the first meeting house.  Catharine Rees, daughter of
    Edward and Mabby, was born in Wales, 1680.  Other children of Edward and Mabby
    Rees were Rees Rees, born in Wales, 1678; and Jane Prees, born in Merion, 1682.
    Jane Rees, daughter of Edward and Mabby, born 9 Mo. 11, 1682.  Birth recorded at
    Merion Meeting.
    The Rees homestead (later Price) stood near what is now (1907) the
    Brookhurst Inn.  The Rees (Price) property included land now belonging to the
    families of McDowell, Mynick, Thomas and others.  Also the Belmont Driving Park.
    The original Rees homestead stood near Merion Meeting.