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From: "Nicholas Sturm" <>
Subject: RE: [MDGARRET] Friend and Frazee Catherine Friend and Hezekiah Frazee
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:50:31 -0500


I don't have anything definite, but ... I read the item because I have a
collateral Frazee so the name jumped out. And, of course, I was born on
land that was once (and very briefly) probably part of Monongalia and have
relatives also in Preston Co. With the names Friend and Skidmore together,
I would suspect a location in the eastern panhandle of WV was a likely
place of marriage (i.e., Hampshire Co.). A small part of the Friend family
did reach Randolph and several of the Skidmores did also. Hampshire could
have been on their route from Maryland to Monongalia County although it is
not the most popular route for that migration (most seem to have gone from
Allegany through the Aurora (German Settlement) and down cheat river to
modern Monongalia. Nevertheless a very significant number did go into
Hampshire, stay a while, and then go to upper cheat (Dry Fork) and then
into Monongalia. In 1782/83 "Monongalia" was very large and largely
unsettled. And very few had any confidence as to where they really were or
how far Monongalia extended in any direction. The first court for
Monongalia has been placed at a farm in Fayette Co., PA, apparently.

Good luck to your friend in his/her quest.


> [Original Message]
> From: Mary Ann McCague <>
> To: <>
> Date: 2/6/2006 10:25:29 PM
> Subject: [MDGARRET] Friend and Frazee Catherine Friend and Hezekiah
Frazee
>
> Hello fellow researchers,
>
> I'm helping a very distant relative who is trying to find out more about
Catherine (Friend) and Hezekiah Frazee. He does not have email and I
promised to copy and send to him any information that I received.
> He has supplied me with the following information:
>
> Catherine was born Apr 9, 1767 d Feb 7, 1842. She married Hezekiah
Frazee b abt 1758 d June 6,1821. and I think the marriage was 1782/83 in
VA probably Preston Co., WV today. They were buried in the Old Lincoln
Furnace Graveyard in Jackson Co., Ohio. He has their 10 children (maybe an
11th or the last child may be a nephew or grandson).
>
> In 1786, in Monongalia Co., VA (Preston Co., WV today) he acquired 441
acres on the Cheat River opposite the mouth of Salt Lick Creek. He
continued to appear on the personel property tax rolls in Monongalia Co. Va
- except as noted in: 1790, 1791 (Bourbon Co. KY), 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795
(Addison Twnship, Gallia Co., OH), 1796. In On May 31, 1800 he purchased a
tract of land called Yarmouth - 304 acres five miles from Turkey Foot, in
Whartown Twp, Fayette Co. Pa (Uniontown.) This information was gathered by
Harry and Thelma Frazee - both deceased.
>
> 1. Was Catherine the daughter of Augustine and Hanna (unknown) Friend?
or Jacob and Elizabeth (Skidmore) Friend? Where did her family live?
>
> 2. Does anyone have documentation that would prove they were married in
VA? Where? Actual date?
>
> 3. Does anyone have any information of Hezekiah Frazee's parents? The
name of Hezekiah may be
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.. Thank you for your help.
>
> Mary Ann Frazee McCague
>
>
>
>
>
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