Johannes Nicholas Fry b. 2 Feb 1724 Germany d. 11 Jun 1784 Lincoln County, North Carolina: FamRoots.Org

1724 - 1784 (60 years)

Name	Johannes Nicholas Fry
Nickname	Frey, Frye
Born	2 Feb 1724	Germany
Gender	Male
Died	11 Jun 1784	Lincoln County, North Carolina
	The Catawba River Valley, Rowan County NC, became in 1777: Burke County NC, and became in 1779: Lincoln County NC, and finally in 1842: Catawba County, NC.
Notes	Passenger & Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Philadelphia 1731: "Nicholas Frey, age 6 b. Abt. 1725."
Person ID	I13825	Complete
Last Modified	18 Jul 2013

Father	Johannes Beyer/Frey, b. 14 Jan 1701, Germany , d. 11 Jun 1784, Heidelberg, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 83 years)
Mother	Jovenna Unknown, b. 7 Nov 1698, Germany , d. Abt. 1750, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 51 years)
Family ID	F8104	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Maria Elizabetha Pabst/Pope, b. 10 Jan 1726, Rhineland-Pfaltz, Germany , d. Apr 1813, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age 87 years)

Married 13 Mar 1744 Moselem Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. [1]

Children

	1. Maria Fry, d. OF, Missouri, USA
+	2. Susannah Fry
+	3. Phillip Fry, b. Abt. 1735, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. Nov 1826, Newton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 91 years)
+	4. Hannah Fry, b. 14 Mar 1745, Bucks, County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. 13 Nov 1818, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age 73 years)
+	5. Nicholas Fry, b. 02 Feb 1746, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , d. Aft. 1840, Buncombe County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age 94 years)
	6. Elizabeth Fry, c. 14 Apr 1754, Tohickon Reformed Church, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
	7. Peter Fry, b. Bef. 1755, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. 3 Apr 1819-Nov 1826, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 71 years)
	8. John Fry, b. Bef. 1755, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. Bef. Jan 1785, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 30 years)
+	9. Anna Catherine Fry, b. 17 Mar 1756, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. Aft. 1805, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, U.S.A. (Age 49 years)
	10. Johan Jacob Fry, c. 28 Feb 1758, Tohickon Reformed Church, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. Aft. 13 Sep 1834, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 76 years)
+	11. Johan George Fry, b. 10 Mar 1760, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. , d. 10 Dec 1822 - Apr 1823, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age 63 years)
+	12. Barbara Fry, b. Abt. 1762, Pennsylvania or North Carolina , d. Aft. 1800, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 39 years)
	13. Martin Fry, b. Abt. 1764, Rowan County, North Carolina

Last Modified 30 Jun 2011

Family ID F6053 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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	Born - 2 Feb 1724 - Germany
	Married - 13 Mar 1744 - Moselem Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
	Died - 11 Jun 1784 - Lincoln County, North Carolina

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Documents		Petition, Residents of Burke County, NC 1778 1/2 Among the signatories: "Jacob Yount" and "Nicholas Fry" (father, son) Lorena Shell Eaker, German Speaking People West of the Catawba River in North Carolina, 1750-1800, p. 35
Documents		Petition, Residents of Burke County, NC 1778 2/2 Among the signatories: "Jacob Yount" and "Nicholas Fry" (father, son) Lorena Shell Eaker, German Speaking People West of the Catawba River in North Carolina, 1750-1800, p. 36

Sources

[S37] Germans West of the Catawba, Lorena Shell Eaker, (Location: Tennessee;), GS 929.3756 E11., 174-175.
"Nicholas Fry, b. ca. 1724 Germany d. 11 Jun 1784 Lincoln, NC, m. 13 Mar 1744 Mosolem Lutheran Church, Berks, PA Maria Elizabeth Pabst/Pope, b. 10 Jan 1726, Thaleischweiler, Rhineland-Pfaltz, d. Apr 1813 Lincoln, NC, daughter of Johannes Heinrich and Gertrude Kieffer-Pabst/Pope; Maria Elizabeth m. (2) 22 May 1787 Lincoln, NC Michael Weidner, a widower.

Lincoln, NC Deed Book 1:113: 26 Dec 1769 Nicholas and wife Elizabeth sells to son Philip land on both sides of Clark Creek granted to Nicholas 21 Dec 1763; Nicholas had several land records which divided [lands] among his heirs by Executors Philip and Elizabeth Fry 11 Feb 1786.

See Lincoln, NC Deed Book 3 [for the following]:

p. 24 240 A to George Icard
p. 25 200 A to Peter Fry
p. 26 150 A to Jacob Gortner
p. 27 240 A to Martin Gortner
p. 32 228 A & 25 A to Jacob Fry
p. 36 228 A & 25 A to George Fry
p. 37 200 A to Nicholas Fry (Jr.)

p. 36 1 Aug 1785 Philip and Elizabth Fry, Executors of Nicholas, deceased, make deed for 150 A to John Fisher. (Eaker: Did Fisher marry a Fry daughter before 1798 when Hanna sued the other heirs?)

Lincoln, NC Wills: 11 Jun 1784, probated 19 Jun 1784; a nuncupative [i.e., oral, not written and not signed by its deviser] will, wife Elizabeth, sons George and Jacob, daughters Mary and Susanna; all my children except Hannah Burns.

[p. 175]

Salem Church, Cawtawba, NC: John Fry d. 31 Aug 1856 age 72 yr 9 da; Mary M Fry, b. 15 Jan 1786 d. 25 Aug 1861.

(Eaker: Hannah Fry Burns made an effort to claim her share of her father's estate, but nothing seems to have become of her claim in court. Only the civil action paper was made, but it does give a list of the heirs of Nicholas Fry, Sr.)

Lincoln, NC Estate Records; To the Sheriff of Lincoln County:

Greetings. You are hereby commanded to make known to Elizabeth Whitener, Philip Fry, George Fry, Jacob Fry; Martin and Mary Cotner; John and Susannah Killian; George Ikard m. Barbara Fry; Jacob and Catherine Cotner that they personally appear before the Justice of the next County Court to be held in Lincolnton on the first Monday in January next, then and there to show cause if any they have why the nuncupative will of Nicholas Fry, deceased, should not be set aside and administration granted Hannah Burns or such persons the Court shall think proper pursuant to order of Court. . . . October . . . A.D. 1798. . . ."

[Eaker then transcribed records relating to each of his thirteen children.]

Edited by Roy Richard Thomas January 2008