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Absolom Froman

Male 1775 - 1843  (67 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Absolom Froman was born 4 Jul 1775, Nelson, Kentucky, USA (son of Jacob Froman and Barbara Mercer); died 26 May 1843, Fort Knox, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 5064


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Jacob Froman was born 9 Apr 1749, Frederick, Virginia, USA (son of John Paul Froman and Elizabeth Hite); died 1820, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 5069

    Jacob married Barbara Mercer 1770, Pennsylvania, USA. Barbara was born Mar 1751, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 3 Oct 1835, Woodford, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Barbara Mercer was born Mar 1751, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 3 Oct 1835, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 9869

    Children:
    1. 1. Absolom Froman was born 4 Jul 1775, Nelson, Kentucky, USA; died 26 May 1843, Fort Knox, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA.
    2. Elizabeth Froman was born 22 Dec 1772, Frederick, Virginia, USA.
    3. Abraham Froman was born 30 Oct 1779, Pennsylvania, USA; died 14 Nov 1857, Hardin, Kentucky, USA.
    4. Isaac Froman was born 26 Mar 1784, Kentucky, USA; died 25 Aug 1867, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA.
    5. Jacob Froman was born 15 Jul 1771, Stafford, Virginia, USA; died 14 Sep 1794, Nelson, Kentucky, USA.
    6. Elijah K Froman was born 3 Feb 1791, Kentucky, USA; died 6 Oct 1848, Kentucky, USA.
    7. Susannah Froman was born 22 Oct 1777, Pennsylvania, USA; died 19 Aug 1828, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA.
    8. Rachel Froman was born 1773, Frederick, Virginia, USA.
    9. Joseph Froman was born 20 Jan 1786, Frederick, Virginia, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  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.

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    • 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]


  2. 5.  Elizabeth Hite was born 4 Nov 1711, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA (daughter of Jost Hite); died 1794, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 6880

    Children:
    1. Maria Christina Froman was born 1 Mar 1736, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died May 1783, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA.
    2. 2. Jacob Froman was born 9 Apr 1749, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 1820, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.
    3. Sarah Jane Froman was born 15 Nov 1732, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 1750, Woodford, Kentucky, USA.
    4. Elizabeth Froman was born 8 May 1738, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 1780, Virginia, USA.
    5. Temple Froman was born 1747, Virginia, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Peter Froman was born 1685, Germany; died Aft 1730, Maryland, USA.

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    • 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]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen was born , Germany.

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    • Reference Number: 4706

    Children:
    1. Mary Froman was born 1705, Germany; died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA.
    2. 4. John Paul Froman was born 1710; died May 1783, Lincoln, Nelson, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.
    3. Regina Froman was born 1725, Alsace, Germany; died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
    4. Solomon Froman was born 1718, Germany.

  3. 10.  Jost Hite

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    • Reference Number: 30729

    Children:
    1. 5. Elizabeth Hite was born 4 Nov 1711, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died 1794, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.