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Benjamin Frye

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Benjamin Frye (son of James Frye and Nancy Spears).

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    • Reference Number: 29742


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James Frye was born 17 Mar 1759, Frederick, Virginia, USA (son of Abraham Frye and Agnes Ann Young); died Sep 1821, Buffalo, Pike, Missouri, USA.

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    • Name: James Fry Sr
    • Reference Number: 30848
    • Death: 1821

    James married Nancy Spears Bef 1775. Nancy (daughter of Peter Henry Spears and Regina Froman) was born 17 Mar 1759, Virginia, USA; died 25 Mar 1839, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Nancy Spears was born 17 Mar 1759, Virginia, USA (daughter of Peter Henry Spears and Regina Froman); died 25 Mar 1839, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.

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    • Name: Nancy Speers
    • Reference Number: 13250
    • Birth: 17 Mar 1759, Frederick, Virginia, USA

    Children:
    1. Rebecca Frye was born 6 Jun 1784; died 3 Oct 1819.
    2. James Frye, Jr was born 1784; died 1843.
    3. Abraham Frye was born 1788; died 1843.
    4. Nancy Frye was born Abt 1780, Virginia, USA; died 1846, Lewis, Missouri, USA.
    5. 1. Benjamin Frye
    6. John Frye
    7. Mary Frye
    8. Elizabeth Frye
    9. Jacob Frye died 1839.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Abraham Frye was born Abt 1724, Perkiomen, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1 Feb 1807, Fallowfield, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 29684

    Abraham married Agnes Ann Young 1749, Frederick, Virginia, USA. Agnes was born 1730, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1837, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Agnes Ann Young was born 1730, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1837, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 29685

    Children:
    1. Mary Elizabeth Frye was born 1756, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 13 Jun 1837, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.
    2. 2. James Frye was born 17 Mar 1759, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died Sep 1821, Buffalo, Pike, Missouri, USA.

  3. 6.  Peter Henry Spears was born 1713, Arnsburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (son of Peter Abram Spears and Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen); died 25 Nov 1782, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.

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    • Find-A-Grave: 47028134
    • Name: Henry
    • Reference Number: 13256

    Notes:

    After arriving in America, Peter settled in Augusta, Co., Virginia until 1751-52, then moved up to Frederick Co., Virginia. Henry and George F. Spears explored the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, possibly together, where George remained and established the "Spears" family of Rockingham County. Henry went to Maryland then later established the "Speers" family in Pennsylvania.

    Henry married Regina Froman and settled on farm known as Gibstoton, on the Mon River, below Belle Vernon.

    Henry Speers and his wife took up residence on the east bank of the Monogahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1764. He called his home "Summer House." He died circa 1782, supposedly from a kick to the head by a horse. His wife, Regina was taxed in 1783 for 250 acres of land, stock and nine slaves. Regina and sons would be found later in Washington County, Pennsylvania, at Speers Borough, a small community south of Donora on the Monogahela River. It is felt that the Speers family lived in the same general area as the "colony" where the early Crist family lived.

    Henry was active in community affairs - occasionally busy with one project or another for the county. He was appointed a captain of the militia in August of 1757.

    Abraham Frye and family located on the opposite side of the river. He owned land from Maple Creek on the outskirts of Charleroi, to Pigeon Creek in Monongahela, from the Mon River, to where Fallowfield township school now stands, except for the Grant and Wickerham Farms, near what is now Fisher Heights. They came here from their homes in a place 18 miles south of Winchester, Virginia.

    The Speers and the Fryes were intimately associated in everything that pertained to each others comfort, and this fact, in these days of trial and danger, was no small affair. In going from place to place or in the field, these settlers were compelled for personal safety to carry firearms so as to meet the attacks of the Indians.

    Buried:
    Gibson Cemetery

    Peter married Regina Froman Abt 1744, Augusta, Virginia, USA. Regina (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen) was born 1725, Alsace, Germany; died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Regina Froman was born 1725, Alsace, Germany (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen); died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.

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    • Find-A-Grave: 47028188
    • Name: Ragina Froman
    • Reference Number: 5077

    Notes:

    Buried:
    Gibson Cemetery

    Children:
    1. Catherine Rebecca Spears was born 1761, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 4 Apr 1849.
    2. Christina Spears was born 17 Feb 1752, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 9 Nov 1841, Fallowfield, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA.
    3. Elizabeth Spears was born 1746, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1773, Pennsylvania, USA.
    4. Henry Speers was born 8 Jul 1756, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 2 Jan 1840, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA.
    5. Jacob Spears was born 2 Jan 1754, Rockingham, Virginia, USA; died 28 Sep 1825, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.
    6. Mary Spears was born Dec 1745, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1806, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; was buried , Guernsey, Ohio, USA.
    7. 3. Nancy Spears was born 17 Mar 1759, Virginia, USA; died 25 Mar 1839, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.
    8. Noah Speers was born 27 Mar 1769, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 9 Jun 1832, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
    9. Sarah Spears was born 1748, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1814, Kentucky, USA.
    10. Solomon Spears was born 1757, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 28 May 1788, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA.
    11. Susan Spears was born 1750, Augusta, Virginia, USA.
    12. Rachel Spears was born 2 Apr 1750, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 4 Nov 1820, Fayette, Fayette, Kentucky, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Peter Abram Spears was born 12 Sep 1690, Brandenburg, Germany (son of Christian Spears); died 1772, Pennsylvania, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 13255

    Peter married Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen Abt 1708, Germany. Margaret (daughter of Peter Henlopen) was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany; died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 13.  Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany (daughter of Peter Henlopen); died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA.

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    • Reference Number: 5407

    Children:
    1. George Fredrick Spears was born Abt 1731; died 1793, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA.
    2. Joseph Andrew Spears was born Abt 1721, Germany.
    3. Michael Christopher Spears was born 8 Jul 1709, Germany; died 1772, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA.
    4. 6. Peter Henry Spears was born 1713, Arnsburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died 25 Nov 1782, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.

  3. 14.  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]


  4. 15.  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. John Paul Froman was born 1710; died May 1783, Lincoln, Nelson, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.
    3. 7. 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.