Peter D Reasoner
1780 - 1822 (42 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Peter D Reasoner was born 1780, Virginia, USA (son of Jacob Reasoner and Catherine Thompson); died 25 Aug 1822, Cass, Muskingum, Ohio, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 11683
2. Jacob Reasoner was born 1737, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Nicholas Reasoner and Mary Froman); died 1796, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 11668
Jacob married Catherine Thompson 1764, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA. Catherine was born 1744, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA; died 1803, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
3. Catherine Thompson was born 1744, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA; died 1803, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 13951
Children:
- 1. Peter D Reasoner was born 1780, Virginia, USA; died 25 Aug 1822, Cass, Muskingum, Ohio, USA.
- John Reasoner was born 9 Jan 1765, Virginia, USA; died 11 Oct 1854, Virginia, USA.
- William Reasoner was born 1768, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA; died 7 Jul 1843, Henry, Indiana, USA.
- Rebecca Reasoner was born 1764, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA.
- Susan Reasoner was born 1770, Virginia, USA.
- Mary Reasoner was born 1764, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA.
- Gideon Reasoner was born 1764.
Generation: 3
4. Nicholas Reasoner was born 1697, Germany (son of Garrett Reasoner and Marie Baroness); died 1771, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 11677
- Death: 1771, Virginia, USA
Nicholas married Mary Froman 1733, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen) was born 1705, Germany; died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
5. Mary Froman was born 1705, Germany (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen); died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5073
- Death: 1757, Virginia, USA
Children:
- Peter Froman Reasoner was born 17 Feb 1735, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA; was christened 26 Jul 1748, Maryland, USA; died Apr 1807, New Concord, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; was buried , Guernsey, Ohio, USA.
- 2. Jacob Reasoner was born 1737, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1796, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA.
- Garrett Reasoner was born 1739, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Susan Reasoner was born 1740, Prince George's, Maryland, USA; died 1755, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA.
Generation: 4
8. Garrett Reasoner was born 1660, Mayes, Oklahoma, USA; died 1697, Germany. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 11665
Garrett — Marie Baroness. Marie was born 1670, France; died 1697, Germany. [Group Sheet]
9. Marie Baroness was born 1670, France; died 1697, Germany. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1148
Children:
- 4. Nicholas Reasoner was born 1697, Germany; died 1771, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA.
10. 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]
11. Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen was born , Germany. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 4706
Children:
- 5. Mary Froman was born 1705, Germany; died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA.
- 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.