Person:Frederick Froelich (1)

Frederick Froelich was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

Contents 1 Records in Augusta County, VA 2 Documentation 3 Overview 4 Personal Data 5 Children 6 Dispersion 7 Footnotes 8 Bibliography		Fraley Tapestry Register Data Notebooks Analysis Bibliography Graphics Index
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Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 267.--27th November, 1750. Paul Lung's bond as administrator of Rudy Mauck, with sureties Frederick Fraclich (Frailey), Peter Scholl.

• Page 348.-28th May, 1751. Abraham Job's appraisement, by Henry Netherton, James McCoy, Frederick Frailey.

• Vol. 2 - FEE BOOKS OF AUGUSTA COURT - 1756 - page 98, Frederick Freeling, or Fraley.

Documentation

Genforum Summary for Frederick Fraley

Genforum Compilation of data about Frederick Fraley

Hamilton's Article on Frederick Frayley

Overview

Based on Hamilton's Article on Frederick Frayley, with additional information added as indicated.

Frederick Fraley ^[2] was an early settler in Castle's Woods; Hamilton believed that he was in the area by 1769, but provides no direct evidence for that view. He apparently came to SW VA from NC, for his will and subsequent court cases suggests a NC connection; Hamilton believes that he came to NC from Augusta County VA, where he was known as Frederick Froelich. His will identifies his wife as "Chloe", but that he was previously married. Frederick and Chloe had numerous children, as evidenced by both his will and Chloe's, as well as court records related to his estate.

He initially settled in Castle's Woods near Mill Creek where acquired the property and mill of John Lynch. Later he purchased from John Snoddy the lands once owned by William and James Moore, and on which Moore's Fort was located. The mill property was subsequently sold to Henry Hamlin, who in turn sold it to Charles Bickley, by whose name it would be commonly known. Two descriptions of Frederick's home from this period survive, as recorded by Hamilton:

The late Mr. S. A. Fraley of Abingdon, great-great-grandson of Frederick, in an undated letter (which was written sometime in the 1930s) to the late James Taylor Adams, says, "The house that Frederick Fraley built was made of oak logs, sawed square and fitted tightly together. The corners dove-tailed and spiked together with iron spikes, which was said to have been carried on horseback from Lynchburg, VA. The floors, window frames and doors, and almost all the inside woodwork was of black walnut. There were port holes cut in the walls upstairs, on all four sides."

The late Mr. R. L. Gose, has this to say: "I do remember knowing and seeing the Indian Fort located at the Sally Meade place, willed to her for life by her late husband Charles Meade. I remember distinctly seeing the old building built of logs with port holes in the walls to shoot through. I am now 89 years of age. My next birthday the 2nd of August, 1954, I will be 90 years old."

The reference to "port holes in the walls to shoot through" clearly places it in the period of Indian Hostilities, and suggests that this was a fort house, similar to that of the surviving Kilgore's Fort House. However, it may also be that Fraley made use of existing construction of Moore's Fort, and that his home was actually one of the stockaded cabins built into the walls of the fort. [See Thwaites description of Fort Dobbs.

Personal Data

Children

*Identified in Fredericks will

Dispersion

From his will and subsequent court cases over his estate, indicate that Frederick had 13 sons, though only 12 of them are identified by name. Of the 12 sons who can be identified, three (William, Jessee and Henry),remained in Virginia. One (caleb) moved to Mississippi, dying there in 1828. One (John) moved to Sumner County TN. The remainder (James, Martin, Isaac, Frederick, Benjamin, and Daniel) moved to Kentucky.

The dispersion of Fredericks daughters has not been examined closely enough to comment upon.

Footnotes

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
2. ↑ In early records his surname is also spelled Friley, Frayley, and even Froley. These variants are identified by family researchers as anglicizations of the German "Froelich".

Bibliography

MySource:Will of Frederick Frayley

MySource:Bill of Compaint, Fraley vs Fraley and Smith

Hamilton's Article on Frederick Frayley