Stokes County NcArchives Biographies.....Frye, Johan Michael 1744/45 - 1815 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Curtis L. Older curtolder@earthlink.net September 8, 2009, 2:52 pm Source: www.cloldergen.com Author: Curtis L. Older Documentation for Johan Michael Frye (Jan 8, 1744/45 to 1815) father of Elizabeth Frye (Oct 30, 1770 to Aft. 1817 and Bef. 1850) Johan Michael Frye was the son of Johan Valentine Frye and Anna Maria Barbara Binkley.(1) Johan Michael Frye was born January 8, 1744/45 in Muddy Creek, Pennsylvania.(YY) His father was born May 9, 1721 in Wingen, Alsace, France. His mother was born June 1, 1722, in Canton, Bern, Switzerland. "Stokes County, North Carolina, was formed when Surry County was divided in 1789. The Stokes county seat was set at Germantown on 23 acres on Town Fork and Buffalo Creeks bought from Michael Frey and Henry Frey that lay on the Great Wagon Road. The thirty-eight town lots of a half-acre each sold immediately, and adjoining land owned by the Freys also sold quickly. The county seat was moved to Danbury on the formation of Forsyth County from Stokes County in 1849."(3) Michael Frye married Anna Maria Dorothea Schmidt in Heidleberg, Pennsylvania in 1765.(4) Anna Maria Dorothea Schmidt was born in 1747 in Hiedleberg, Pennsylvania. Michael Frye settled on South Fork Creek in 1765. Michael Frye's religion was of the Reformed Church. Michael Frye and Anna Maria Barbara Binkley were the parents of 10 children.(11) 1) Anna Barbara Elizabeth Frye born June 16, 1765, in Rowan Co., North Carolina and died March 15, 1851, in Stokes County, North Carolina. She married John Tuttle on June 16, 1783, in Surry County, North Carolina. He was born March 22, 1761, in Fairfax County, Virginia. 2) Anna Maria Frye born September 10, 1768 3) Elizabeth Frye born October 30, 1770 4) Sarah Frye born March 4, 1773 5) Catherina Frye born April 21, 1775 6) Johan Heinrich Frye born April 17, 1777 7) Martin FRYE born February 5, 1779 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania 8) Maria Margareth Frye born September 21, 1779 9) Johan Michael (II) Frye born July 15, 1782 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania 10) Johan Jacob (II) Frye born March 3, 1787 A brother of Michael Frye was Johann Heinrich Frye who was born January 14, 1750, in Pennsylvania and who died in Stokes County, North Carolina in 1802. He married Elisabeth Moser Morris in 1774. She was born in 1750. Henry Frye is listed in the Stokes County, North Carolina census records. Another brother of Michael Frye was Johann Valentine Frye, Jr. He was born March 8, 1747/48, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Johan Michael Frye died in the vicinity of Germantown, Stokes, County, North Carolina in 1815.(TB) His date of death probably was March 26, 1815. His will probably was proved in June of 1815 or 1816. Children (Frye): i. Anna Barbara Elizabeth born June 16, 1765 ii. Anna Maria born September 10, 1768 iii. Elizabeth born October 30, 1770 iv. Sarah born March 4, 1773 v. Catherina born April 21, 1775 vi. Johan Heinrich born April 17, 1777 vii. Martin born February 5, 1779 viii. Maria Margareth born September 21, 1779 ix. Johan Michael II born July 15, 1782 x. Johan Jacob born March 3, 1787 REFERENCES 3. Endnotes, number 1, page 37, (?NCGSJ? Month? Year?) - from a Hist - Gen magazine at Greensboro Library TB. "List of Dead in the Vicinity of Germantown, Stokes Co., NC, in 1815", Will proved Jun ___. 26 Mar 1815, Mich. FRY Snr., 27 Mrs. Fry, Filed in Stokes County records (Miscellaneous- #C.R. 090.928.10), NC State Archives. 1. Genealogical Records of Nantucket Families, William C. Folger, MS, 3 vols., Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA, vol. 3, p. 2,077. 2. "List of Dead in the Vicinity of Germantown, Stokes Co., NC, in 1815", Will proved Jun ___. 26 Mar 1815, Mich. FRY Snr., 27 Mrs. Fry, Filed in Stokes County records (Miscellaneous- #C.R. 090.928.10), NC State Archives. 3. Endnotes, number 1, page 37, (?NCGSJ? Month? Year?) - from a Hist - Gen magazine at Greensboro Library 4. Genealogical Records of Nantucket Families, Folger, vol. 3, p. 2,077. 5. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, William Wade Hinshaw, (1936, rpt, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969), Page: 1:846. 6. Nantucket, Mass., Vital Records to 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 5 vols. Boston, 1925-28, page 2:622. 7. Randolph Co., N. C., (Original) wills, 1775-1899, North Carolina State Archives (Joseph Worth); "Joseph and Lydia (Gorham) Worth of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Their Wandering Children", Elizabeth Pearson White, C.G, F.A.S.G, F.N.G.S., and Edwin W. Coles, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 76 (December 1988), pp. 268-288; Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library, A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families, Carol Clark Johnson, privately printed, 1970; John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1, by Elizabeth Pearson White, Picton Press, Rockport, Maine. 8. Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket, County, Island and Town. 1969; rept. Rutland, Vt., 1976, p. 828; Sallie W. Stockard, Hist. Of Guilford County, North Carolina (Knoxville, Tenn. 1902), 193. 9. Randolph Co., N. C., (Original) wills, 1775-1899, North Carolina State Archives (Joseph Worth). 10. Raleigh Register, Raleigh, NC, November 11, 1830, obituary for Judith Worth; Nantucket VR 5:615, but gives date newspaper was published instead of actual date of death; NEHGR 100:286. 11. Title: "Sparger Family History", by Wm. Murlin Creasy, abt. 1935, listing sources of Heidelberg, PA Congregational Record, & Congregation of Friedberg, NC Rc. Genealogical Records of Nantucket Families, Folger, vol. 3, p. 2,077; Letter from John Worth (New Ross, Indiana) to Hiram C. Worth (Greensboro, North Carolina), 1 February 1886. Original letter at Hege Library, Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC. Transcript of letter dated January 1915, made from original letter on loan from Laura D. Worth of Guilford College to Herbert Folger, California Mayflower Society Historian. A copy of the transcript was in the lineage documents of Arlie L. Rigsbee, General Number 4071, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts. 12. North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Surry County Deeds, 14:64, microfilm copy. 13. U. S. Census of North Carolina, 1810, Surry County, unknown townships. 14. North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Surry County tax list, 1815, microfilm copy. 15. Randolph County, NC Genealogical Journal, Volume XXVII, No. 1, Spring 2003, Presentment May 1819 of Levi Worth, Charles Worth bound surety for Levi Worth, p. 23. 16. U. S. Census of North Carolina, 1820. 17. General Index to Real Estate Conveyances, Etc., Randolph County - Grantees, Book 14, Page 398, John Reese to Charles Worth, 121 acres, 1822; Randolph County Grantees, Book 16, Page 56, John Reese to Charles Worth, 440 acres, 1822. 18. General Index to Real Estate Conveyances, Etc., Randolph County - Grantors, Book 16, Page 34, Charles Worth to Thomas Hancock, 121 acres, 1823; Randolph County Grantors, Book 16, Page 41, Charles Worth to Jonathan Lewallen, 440 acres, 1824. 19. The Genealogical Journal, Vol. VII, No. 3, 1983, Randolph County Marriage Bonds, Bride Index, W's, 13 November 1818, Lydia Worth and John Rigsby, Paskel Cole bondsman, p. 41. 20. Ibid. 1 January 1822, Rachel Worth and Joshua Rigsby, Lancy Moore bondsman, p. 42. 21. Ibid. 19 December 1824, Elizabeth Worth and David German, William German bondsman, p. 41. 22. Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, New York: Burdick Brothers, 1857, p. 305; Hinshaw, vol. 1, pp 488 and 773. 23. U. S. Census for Indiana, 1840, Rush County. 24. U. S. Census of Indiana, 1840, Rush County, Jackson township, p. 399, Charles Worth 0000000001-000010001 (next line after Seth Worth). 25. U. S. Census for Indiana, 1840, Rush County, Jackson Township, p. 399, Charles Worth household. 26. U.S. Census of Indiana, 1850, Davies County, Van Buren Township, p. 187, (Note: Charles was listed as part of the Seth Worth household.) 27. Letter from John Worth (New Ross, Indiana) to Hiram C. Worth (Greensboro, North Carolina), 1 February 1886. Original letter at Hege Library, Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC. Transcript of letter dated January 1915, made from original letter on loan from Laura D. Worth of Guilford College to Herbert Folger, California Mayflower Society Historian. A copy of the transcript was in the lineage documents of Arlie L. Rigsbee, General Number 4071, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts. 28. Gravestone Inscription, Hiram Coffin Worth, 8/22/1886, New Garden (Cemetery), b. Apr. 8, 1809. The New Garden Cemetery is at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. 29. Laura Delphina Worth obituary, Guilford newspaper, January 17, 1945; U. S. Census of North Carolina, 1850, Guilford County, dwelling 27, family 27, Hiram C. Worth, age 41, carpenter; Gravestone Inscription, Hiram Coffin Worth, 8/22/1886, New Garden (Cemetery), b. Apr. 8, 1809; Laura Delphina Worth was a daughter of Daniel and Eunice Worth. Daniel Worth was a son of Hiram Coffin Worth. 30. North Carolina Friends Historical Society Newsletter, Fall 2003, No. 14, The Meaning of L. D. W., pp. 3-4; Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. 6 vols. 1936; rept. Baltimore, 1969, Vol. 1, Forward, p. vi; Laura Delphina Worth obituary, Guilford newspaper, January 17, 1945. 31. Ibid. 32. Laura Delphina Worth obituary, Guilford newspaper, January 17, 1945; tombstone photograph taken Monday, March 8, 2004, by Curtis L. Older at New Garden Cemetery adjacent to Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. Tombstone of Laura D. Worth includes the words, "Quaker Genealogist". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/stokes/bios/frye58bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 10.4 Kb