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Josiah Frost was born about 1744 (possibly in New Jersey). He married Elizabeth Parcell on 1 March 1768. He was a Private in the Virginia Continental Line. Josiah and Elizabeth were the parents of Isaiah [Sr.], Meshack (the founder of Frostburg, Maryland), Josiah [Jr.], Abigail Dorris, Elizabeth Snedeker, Rebecca Porter, Mary Arnold, Margaret Porter, and Ann Frost. Josiah Frost died after 28 August 1819, a resident of Allegany County, Maryland. His final resting place is not known.
Source: Last Will and Testament of Josiah Frost: "Maryland Probate Estate and Guardianship Files, 1796-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XKJV-1G9 : 11 March 2018), Josiah Frost, 12 Oct 1819; citing Allegany, county courts, Maryland.
Source for service: BRUMBAUGH, REV WAR RECS, VA, VOL 1, P 239; LIB OF VA, VA WAR, VOL 4, PP 76, 185; ROLL #83.2; NARA, M860, GEN INDEX TO COMP MIL SERV RECS OF REV WAR SOLS, ROLL #19.
Author: COL David K. Kentsmith MD (Ret.)
Josiah Frost was born into a Colonial New England family living in Wellington, Tolland County, Connecticut, on 6 July 1745. He married Elizabeth Parcel on 1 March 1768 in New Providence, New Jersey.
He moved with his wife to Virginia, where he is listed as living in Louden County when he was paid £25 for serving as an infantryman in the Virginia Continental line on 21 April 1785.
He also had land in Allegheny County, Maryland. He operated a Tavern and way station for a wagon freight line out of Virginia that his future son-in-law Samuel Dorris, Jr., who married his daughter Abigail was a horse team driver.
Josiah’s family, especially his oldest son, developed the land and started a town Frostburg in the county. Josiah was preceded in death by his wife Elizabeth, who died as he did in Allegheny County, Maryland. His children lived in the Frostburg area, and two of his daughters married and moved to Tennessee.
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