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Frederick Boyer was born 31 December 1732 at Northampton County, Pennsylvania, a son of John Jacob Boyer/Beyer and Mary Elizabeth. Frederick lived with his parents near the Lehigh Gap about the year 1755. During that time, there were many Indian incursions along the frontier. According to the History of Lehigh County, Vol. 2, page 139, “During those dangerous times he [John Jacob Boyer] and his son Frederick were working in a field along the mountain when they were suddenly attacked by a party of Indians who violently seized the father and scalped him and took the son captive together with a young daughter and led them to Canada. On the way in the long and difficult journey the brother and sister became separated and the sister was never afterward heard from. Frederick Boyer, the brother, was discovered as a prisoner under the French and Indians for five years and in an exchange was sent to Philadelphia and from there soon found his way back to the Lehigh Gap. He secured the land of his father and married Susanna Mehrkam, a daughter of Conrad, who resided in that locality and subsequently took part in the Revolution; and they became the parents of eight children: John, George (born in 1786, died in 1861 at the age of 93 years, and married to Christiana Kline) … Henry (married to Magdalena Strohl…), Andrew (married to Mary Grunsweig and had five children…), Mary, Susan, Catherine and Elizabeth.“
Frederick Boyer served as a Private in the 4th Company, 3rd Battalion, 25 Feb. 1783, under Captains Henry Bowen and Peter Roath at Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Frederick Boyer died 31 October 1832 at Aqushicola, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He was laid to rest at the Saint John’s Church Cemetery at Palmerton, present-day Carbon County, Pennsylvania. His wife, Susanna (born about 1750), predeceased him 6 June 1815 at Towamensing Township, (then) Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Sources for service: Published Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume Eight, pages 129, 242, 253, 283 and 309.
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NSDAR cites pob Beyerly / / Germany; find-a-grave cites pob asPalmerton, Carbon , PA