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The Nancy Frew who was reportedly born in Maryland, and married George Keen, could have been a member of the Frew family listed in the 1800 census that lived in Montgomery County, MD. There were two females 10 to 15 in age in 1800, one female 16 to 26, and one female 26 to 44 (presumably the mother). The two daughters of Alexander Frew of Cecil County in 1790 are all accounted for in Western Pennsylvania.
James Frew, the third and youngest Randalstown brother settled in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the 1790s, if not earlier. A very detailed 1863 family history letter noted that he and his family moved to Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio in 1804 where five of his six children were married between 1811 and 1816. The letter also noted that his sons were river boatmen on the Ohio River. James' obituary was published (and preserved) in the Scotia Times in 1830.
I have never been able to identify James' oldest son. By Scottish naming convention his oldest son should have been named "John" as were the oldest sons of the two older brothers, John and Alexander. Curiously, there was a John Frew enumerated along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee in 1802.....walking back home after a river trip down the Mississippi ?? None of the daughters or younger granddaughters of the three Frew brothers, who arrived in 1774, were named "Nancy",
The Montgomery County Frew family was close to the origin of the "Great Wagon Road" down the Cumberland Valley and it is possible that they moved to the southwest through the Carolinias and Georgia in the first two decades of the nineteenth century. Good luck in finding your gg-grandmother.
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