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Assuming they came from Scotland their name originally would have been Frazer or Fraser, and it often appears this way in the earlier records. Since very few people could write in the 18th century, when the name needed to be written, usually in legal documents and court records, the spelling of the name was left to those who recorded it. The spelling varied between Frazer, Frazier, Fraizer, Fraiser, Frasier (sometimes in the same document!). Eventually, as people became more literate, the descendants of Jeremiah and William settled on one of the variations.
These pages collect together documentary evidence related to Jeremiah
and William, their ancestors and descendants. The information is classified
according to whether it is documented by primary sources, documented by
sources whose primary source is unknown or simply deduced. Information
whose primary source is unknown is not necessarily less reliable but since
the source is unknown the reliability cannot be assessed. In some cases
deductions are made that differ from commonly accepted deductions. No claim
is made that these deductions are any better than others, which may have
been based on evidence that is no longer available, but they appear to
fit the evidence as we know it.
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