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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 1711 Alsce / / France Death: 09 Oct 1785 / Loudoun / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Paid Supply Tax in 1782 and 1783 in Loudoun County VA.
Additional References:
Loudoun County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists (Westminster, Maryland: Patricia B. Duncan, Willow Bend Books, 2004) 1782B p. 17, and 1783A, pg 34.
Spouse: (1) Magdalena Nash; (2) Eva Margareth Graeber Children: Mary; John Phillip; Johann Heinrich; Christian; Nicholas
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Jacob Freu/Frey/Frye1 was born in Germany in 1711 or 1712; 1711 is calculated from the church burial record (see below). Many sources on Ancesty.com state that he was born in 1712, likely in Eywiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.
A Jacob Frey emigrated from Germany to Maryland in 1748, but there were a number of other Jacob Frey’s who emigrated to Pennsylvania during this general time period.2
There are reports that Jacob married Magdalena Nash (1715-1738) in Grenzach, Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in 1732, but there are also many conflicting reports.3
Jacob married a second time, to Eva Margaret Graeber, possibly in 1738.
Jacob Frey and wife Eva Margareta are listed as sponsors for a baptism on 5 May 1771 at Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, Maryland. Margareta reportedly died in 1783, two years before Jacob, but no record has been found.4
The known children of Jacob and Eva Margareta were:
Mary was born in 1738
John Phillip was born in 1743 and married Dorothea Boger.
Johann Heinrich was born in 1748
Christian was born in 1748
Johann Nicholas was born in 1755 [SAR Patriot P-162677]
The marriage records for their sons Nicholas and Christian in 1773-1774 indicate that the family was then living on Israel’s Creek in Frederick County; this may be the church's location now known as Rocky Hill Lutheran Church near Woodsboro, Maryland.
Their son, John Phillip, was the great-grandfather of Orville and Wilbur Wright.5
During the Revolutionary War, “Jacob Frye” is listed as having paid the Personal Property Tax (including the Supply Tax) for 1782 and 1783. (There is only one Jacob Frey/Frye listed.)6
After New Jerusalem Lutheran Church began keeping a separate register from its mother church in Frederick, Maryland, the first entry in the Burial Register (as translated and transcribed) is: “Jacob Freu," buried on 9 October 1785, aged 74 years, two months, and four days.7 No gravestone for Jacob Fry has been found in the New Jerusalem Cemetery.
Sources:
In the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church records, there are six variants of this surname: Freu, Frëy, Frey, Freÿ, Fry, and Frÿ.
Ancestry.com source: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, page 242. Others by this name are listed in Strassburger and Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals to the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980).
Ancestry.com
Ibid
Lovettsville Historical Society Family File “Boger/Wright.”
Patricia B. Duncan, Loudoun County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2004) 1782B, p. 17, and 1783A, p. 34.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Register, “Burials,” 9 October 1785.
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