Re: Martin Friday son of Johannes Fridig
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Martin Friday son of Johannes Fridig
8/31/01
It was David, Martin's son, who "retired" from his Florida exile in 1783-84 rather than accept forcible conversion to Catholicism.He went back to SC with his wife & 7 children, died there, and never got his ferry and other property back.(www.netside.com/~genealogy/7FRIDAY.SHTML)There's a footnote re an unspecified Mr. Friday & his brother who ran the ferry at Granby (after David switched sides) in Lossing's 1850 Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. II, p. 688.Online version of this very long document: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/lossing1/Chap50.htmlhttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/lossing1/Chap50.html.(although it's actually Chapter XXVI of Vol. II).Anyway, it describes the "only two Whigs of that name [Friday] in the state."
The only George Friday I've run across is Martin's nephew, infant son Hans George of John Friday Jr. and Susannah, born 29 Nov 1750, baptized 2 Dec, buried 3 Dec.Per Giessendanner's Book of Record, Orangeburgh Lutheran Church, as recorded in Alexander Salley's 1898 History of Orangeburg County.Those records mention a large number of Fridays, Freydigs, etc., including Hans (not Johannes), later written as John Friday Sr., and wife Verona.John Sr. died at age 69 on Monday 18 June 1759.Most of the Fridays lived in Orangeburgh Township; Martin went to the Congarees, Saxegotha Township, in 1749 when he started the ferry, then got the official Provincial ferry concession in 1754.