PVT Frederick Royse
Birth 18 Mar 1750
Bedford County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death 24 Sep 1825 (aged 75)
Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana, USA
Burial Horners Chapel Cemetery
Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana, USA
Frederick Royse was born 1750 in Bedford Co. PA, died 24 September 1825 in Fredericksburg, Washington Co., IN. He founded Fredericksburg in 1815. He married in 1778 to Sarah Dewitt in VA and had the following children: John Washington (1779-1836), Hannah (1784-1830), William (1785-1834), Martin B. (1787-1862), Gabriel (1789-1857), Sarah (1791-1866), Lydia (1796-1869), Rebecca (1796-1831), Elizabeth (1798- ), and Benjamin (1800- ). Frederick was in the Bedford Co. PA Rangers during the Revolutionary War (enlisted as "Rice").
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