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Subject: Re: Frederick co., VA prior to 1800 families
Date: 13 Dec 2005 19:50:06 -0700
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Surnames: Drake, Bosteyan, Frazier
Classification: Query
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Cedra: I have a very very tenuous connection for you: my great great grandfather John Frazier's brother, Hiram Frazier, (b. 3 Mar 1815, most probably Winchester, VA), married Lucinda Drake, birthdate assumed as 1815-1820, birthplace unknown). Marriage took place in Belmont County, OH on 21 Feb 1839.
From here back we rely on family lore: Lucinda may have been the daughter of John Drake and Phoebe Bosteyan, (spelling from Frederick County marriage records) who married in Frederick County on 11 Mar 1811. A Phoebe Crym appears in Hiram Frazier's household on both the 1850 and 1860 Belmont County census. Family lore says her maiden name was Bostoner (could be a corruption of Bosteyan) and she married a second time to a John Crim/Crym. The big clinker is that she is shown as 84 on the 1860 census, which would make her birthdate c. 1776, and that would make her age 35 at marriage in 1811! You will obviously have to take all of this with a grain of salt.
My only claim to any accuracy here is that Hiram Frazier and John Frazier were sons of Alexander Frazier, (my ggg grandfather) b. 1790, who married also married a Drake: Mary Drake, in Winchester on 15 Dec 1811. So I'm a Drake descendent too. Whether John Drake and Mary Drake Frazier were related I do not know, but it may explain how Lucinda Drake got to Belmont County, OH and met Hiram Frazier.
There is speculation that Alexander's father was also Alexander. I found a Frederick County real estate transaction in which Alexander Frazier was a witness and it was too early for Alexander Jr. to have been a witness. The other witness in the case was........... Samuel Drake, so we have a third connection between Fraziers and Drakes in Frederick County, VA.
I hope that this hodgepodge will be of use to you.
Best regards, Kaye Richey
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