John Froman Overall
1756 - 1819 (63 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. John Froman Overall was born 1756, Page, Virginia, USA (son of John Overall and Maria Christina Froman); died 1819, Page, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 10755
2. John Overall was born 1735, Prince William, Virginia, USA; died 16 Mar 1821, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 10753
John married Maria Christina Froman 26 Feb 1753, Frederick, Virginia, USA. Maria (daughter of John Paul Froman and Elizabeth Hite) was born 1 Mar 1736, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died May 1783, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet]
3. Maria Christina Froman was born 1 Mar 1736, Frederick, Virginia, USA (daughter of John Paul Froman and Elizabeth Hite); died May 1783, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5072
Children:
- 1. John Froman Overall was born 1756, Page, Virginia, USA; died 1819, Page, Virginia, USA.
Generation: 3
6. John Paul Froman was born 1710 (son of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen); died May 1783, Lincoln, Nelson, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5074
Notes:
Buried:
Harrodsburg Fort (Old Fort Harrod)John married Elizabeth Hite 1731, York, York, Pennsylvania, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Jost Hite) was born 4 Nov 1711, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died 1794, Mercer, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]
7. Elizabeth Hite was born 4 Nov 1711, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA (daughter of Jost Hite); died 1794, Mercer, Kentucky, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 6880
Children:
- 3. Maria Christina Froman was born 1 Mar 1736, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died May 1783, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA.
- Jacob Froman was born 9 Apr 1749, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 1820, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.
- Sarah Jane Froman was born 15 Nov 1732, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 1750, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.
- Elizabeth Froman was born 8 May 1738, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 1780, Virginia, USA.
- Temple Froman was born 1747, Virginia, USA.
Generation: 4
12. Peter Froman was born 1685, Germany; died Aft 1730, Maryland, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5075
- Birth: 1690, Germany
Notes:
Family tradition says that Peter was a teacher and Huguenot. In 1685,
after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, an edict issued by Henry
IV of France in 1598, granting religious freedom and political
equality to the Huguenots. This revocation was a sentence of civil
death on them all; it crushed more than half the commercial and
manufacturing industry of the kingdom. Life in France became
extremely perilous for the Huguenots and many were leaving the
country. During a meeting held to choose a safe haven for their
people, the look out came crying, "The enemy is upon us, save
yourselves. Family tradition says that Peter hastily went home, took
his ready cash, silverware and other valuables in a four-horse wagon
and so quickly left that he forgot his hat. A friend called to him,
"Peter Froman, where is your hat?". He replied, "It is better to have
a head without a hat than a hat without a head." He placed his
valuables in a ship, leaving his horses and wagon standing on the
street.
After escaping from France, Peter went to Germany where he married a
French girl and settled in the Heidelberg or the Strassburg, Alsace
area which was under German control at that time.
His daughter Regina was said to have been born in Alsace. Although
there are records of several Peter Froman/Vrooman in New York and New
Jersey, no satisfactory proof has been found to show that Peter
Froman came to America, but we know his grown children were with Jost
Hite in Pennsylvania by 1731. If they were in America earlier, they
probably followed, rather closely, the trail of Hite's group from
Kingston, Ulster Co., New York to the Perkiomen (Skippack),
Philadelphia Co., (now Montgomery) PA, to York, Lancaster Co., (now
York), PA, and finally to the Shenandoah Valley in Frederick Co., VA.Peter married Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen 1700. Elizabeth was born , Germany. [Group Sheet]
13. Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen was born , Germany. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 4706
Children:
- Mary Froman was born 1705, Germany; died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA.
- 6. John Paul Froman was born 1710; died May 1783, Lincoln, Nelson, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.
- Regina Froman was born 1725, Alsace, Germany; died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Solomon Froman was born 1718, Germany.
14. Jost Hite Other Events:
- Reference Number: 30729
Children:
- 7. Elizabeth Hite was born 4 Nov 1711, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died 1794, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.