[Note-The story below is from my family history which I wrote more than 15 years ago. It sounded so good I thought I would reprint it for a wider audience of Fryman descendants to read. I have to go through it and make a few corrections. If anyone finds errors, etc., I hope you will let me know-Mike.]
Much of the foundation for the Fryman family trees can be found in the work of the late Dudley Williams. His wife gave the only copy to the Library of Congress. Several years ago, I purchased a photocopy of his work from the Library and have utilized it ever since. Probably others have also purchased photocopies. The title is: Williams, Dudley C., Phillip Fryman, Sr., Harrison County, Kentucky: Ancestors and Descendants, D.C. Williams: Lexington, KY, 1986, 7, 103, [6] pages.
[Note-In the early records, Philip's Christian name was spelled either Philip or Phillip, and the German Phillipps, with the nickname Lipps. The surname for Fryman was Freyman, Freymann, or Fryman. I've seen it spelled Friman. Another German surname which sounds similar to Freymann is Feimann or Freiman. Freymann or Fryman means: "Free from the obligations to the lord of the manor".]
[Note-The Snapp and Levengood families were Swiss living in Alsace, probably in transition for the eventual move to America]
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 18
Proprietary Return, County of Berks--1767
Colebrookdale Township
Page-------Name ---------Occupation --------Acres --------Horses -------Cattle -------Sheep ------Tax
14-----Fryman, Philip-------None--------------None----------None------------1-----------None---------1--
15-----Levegood, Peter-----Founder----------None-------------1---------------1-----------None--------1--
15-----Snep, Geo.------------Labourer---------None--------------1---------------1-------------3-----------1--
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Effective Supply Tax, County of Washington--1781
Fallowfield Township
Page-------------Name-------------Acres----------Horses----------Cattle----------Sheep----------Value---
731---- ---Fryman, Philip----------50----------------2------------------1----------------4----------------34-----
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Return of State Tax, County of Westmoreland--1786
Rostraver Township
Page-----------Name----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tax--
476--------Fryman, Philip------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7---
A Ranger on the Frontier in the American Revolution
Phillip Fryman, 2nd class private, Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Parkinson, Col. Thomas Crook, 5th Battalion Commander, Washington County Militia, Pennsylvania--1781-1782 (See footnote 8 below).
Jacob's son, Philip, was living in Colebrookdale Township in Berks County sometime near 1767. There he met George Snapp (Hans Georg Schnepp) and Peter Levengood (Liebengut/Lowenguth). George and Peter were brothers-in-law. According to the 1767 tax list for Colebrookdale Township; Philip, George, and Peter owned no land. This indicates they were employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furance, where housing was provided.(1) George is listed as a laborer, and Peter a founder. Philip, who is not married, asks for the hand of George Snapp's daughter, Catherine. She accepts his proposal and they marry. The three families, however, do not remain in Pennsyvania very long.
In May 1767, George Snapp appears in southern Frederick County, Viriginia, where he receives a warrant for 400 acres of land.(2) Philip Fryman and Peter Levengood with their families would have accompanied him on this trip following the old Philadelphia Wagon Road. All three men disappear from the tax rolls in eastern Pennsylvania after 1767. In Virginia, they move into an area not far from present Shenandoah County. The valley and hills lay along the rushing Cedar Creek. A vast land rich in the brown hemitite ore, limestone, and forests. All the right ingredients for the production of cast iron. All three men acquired land to settle their families on. Their neighbor is a quaker from Philadelphia named Isaac Zane, Jr. He is the owner of the newly established Marlboro Ironworks. While in Pennsylvania, Philip and the others probably heard of the new ironworks in Virginia and decided they could prosper more and make a better life for themselves by moving there. At least they could own land, which was almost impossible in eastern Pennsylvania. At present, I have no proof that George, Philip,(3) and Peter(4) ever worked at Zane's ironworks The land records of Frederick County do show Zane's lands bordering theirs. I am positive the three men would have been associated with him in one capacity or another.(5) Peter was a founder by trade and would most likely have worked at the ironworks for a period of time. In the early years, Isaac Zane prospered and made a lot of money. As the threat of war approached in the mid-1770s, things began to change. The Marlboro Ironworks did produce a large quantity of cast iron munitions for the American forces in the American Revolution, but many payments were late in coming. Zane slowly sank into debt and the ironworks finally went out of business.(6) By the mid-1780s, the hills and valleys along Cedar Creek had been denuded with soil erosian everywhere. The creek Itself would have been polluted by this time. With the decline of orders for cast iron products, the Marlboro Ironworks ceased to exit. Philip, George, and Peter moved on farther west.
Philip's brother, Charles, remained in Northampton County, Pennsylvania for several more years. By 1773, he is living in Berks County, where his first son, Henry, is born on March 30th. From 1773 to 1781, nothing is known about him. Future research should reveal more. In 1781, he purchases 100 acres of land in north Shenandoah County, Virginia not far from the Marlboro Iron Works.(7) Zane owns land in the area near him. After 1800. he and most of his family migrate to Belmont County in southeastern Ohio.
The years 1781 and 1782 finds Philip Fryman and George Snapp in Washington County, Pennsylvania serving in the 5th Battalion of the militia.(8) By 1783, Philip and Catharine are living in Westmorland County and remain there till 1795 when they migrated to Nicholas County, Kentucky.(9) They settled on Fryman's Branch of Beaver Creek and would spend the better part of their lives there. According to the 1830 U.S. Population Census, Phillip was living in Harrison County Kentucky. He probably died there. George Snapp and his family had already moved to Nicholas County in the mid-1780s and were settled there when Philip and Catharine arrived.
Peter Levengood and his family migrated to Cumberland Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania in1784 and remained there. One of his grandsons migrated to Kentucky later on.
Footnotes
(1) I received the information about Philip Fryman being employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furnace from Mrs. Marshall Brucer. 5335 Via Celeste. Tucson.. Arizona in November 1998 I already had a copy of the 1767 tax list.
(2) Burgert. Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Picton Press; Camden. ME. xxiv. 690 pages, 1992, pp. 449, 450. He receives another warrant for 400 acres in 1773. There is another George Snapp in the area who is from a different family of Snapps. Joyner, Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of I irginia s Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Frederick County. 1747-1780, Volume II. Published by the Compiler; Peggy Shomo Joynr. 1985. pp. 15. 157. Gray. Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Company. 1993. pp. 19. 31.
(3) Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, 1653-1787,Volumc V, Published by the compiler: Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1995. p. 15. Caveatcd Surveys. Proprietor's Office; Entry 112. Phillip Freeman; Frederick; 15 Dec. 1767-12 Apr. 1768; 260 acres. 16 Apr. 1774 - Caveat entered by Mr. Isaac Zane. Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, ('ompiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1985. pp. 15. 56, 157. 1 believe this Phillip Freeman is Philip Fryman. It is within the same time period of George Snapp's migration to Virginia. Also, his land is adjacent to the property of George Snapp and Isaac Zane.
(4) Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Company., 1993. pp. 61, S-316 and S-318. Isaac Zane is living adjacent to Peter Levengood; Burgert Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth century emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America, Picton Press: Camden, ME. 1992, xxiv. 690 pages, pp. 340, 341. Peter is the son of Hans Jacob Leibenguth or Jacob Levengood. George Snapp and Peter Levengood came from Germany to America in 1750 aboard the ship Phoeniz. George married his sister Magdalena.
(5) The courthouse records for Frederick County will have to be consulted for evidence of the activities of Philip Fryman, George Snapp, and Peter Levengood. A large portion of the Isaac Zane, Jr. Papers are preserved at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Other institutions also have a quantity of his papers.
(6) Cooper, Karen G. Isaac Zane s Marlboro Ironworks: A Colonial Iron Plantation, 1763-1795, Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of History, James Madison University; Bivins; John Jr. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. XI (1): 15-65, Isaac Zane and the Products of Marlboro Furnace"; Moss, Roger W., Jr. The Virginia Magazine ofH istory and Biography, "A Quaker for the Times", 77 (3), July 1969: 291-306.
(7) Gray, Virginia. Northern Neck Land Grants, Volume III p. 170, 224, 242, 253, X-611. Isaac Zane's property is adjacent to Charles Fryman.
(8) Montgomery. Thomas Lynch, Ed. Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series. Volume II, Harrisburg. PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906. Philip Fryman: pp. 164, 172, 174; George Snapp: pp. 62, 190, 238, 390. George snapp also served in the failed Battle of Sandusky in 1782 under Colonel William Crawford.
(9) Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Archives: Third Series, Volume XXII. 1898, pp. 476. 731; Dumont. William R, Ed. Tax Lists. Westmoreland County. 1786-1810, Washington, D.C.:National Genealogical Society. 1968. p. 6.
Much of the foundation for the Fryman family trees can be found in the work of the late Dudley Williams. His wife gave the only copy to the Library of Congress. Several years ago, I purchased a photocopy of his work from the Library and have utilized it ever since. Probably others have also purchased photocopies. The title is: Williams, Dudley C., Phillip Fryman, Sr., Harrison County, Kentucky: Ancestors and Descendants, D.C. Williams: Lexington, KY, 1986, 7, 103, [6] pages.
[Note-In the early records, Philip's Christian name was spelled either Philip or Phillip, and the German Phillipps, with the nickname Lipps. The surname for Fryman was Freyman, Freymann, or Fryman. I've seen it spelled Friman. Another German surname which sounds similar to Freymann is Feimann or Freiman. Freymann or Fryman means: "Free from the obligations to the lord of the manor".]
[Note-The Snapp and Levengood families were Swiss living in Alsace, probably in transition for the eventual move to America]
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 18
Proprietary Return, County of Berks--1767
Colebrookdale Township
Page-------Name ---------Occupation --------Acres --------Horses -------Cattle -------Sheep ------Tax
14-----Fryman, Philip-------None--------------None----------None------------1-----------None---------1--
15-----Levegood, Peter-----Founder----------None-------------1---------------1-----------None--------1--
15-----Snep, Geo.------------Labourer---------None--------------1---------------1-------------3-----------1--
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Effective Supply Tax, County of Washington--1781
Fallowfield Township
Page-------------Name-------------Acres----------Horses----------Cattle----------Sheep----------Value---
731---- ---Fryman, Philip----------50----------------2------------------1----------------4----------------34-----
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Return of State Tax, County of Westmoreland--1786
Rostraver Township
Page-----------Name----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tax--
476--------Fryman, Philip------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7---
A Ranger on the Frontier in the American Revolution
Phillip Fryman, 2nd class private, Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Parkinson, Col. Thomas Crook, 5th Battalion Commander, Washington County Militia, Pennsylvania--1781-1782 (See footnote 8 below).
Jacob's son, Philip, was living in Colebrookdale Township in Berks County sometime near 1767. There he met George Snapp (Hans Georg Schnepp) and Peter Levengood (Liebengut/Lowenguth). George and Peter were brothers-in-law. According to the 1767 tax list for Colebrookdale Township; Philip, George, and Peter owned no land. This indicates they were employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furance, where housing was provided.(1) George is listed as a laborer, and Peter a founder. Philip, who is not married, asks for the hand of George Snapp's daughter, Catherine. She accepts his proposal and they marry. The three families, however, do not remain in Pennsyvania very long.
In May 1767, George Snapp appears in southern Frederick County, Viriginia, where he receives a warrant for 400 acres of land.(2) Philip Fryman and Peter Levengood with their families would have accompanied him on this trip following the old Philadelphia Wagon Road. All three men disappear from the tax rolls in eastern Pennsylvania after 1767. In Virginia, they move into an area not far from present Shenandoah County. The valley and hills lay along the rushing Cedar Creek. A vast land rich in the brown hemitite ore, limestone, and forests. All the right ingredients for the production of cast iron. All three men acquired land to settle their families on. Their neighbor is a quaker from Philadelphia named Isaac Zane, Jr. He is the owner of the newly established Marlboro Ironworks. While in Pennsylvania, Philip and the others probably heard of the new ironworks in Virginia and decided they could prosper more and make a better life for themselves by moving there. At least they could own land, which was almost impossible in eastern Pennsylvania. At present, I have no proof that George, Philip,(3) and Peter(4) ever worked at Zane's ironworks The land records of Frederick County do show Zane's lands bordering theirs. I am positive the three men would have been associated with him in one capacity or another.(5) Peter was a founder by trade and would most likely have worked at the ironworks for a period of time. In the early years, Isaac Zane prospered and made a lot of money. As the threat of war approached in the mid-1770s, things began to change. The Marlboro Ironworks did produce a large quantity of cast iron munitions for the American forces in the American Revolution, but many payments were late in coming. Zane slowly sank into debt and the ironworks finally went out of business.(6) By the mid-1780s, the hills and valleys along Cedar Creek had been denuded with soil erosian everywhere. The creek Itself would have been polluted by this time. With the decline of orders for cast iron products, the Marlboro Ironworks ceased to exit. Philip, George, and Peter moved on farther west.
Philip's brother, Charles, remained in Northampton County, Pennsylvania for several more years. By 1773, he is living in Berks County, where his first son, Henry, is born on March 30th. From 1773 to 1781, nothing is known about him. Future research should reveal more. In 1781, he purchases 100 acres of land in north Shenandoah County, Virginia not far from the Marlboro Iron Works.(7) Zane owns land in the area near him. After 1800. he and most of his family migrate to Belmont County in southeastern Ohio.
The years 1781 and 1782 finds Philip Fryman and George Snapp in Washington County, Pennsylvania serving in the 5th Battalion of the militia.(8) By 1783, Philip and Catharine are living in Westmorland County and remain there till 1795 when they migrated to Nicholas County, Kentucky.(9) They settled on Fryman's Branch of Beaver Creek and would spend the better part of their lives there. According to the 1830 U.S. Population Census, Phillip was living in Harrison County Kentucky. He probably died there. George Snapp and his family had already moved to Nicholas County in the mid-1780s and were settled there when Philip and Catharine arrived.
Peter Levengood and his family migrated to Cumberland Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania in1784 and remained there. One of his grandsons migrated to Kentucky later on.
Footnotes
(1) I received the information about Philip Fryman being employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furnace from Mrs. Marshall Brucer. 5335 Via Celeste. Tucson.. Arizona in November 1998 I already had a copy of the 1767 tax list.
(2) Burgert. Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Picton Press; Camden. ME. xxiv. 690 pages, 1992, pp. 449, 450. He receives another warrant for 400 acres in 1773. There is another George Snapp in the area who is from a different family of Snapps. Joyner, Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of I irginia s Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Frederick County. 1747-1780, Volume II. Published by the Compiler; Peggy Shomo Joynr. 1985. pp. 15. 157. Gray. Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Company. 1993. pp. 19. 31.
(3) Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, 1653-1787,Volumc V, Published by the compiler: Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1995. p. 15. Caveatcd Surveys. Proprietor's Office; Entry 112. Phillip Freeman; Frederick; 15 Dec. 1767-12 Apr. 1768; 260 acres. 16 Apr. 1774 - Caveat entered by Mr. Isaac Zane. Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, ('ompiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1985. pp. 15. 56, 157. 1 believe this Phillip Freeman is Philip Fryman. It is within the same time period of George Snapp's migration to Virginia. Also, his land is adjacent to the property of George Snapp and Isaac Zane.
(4) Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Company., 1993. pp. 61, S-316 and S-318. Isaac Zane is living adjacent to Peter Levengood; Burgert Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth century emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America, Picton Press: Camden, ME. 1992, xxiv. 690 pages, pp. 340, 341. Peter is the son of Hans Jacob Leibenguth or Jacob Levengood. George Snapp and Peter Levengood came from Germany to America in 1750 aboard the ship Phoeniz. George married his sister Magdalena.
(5) The courthouse records for Frederick County will have to be consulted for evidence of the activities of Philip Fryman, George Snapp, and Peter Levengood. A large portion of the Isaac Zane, Jr. Papers are preserved at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Other institutions also have a quantity of his papers.
(6) Cooper, Karen G. Isaac Zane s Marlboro Ironworks: A Colonial Iron Plantation, 1763-1795, Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of History, James Madison University; Bivins; John Jr. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. XI (1): 15-65, Isaac Zane and the Products of Marlboro Furnace"; Moss, Roger W., Jr. The Virginia Magazine ofH istory and Biography, "A Quaker for the Times", 77 (3), July 1969: 291-306.
(7) Gray, Virginia. Northern Neck Land Grants, Volume III p. 170, 224, 242, 253, X-611. Isaac Zane's property is adjacent to Charles Fryman.
(8) Montgomery. Thomas Lynch, Ed. Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series. Volume II, Harrisburg. PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906. Philip Fryman: pp. 164, 172, 174; George Snapp: pp. 62, 190, 238, 390. George snapp also served in the failed Battle of Sandusky in 1782 under Colonel William Crawford.
(9) Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Archives: Third Series, Volume XXII. 1898, pp. 476. 731; Dumont. William R, Ed. Tax Lists. Westmoreland County. 1786-1810, Washington, D.C.:National Genealogical Society. 1968. p. 6.
[Note-The story below is from my family history which I wrote more than 15 years ago. It sounded so good I thought I would reprint it for a wider audience of Fryman descendants to read. I have to go through it and make a few corrections. If anyone finds errors, etc., I hope you will let me know-Mike.]
Much of the foundation for the Fryman family trees can be found in the work of the late Dudley Williams. His wife gave the only copy to the Library of Congress. Several years ago, I purchased a photocopy of his work from the Library and have utilized it ever since. Probably others have also purchased photocopies. The title is: Williams, Dudley C., Phillip Fryman, Sr., Harrison County, Kentucky: Ancestors and Descendants, D.C. Williams: Lexington, KY, 1986, 7, 103, [6] pages.
[Note-In the early records, Philip's Christian name was spelled either Philip or Phillip, and the German Phillipps, with the nickname Lipps. The surname for Fryman was Freyman, Freymann, or Fryman. I've seen it spelled Friman. Another German surname which sounds similar to Freymann is Feimann or Freiman. Freymann or Fryman means: "Free from the obligations to the lord of the manor".]
[Note-The Snapp and Levengood families were Swiss living in Alsace, probably in transition for the eventual move to America]
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 18
Proprietary Return, County of Berks--1767
Colebrookdale Township
Page-------Name ---------Occupation --------Acres --------Horses -------Cattle -------Sheep ------Tax
14-----Fryman, Philip-------None--------------None----------None------------1-----------None---------1--
15-----Levegood, Peter-----Founder----------None-------------1---------------1-----------None--------1--
15-----Snep, Geo.------------Labourer---------None--------------1---------------1-------------3-----------1--
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Effective Supply Tax, County of Washington--1781
Fallowfield Township
Page-------------Name-------------Acres----------Horses----------Cattle----------Sheep----------Value---
731---- ---Fryman, Philip----------50----------------2------------------1----------------4----------------34-----
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Return of State Tax, County of Westmoreland--1786
Rostraver Township
Page-----------Name----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tax--
476--------Fryman, Philip------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7---
A Ranger on the Frontier in the American Revolution
Phillip Fryman, 2nd class private, Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Parkinson, Col. Thomas Crook, 5th Battalion Commander, Washington County Militia, Pennsylvania--1781-1782 (See footnote 8 below).
Jacob's son, Philip, was living in Colebrookdale Township in Berks County sometime near 1767. There he met George Snapp (Hans Georg Schnepp) and Peter Levengood (Liebengut/Lowenguth). George and Peter were brothers-in-law. According to the 1767 tax list for Colebrookdale Township; Philip, George, and Peter owned no land. This indicates they were employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furance, where housing was provided.(1) George is listed as a laborer, and Peter a founder. Philip, who is not married, asks for the hand of George Snapp's daughter, Catherine. She accepts his proposal and they marry. The three families, however, do not remain in Pennsyvania very long.
In May 1767, George Snapp appears in southern Frederick County, Viriginia, where he receives a warrant for 400 acres of land.(2) Philip Fryman and Peter Levengood with their families would have accompanied him on this trip following the old Philadelphia Wagon Road. All three men disappear from the tax rolls in eastern Pennsylvania after 1767. In Virginia, they move into an area not far from present Shenandoah County. The valley and hills lay along the rushing Cedar Creek. A vast land rich in the brown hemitite ore, limestone, and forests. All the right ingredients for the production of cast iron. All three men acquired land to settle their families on. Their neighbor is a quaker from Philadelphia named Isaac Zane, Jr. He is the owner of the newly established Marlboro Ironworks. While in Pennsylvania, Philip and the others probably heard of the new ironworks in Virginia and decided they could prosper more and make a better life for themselves by moving there. At least they could own land, which was almost impossible in eastern Pennsylvania. At present, I have no proof that George, Philip,(3) and Peter(4) ever worked at Zane's ironworks The land records of Frederick County do show Zane's lands bordering theirs. I am positive the three men would have been associated with him in one capacity or another.(5) Peter was a founder by trade and would most likely have worked at the ironworks for a period of time. In the early years, Isaac Zane prospered and made a lot of money. As the threat of war approached in the mid-1770s, things began to change. The Marlboro Ironworks did produce a large quantity of cast iron munitions for the American forces in the American Revolution, but many payments were late in coming. Zane slowly sank into debt and the ironworks finally went out of business.(6) By the mid-1780s, the hills and valleys along Cedar Creek had been denuded with soil erosian everywhere. The creek Itself would have been polluted by this time. With the decline of orders for cast iron products, the Marlboro Ironworks ceased to exit. Philip, George, and Peter moved on farther west.
Philip's brother, Charles, remained in Northampton County, Pennsylvania for several more years. By 1773, he is living in Berks County, where his first son, Henry, is born on March 30th. From 1773 to 1781, nothing is known about him. Future research should reveal more. In 1781, he purchases 100 acres of land in north Shenandoah County, Virginia not far from the Marlboro Iron Works.(7) Zane owns land in the area near him. After 1800. he and most of his family migrate to Belmont County in southeastern Ohio.
The years 1781 and 1782 finds Philip Fryman and George Snapp in Washington County, Pennsylvania serving in the 5th Battalion of the militia.(8) By 1783, Philip and Catharine are living in Westmorland County and remain there till 1795 when they migrated to Nicholas County, Kentucky.(9) They settled on Fryman's Branch of Beaver Creek and would spend the better part of their lives there. According to the 1830 U.S. Population Census, Phillip was living in Harrison County Kentucky. He probably died there. George Snapp and his family had already moved to Nicholas County in the mid-1780s and were settled there when Philip and Catharine arrived.
Peter Levengood and his family migrated to Cumberland Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania in1784 and remained there. One of his grandsons migrated to Kentucky later on.
Footnotes
(1) I received the information about Philip Fryman being employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furnace from Mrs. Marshall Brucer. 5335 Via Celeste. Tucson.. Arizona in November 1998 I already had a copy of the 1767 tax list.
(2) Burgert. Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Picton Press; Camden. ME. xxiv. 690 pages, 1992, pp. 449, 450. He receives another warrant for 400 acres in 1773. There is another George Snapp in the area who is from a different family of Snapps. Joyner, Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of I irginia s Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Frederick County. 1747-1780, Volume II. Published by the Compiler; Peggy Shomo Joynr. 1985. pp. 15. 157. Gray. Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Company. 1993. pp. 19. 31.
(3) Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, 1653-1787,Volumc V, Published by the compiler: Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1995. p. 15. Caveatcd Surveys. Proprietor's Office; Entry 112. Phillip Freeman; Frederick; 15 Dec. 1767-12 Apr. 1768; 260 acres. 16 Apr. 1774 - Caveat entered by Mr. Isaac Zane. Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, ('ompiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1985. pp. 15. 56, 157. 1 believe this Phillip Freeman is Philip Fryman. It is within the same time period of George Snapp's migration to Virginia. Also, his land is adjacent to the property of George Snapp and Isaac Zane.
(4) Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Company., 1993. pp. 61, S-316 and S-318. Isaac Zane is living adjacent to Peter Levengood; Burgert Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth century emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America, Picton Press: Camden, ME. 1992, xxiv. 690 pages, pp. 340, 341. Peter is the son of Hans Jacob Leibenguth or Jacob Levengood. George Snapp and Peter Levengood came from Germany to America in 1750 aboard the ship Phoeniz. George married his sister Magdalena.
(5) The courthouse records for Frederick County will have to be consulted for evidence of the activities of Philip Fryman, George Snapp, and Peter Levengood. A large portion of the Isaac Zane, Jr. Papers are preserved at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Other institutions also have a quantity of his papers.
(6) Cooper, Karen G. Isaac Zane s Marlboro Ironworks: A Colonial Iron Plantation, 1763-1795, Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of History, James Madison University; Bivins; John Jr. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. XI (1): 15-65, Isaac Zane and the Products of Marlboro Furnace"; Moss, Roger W., Jr. The Virginia Magazine ofH istory and Biography, "A Quaker for the Times", 77 (3), July 1969: 291-306.
(7) Gray, Virginia. Northern Neck Land Grants, Volume III p. 170, 224, 242, 253, X-611. Isaac Zane's property is adjacent to Charles Fryman.
(8) Montgomery. Thomas Lynch, Ed. Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series. Volume II, Harrisburg. PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906. Philip Fryman: pp. 164, 172, 174; George Snapp: pp. 62, 190, 238, 390. George snapp also served in the failed Battle of Sandusky in 1782 under Colonel William Crawford.
(9) Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Archives: Third Series, Volume XXII. 1898, pp. 476. 731; Dumont. William R, Ed. Tax Lists. Westmoreland County. 1786-1810, Washington, D.C.:National Genealogical Society. 1968. p. 6.
Much of the foundation for the Fryman family trees can be found in the work of the late Dudley Williams. His wife gave the only copy to the Library of Congress. Several years ago, I purchased a photocopy of his work from the Library and have utilized it ever since. Probably others have also purchased photocopies. The title is: Williams, Dudley C., Phillip Fryman, Sr., Harrison County, Kentucky: Ancestors and Descendants, D.C. Williams: Lexington, KY, 1986, 7, 103, [6] pages.
[Note-In the early records, Philip's Christian name was spelled either Philip or Phillip, and the German Phillipps, with the nickname Lipps. The surname for Fryman was Freyman, Freymann, or Fryman. I've seen it spelled Friman. Another German surname which sounds similar to Freymann is Feimann or Freiman. Freymann or Fryman means: "Free from the obligations to the lord of the manor".]
[Note-The Snapp and Levengood families were Swiss living in Alsace, probably in transition for the eventual move to America]
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 18
Proprietary Return, County of Berks--1767
Colebrookdale Township
Page-------Name ---------Occupation --------Acres --------Horses -------Cattle -------Sheep ------Tax
14-----Fryman, Philip-------None--------------None----------None------------1-----------None---------1--
15-----Levegood, Peter-----Founder----------None-------------1---------------1-----------None--------1--
15-----Snep, Geo.------------Labourer---------None--------------1---------------1-------------3-----------1--
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Effective Supply Tax, County of Washington--1781
Fallowfield Township
Page-------------Name-------------Acres----------Horses----------Cattle----------Sheep----------Value---
731---- ---Fryman, Philip----------50----------------2------------------1----------------4----------------34-----
Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 22
Return of State Tax, County of Westmoreland--1786
Rostraver Township
Page-----------Name----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tax--
476--------Fryman, Philip------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7---
A Ranger on the Frontier in the American Revolution
Phillip Fryman, 2nd class private, Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Parkinson, Col. Thomas Crook, 5th Battalion Commander, Washington County Militia, Pennsylvania--1781-1782 (See footnote 8 below).
Jacob's son, Philip, was living in Colebrookdale Township in Berks County sometime near 1767. There he met George Snapp (Hans Georg Schnepp) and Peter Levengood (Liebengut/Lowenguth). George and Peter were brothers-in-law. According to the 1767 tax list for Colebrookdale Township; Philip, George, and Peter owned no land. This indicates they were employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furance, where housing was provided.(1) George is listed as a laborer, and Peter a founder. Philip, who is not married, asks for the hand of George Snapp's daughter, Catherine. She accepts his proposal and they marry. The three families, however, do not remain in Pennsyvania very long.
In May 1767, George Snapp appears in southern Frederick County, Viriginia, where he receives a warrant for 400 acres of land.(2) Philip Fryman and Peter Levengood with their families would have accompanied him on this trip following the old Philadelphia Wagon Road. All three men disappear from the tax rolls in eastern Pennsylvania after 1767. In Virginia, they move into an area not far from present Shenandoah County. The valley and hills lay along the rushing Cedar Creek. A vast land rich in the brown hemitite ore, limestone, and forests. All the right ingredients for the production of cast iron. All three men acquired land to settle their families on. Their neighbor is a quaker from Philadelphia named Isaac Zane, Jr. He is the owner of the newly established Marlboro Ironworks. While in Pennsylvania, Philip and the others probably heard of the new ironworks in Virginia and decided they could prosper more and make a better life for themselves by moving there. At least they could own land, which was almost impossible in eastern Pennsylvania. At present, I have no proof that George, Philip,(3) and Peter(4) ever worked at Zane's ironworks The land records of Frederick County do show Zane's lands bordering theirs. I am positive the three men would have been associated with him in one capacity or another.(5) Peter was a founder by trade and would most likely have worked at the ironworks for a period of time. In the early years, Isaac Zane prospered and made a lot of money. As the threat of war approached in the mid-1770s, things began to change. The Marlboro Ironworks did produce a large quantity of cast iron munitions for the American forces in the American Revolution, but many payments were late in coming. Zane slowly sank into debt and the ironworks finally went out of business.(6) By the mid-1780s, the hills and valleys along Cedar Creek had been denuded with soil erosian everywhere. The creek Itself would have been polluted by this time. With the decline of orders for cast iron products, the Marlboro Ironworks ceased to exit. Philip, George, and Peter moved on farther west.
Philip's brother, Charles, remained in Northampton County, Pennsylvania for several more years. By 1773, he is living in Berks County, where his first son, Henry, is born on March 30th. From 1773 to 1781, nothing is known about him. Future research should reveal more. In 1781, he purchases 100 acres of land in north Shenandoah County, Virginia not far from the Marlboro Iron Works.(7) Zane owns land in the area near him. After 1800. he and most of his family migrate to Belmont County in southeastern Ohio.
The years 1781 and 1782 finds Philip Fryman and George Snapp in Washington County, Pennsylvania serving in the 5th Battalion of the militia.(8) By 1783, Philip and Catharine are living in Westmorland County and remain there till 1795 when they migrated to Nicholas County, Kentucky.(9) They settled on Fryman's Branch of Beaver Creek and would spend the better part of their lives there. According to the 1830 U.S. Population Census, Phillip was living in Harrison County Kentucky. He probably died there. George Snapp and his family had already moved to Nicholas County in the mid-1780s and were settled there when Philip and Catharine arrived.
Peter Levengood and his family migrated to Cumberland Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania in1784 and remained there. One of his grandsons migrated to Kentucky later on.
Footnotes
(1) I received the information about Philip Fryman being employed by the Colebrookdale Iron Furnace from Mrs. Marshall Brucer. 5335 Via Celeste. Tucson.. Arizona in November 1998 I already had a copy of the 1767 tax list.
(2) Burgert. Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Picton Press; Camden. ME. xxiv. 690 pages, 1992, pp. 449, 450. He receives another warrant for 400 acres in 1773. There is another George Snapp in the area who is from a different family of Snapps. Joyner, Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of I irginia s Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Frederick County. 1747-1780, Volume II. Published by the Compiler; Peggy Shomo Joynr. 1985. pp. 15. 157. Gray. Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Company. 1993. pp. 19. 31.
(3) Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, 1653-1787,Volumc V, Published by the compiler: Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1995. p. 15. Caveatcd Surveys. Proprietor's Office; Entry 112. Phillip Freeman; Frederick; 15 Dec. 1767-12 Apr. 1768; 260 acres. 16 Apr. 1774 - Caveat entered by Mr. Isaac Zane. Joyner. Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants A Surveys, ('ompiled by Peggy Shomo Joyner. 1985. pp. 15. 56, 157. 1 believe this Phillip Freeman is Philip Fryman. It is within the same time period of George Snapp's migration to Virginia. Also, his land is adjacent to the property of George Snapp and Isaac Zane.
(4) Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume III, Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Company., 1993. pp. 61, S-316 and S-318. Isaac Zane is living adjacent to Peter Levengood; Burgert Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth century emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America, Picton Press: Camden, ME. 1992, xxiv. 690 pages, pp. 340, 341. Peter is the son of Hans Jacob Leibenguth or Jacob Levengood. George Snapp and Peter Levengood came from Germany to America in 1750 aboard the ship Phoeniz. George married his sister Magdalena.
(5) The courthouse records for Frederick County will have to be consulted for evidence of the activities of Philip Fryman, George Snapp, and Peter Levengood. A large portion of the Isaac Zane, Jr. Papers are preserved at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Other institutions also have a quantity of his papers.
(6) Cooper, Karen G. Isaac Zane s Marlboro Ironworks: A Colonial Iron Plantation, 1763-1795, Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of History, James Madison University; Bivins; John Jr. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. XI (1): 15-65, Isaac Zane and the Products of Marlboro Furnace"; Moss, Roger W., Jr. The Virginia Magazine ofH istory and Biography, "A Quaker for the Times", 77 (3), July 1969: 291-306.
(7) Gray, Virginia. Northern Neck Land Grants, Volume III p. 170, 224, 242, 253, X-611. Isaac Zane's property is adjacent to Charles Fryman.
(8) Montgomery. Thomas Lynch, Ed. Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series. Volume II, Harrisburg. PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906. Philip Fryman: pp. 164, 172, 174; George Snapp: pp. 62, 190, 238, 390. George snapp also served in the failed Battle of Sandusky in 1782 under Colonel William Crawford.
(9) Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Archives: Third Series, Volume XXII. 1898, pp. 476. 731; Dumont. William R, Ed. Tax Lists. Westmoreland County. 1786-1810, Washington, D.C.:National Genealogical Society. 1968. p. 6.
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