United States

It is beyond the scope of this Project to include every record of every early Frame in every part of the world.  However,  America opened her arms to diverse populations from around the world and it would be remiss to not mention a sample of some Frames found in early American records. Additional individuals can be found by clicking the blue pins on the Google map that follows.

By the year 2000, there were 3,656 Frame households in the United States, with West Virginia and California having the highest populations. According to Ancestry.com data, immigrants of the Frame and variant surnames arriving in America during the early years of European settlement gave their countries of origin as: Ireland; Scotland; England; Canada; Switzerland; Germany etc. Some Frames in Pennsylvania were German-Dutch. Additionally, many Europeans changed their surnames or adopted a simpler form of it upon arrival.

At the census of 1920, race or ethnicity noted for Frame families included:  White (3,008);  Black (83);  Two or more races (14);  Indian (3);  Filipino (2). 

The countries of birth given by Frame families who were residents in the U.S. in 1920 were: United States (2,893); Scotland (76); Canada (39) / Nova Scotia (5); Ireland (35); England (17); Italy (9); Germany (7); Russia (7); and Norway (5). Needless to say, many bearers of Frame and similar surnames may have lived in the same state or county but were likely not genetically related to one another.

Given the large scale of immigration to the New World, caution is needed when constructing a Family Tree and early records alone may not be sufficient for accuracy.   By using Y-DNA testing as an additional research tool, we can confirm whether or not males with surnames such as Frame, Freame, Fremault etc., or a variant, are related to one another.

BRITISH COLONIZATION

‘The genealogical history of America dates from 19 Dec 1606 when John Smith set out from Blackwall on the Thames with 140 colonists to found Virginia. The flotilla of three ships, the Susan Constant under Christopher Newport, the Godspeed under Bartholomew Gosnold, and the Discovery under John Ratcliffe, arrived at Chesapeake Bay on 26 April 1607. By 22 June there were 105 colonists still living, but after the rigours of a harsh winter and the onset of disease, the number had been reduced by a further sixty-seven by the following January. In June 1609 the Virginia Company sent out a further nine ships with 500 colonists under Newport's command, and with the exception of the Seaventure, which was wrecked in Bermuda, they arrived in Virginia on 11 August 1609. Despite the legislation introduced in 1606, official records have not survived which would tell us the names or origins of most of the first Virginia colonists. It is pitifully clear from the first great censuses of Virginia taken in 1624 and 1625 that a mere handful had managed to survive and to acquire a certain status thereby with the title of 'Original.' [Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1776].

Fifteen years after those first colonists arrived, and three hundred years after the earliest-known Frame/Freame/Freme with a hereditary surname appeared in English records, there came to Virginia in 1622 the first of the British Frame / Freame clan to settle in the Colony. The census taken in Jan/Feb 1624/5 mentioned by Coldham, above, recorded the Indentured servant,  John Frame (aka Freame/Freme). He was indentured to Cicely Jordan and was sixteen-years-old at the muster of Jordan’s Journey.  John Frame will be mentioned again in the Virginia section to follow.

Large numbers of young men and women came alone, as indentured servants. Their passage was paid by employers in the colonies who needed help on the farms, or shops. They were provided food, housing, clothing and training but did not receive wages. At the end of the indenture (usually around age 21) they were free to marry and start their own farm. Indenture documents such as the one relating to John Frame when he arrived at the age of fourteen, would have specified how many years the servant would be required to work, after which they would be free. Terms of indenture ranged from one to seven years, with typical terms being four or five years. [Sharon V. Salinger, TO SERVE WELL AND FAITHFULLY: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800, 2000]

‘Indentures could not marry without the permission of their owner, were subject to physical punishment (like many young ordinary servants), and saw their obligation to labor enforced by the courts. To ensure uninterrupted work by the female servants, the law lengthened the term of their indenture if they became pregnant. But unlike slaves, servants were guaranteed to be eventually released from bondage. At the end of their term they received a payment known as "freedom dues" and became free members of society. One could buy and sell indentured servants' contracts, and the right to their labor would change hands, but not the person as a piece of property.

Both male and female laborers could be subject to violence, occasionally even resulting in death. Richard Hofstadter notes that, as slaves arrived in greater numbers after 1700, white laborers in Virginia became a "privileged stratum, assigned to lighter work and more skilled tasks". He also notes that "Runaways were regularly advertised in the newspapers, rewards were offered, and both sheriffs and the general public were enlisted to secure their return. ... The standard penalty in the North, not always rigorously enforced, was extra service of twice the time the master had lost, though whipping was also common." [See more at Wikipedia.]

Between 1614 and 1775, some 50,000 Englishmen were sentenced by legal process to be transported to the American colonies. Coldham states:

'The idea of swelling the numbers of colonial labourers by emptying the gaols of England was almost as old as the founding of the colonies themselves and, indeed, Virginia was first recommended in 1606 as "a place where idle vagrants might be sent."{3} The first official record of such practice is found in 1618 in the archives of the LondonBridewell (an institution set up for the care of vagrant and orphaned children) when several of its wards were set aside to be sent toVirginia. In 1611 Governor Dale of Virginia invited King James I "to banish hither all offenders condemned to die out of common gaoles,"{4} and only three years later the Privy Council made the first orderempowering themselves to reprieve prisoners from capital punishment in order "to yeald a profitable service... in partes abroad."{5}   During the next few years not only were the gaols regularly cleared by theVirginia Company but the Bridewell was again pressed into service,being required to furnish 100 children for Virginia in 1619 and again in 1620 in order "to redeem so many poor souls from misery and ruin andputting them in a condition of use and service to the State."{6}. [Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1776].

SLAVERY

Other than rare exceptions, those with the harshest life in the new colonies were the slaves. As will be shown, our surname is also represented in this population .  In 1619, a Dutch ship brought twenty slaves from Africa to Jamestown, Virginia. They were sold as indentured servants but to them, freedom was only a dream. It was not until 31 Jan 1865 that the U.S. House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery in America.

The amendment read: 

 ‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.’ 

Given the rise of plantation-style agriculture in colonial America, there was an ever-increasing demand for labour to work the rice, cotton, and tobacco fields. When tobacco was found to reap great financial rewards, many plantations became established along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and Maryland.

The proud people from Africa who arrived in America as slaves, brought with them the seeds of culture, widely influencing dance, art, music and cuisine. Port cities such as New Orleans and Charleston blossomed into rich cultural centres as French, Creole and Caribbean customs merged. It is said that slave ships carried African crops such as yams and black-eyed peas for the slaves to eat during the passage to the New World. Creole cooks adopted African dishes, including the delicious jambalaya and gumbo. Soul Food has its roots in American slavery. Its impact on Southern cuisine increased as fried chicken, puddings etc. came to be enjoyed at the master’s table. Today, those same dishes are widely enjoyed throughout the world. Slowly, and in some parts very slowly, life was to improve for the descendants of African slaves. 

The noted African- American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker T. Washington said in 1895:

‘We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.’ [Address to Hamilton Club, Chicago, 1895]

Following is a newspaper clipping, an obituary for Isaac Frame, once a slave:

Isaac's Frame family was one of a number known to have been slaves. It is a sad fact that the past was horrendously painful for some of our Frame ancestors. Whilst the past cannot be changed, we can, however, explore possible connections between us that may stem from those times. We Frames and Freames etc. already share a natural bond with our surname and there is a strong possibility that some people of colour will also share a common ancestor in the direct male line with Frames of European descent.  For the curious, or those with lingering questions on this matter, Y-DNA testing may provide an answer. Naturally, we can only make Y-DNA comparisons between those who join the Project and do the Y-DNA test; however, we have many Project participants in the United States and elsewhere around the world who may have matching Y-DNA.  

SLAVE HOLDERS

 As unthinkable as the very idea of being a slave holder/owner is to our generations today, until 1865 holding slaves was not illegal in America. Nearly one-third of Southern families held slaves. The number of slave owners named in the slave schedules was 1.7 percent of the total population in 1860. Depending on the state, slaves numbered less than one, to nearly 50 percent of the population (12.5 percent of the total population in 1860) [Source: Family Search].  Records in slave schedules show that some Frame / Freame families were registered as 'slave owners'.  

Today, those of us carrying the Frame, Freame and variant surnames represent a diverse mix of culture and genetics. Black and White intermingled to form a rich tapestry of continuing threads. Our ancestors' blood is our blood; their DNA is in our DNA; their story is our story. They are us - in the here and now.  Census records and Slave Schedules show that we Frame families are Black, White, Mulatto and Creole etc. Our ancestors came from Africa, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and many other places around the world, but no matter what colour we are, what 'race' we are tagged with, or where our forefathers came from several hundred or even a thousand years ago - science indicates that the ancient ancestors of all humans alive today originated in Africa. 

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, millions of Europeans left loved ones and all that was familiar to come to America in search of a new life. Starvation and abject poverty saw Irish tenant farmers leave their homeland in droves after the Great Potato Famine of 1845-1847. Many Frame families are known to have arrived in America from Ireland as well as from other parts of the world. Some Frame families were identified as 'Scotch-Irish' (Ulster-Scots when they were in Ireland) and many of their descendants have joined the FRAME DNA PROJECT.   

Religious persecution had been rife in Europe for centuries and some fled their homeland to seek a more tolerant society.  Fear of a perilous sea voyage was overcome by hope of a better future. They heard that poor men could become rich in this vast land of opportunity; that untouched acres awaited homesteaders, and that gold spilled from the ground.  Sadly, many did not make it across the Atlantic:

‘ [Everyone was] singing and dancing and having a merry time until a man took sick and died…cholera, a deadly plague. The next day ten died; the following fifty…including our own little Mary, two years old at the time. She was thrown overboard. I remember father, who was appointed by the doctors to help wrap the body in sheets and slide it out of the manhole into the ocean.’  [From a letter by a ship’s passenger, Patrick Healy]

As our maps show - many Frame / Freame families did eventually make it to America, but they were still to face many battles in the years ahead including those against the Native American tribes, the English, and even each other. Even by about 1800, as the Map image below shows, families surnamed Frame, Freame and variants had set down roots over a widespread area of the eastern states. We find them in Virginia (1622); Maryland (1656); Massachusetts (1677-80); New Jersey (1681); New York (1681); Pennsylvania (1682–97); Canada (1748-9); Delaware (1766); Kentucky (1767); Florida (1768); Tennessee (1783) and Ohio (1810).   

According to Ancestry.com data, by 1840, there were already 151 Frame families living in America, with Ohio having the majority at that time.

SURNAME DISTRIBUTION UP TO c.1800:

On the Map  above, the blue pins show the approximate distribution of families surnamed Frame, Freame etc. known to be in America by about 1800.  Clicking on the blue pins should provide additional information on individuals.

The colonial frontier was mainly settled from about 1717 to 1775 by predominantly Presbyterian settlers from northern England border lands, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, fleeing bad times and persecution in those areas.[10] The fourth main colonial center of settlement is the western frontier in the western parts of Pennsylvania and the South which was settled in the early-to-late 18th century by mostly Scots-Irish, Scots and others from northern England border lands. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the 18th century.[10] The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Areas where people reported 'American' ancestry were the places where, historically, northern English, Scottish and Scots-Irish Protestants settled in America: in the interior of the South, and the Appalachian region.[11]'  See History of Immigration to the United States

The call to ‘Go west, young man’ was certainly heeded very early by the Frame clan in America.  In 1826, 1835 and 1837 John, Jacob, James, Nathan and William Frame were among those who were granted plots of land in Ohio.  ‘Free Land’ – two words that were to forever change the American landscape!  In the 1840s, the idea of Manifest Destiny took hold. This was a belief, as Americans spread westward and out into the plains, that the United States had a duty to expand to the far reaches of the continent.  In 1862, the government passed the Homestead Act which entitled anyone over the age of 21 years to claim a parcel up to 160 acres - with the proviso:  for their filing fee of $18, they had five years to farm, build a home, and improve their land.

By 1840 when new immigrants poured in, a massive transportation infrastructure was already in place to take them where they wanted to go.  A vast canal network linked the Eastern Seaboard to previously unreachable inland waterways. 3,000 miles of railroad tracks were laid; this number increasing exponentially in following years.   The journey westward was frequently perilous; for example, many people trekked along the 2,000 mile path of the Oregon Trail, the main corridor to the west coast, barefoot.  One in ten died on these arduous migrations, either from Indian attacks, wild animals, disease, or exposure to the elements. Those who survived had to cope with intense isolation, lawlessness and marauders. 

Frame Surname Distribution Maps 

for 1840, 1880, 1920 and 2000

In the year 2000, there were 3,656 Frame households in the United States. In terms of frequency, the surname was ranked 3,363.

Source: Ancestry publication: Our Name in History - The Frame Name

As the maps above show, a great many of our ancestors survived the pioneering days in North America. Their descendants were destined to flourish, with the number of families sharing our surname increasing significantly. The modern advent of Y-DNA testing for genealogy purposes is now allowing some American families to connect with previously unknown cousins in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere around the world. 

CHARLES CITY CO.

c.1608-9:      JOHN FREAME / FRAME / FREME  born c.1608/9.  He arrived in 1622 and is the earliest known Frame / Freame in America.  This John Freame is thought to be one and the same as the man later known as CAPT. JOHN FREAME / FRAME etc.

The English youth, John Freame / Frame, appears to have been the first person with this family surname to arrive in the Colony. He immigrated in 1622 on the Southampton and was said to have been the servant of William Farrar of Croxton Lincolnshire England. William Farrar later married the widow Ceciley Reynolds Bayley Jordan. In January 1624/5, John Freame was listed among the inhabitants of Jordan's Journey. He is shown last on the list of servants below. Jordan's Journey Parish has served Charles City County, Virginia. It was also known as Flowerdew Hundred Parish, Virginia [Family Search]. Jordan's Journey is now known as Jordan Point.

THE MUSTER OF THE INHABITANTS OF JORDANS JORNEY AND CHAPLAIN CHOICE TAKEN THE 21TH OF JANUARY 1624 (1625?) THE MUSTER OF MR WILLIAM FERRAR AND MRS JORDAN

William Ferrar aged 31 yeares in the Neptune in August 1618

Sisley Jordan aged 24 yeres in the Swan in August 1610

Mary Jordan her daughter aged 3 yeares... born heare (reported to

have married Arthur Bayley)

Margarett Jordan 1 years (reported to have married Thomas Davis)

Temperance Baley aged 7 yeares (married LTC Richard Cocke)

SERVANTS

William Dawson aged 25 yeres in th Discovery March 1621

Robert Turner aged 26 yeres in the Tryall June 1619

John Hely aged 24 yeares in the Charles November 1621

Roger Preston aged 21 yeares in the Discoverie March 1621

Robert Manuell aged 25 yeres in the Charles November 1621

Thomas Williams aged 24 yeares in the Dutie May 1618.

Richard Johnson aged 22 yeares in the Southampton 1622

William Hatfield aged in the Southampton 1622

John Pead 35 yeares old in the same Shipp

John Freame aged 16 yeares in the same Shipp

PROVISIONS: Corne, 200 bushells; Fish, 2 hundred. ARMES AND MUNITION: Powder, 14 lb; Lead, 300 lb; Peeces fixt, 11; Coats of Male, 12 CATTLE, SWINE, ETC.: Neat cattell young and old, 16; Swine, 4; Poultrie, 20. HOUSES AND BOATS: Houses, 5; Boats, 2.

William Farrar died before 11 June 1637, the date on which his son William received a patent in Virginia as his heir for 2000 acres in Henrico County. This document confirms that he transported John Freame/Frame to the Colony:

WILLIAM FARRAR, sonne & heire to William Farrar, late of Henrico, deed., 2000 acs. Henrico Co., 11 June 1637, p. 436. Abutting Ely. upon the Gleab land of Varina, extending Wly. to the bottome of Island, Sly. Upon the maine river & Nly. into the woods. Trans, at his owne costs of 40 pers: Tho. Williams, Rich. Johnson, Jon. Hely, Jon. Frame (or France)*, Eustace Downes, Jon. Pead, Edwd. Fewson, Rich. Greeke, James Rigsby, Jon. Pratt, Eliza. Foster, Jon. Hues, Hen. Gyllom, Wm. Thomas, Jon. Baker, Patrick Robinson, Christo. Penhorne, Math. Waraner, Jon. Smith, Wm. Towers, Wm. Baker, Edwd. Hooke, Mary Heynes, John Garner, Wm. Richardson, Jon. Howman, Math. Brownridge, Rich. Lewd, Jon. Gibson, Jon. Price, Fr. Posey, James Roberts, Robert Turner, William Dawson, Giles Crump, Rich. Garner, Howell Edmonds, Martin Dimock, Henry Howell, Robert Coleman. [Genealogical Publishing Company, EARLY VIRGINIA FAMILIES ALONG THE JAMES RIVER: Henrico County, Goochland County, Virginia, 1974, p.6] 

Note: *John, or Capt. John, was variously recorded with surnames Freame, Frame, Freem etc., but not 'France' as is queried in this transcript.

DESTINATION COUNTY NOT KNOWN

1654-63:    ANTHONY ffRIMS

Year (Bet. 1654-1663): Departed Bristol ENG, destination Virginia. [Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978, p.35.

Extract: ' Page 86.............Anthony ffrims (of Querne); destination, Virginia. -'

1673:    DIANA FRAIME

Year (1673): Place (Virginia); Source Publication Code: (6221); Primary Immigrant: (Diana Fraime).

[Annotation: Date and place where land was patented and record was created listing those transported/imported. Only the names of those to be transported were indexed. Abstracted from Patent books 6 through 8, from the Land Office records located at the Virginia State Source Bibliography:   NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 2: 1666-1695. Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1977. 609p. Page: 19].

1773:    JOHN FREAME

Freame, John. Sentenced to transportation at Quarter Sessions Bristol & Transportation Bond to Virginia September 1773.  Gloucestershire.

1773:    RICHARD FREAME

Freame, Richard.  Sentenced to transportation at Quarter Sessions Bristol & Transportation Bond to Virginia September 1773. Gloucestershire.

[Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776]

ACCOMACK CO.

c.1632:    ARTHUR FRAME born c.1632.

Some researchers make Arthur Frame the son of Capt. John Freame/Frame (above) from Capt. John's first marriage to 'Ann'.

In 1667, Arthur Frame registered a livestock mark in Somerset Co. Maryland:

From:  Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent (1648-1676), Talbot (1662-1674), and Somerset (1665-1668)  Maryland:

Volume 54, Page 753

Somerset County Livestock Marks, 1665 – 1722

'The marke of Arthur Frame, vizt, Cropt of both ears holed of both ears  & overhalfed of the right ear recorded this 25 January 1667'

1674-1695:    The Ghotes of Virginia website shows Arthur Frame appearing on Tax Lists of Accomack County Virginia from 1674 to 1695 with the exception of 1675. See HERE.  In all years, Arthur Frame is shown with 1 tithable except 1695 when he had 2 tithables.

1704:  The Accomack County Virginia Rent Roll of 1704 shows Arthur Frame thus: 'Arthur Frame     500'

[Thomas J Wertenbaker, THE PLANTERS OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA, 1959, p.240]

1719:  It seems that Arthur Frame was deceased by 1719. At this time his son Major Frame was on record in Dorchester Co. Maryland as shown by the following: 

'in 1719, Major Frame of Dorchester County, Maryland, sold it all to Peter Curnelyus, stating the title had passed to him upon the intestate death of his father Arthur. Peter Cornelius promptly disposed of the land by the following three sales...'  [ Ralph T Whitelaw, VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE: A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties, Vo.2., 1968, p.1091].  More on Major Frame in the Maryland section.

HENRICO CO.

1682:    ROBERT FRAME  -  Indentured Servant

Year of Indenture: by 1682.

Place of Indenture: Henrico County, Virginia.

Henrico County, Virginia DEEDS 1677-1705, by Benjamin B. Weisiger III,

1986, reprinted by Iberian Publishing Co. Athens, Georgia 1996:

p. 140:229  - Due Francis REDFORD, 500 acres for importation of these persons: Susan DALE, George WALKER, Richard FRANKLIN, Owen CART, Ann GREEN, John MORTON, Robert FRAME, Mathew CUMBER,Thomas POTTS and Maria (a negro) .

1 Feb. 1686

LANCASTER CO.

 c.1697:    ROBERT FRAME - Indentured Servant

Year of Indenture: c.1697

Years: 4

Year of Freedom: 1701

Place of Indenture: Lancaster, Virginia.

LANCASTER CO. 1697: Robert FRAME, oath re probate of Will (Nicholas Dymer) 9 Jun 1696 Lancaster Co1695-1699 Lancaster County Order Book 4; {Antient Press}: pg 20

Lancaster county Court 9th of June 1697

- A Probate of the Last Will and Testament of NICHOLAS DYMORE [deceast] together with Commission of administration upon his Estate is granted unto ELIZABETH DYMORE, Widdow and Relict, she giving securitie according to Act

- This day ELIZABETH DYMORE, ye Widdow and Relict of NICHOLAS DYMORE [deceast] did exhibit the Will of NICHOLAS DYMORE to this Court wich was proved by the Oathes of ROBERT LINNIS, ROBERT FRAME and FRANCIS AINGE and it is therefore ordered that she have Probate thereof.

1753:    JOHN FRAME - Estate Administration Record

Year of publication: 1753

Part of index to Lancaster County Wills and Administrations (1652-1800)

p. 157a. Accounts rec. 19 Oct. 1753.

Deeds, Wills, Etc., No. 15, 1750-1758 (Reel 5)

Subject: John Frame

Lancaster County (Va.)

Virginia wills and administrations

System No. 000516851

GLOUCESTER CO.

1701:    JOHN FRAME - deceased by 1701. No heirs.

“GEORGE WILLIAMS, 100 acs., Gloucester Co., 24 Oct 1701, p. 425. Escheated [taken by the state in the case of no heirs] from John Frame, dec’d., by inquisition under Wm. Jones, Depty. Esch’r., &c.” [Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers... per P.T. Frame]    

AUGUSTA CO. 

1754:  JAMES FRAME died 1754 Augusta Co. Virginia. 

Vital: 17 May 1754

Civil: Augusta Co., VA

Bond for Administrators of Estate of James Frame, 7 May 1754, Augusta County Will Book 2, p. 46 - affirmation of Jane Frame, Robert McClenachan, and Robert Renick as administrators of the estate of James Frame.   

1754:  JAMES FRAME  died 1754 Augusta Co. Virginia. 

Vital: 17 May 1754

Civil: Augusta Co., VA

Bond for Administrators of Estate of James Frame, 7 May 1754, Augusta County Will Book 2, p. 46 - affirmation of Jane Frame, Robert McClenachan, and Robert Renick as administrators of the estate of James Frame.   

  The following was extracted from the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia website.

'The first Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia arrived in the 1720's primarily from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Eastern Virginia. Some were German-born or the Pennsylvania-born children of German-speaking Protestant immigrants from the Palatinate and other areas bordering the Rhine River. These were Lutheran, Reformed, or Brethren. The greatest numbers of early Augusta settlers were from the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland, or were the Pennsylvania and Maryland-born children of these Ulster Scots or Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Many early settlers took up land on the 112,000-acre tract that the colonial government granted to William Beverley, later referred to as "Beverley Manor".

1807:  JOHN FRAME - Augusta Co.

22 Jun 1807: 

'Page 129 Bill of sale Ann Frame widow of John Frame to her son Archibald Frame is witnessed by Ann Fream Sienew [Senior] Wm. Fream & Elizabeth Fream 22 June 1807.'

Source: Ancestry.com. Report on the Chalkley manuscripts, 21st Congress, the National Society, Daughter of the American Revolution. From Chalkley MSS., loose papers paged 27 torn from a black book (found in the Will Book No.10 Augusta Co. Va.)

PRINCE WILLIAM CO.

1767:    WILLIAM FRIME of Prince William County

1767: On Rental Rolls

 PETERSBURG

1803:    JAMES FRAME died 26 Oct 1803 in Blandford, Petersburg, Virginia

James Frame was b.19 Jan 1765 in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland and died 26 Oct 1803 in Blandford, Petersburg, Virginia.

Parents: Rev. James Frame b. c.1726 in Dalserf, Lanarkshire, and Agnes Provan. They marr. 15 Dec 1763 in Alloa.

No details currently known of any American family descending from James Frame who d.1803 in Blandford, Petersburg Va.

INFORMATION FROM THE 1850 AND 1860 SLAVE SCHEDULES FOR VIRGINIA

1850

c.1825: Elizabeth Frame, Mulatto, was born in Virginia. At the census of 1850 she was living at Right Bank, Orleans, Louisiana.

c.1833: Joseph Frames, Black, was born in Virginia. At the census of 1850 he was a labourer living at Loudoun, Virginia.

c.1835: Evelin Fream, Mulatto, was born in Virginia. At the census of 1850 she was living at Hollidaysburg, Blair, Pennsylvania.

1850: Marcy Fram/e of Charlestown, Jefferson, Virginia was the registered 'Slave Owner' of a Black Male aged 20; two Black females aged 40 and 10, and a Mulatto femail aged 25.  

1850: Daniel Fraim of Southern Division, Bedford, Virginia was the registered 'Slave Owner' a Black Male aged 13 and Black Females aged 19, 2 and 2 mths.   

1860

Frances P. Frame (nee Lowndes) in Jefferson, Virginia was the registered 'Slave Owner'  of Black Males aged 70, 60, 55, 50, 35,  23, 18, 12, 10, 9, 7 , 6 and 2.

Frances P. Frame in Jefferson, Virginia was the registered 'Slave Owner' of Black Females aged 70, 50, 35, 25 and 6.

( Frances P. Frame of Bullskin Farm mentioned pp.14-15 of 39)                                         

 1772:    JOHN FRAME - Kniver Heath Dorchester County.

On 28 Aug 1772, this John Frame, probably a relation of Major Frame, held 294 acres in Kniver Heath - 20 acres more than Major Frame held there in 1726. [BC44/16; BC45/126]

WORCESTER CO.

 1754:    ROBERT FRAME of Sussex Co. [Delaware]

Forest 50 acres 24 Oct 1754 BC2/239; BC4/149

Fellowship 100 acres 21 Jun 1757 BC7/439; BC9/336

'Robert Frame came from England and patented several thousand acres of land in Dagsboro[ugh] and Indian River hundreds. Several of his children were amongst the earliest settlers of Pickaway Co. OH. '

[Genealogical Abstracts from Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware, VOLUME 2, By Martha Reamy, Bill Reamy. Published by Heritage Books ISBN 0788437356, 9780788437359.  FRAME (p.1250)]

Robert Frame's eldest son, Nathan Frame:

From Calendar of Sussex County Delaware Probate Records 1680-1800, P.92:

Nathan Frame, Nathan. Worcester Co., Md. Will (copy). Made Oct 11,1770. Heirs: bro. Smith Frame. Exec'r, Smith Frame. Wits., John Moriss, Gobiz Towns end, Thomas Wingate. Prob/ June 29, 1772.  Arch. vol. A72, page 40. Reg of Wills, Liber B, folio 405.

Further information on this Frame family in Delaware section.

INFORMATION FROM THE 1850 AND 1860 SLAVE SCHEDULES FOR MARYLAND

1850: George Frame in Baltimore Ward 4, Baltimore, Maryland was listed as the registered 'Slave Owner' of a Black Female aged 13.

1850: Thos. H. Fremmea in Baltimore Ward 4, Baltimore, Maryland was listed as the registered 'Slave Owner' of a Mulatto Male aged 18.

1860: Robert Frame in Caroline, Maryland was listed as the registered 'Slave Owner' of a Black Male aged 30, and two Black Females aged 29 and 3.

MASSACHUSETTS

1670:    THOMAS FREAME in Amesbury - sp. Mary Rowell

23 February 1670:   The following apprenticed in Bristol:  William Millard to Roger Bently, 4 years Montserrat; Elias Eales to Richard Pope Jr., 5 years Nevis; Thomas Moody to Edward Coock, 3 years Nevis; Thomas Freame to Grace Smith, 4 years New England; Giles Wattkins to Thomas Symmons, 3 years Nevis; Robert Symms to same, 4 years Nevis.(BR). [Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1776].

Other snippets relating to Thomas Freame and Mary Rowell:

1673: Thomas Freame appeared on record in Amesbury, Massachusetts when his affair with Mary Rowell precipitated a hasty marriage on 18 September 1673. For this morals offense, he was sentenced to be whipped 15 stripes, unless he pay a £4 fine, and she was to be whipped 10 stripes, or pay a fine of 40s. Mary was the daughter of Valentine and Joanna (Pinder) Rowell and was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts on 31 January 1649/50.

1677:   On 30 October 1677, Thomas Freame was fined 2s.5d. and was admonished by the court for his part in wagering Samuel Weed, who was drunk, to kiss the minister’s wife. On 20 December following, he took the oath of allegiance. In 1680, he was a member of a training band.

On 14 July, he signed a note to deliver to John March of Newbury 4,000 red oak hogshead staves to be delivered to March at some convenient landing place below Holt’s Rocks on the Merrimack River side at or before the 25th of September next. He did not deliver and March obtained judgement against him on 30 November 1680.

1677: In 1677, a Thomas FRAME swore the Oath of Allegiance in Norfolk Co. Massachusetts.

1680:  On 23 November 1680, Thomas Freame, aged about thirty, deposed in court, from which age his approximate year of birth is deduced. He served on a coroner’s jury 9 January 1684/5 to investigate the accidental death of Nathaniel Griffin, a young lad who was killed while felling a tree, which shot back and killed him. In a deed, he is called a tailor. He had sufficient education to be the school master in 1693.

1693:  On 29 September 1693, in the case of Hugh March, tavernkeeper, versus Thomas Freame, tailor of Amesbury, March got a court writ of execution for his arrest and commitment to jail in Ipswich, for a debt of 45 shillings plus costs. (Essex County Court File 56:62)

Abstracts of all the deeds under Thomas Freame's name follow:

2 January 1681/2 – Thomas Fream of ye town of Amesbury, county of Essex, on ye north side of Merrimack River, which was formerly Norfolk in ye colony of Massachusetts, taylor, and Phillip Rowell of ye same town, innkeeper…for £6 sterling and a cow received of Mr Thomas Mudgett of Salisbury, shipwright, sold all of our lot or Division land, viz, 30 acres…formerly ye land of Valentine Rowell, and lieth in a place commonly called ye Champion Grove, in Amesbury…   (Essex County Deed 10:11)

1 June 1683 – Thomas Freame of Amesbury, county of Essex, taylor, & Mary my wife, for £25.10s. sell to Mrs Anne White of Newbury, widow, all that our mansion or dwelling house in Amesbury together with about seven acres of upland thereto belonging…  (Ipswich Deed 5:467)

 9  August 1692 – Thomas Freame of Amesbury, county of Essex, taylor, bought from William Osgood, senior of Salisbury, millwright, a piece of upland, 10 or 12 acres, more or less, in Amesbury… (Essex County Deed  20:151)

3 February 1707/8 –  I Thomas Freame of Amesbury, county of Essex, innholder, with the consent of my wife Mary, for £4 received, sell to General John March of Salisbury, gentleman, a lot of land in Amesbury in a division commonly called Bugsmore Division, it being No.16 and formerly granted to Valentine [Rowell] and containing 30 acres…signed by Thomas Freame and by mark of Mary Freame.   (Essex County Deed 23:30)

26 May 1708 – Thomas Freame of Almsbury…taylor…sells to Joseph Broowne of Newbury, land in Almsbury, Mary Freame releasing her dower...   (Essex County Deed 20:151)

[John Brooks Threlfall, FIFTY GREAT MIGRATION COMONISTS TO NEW ENGLAND & THEIR ORIGINS, 1992, pp. 151-153]

1719:    JOHN FRAME in Boxford 

John Frame m. Elizabeth Stiles 13 Oct 1719 at Boxford, Massachusetts. They had children: Mercy and Mary (1720); John (1722/3); Lydia (1726) at Boxford.

'In the records of Windham county. Conn.,  we find that John Frame bought land of Moses Stiles in the town of Windham, Conn., previous to 1730. See the following clausefrom a deed given by Moses Stiles of Windham, Conn., to John Ayers of Stonington, Conn. : " Sold all the above excepting twenty acres of the West end which I formerly sold to John Frame " signed '' Moses Stiles, March 13, 1730." There is also a record of the deeding of this lot of land, as follows : " Deeded to John Frame and Elizabeth his wife about twenty acres of land lying in the township of Windham, the westerly end of that one hundred acre Lot that I bought of Caleb Badcock deceased, bounded as follows, by land of Stephen Brown, Nathaniel Wales and LtKipley " signed, " Moses  Stiles, January 16, 1732." [The Stiles Family in America etc. p.463]

PENNSYLVANIA

PHILADELPHIA

1692:    RICHARD FRAME 

‘A SHORT DESCRIPTION [1692]  The earliest poetical production printed in Pennsylvania is included among the promotional literature of the last decade of the century. It is A Short Description of Pennsylvania, published in Philadelphia in 1692. Of its author, Richard Frame, nothing is known. The contents of the work (a small quarto only eight pages long) are indicated by the subtitle: “A short Relation of what things are Known, Enjoyd, and like to be Discovered in the Province of Pennsilvania.” [Darrel Abel, THE NASCENCE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, 2002, p.114]

See also:  A SHORT DESCRIPTION 1692 

1727:    THOMAS FREAME 

THOMAS FREAME b. 1701 Middlesex, England m. MARGRET PENN, dau. of William Penn:

    ‘Thomas Freame, the husband of Margaret Penn, was thus the cousin of Priscilla Barclay. The date of his marriage to Margaret Penn is definitely given in the Friends' records at London. It is thus, in brief:

 "Thomas Freame, citizen and grocer, of London, son of Robert, to Margaret Penn, dau. of William and Hannah, late of Ruscombe, county of Berks, at Hammersmith, 6th of 5th month             [July], 1727."

“4. Margaret, born at Bristol, England, November 7, 1704; married, 1727, Thomas Freame, and had issue: (i) Thomas, buried at Jordans, 1746; (2) Philadelphia Hannah (said to have been born at Philadelphia, 1740, and to have died 1826), who married Thomas Dawson, created Viscount Cremorne ; and perhaps others. Margaret Freame died in Jary, 1750-51, and was buried at Jordans on the i2th of that month. “

[From: Howard M. Jenkins, THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM PENN: FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA, ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS, 1899]

Thomas Freame's grandfather, Robert Freame, was among Penn's first purchasers of land in Pennsylvania. His uncle, John Freame, was the founder of Barclay's Bank.

1727:    ALEXANDER FRAME

ALEXANDER FRAME - Tailor in Philadelphia

Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury

Article Date: October 26 1727

Article Description: Servant Named John MAN Runs Away From Alexander Frame of Philadelphia.

Article Text:

'Run away the 9th of this instant from Alexander FRAME of the City of Philadelphia, Taylor, a servant lad named John MAN, aged about eighteen years, (a Taylor by Trade), short stature he had on when he went away a grey sagathea coat, and a fustain frock under the coat, ozenbrig breeches, a course white shirt, yearn stockings, old shoes, old hat and a short dart wigg, pale complection. Whoever secures the said servant, so that his master may have him again, shall have thirty shillings reward and reasonable charges, paid by Alexander FRAME.'

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