Peter Froman

Male 1685 - Aft 1730  (> 46 years)


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  • Name Peter Froman  [1
    Born 1685  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Birth 1690  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Reference Number 5075 
    Died Aft 1730  Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I5075  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Family Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen,   b. Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1700 
    Children 
     1. Mary Froman,   b. 1705, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)  [natural]
     2. John Paul Froman,   b. 1710,   d. May 1783, Lincoln, Nelson, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)  [natural]
     3. Regina Froman,   b. 1725, Alsace, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)  [natural]
     4. Solomon Froman,   b. 1718, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F1254  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
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  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S22] OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;;), Database online.
      Record for Peter Froman