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Frank Tull Manuscripts - Pages 1 - 11
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To My Mother, Harriet Graham Campbell Tull, I Dedicate This Sketch of the Froman-Grahams-Campbell’s. Thousand of Questions She Has Answered Has Enabled me to Write This Article.
Frank Tull- Dec. 25, 1942
Possessing considerable information relating to my family pedigree, I shall concile the facts hidden in my various papers, because in their present condition they would be of little value to any one other than myself. This is done with the hope that future generations may have some knowledge of the origin and accomplishments of their ancestors and that my years of effort may be handed down to others.
Like thousands of other Missouri families, we must search into Kentucky records to learn many things we desire to know and beyond that, we frequently resort to Virginia or Maryland records for information concerning our forefathers.
In the course of several generations, one may find ancestors of political pro- minence, while others have attained notoriety on the field of battle, and still others are known for their outstanding financial success. In many cases the family is one of those thousands of pioneers who helped build our country by simple living, honest, sincere individuals with a strong desire to earn a livelihood by tilling of the soil or other legitimate means, and rear a good Christian family. From these substantial citizens many of us will find we are descended. And it may be said, "The Lord loves these people or he would not have made so many of them."
A History of Fredericks County, Virginia, by Cartmell, will disclose how Joist Heydt or Yost Hite, obtained a grant of forty thousand acres in the Shenan- doah Valley of Virginia for making settlement of that part of the Old Dominion. Not only did his sons accompany him on this venture, but with him were his son- in-laws, Bowman, Chrisman and Froman. This was in 1732 when Yost led his family into the Valley and they took many other families to introduce civilization to that section of the state. The Hite family left many descendants to have a great influence on this part of the state of Virginia.
From other reliable sources, one may learn details of Yost Hite coming to New York from Germany about 1710 with beloved wife, Anna Marie DuBois, who was of French extraction. Too, one may follow this family to York Penn. and thence into the Shenandoah Valley, where they died and are buried. Incidentally, the Book of "Long Meadows", written by Minnie Hite Moody of Atlanta Georgina, Published in 1940, may provide interesting reading for anyone interested in this family, for she quotes many valuable sources that reflect the importance of this Hite family.
Elizabeth Hite, the second daughter of Yost and Anna Marie Hite, was baptized in Kingston, New York in 1711, and had married John Paul Froman of New Jersey before the immigration of the Hites into the Shenandoah Valley. While residing in the Valley, they became the parents of (1) Sarah Jane, born November 15, 1732, died about 1750, the first white child born in the Valley; (2) John Paul Froman, Jr., born October 16, 1734; (3) Sarie Christina, born March 1, 1736;(4) Elizabeth" born May 8, 1738, who married Nathaniel Cartmell and died at their home "Retirement" about four miles due west of Winchester, Virginia; (5) Jacob Froman. no record of age, accompanied his father and family to near Pittsburg, Penn. where the father purchased land. Jacob proceeded the family to Kentucky and became prominent in the new state.
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From numerous sources one may learn John Paul Froman, Sr. and wife Elizabeth Hite Froman, moved to what is now Washington County, Penn. from the Shenandoah Valley about 1754. In this new location the Fromans owned land not far from Fort Pitt, or Pittsburg as it is known today. It was from this point they proceeded down the Ohio River in flat boats to the present state of Kentucky prior to 1780; in fact, some members of the Froman or Frohmann families must not have been far behind the Boone and Harrod families in 1775, to make Kentucky their homes.
Of the descendants of John Paul Froman, Sr., we will be very interested in John Paul Froman, Jr., born 1734, who Cartmell says married a Miss Cartmell, daughter of one of the two brothers who had moved from Virginia to Kentucky. John Paul, Jr. had the distinction of being on the same jury with Daniel Boone, John Bowman and others at Lexington in 1784, to decide if Alexander Mckee and John Connelly were British subjects, on inquest of Escheats and etc., according to Cartmell.
Not to be outdone by his sons John Paul, Jr. and Jacob, we find John Paul Froman, Sr. disposed of his large holdings in Pennsylvania and followed his children to the new state. In Lincoln County, Kentucky (at that time Lincoln County, Virginia) under the date of 1783, one will find the last will of John Paul, Sr. and the record of the settlement of his estate. The will mentions his sons John Paul, Jr. and Jacob as well as the widow, but does not list the daughters. The will of John Paul, Sr. is as follows:
LINCOLN COUNTY VIRGINIA (KENTUCKY) Will book A, Page 46
"In the name of God Amen, the 28th day of April in the year of our Lord 1783, I Paul Froman, Sr. of Lincoln County of Va. being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given to God for it, therefore calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say:
Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that give it and for my body I recommend it at the direction of my exectors not doubting that at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate whereof it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give and devise dispose of the same in the following manner and form, first I give and bequeath to Elizabeth, my beloved wife the third of my whole estate, together with my household goods; likewise I give to my well beloved sons Paul Froman, Jr. forty dollars and to my daughters that is deceased the same shall be given to their husbands or children and the residue after my debts be justly paid, I give and bequeath to my beloved son Jacob Froman whom I likewise make, constitute and ordain my only and sole executor of this my last will and testament, all and singular of messneages (sic) and miniment by him to be freely possessed and enjoyed and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all other Wills and testaments by me in anywise before this time named and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament." Paul Froman (seal)
For future generations to associate John Paul, Sr. with the proper era of historical events, one must keep in mind the dates of 1700-1783. His life evidently began in New Jersey shortly after the turn of the century and possibly a little earlier.
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Where he married Elizabeth Hite is unknown, but he was associated with her pro- minent family at York Penn. before the immigration to the Shenandoah Valley in 1732. In the valley were born their five children and after spending some twenty years in the valley with other members of the Hite family, they moved to Pennsylvania and thence to Kentucky when Paul, Sr. was quite an old man.
During the span of life of J. Paul, Sr. (note the name of John seldom used), many important events took place. William Penn governed Pennsylvania while Paul, Sr. resided in York Penn. The same year he accompanied his father-in-law into the Shenandoah Valley, Oglethorp and his fellow trustees obtained their . charter from the King and this began the State of Georgia. Prominent Governor Spotswood held office in Virginia while Paul, Sr. and his family resided in that state. Prominent Virginians formed the Ohio Company in 1749 and obtained a grant of one half million acres on the Ohio. Then young George Washington and Christopher Gent went to the Ohio to notify the French to withdraw from English territory. John Paul, Sr. and wife Elizabeth were preparing to move from the valley to again become pioneers in the western section of Pennsylvania, and had probably located there when Braddock met his humiliating defeat at Ducuesne in 1755. This was followed by the seven-year war that no doubt caused less concern to Paul, Sr. than providing for his family in their new home. King George took his throne in 1760 and five years later his unpopular stamp act may have caused comment in the Froman home when that news reached his far away residence. Too, they may have heard some talk of that "radical" Adams in the far away State of Mass, and from down Virginia way there may have been some news of young Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee and Tom Jefferson being recognized as leaders. The Boston Massacre of l770 was followed by the Boston Tea Party, however, the Fromans may not have recognized war clouds in the offing.
Although Paul, Sr. was too old to take part in the revolution that followed, it is a fact Paul,Jr. did serve for the Colonies as a Captain, according to the Illinois Payroll list and other Fromans serving with him. They were Isaac, Solomon Froman and Jacob. Isaac and Solomon were probably children of Paul, Jr.
While living in his well established home in Pennsylvania that stands today, Paul, Sr. learned George Washington was beginning his career as Commander in Chief of the Continental Armies, but unfortunately, Paul, Sr. did not live to see this great American become our first president. Paul, Sr. did, however, know the Liberty Bell sealed a note of freedom on July 4th, 1776 and then George Rogers Clark went to the Ohio to punish the Indians for their massacre of Kentucky settlers in 1777. It is probable Paul, Sr. was again urging his wife, Elizabeth, to make one more change of residence to the new territory where their sons Paul, Jr. and Jacob expected to take new lands.
Paul, Sr. made this last move with the remnants of his family and their slaves to a location not far from Harrodsburg in Lincoln County and there rests his body in the old fort cemetery or in a nearby churchyard.
Future descendants must admit this ancestor accomplished much in his lifetime. He assisted in carving civilization to York Penn., the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to western Pennsylvania and from there to the new Kentucky County, Virginia, where his long useful life ended. Truly he was a pioneer in every sense of the word.
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A review of several sources of information fails to disclose any data concerning the later life of Elizabeth Hite Froman, the daughter of Yost Hite and Anna Marie Dubois Hite. She was baptized in Kingston, New York on the 4th of November 1711, the second daughter to the Hite family entered the Shenandoah Valley, and there she gave birth to her five babies. Certainly she could have been nothing other than a true pioneer mother.
Family ties with her sisters Mary Hite Bowman and Magdelene Chrisman and brothers John, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham and Joseph were broken in 1754 when she moved with her husband to Pennsylvania. Just four years after the Fromans had entered the Valley, Elizabeth lost her mother, Anna Marie Dubois Hite. It was in 1760 while living in Pennsylvania that her father, Yost Hite, died at his home "Long Meadows" in Shenandoah.
History does not record when Elizabeth Hite Froman departed this world, but she must have survived her husband John Paul, Sr. because she is mentioned in his will in 1783. No doubt she rests beside her husband in a Horrodsburg cemetery, awaiting the day of the resurrection.
Elizabeth Hite Froman was capable of transmitting many strong characteristics to her children, for she came of a family of many achievements. Her father was a man able of no ordinary ability. Her brother, Jacob Hite, married Catherine O'Bannon. After her death, he married Frances Madison Beale, the aunt of young Madison who was to be one of our presidents. Brother, John Hite, married Zara Eltinge, whose mother was a Van Meter. Young brother, Isaac (b-1723, d-1795) married Eleanor Eltinge. Brother, Abram Hite (b-1729,d-1790). married Rebecca Van Meter of Hampshire, Virginia. Who the youngest brother, Joseph Hite, married is unknown, but the names of his four children were Joseph, John, William and Ann Hite.
Of these six brothers of Elizabeth Hite Froman, we learn from Dubellett's, "Some Prominent Virginia Families", that the oldest son, John, was a very energetic man and erected the first brick house in the Shenandoah Valley. Also, he was a Colonel in the Indian wars. This brother, John, had four daughters, Anna Marie, Rebecca, Margaret and Elizabeth; and the baby, a son named John (b-1751), who was a miller, a Methodist by religion who freed his slaves. He was the father of a large family, of whom most went to Ohio.
Brother Abraham Hite was only two years old when the Hite family came to Virginia. He represented the Hampshire County of Virginia in the house of Burgesses. He and his wife, Rebecca Van Meter Hite, were married in 1751 and the family bible indicates they were the parents of:
Isaac Hite (b-1750, d-1794) Went to Jefferson County, Ky. Abraham, Jr. (b-1755, d-1832 Went to Jefferson County, Ky Joseph Hite (b-1757, d-1831 Went to Jefferson County, Ky Anne Hite (b-1757 Married Thomas Cartmell
Brother Jacob Hite was the next to oldest son of Yost and his ability as a business- man was recognized by his father, for it was Jacob who was sent to Ireland with the Hite brigantine "Swift" to bring Irish families to the valley as new settlers. It was the obligation of Yost to bring a certain number of settlers to the valley for his large land grant. It was while on one of these trips that Jacob met and married Catherine O'Bannon. She died and left five children after Jacob had erected his home at Lee Town, Jefferson County, Virginia. Following his second marriage, Jacob moved to South Carolina, where his family was killed by the Indians. The children of Jacob and Catherine O'Bannon Hite were:
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1. John, who died in 1777 2. Thomas, (b-175?, d-1776) Married Frances Madison. 3. Jacob O'Bannon, who was killed by the Indians in 1778. 4. Mary, who married Rev. N. Banning. 5. Elizabeth, who married Tavener Beale, Jr. the son of her stepmother, Frances Madison Beale
By his second marriage to Frances Madison Beale, Jacob Hite: 6. George, who was in college in 1778. 7. Eleanor, who was carried to Pensacola by the Indians, in 1778. 8. Susan, killed by the Indians in Carolina in 1778.
In regard to John, the oldest son of Jacob and Catherine O'Bannon Hite, it is known he was the father of three beautiful daughters. Mary, Sarah and Catherine, who all left many descendants.
Thomas Hite, the second son, was born September 13, 1750 and died in 1778. He was at one time the youngest member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and during the Revolutionary War, was promoted from Lieutenant to Major at New York City. He was considered a very handsome and cultured man.
George Hite, the oldest son of Jacob and Frances Madison Beale Hite, was in William and Mary College when his family was attacked by Indians in Carolina. He was a captain in the Revolutionary and married Deborah Rutherford of Jefferson County, Virginia. They were the parents of Margaret, a nun, and Robert G. Hite, who was the leader of a force in the War of 1812.
Returning to the children of Yost and Anna Marie Dubois Hite, we find the sixth child and of course the younger brother of Elizabeth Hite Froman, was Isaac Hite. This name will be of interest to many descendants of generations of that family. Isaac was younger than his brothers John and Jacob. He was born in 1723 and died 1795. It was 1745 when he married Eleanor Eltinga and their home was erected in the valley, below the home of oldest brother, John.. There is a record of only one charter member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest greek letter fraternity that was founded in 1776. He was known as Major Hite and was the father of thirteen children, of whom all sons were William and Mary College graduates.
Although the Hite family information I have given does not constitute a direct line for descendants of Paul and Elizabeth Hite Froman, it does present a better under- standing of the background of her family and what one could justly expect of future generations. From the DuBellett book, these facts concerning the Hites has been copied because the book is not available in all libraries to which readers may be referred.
When Paul and Elizabeth Hite Froman moved to Kentucky, they may have been without many relatives in the new state, but it is known one member of the Hite family accompanied Harrod in 1775 and of course, their own sons Paul, Jr. and Jacob had taken lands previous to the coming of their parents to the newly opened territory. It was not long, however, until the Fromans had many relatives in their new surroundings, because many Hites, Bowmans and Chrismans were to enter Kentucky and help make it a state of 1792. These families are found in many Kentucky records from 1780 to 1850 and played no small part in the building of the nation to the West.
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Formation of Kentucky and the Origin of Various Counties
NOTE: The following information concerns only those who are interested in searching of records for additional information and provides little information for those interested in the family history.
With future interests directed toward Kentucky, it is well for one to have knowledge of the formation of new counties of the state so that seeking of facts concerning families from records of wills, marriage certificates and deeds can be more easily located and understood.
Under her charter of 1609, the state of Virginia had claims to the lands south of the Ohio river to the Mississippi and probably the first form of county govern- ment was administered by Fincastle County, Virginia in 1775. In 1776, a division of Fincastle County, Virginia was made and one of the three counties taken from the vastness of Fincastle was Kentucky County, Virginia. This was in 1778, two years after the first permanent settlement was made in the present Kentucky at Harrodsburg by James Harrod and others. Kentucky County, Virginia was practically coterminous with the present state of Kentucky and Harrodsburg was the seat of local government. This county remained in existence from 1776 to 1780 when Kentucky County, Virginia was divided into Jefferson, Lincoln and Fayette Counties, Virginia. Anyone interested in the descendants of certain branches of the Froman family must remember Kentucky County, Virginia was the only county of record for this large region from 1776 to 1780 and those county records have never been found. This means all marriage certificates, wills and deeds for that important four year period of Kentucky are lost and marriages cannot be verified by county record. Also, if I remember correctly, there are only small parts of the Fincastle County records available, but because of little activity, they are not of such great importance as those lost Kentucky County records that were made when Kentucky was receiving thousands of new families as immigrants.
In 1780, the division of Kentucky County, Virginia was necessitated by the in- crease in population and need for closer seats of government for the vast territory covered by Kentucky County. This division was made into Jefferson County, with the county seat located at Louisville. Lincoln County with the seat of government at Harrodsburg and Fayette County with the county offices at Frankfort.
Maps of these early counties have been reviewed in the Missouri State Historical Society Library but not in recent years. The exact county lines are not remem- bered, but a rough outline of each is as follows:
Jefferson County included the western section of the present state of Kentucky, west of Louisville and from that point the eastern county line was directed to the southeast. Many counties taken from Jefferson will be of particular interest to us. The east line of Jefferson was the west line of Lincoln County and one may say Lincoln County was more or less that central part of the state east of Louisville and west of Frankfort. Lincoln was bounded on the east by Fayette County that more or less covered the eastern part of the present state of Kentucky.
The counties of central Kentucky that will be of particular interest to us are Nelson County, with county seat located at Bardstown, some forty miles south of Louisville and slightly east of that city. This county of Nelson was taken from
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Jefferson County in 1784 and the new county of Nelson covered a great part of the eastern section of the former Jefferson County. From Nelson County taken Washington County in 1792, the year Kentucky was admitted to the Union. The seat of government of Washington County was the town of Springfield, Kentucky and no change was made in this county until about 1831 when further reduction of Washington was made by formation of Marion County with the county seat at Lebabon, Kentucky. The towns of Springfield and Lebanon were only about twelve miles apart and between them we will find a Froman family of material interest to many of us. *************** Dubellett, Kerchival, Cartmell and Colline Histories relating to the Hite and Froman families leave no doubt as to the removal of the Fromans to the new state of Kentucky. J. Paul, Sr. and wife were preceded by their sons Paul, Jr. and Jacob. We know Paul, Sr. settled in Lincoln County not far from Harrodsburg, for it was there he died in 1783. Exactly where Jacob and his wife, Barbara _______, settled in the new state is unknown by me, but as he was an early representative from Mercer County, and on the committee to form the first con- stitution of Kentucky, it is reasonable to assume he too lived not far from Harrodsburg in Lincoln County. The fact he was executor of his fathers estate may lend support to the fact Jacob was at least not a citizen of Jefferson County or any of those counties later taken from Jefferson.
On the other hand, we know Paul, Jr. and his family were located to the west of his father and was in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Therefore, any descendants found near Paul, Jr. in Jefferson County would probably be his descendants. This statement is brought out with the idea of sorting from which son of Paul, Sr. would be one Isaac Froman, living in Washington County, Kentucky in 1792. From Nelson and Washington County records we will present documents to prove this was original home site of our Paul Froman, Jr. and wife, Mary Cartmell.
We have accounted for the location of the only two sons of J. Paul, Sr. and Elizabeth Hite Froman, but we must not overlook the fact their daughter, Marie Christina, may have also immigrated to the new state. She married an Overall and in later years her descendants are found in Tennessee and Texas. She too, may have been a resident of Kentucky. This accounts for all of the children of Paul, Sr. because the other daughter, Elizabeth, married a Cartmell and never moved from Virginia. There are no records indicating the daughter, Elizabeth, left heirs.
The information given about Paul, Sr. and wife, Elizabeth Hite Froman, is all that I have gathered from records and books in the course of several years of intermittent work on the genealogy of this Froman family. Unfortunately, I possess even less information about Paul Froman, Jr. and his wife, Mary Cartmell The Cartmell history has been quoted concerning the courage of this couple and their immigration to Kentucky, but prior to 1800 I lose all trace of them in Kentucky records.
Cartmell informs us that Paul, Jr. was born in 1734, and as his parents had gone to Virginia in 1732, it is obvious he was a Virginian by birth. He must have married Mary Cartmell in Virginia before going to Pennsylvania in 1754 because she was a member of that well known Virginia family. John Paul, Jr. or we may say Paul, Jr. because the name of John was never used, followed his younger brother, Jacob, to Kentucky.
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In the first Virginia land grants, Book I, Page 31, of Virginia land grants, surveyed October 1, 1780 in Kentucky County. In 1783, Paul, Jr. also had land grants in Jefferson County, Kentucky on the same date his brother, Jacob Froman. had 5400 acres in Lincoln and part in Jefferson County. Ownership was no doubt in both counties because the county line dividing these two counties was not far from where he resided. In 1783, Paul Froman had 154 acres in Jefferson County by Froman's creek, but the most important information was found in the following article from page 194, book 21 of the Kentucky Historical Magazine:
"On the 10th day of February, 1780, the certificate book reads as follows:
Paul Froman by Jacob Meyers this day claimed a pre empt of 400 acres of land at state price in the district of Kentucky on account of making settlement in the month of May 1779, laying on Froman creek, a branch of Chaplin Fork about twenty miles above Bullitt Salt Lick, to include improvement. Satisfactory proof being made to court, they are of opinion said Froman has right to preemption of 400 acres of land and certificate be issued accordingly."
In book A of Jefferson County, Kentucky, we find the following record of Land Grants:
Jacob Froman, 1000 acres Coxes Creek, now Bullitt County, Kentucky Paul Froman, 11000 acres on Froman Creek entered December 1780 Paul Froman, 560 acres Coxes Creek entered December 1782 Robert Froman, 100 acres Jefferson County in 1782-1784 Abraham Hite, 2000 acres for service in revolution Isaac Hite, 2000 acres for service in revolution Robert Hite, 2000 acres for service in revolution
An old map of Kentucky with water courses shown on it is in the Missouri State Historical Library and it discloses Bullitt Salt Lick is in Bullitt County, Kentucky. Froman Creek is a branch of Chaplin's Fork of Salt River, Washington County, Kentucky. This invites your attention to the fact Paul, Jr. had his home in Washington County or at least just across the line to the north in Jelson County, so for that reason, we will concentrate our efforts on the Washington County records for some trace of Froman descendants. Mention of the fact must be made that repeated efforts to obtain copies of Nelson County records had been without success but evidently there is not much information available at Bardstown and no trace of Paul, Jr. is found there after 1793.
Page 146 of the Kentucky Historical Magazine, Number 25, supplies the tax list of Washington County, Kentucky, for the year of 1792 and on that list the name of one Isaac Froman is listed with 200 acres of land, as well as live stock assessed to him. He is the only Froman appearing on the tax list of that county for that year. However, the same source of book 26, page 138, does reveal Paul Froman was assessed for 1500 acres in the adjoining county of Nelson. I am sorry to say this is the last record of Paul Froman, Jr. with exception of the record of a deed Paul, Jr. and wife, Mary, with others, selling a tract of land on Cox's Creek in Nelson County in 1793. This deed, so far as I can determine, is the last record of Paul, Jr. and wife, Mary Cartmell Froman, in Kentucky. To all central Kentucky County clerks I have written for a record of the estate of Paul, Jr., but I have never succeeded in finding his family after 1793 in Nelson County, Kentucky or anywhere else. The assistance of genealogists in Washington has been procured and a thorough check of all available census reports of the
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entire state of Kentucky for 1810 and 1820 fails to disclose Paul, Jr. being in the state at those dates. The census for 1790 and 1800 were destroyed when buildings were burned in Washington during the War of 1812 so those records are not available.
Should I ever succeed in locating the estate of Paul, Jr. to prove the names of his legal heirs, I will have made a great accomplishment for many of us who are interested in the genealogy of this line of the Froman family. That is because the "Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia Report" of the Virginia State Library 1912-13, page 172, lists Paul Froman as a captain at Pittsburg. Also, Isaac Froman, Solomon Froman and Temple Froman are on the same list that is commonly referred to as the Illinois Payroll list. There is also one Elijah Froman listed and he and Temple Froman are strangers to all of the Froman families with whom I have corresponded. We do, however, have a good idea as to the identity of Isaac and Solomon Froman because a letter I possess from A Froman descendant does list these two as children of Paul, Jr. and Isaac is probably the same one we found in the Washington County, Kentucky, tax list of 1792. That proof would be of great satisfaction to many of our relatives who would desire to use this line for application to the D.A.R or furnish them an additional bar for their present membership certificate.
It seems incredible that a person having the large land holdings and coming from a family of such importance as Paul Froman, Jr., should appear to fall from the face of the earth as he apparently did prior to 1800. Likewise, it is most unfortunate that no descendants of these people left any written data concerning his life and accomplishments, or those of his descendants. After a great deal of research and hundreds of letters to Kentucky County authorities for a record of Paul Froman, Jr.
(Page 10) was missing from the original manuscript.
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The following statement is copied as written by Mrs. Smiley;
"Early history of Jonathan M. Froman. Interesting sketch of one of the early pioneer settlers."
"I, Jonathan M. Froman, of Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana, April 27, 1895, give this synopsis of the history of my family as far back as I can trace them.
In the year of 1776, George III, King of Great Britain, then at war with his thirteen colonies in North America, brought thirty thousand German troops from Prince Hessis to aid him in putting down the rebellion.
The first shipment of ten thousand came with General Burgoine to Canada, crossed over to New York territory and was captured by General Gates at the battle of Saratoga. In that army were two young men, Paul and Jacob Froman (Frohmann). They were exchanged and continued in the Army. History does not say, but they married in Jamestown, Virginia, and immigrated to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, now Nelson County. History of Kentucky tells that Paul Froman served on a jury with Daniel Boone in a court trial and Jacob Froman was one of the committee appointed to locate the Capital of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Paul Froman had six sons and daughters, the eldest, Rachel, married Patrick Magee; Elizabeth; John married, lived and died in Kentucky. Solomon, a merchant in Lexington, started with six other merchants to St. Louis on the Mississippi River, then a French trading post, with horses and mules and all were murdered by the Indians twelve miles back from Louisville, Kentucky. Isaac, going from Lexington to Vincennes, a French trading port of the Wabash River crossing the Ohio River ten miles below Madison, Indiana, was killed by a tavern keeper by the name of Smock, for his money. James married and died in Kentucky. Jacob married and immigrated to Langhery Creek, Indiana territory, now Ohio County. Christine married William Cotton and located on Indian Creek. Paul Froman wrote his name leaving out the "h" and with only one "n". He married in Indiana near the mouth of Plum Creek to Kesiah Picket, whose grand- father was a Spanish Grandee ***************Kesiah, my mother married my father, Paul Froman, and had two daughters and six sons."
It would not be possible to express the excitement caused by receiving some information concerning a descendant of Paul Froman, Jr., but, of course, the first part of the sketch was known to be incorrect. How that confusion happened to exist in this branch of the family is unknown. However, the historical fact of Paul, Jr. serving on a jury with Boone was handed down thru this branch of the Fromans in Indiana.
The list of children of Paul, Jr. and Mary Cartmell Fromans as supplied by the Jonathan Froman sketch will at least prove most valuable in properly associating each name with its proper family connection and when checking records in the future, this will be of great assistance to have the names of the children of this family. Also, for want of better proof, the names of the children of Paul, Jr. will have to be accepted from the Jonathan Froman sketch until further research of Kentucky records will enable us to gain the much desired legal proof of the heirs of Paul, Jr. and wife, Mary.
With Paul Froman III, his brother, Jacob, sister, Christine, who married William Cotton, all located in the State of Indiana, one would naturally assume it was possible for the father, J. Paul, Jr., to have immigrated to
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