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Hope this helps. Sharon Cornell
Descendants of James B Fraley
Generation No. 1
1. JAMES B3 FRALEY (FREDERICK2, JOHANN MARTIN1 FROLICH) was born Abt. 1758 in Rowan County, NC, and died Abt. 1834 in Kentucky. He married ELIZABETH T OSBURN, daughter of JAMES OSBORN and MARY WHITAKER. She was born Abt. 1773.
Notes for JAMES B FRALEY:
James Fraley, who was perhaps the oldest child of Frederick and Chloe Fraley was born in Rowan Co., NC in 1759. He was married to Elizabeth (maiden name unknown), Russell Co., Order Book 3, p. 189.
He enlisted in Washington Co., VA, (now Russell Co.) for service in the Revolutionary War on March 3, 1779, as an Indian Spy, in Captain John Snoddy s Company, Colonel William Campbell s Regiment. He enlisted for a second tour of duty in May, 1782, also as an Indian Spy, under Colonel Daniel Smith and Captain Charles Bickley. He made application for pension in Floyd Co., KY, June 24, 1834, wherein he stated that he had always lived in the woods (frontier). When he applied for pension he stated that he had lived for many years in Floyd Co., KY, but was then living in Cabell Co., VA (now West VA) at the home of his son-in-law. (From Pension statement in Floyd Co. Court).
Russell County, Va Law Order Book
Book 3, page 230 Oct 27 1802
At a court continued and held for Russell County the 27th day of October 1802. Present James Dockerson, James McFarlene, Harvy Smith and Jonathan Wood Gents
Ordered that the overseer of the poor bind James and Jessee Frileys infants of Jessee Friley deceased to James Friley according to law.
Just when James left Russell Co., VA, is not known, but probably about 1803, when he sold land in Russell Co. (Order Book 3, p. 313). Apparently after leaving Russell Co. he first settled in Cabell Co. (now West VA) where he was living in 1812 and 1813, (Russell Co. Deed Book 4, page 597, 646).
He moved to the Newcomb Fork of Sandy River, (then Morgan, later Lawrence, Floyd and Elliott Counties). He was one of the first five settlers to make a home at the forks of Sandy River, arriving there in 1818. (Statement of a descendant.)
PENSION APPLICATION OF JAMES FRALEY
James Fraley was the son of Frederick and Chloe Fraley, b. 1759 in Rowan Co., NC, married to Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) and lived in Russell Co., VA; Floyd Co., KY and Cabell Co., VA (WV).
State of Kentucky
County of Floyd
On this ___ day of June, 1834, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Commonwealth’s Justice of the Peace for said county, James Fraley, resident of Lawrence Co., KY, aged seventy-five years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States and served under the following named officers, as herein stated - Col. William Campbell, Capt. Snoddy - for nine months, as an Indian Spy in the county of Washington and state of Virginia; this was the 3rd of March, as he now recollects, 1779. His employment was to scout and spy. He served with no Continental Officers, or Militia Regiments during this period of his tour - and traversed and spied during that year on the frontiers bordering on the Clinch River settlements in the county aforesaid. The spies did not go all together, but by twos and by fours, chiefly in twos. He marched and spied during the months of April, May, June, not far from (the) fort on the Clinch, now known by Moore’s Fort, situated about a mile from Clinch River. In this fort there was constantly about 20 families and 20 or 25 men, besides the Spys out. The Indians were not so troublesome in this immediate vicinity of Moore’s Fort, but they were more troublesome lower down on Clinch, and Powells Valley.
In August the Wyandotte from the north appeared in our vicinity. When out he saw Indian Sign. Three persons only were killed in his neighborhood, to-wit: John English’s wife, Molly, and two of his little boys. The Indians retreated down the Sandy and they were pursued by the Spys, as well as the others, who remained in the fort to guard it. We were unable to overtake the Indians. They had stole some horses. These are the particular circumstances that I now recollect of.
The Spys had particular sections allotted to them, where the war-paths of the Indians passed, and sometimes we would not return, unless Indian sign was seen for a month, but in August and September the Indians were always the most troublesome in stealing, murdering and burning. The spys below had a running fight with the Indians and they retreated. This was with the lower squads. He received his discharge sometime about the 10th December, 1779, for nine months service. He thinks it was a kind of recommendation and stating his service to get his pay - he has never seen it since. The man who spied with him this year as his companion was Lazarous Damron.
2nd. In April, the date has escaped him, 1780, he enlisted for one year, in the county of Washington and state of Virginia, as an Indian spy, under Col. Campbell, Capt. Snoddy again, Lt. Cowan, to spy in the same section. The Spys, be it recollected, were to fund themselves. They lived on venison and bear meat. Early in June the Indians made their appearance in his quarter of Washington Co. They first stole many horses. In July they killed one Dorton, and stole two girls, to-wit: Ann, and Mary Bush, and made off for Canada. They succeeded in getting down on the waters of Sandy with them as far as Jenny’s Creek in Floyd Co., about twelve miles from the courthouse. At that time there was not a single white person living in Floyd Co. It was certainly an Indian country then. Our company came up to the Indians when they were in the act of skinning a buffalo they had just killed. Our men fired on the Indians and they retreated to the camp about 200 yards distant, and as they ran by they tomahawked Ann Bush. Mary jumped down the bank an escaped any violence. Ann Bush got over it, and afterwards married and was again tomahawked by the Indians after this, and still survived. Our company lost in the running fight only one man, James Coyle. When the Indians retreated from the camp he followed, and as he now recollects, one Indian stopped behind a tree top, fired, and mortally wounded him. He was carried back to Clinch and died in Moore’s Fort. The father of this applicant was the surgeon that extracted the bullet.
He served with no Continental officers, or militia companies. He marched, or rather spied in the same section of country that he did the year previous. When the spys enlisted, they enlisted under the kind of organization that they could be retained for one year, or discharged as nine months in January. At the end of nine months we were all discharged.
The Shawnee Indians had killed several persons down the river. The lower settlements were in a bad situation in that fall, as Col. Campbell had taken many of the frontier men with their rifles to King’s Mountain, some of which had to break up their forts and come further up, and some to the North Fork of Holston. This he believes are chiefly the circumstances during the year 1780. Col. Campbell was the Colonel of Washington Co., but he was never under his orders, his captains acted. Campbell was killed and Col. Henry Smith succeeded him as he now remembers. During this service Lazarus Damron spied as his comrade. The spys were divided out in twos.
3rd. The first day of March 1781, he again enlisted for nine months in Washington Co., VA, to spy that season under Col. Smith, Capt. Cowan. His range was changed. He and Samuel Auxier (Oxer) spied together that nine months on the headwaters of Cumberland and Kentucky Rivers. The Shawnees came up there most frequent. A portion of the country he spied in is now Peery Co., KY and Harlan, KY. It was all Virginia then. This year the Shawnees done more injury than any year since 1775, or 1776. When the Cherokees attacked the Clinch Forts in his neighborhood they killed Sol Kendrick. They run him out in Clinch River and shot and killed him in the River. The men from the fort sallied out. We got Kendrick’s body in the river, and took him and buried him in Bickley’s Fort. They also killed the wife of John Carter and four of his children, and set the house on fire and burned them up in it. From August all the leaves were pretty near all fallen down. Indian sign was fresh and they killed, burnt, and scalped a great many persons that fall down Clinch and on Powells River and Valley. He thinks that there was another murder committed that year by the Indians. One Alley’s daughter, but it might have been the year after. He had his discharge for the nine months service.
4th. He then, in the month of May, 1782, was again engaged for a Spy for nine months in the same county and state aforesaid. He was to get 5 shillings per day and spying was good business as the State paid her spys in good money. Col. Smith was still the Colonel and Capt. Charles Bickley was the Captain of the spies. Cowan was made Major. He was transferred from Moore’s Fort to Bickley’s Fort, but he served a portion of his time at Blackmore’s Fort. His range this year was Elk Garden down as far as Cove Creek. His comrade was Austin Bush. He spied as usual in that section of the country. The winter came more than usually early and the circumstances of his service and the events that transpired during 1782 are about these: He spied altogether on Clinch waters and consequently altogether in Virginia. Our settlements were attacked and the Indians killed Thomas Osburn, and Minny, his wife, which he states he helped bury them in the same coffin, and in the course they took two girls prisoners, to-wit; Lucretia Osburn, the niece of Thomas Osburn, and Betsey Wall. In spite of all that could be done they took off the girls to Canada, and kept Lucretia Osburn four years. Betsey Wall the Indians killed by beating her on the head, as he learnt. Lucretia Osburn was exchanged and brought to Detroit. She there married one Armstrong, who brought her back to Virginia, and from whom he learned the fate of Betsey Wall. About the same time or a few weeks after, they killed Mary Hamlin, wife of Henry Hamlin, and one Isaac Newland. These are not half the murders, only those in his range during the Revolution.
He states he is the identical man that killed the celebrated plunderer and Indian Chief, Bench, not Benj. He states that he fought the Indians in 1777 or 1778, but he is informed as it was under no organized corps that the same need not be set forth. He is now very infirm in body and unable to attend on court. He never took any care of his papers and therefore his discharges have been lost for a great while. He assigns as a reason for submitting his declaration in Floyd Co. is that he could not get any person there (Lawrence Co.) to do his business that knew how. That last fall was a year ago he employed a man to do it for me, but the said man never got any forms. 2nd it is more convenient to attend at the Justice in Floyd Co., than one in Lawrence. He can establish his three tours by many living witnesses. He has no documentary evidence in his favor. He has always lived in the backwoods and a hunter. He never served with any Continental officers, nor did he ever see one, to his recollection. He moved to this county many years since he was born in Rowan Co. He hereby relinquishes ever pension or annuity, except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed this 23rd day of June 1834.
James Fraley (signed by mark)
And the said court do hereby declare my opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and I further certify that I believe he is the age he states and that from body infirmity he cannot attend court. Given under my hands as one of the Commonwealth’s Justices of the Peace for said county this 23rd day of June, 1834.
Daniel Hager, Justice Peace, Floyd County.
State of Kentucky
Floyd County
John Marshall, an aged man being called on to state what he knows of the services of James Fraley, who is an applicant for a pension, states that he resided in the western part of Virginia during the Revolution, and that he was well acquainted with Fraley during that period, and that said Fraley served as an Indian Spy during the year 1780, and that he, said Fraley, had served the year before 1779, both nine month tours. That he also served the following year 1780/1, for nine months, and also nine months in 1782. The three last years service he knows of from the fact of seeing the services, or most of them, performed by the said Fraley. The other service was rendered before he came from old Virginia. He states that Fraley was selected as an Indian spy in consequence of his skill as a hunter, and a dexterous use of the rifle. He states that for a great many years, they both, Fraley and him, lived in the county and on the same water course. He has been acquainted with him ever since. He states that said Fraley did kill an Indian, as he was informed, and he says the place as stated by him in his declaration. There is no doubt but said Fraley served, the whole time as stated by him, and much longer, and further this deponent sayeth not.
/s/ John Marshall
Floyd County:
I certify that John Marshall made oath to the above statement, and I Certify that said Marshall is a credible witness.
Given under my hand and seal this 25th day of June, 1834.
Joseph Edward, Justice of Peace, Floyd County.
Letter from Daniel Boone:
Tuscaloosa County Alabama
Dear Brother and Sister I onc mor right you a few lines to inform you that wee ar all will at this time only myself I have been down a bout tow months and am very sike at this time we have received a letter from our Daughter and Brother James they are all well at that time you have rot to me concerning my part of that land I don’t know hardly what to right I am willing to take Sixty Dollars for my part but I don’t know how I am to get it for to go from here there after it I am in great need of it but propety wont sute me if yo have a mine to give me that and can send it to me by mail it will oblige me very much So nothing more
I only remain your friend Daniel Boone
Children of JAMES FRALEY and ELIZABETH OSBURN are:
2. i. CHLOE ANN4 FRALEY.
3. ii. JOHN M FRALEY, b. 1802.
iii. JAMES FRALEY, b. Abt. 1803.
4. iv. STEPHEN FRALEY, b. Abt. 1804, Russell County VA; d. Abt. 1849, Wayne County, WV.
v. MARY A FRALEY, b. May 05, 1820.
Generation No. 2
2. CHLOE ANN4 FRALEY (JAMES B3, FREDERICK2, JOHANN MARTIN1 FROLICH) She married WILLIAM MELVIN SNIDOW. He was born 1788, and died 1864.
Children of CHLOE FRALEY and WILLIAM SNIDOW are:
i. ELIZABETH5 SNIDOW, b. 1823; d. 1832.
ii. JAMES MARTIN SNIDOW, b. 1825; d. 1908; m. MARTHA M ASH.
iii. CHRISTIAN COLUMBIA SNIDOW, b. 1828; d. 1908; m. ELLEN FARRELL.
iv. NANCY SNIDOW, b. 1830; d. 1887.
v. BARBARA ANN SNIDOW, b. 1832; d. 1919.
vi. ELIZA JANE SNIDOW, b. 1834; m. JOHN M ATTEBERRY.
vii. LEANDER KANADA SNIDOW, b. 1836; d. 1898.
viii. GEORGE WASHINGTON SNIDOW, b. 1840.
3. JOHN M4 FRALEY (JAMES B3, FREDERICK2, JOHANN MARTIN1 FROLICH) was born 1802.
Children of JOHN M FRALEY are:
i. GEORGE MONROE5 FRALEY.
ii. WILLIAM FRALEY, b. 1832.
4. STEPHEN4 FRALEY (JAMES B3, FREDERICK2, JOHANN MARTIN1 FROLICH) was born Abt. 1804 in Russell County VA, and died Abt. 1849 in Wayne County, WV. He married SARAH "POLLY" HOBBS, daughter of ARTHUR HOBBS and MARY ?. She was born September 25, 1804 in Russell County VA, and died October 04, 1896 in Wayne County, WV.
Notes for STEPHEN FRALEY:
From Steven Fraley through Eustace Fraley, info is from Brandon Fraley, except for census records.
1830 Russell County Virginia Census
Name: Fraley, Stephen (Living next door to brother, John Fraley)
Township: Not Stated
County: Russell
State: Virginia
Year: 1830
1840 Floyd County Kentucky Census
Name: Stephen Friley (Living next door to brother James Friley)
Township: Not Stated
County: Floyd
State: Kentucky
Both Stephen and his wife Sarah are buried in the Clay Fraley Cemetery, located on Tiger Fork of Camp Creek. Neither of them have traditional markers but rather, have simply rocks to mark the graves. According to Muss Ross, Stephen is the one who started this cemetery.
More About STEPHEN FRALEY:
Burial: Clay Fraley Cemetery, Tiger Fork of Camp Creek, WV
Notes for SARAH "POLLY" HOBBS:
1850 Wayne County, Virginia Census
Name: Sarah Friley farmer
Age: 41
Estimated birth year: abt 1809
Birth place: Virginia
Gender: Female
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): District 66, Wayne, Virginia
Minerva 16 f b Ky
James M 15 m b Ky farmer
Nancy f 10 b Ky
Eda 9 f b Ky
John J 8 m b Ky
William H 6 m b VA
Louvern E 3 f b VA
1860 Wayne County, Virginia
Name: Polley Fraley
Age in 1860: 58 farmer
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1860: Not Stated, Wayne, Virginia
Gender: Female
Post Office: Wayne Court House
Year: 1860
Head of Household: Polley Fraley
Esly dau 20 f b VA
John son 17 m b VA
William W son 14 m b VA
Elizabeth dau 12 f b VA
More About SARAH "POLLY" HOBBS:
Burial: Clay Fraley Cemetery, Tiger Fork of Camp Creek, WV
Children of STEPHEN FRALEY and SARAH HOBBS are:
i. MINERVA C5 FRALEY, b. Abt. 1834.
ii. JAMES M FRALEY, b. Abt. 1835.
iii. NANCY "POLLY" FRALEY, b. Abt. 1840.
iv. EDA "ESLY" FRALEY, b. Abt. 1841.
v. JOHN J FRALEY, b. July 24, 1843, West Virginia/Kentucky; m. POLLY ANN GILKERSON, February 16, 1866, Wayne County, WV; b. September 24, 1844, Virginia.
Notes for JOHN J FRALEY:
John J Fraley was a confederate soldier, 16th Calv., in the Civil War.
1870 Wayne County WV Census
Name: John Freeley
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Age in 1870: 25
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1870: Grant, Wayne, West Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Wayne Court House
Polly A 25 f w keeping house b VA
Lewelln son w m 3 b WV
Commodore son w m b WV
1880 Wayne County, WV Census
Name: John J. FRALY
Age: 36
Estimated birth year: <1844>
Birthplace: West Virginia f b WV m b WV
Occupation: Farmer
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Home in 1880: Stonewall, Wayne, West Virginia
Marital status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Spouse's name: Polly A. FRALY wife w f 35 b WV f b WV m b WV
Father's birthplace: WV
Mother's birthplace: WV
Lewelln son w m 13 b WV
Comodore M son w m 11 b WV
Marvina J dau w f 9 b WV
Lucinda C dau w f 7 b WV
Andrew W son w m 5 b WV
vi. WILLIAM H FRALEY, b. October 01, 1844.
vii. LOUVERNA ELIZABETH FRALEY, b. Abt. 1847.
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