William Frey, I

Birth: ABT 1694 in PA Death: 15 JUN 1768 in PA - buried Bertolet's Menn Cem (a marker was erected many years later with the incorrect year of death as 1770) Note: Will Abstract: FREY, WM. Phila. Co. Yeoman. April 30, 1756. September 5, 1768. Children: Henry, William, Catherine (widow of John Gesel), Christiana (wi fe of Geo. Segner), Salome (wife of Christopher Hensel), Elizabeth, Magdal ena (wife of Christopher Pans), Verona (wife of Jos. Miller) and Jacob. E xecs. son Jacob and Peter Herbemid. Witnesses: Frederick and Wm. Antes. (O :268)

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41. William Frey (Anna Catherina Levering3, Wigard "John" Levering2, Rosier Levering1) was born 1695 in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died 15 Jun 1758 in Fredrick. Montgomery, Pennsylvania. He married Anna Veronica Merkle 1723 in , , Pennsylvania, daughter of Abraham Merkle and Anna Veronika. She was born 3 Jan 1697 in Bonfeld, Kraichgau, Wurrten Germany, and died 1768 in Upper Frederick Twps, Pennsylvania. He married Veronica Stittler.

Children of William Frey and Anna Veronica Merkle are:

• 101 i. Catharine Frey. She married John Gesel. She apparently died sometime before 1756.
• 102 ii. Matthais (Christian) Frey. was born (date unknown). In 1745, Matthias Frey entered the Moravian school for boys in Frederic Township. He was born in Falckner's Swamp
• 103 iii. Veronica Freywas born on 12 May 1723 in Frederickstown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and She died in 1780 at the age of 57. She married on 2 August 1744 in Germany Joseph Miller. Was converted to the Moravian church by Count Zinzendorf. She went with his party to Europe in January 1743 at the age of 19. She married there and served in various schools with her husband before returning to Bethlehem PA in 1749. She was ordained a deaconess on 18 Jul 1749. Joseph Mueller was superintendent of property at Nazarth where he also practiced minor surgery until his death. Veronia died of cancer in 1780, leaving a son and daughter. She is buried in the Moravian Cemetery at Bethlehem, Northhampton Co, PA.
• 104 iv. Henry (Heinrich) Frey was born on 12 May 1724 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and died25 September 1784 at the age of 60 in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Anna Maria Burstler 25 Jan 1756 in Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, daughter of Jacob Burstler and Catharine Peter. She was born 12 Feb 1730 in Pennsylvania.
• 105 v. William Frey was born 1724, and died 1811. He married Veronica Stittler.
• + 106 vi. Magdalena Frey was born on 22 April 1725 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and She died on 11 January 1797 at the age of 71 in Graceham, Frederick County, Maryland. She married Christopher Paus Or Baus 16 Oct 1745 in Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
• + 107 vii. Jacob Frey was born on 1 January 1726 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvaniaa, and died on 16 April 1770 at the age of 44. He married Susannah Berthelot 17 Dec 1749 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Jean Bertolet and Suzanna Deharcourt. She was born 17 Nov 1724 in Menfeld, Germany. From Frederic Township, a carpenter He was listed among the single men who were members of the Bethlehem PA community.
• 108 viii. Christina Frey was born 1727, and died 1816. She married Johann Heinrich Heegner Feb 1748 in Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania. She was an assistant in the "Sisters House", a residence for single women at Bethlehem, PA. She and her husband went to St. Thomas as missionaries, returning later to Gnadenthal, near Nazareth. They had a son David who died 10 Dec 1763 at the age of six and is buried in the Nazareth Moravian Cemetery. Christina died in Northampton Co and was buried in the Moravian Cemetery in Bethelehem.
• ___ Salome FREY was born in 1734.2 She died in 1771 at the age of 37. Salome was married to Christopher Henzel. An entry in the church record of St. Michael & Zion's Church in Philadelphia is for the burial of Salome Henzel on 10 Jun 1771. She had come to Philadelphia three months prior to her death. She was the mother of six children.
• 109 ix. Elizabeth Freywas born on 24 June 1737 / 1738, and She died on 2 October 1823 at the age of 86 In 1745, Elizabeth Frey, from Falckner's Swamp was at the Moravian boarding school for girls in Nazareth PA. Probably married Frederic Leinback, a Moravian convert who had come to America as a young man with his parents. In another place she is said to have married Abraham Grubb sometime after 1756

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