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Alexander Frew, Sr. (b. 1737) [my gggg-grandfather] and his oldest son, John Frew (b. 1770), are two of the males over 16 years of age in the 1790 Federal census for Cecil Co., MD. The other two males over 16 are not known with certainty. Alexander was helping a relative farm her inherited "widow's third" of her land (originally 430 acres), so he might have had farm laborers living at his home during the time of the 1790 census enumeration. Alexander is in Westmoreland County fighting the Indians in 1783. He apparently returned east about 1787 to help the widow as he was not on the 1786 Cecil County tax list, but is on the 1788,1789 and 1790 tax lists. He is not on the 1791 tax list so he must have moved back west with his family sometime in 1790 after the census enumeration.
The two males under 16 years of age were most-likely: James Frew (b. 1774) [my ggg-grandfather] and Alexander Frew, Jr. (b. abt 1780).
The three females were most-likley: Ann Frew (b. abt 1744)[Alexander's wife], Rosannah Frew (b. 1776) and Ann Frew (b. 1777).
Alexander Frew served in the Third Company, Eighth Battalion, York Co. (PA) Militia in 1881 and in the Continental Line, York Co. (PA) Militia. His wife was listed as "Ann" and his home given as the Elk Head Hundred, Cecil County, Maryland. An Alexander Frew was also listed in Fawn Township, York Co., PA about 1780.
If you look at a map, the Elk Head Hundred is the prominent pennisula that juts southward into the upper-most portion of Chesapeake Bay in close proximity to the mouth of the Susquehana River. York County and Fawn Township are immediately north of the Mason Dixon Line and Harford Co., MD, on the west side of the Susquehana River. Curiously, there is an apparently related cluster of Frews at the time of the Revolutionary War in Cecil Co., MD and in Harford Co., MD just across the head of Chesapeake Bay, as well as in Chester County, PA (immediately north of Cecil Co.) and York Co. PA . Travel must have been fairly easy, for the times, via water and land for folks in this area.
Frews intermarried with Morrisons from Chester Co. before and after the Morrisons moved west from Chester Co. to Washington Co., PA, including the Randalstown Frews. An 1863 family history letter states that John the oldest brother (b. before 1737) ran a supply pack train from southeastern PA to Fort Pit during the Revolutionary war. During this period, John Frew made his home north of Hagarstown, MD in Franklin Co., PA. He was apparently the leader of this effort. My oral family history states that all three brothers were involved with this enterprise at one time or another.
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