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Chapter 2: Leads Prior to Henry Freakes/Friggs, Sr. (or I)

[CF Note: Prior to the first records of Henry Freaks/Friggs in Somerset County, Maryland in 1682 there are numerous records of persons named Friggs, Freaks, Frankes and variants entering the Chesapeake Bay region. This chapter outlines the records known to this writer and discusses their applicability, if any, to Henry Freaks/Friggs.]

1606-1623: Lead One, the first three charters of the Virginia Co. The Virginia Company of London was first chartered by King James I of England in 1606. The first settlement was established at Jamestown in 1607. Mentioned in this first Charter was a Sir Thomas Freake (sometimes Freke and usually referred to as a Knight). Mentioned in the second charter for Jamestown in 1609 was a Thomas Freake, Knight, who was probably the same man. Mentioned in the third charter for Jamestown were Thomas Freake (sometimes Frake) and Henry Freake. Both were referred to as "a man of God’s word", implying they might be ministers.

[CF Note: 1. It is highly unlikely that any of these men contributed to the future lines of Frakes, Freakes, Friggs in Virginia or Maryland. Sir Thomas Freake invested in the Virginia Company, and even made a trip or two over to the colony, but always returned to England. At least one family history website connects him to the Freke line in Shroton, England. He might, in some way, be a forebear of the John Freake who was later a merchant in Boston, MA, or possibly of one of the William Freakes’ who later immigrated to Virginia, but the jury is still out on that. 2. As for the two Freake/Frake men noted as “men of God’s Word”, the available historical accounts of the Jamestown Colony indicate the overwhelming majority of the colonists in the first three charters died from disease, exposure, starvation and Indian attacks. If by rough estimate one said about 2,000 persons made up those first three groups of colonists, published historical accounts indicate at least 3/4's of those died off from these privations. By 1623, following the largest Indian uprising and massacre in 1622, an accounting document was prepared for the Company and the Crown titled "The Living and Dead in Virginia, Feb. 16, 1623. (For details refer to the website with the URL ) This list of living colonists in Virginia in 1623 shows no names remotely close to Frakes, Freakes, Friggs or variants. The list of recently dead (from the Indian attacks) includes a Thomas Hakes and a Thomas Triggs. Neither is identified as a minister, although a few of the living persons were so identified. The fact is there are no known early Virginia lineages attributed to men of this name. Although this is not definitive proof that Thomas Freake/Frake and Henry Freake perished in Virginia colony, the odds weigh heavily in that direction. If they didn't return to England at some time then they probably didn't survive the troubles of the early colony.]

1634: Lead Two, Lt. Friges. From the research of Howard L. Dickerson, on the Worcester, MD GenWeb site, at URL . “The name Friggs or Figgs appears about 1634 when Lt. Friges (some books spell it Figes) was transported as Captain Claiborne’s assistant on the ship "Africa of London" to Virginia. Captain William Claiborne led a group of Virginians, including Lt. Friges, to Kent Island, in the Chesapeake Bay just off the northwest border of what was later to be Somerset County, Maryland. There they claimed Kent Island as part of Virginia. They retained control of this island until the death of Captain Claiborne in 1677.”

[CF Note: Delmarva historians believe the eastern shore of Maryland, the land east of the Chesapeake Bay, and generally south of Kent Island, was barely settled by Europeans before the 1660s. If anybody was positioned to occupy the Indian lands on the Delmarva peninsula, it was these Kent Island colonists. Unfortunately, the available historical records indicate the Somerset county region of the Delmarva Peninsula was populated by settlers moving northwards from Accomack County, Virginia, rather than from settlers in the north moving southwards. There is little to no mention of this man, Lt. Friges, in the historical records to indicate what happened to him later in life.]

1636-1637: Lead Three, Henry Freake in Massachusetts Bay Colony. From the Family Tree Maker’s Family Archives CD #117, “Family History, New England Families #1, 1600s-1800s.” From the History of Salem, MA: Vol. I (1626-1637)…Establishment of the Court…pp. 352-354…The first session of the quarterly court in Salem was held June 27, 1636… At the first session of the quarterly court, there were three civil cases to be adjudicated, but no criminal proceedings… The trial jury consisted of … Henry Freake…”

From a posting on the RootsWeb, Dorset-L Archives message board, at URL , by Bob Frakes, dated Wednesday 22 January 2003, Subject: [DOR] Freake - Massachusetts Bay Colony. Source cited: “Historical Collections of Massachusetts”; Barber,1841, page 53. “The settlement of this town was commenced by quite a number of families from Saugus or Lynn in 1637. The township was from the Old Colony of Plymouth –

10 men of Saugus, namely:

Edmund Freeman Henry Freake

Thomas Dexter Edward Dillingham

William Wood John Carman

Richard Chadwell William Almy

Thomas Tupper George Knott

They shall have liberty to view a place to sit down on and have sufficient land for three score families upon the conditions propounded to them by the Governor and Mr. Winslow.”

[CF Note: 1. This is the earliest of the records for Freake or Freakes in the Massachusetts area. 2. The Boston area Freake(s) line are thought to have been nobility, or at least merchant class, men from the line out of Dorset, England. These Massachusetts merchants include a John Freake who dies in ship explosion. 3. It is this John Freake who researcher Stephen P. Frakes thinks is the ancestor of the John Friggs/Frakes who ended up in Nelson County, KY in the 1790s. Thus we have a tension between the two basic, competing theories on this Frakes line; that is, it either arose out of Boston, Massachusetts, or it has its roots in Somerset Maryland. 4. There is no further documentation for this Henry Freake.]

1639-1670s: Lead Four, William Freak and variants in Virginia. From Early Settlers of Maryland, by Gust Skordas, 1968, Genealogical Publishing Company. (An alphabetic index to early settlers of Maryland whose names were written in land office record books. Covers years 1633-1680. Records probably at the Maryland Archives Hall of Records.)

Name PgSkordas Liber, Folio Remarks

William Freak 170 ABH 244 Transported 1639.

From the Maryland Archives Online.

“Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1637-1650”, Volume 4, page 127.

In October 1642, in a legal case before the Provincial Court at St. Mary’s, the plaintiff John Hallowes demands Randall Revell make good on a debt of 2412 pounds tobacco due him. The Court directs a warrant to Edward Parker or William Ffreke “to keep safe the said Randoll until security not to depart out of the Province until he have satisfied all actions entered against him.”

[CF Note: 1. One record indicates a William Freak was transported to Maryland in 1639 and another record indicates a William Freke in a court case in St. Mary’s , MD in 1642. Is this a trail of a possible relation/father to Henry Friggs? The Delmarva peninsula was hardly populated by white settlers prior to the 1660s. There is no hard evidence this man was in that area then anyway. 2. The 1642 court record suggests the man named William Ffreke is some sort of Sheriff, Constable or other officer of the court. The Provincial Court at St. Mary's was the chief judicial body in the Province, for all matters civil and criminal, for the city and county of St. Mary's, and having also appellate jurisdiction over the county courts. It is hard to tell from this record what county of Maryland this dispute took place in, but we know a little about Randall Revell from a biography of him in Clayton Torrance’s book Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland., pp. 306-310. Randall Revell was known to be located in Accomack Co., VA from 1633 to 1637, and in St. Mary’s Co., MD between 1636 and 1644, and then from 1644 to 1662 he was back in Accomack Co., VA (although the name was then changed to Northampton Co., VA.) Revell finally ended up in Somerset Co., MD on the Delmarva peninsula in 1662. Therefore, the 1642 record cited above probably occurred when Revell was an inhabitant of the St. Mary’s Co., MD area across the bay from the future site of Somerset Co., MD. This is the best evidence available that this particular William Ffreke, was not in the Somerset Co., MD area. 3. This is but the earliest of the many recorded William Freakes’ (or variants therof) who came to Virginia (south of the Chesapeake Bay) and Maryland (west of the Chesapeake Bay), up to the 1670s. Records in Joe Frakes 1998 book, Early Frakes Records, indicate there were from four to six such William Freakes’. There is, as yet, no evidence of a direct connection between any of these earlier men identified as William Freaks or Freakes and the Henry Freakes/Friggs who declared his “end of servitude” in Somerset County, MD in 1682.]

1651-56: Lead Five, Henry Freeke/Freke/Freake of Devon, England. From the “LDS Family Search” web site at URL :

“Henry Freeke, male

Spouse: Elizabeth Quicke

Marriage: 10 Jul 1651 Yarcombe, Devon, England”, and

“Henry Freke, male

Christening: 03 Jan 1653 Upottery, Devon, England

Death: 03 Jul 1654

Father: Henry Freke”, and

“Henry Freake, male

Christening: 03 Feb 1656 Upottery, Devon, England

Father: Henry Freake”

[CF Note: 1. Possibly related series of records for a single family in Devon shire or county, England, but not proven this is the case, especially in light of the three name variants used and the two separate towns cited. 2. Bristol, along with Plymouth, would have been the two main ports in this part of southwestern England at the time. The possible association with the 1676 record of a Henry Freke transported out of Bristol on the Maryland Merchant bound for Virginia is tantalizing (See the 1676 record later in this chapter.) There is no proof this is the same family, or that these men are connected in any way to the Henry Freaks who claimed land in Somerset County, Maryland in 1682. (See the 1682 entry in the chapter for Henry Freaks/Friggs I.) But, if one were to go look for a man from England immigrating to the Colonies in the 1670s as an indentured servant, the two sets of records in 1651-56, and 1676, are just what one might hope to find. 3. There is no proof the man in Yarcombe is the same man as the one in Upottery, but if he is then did the marriage take place in the bride’s hometown, and afterwards did they live in husband’s home town? 4. This is speculation, but if the Henry Freake born in 1656 in Upottery was the same man that shipped out of Bristol in 1676, then he would be 20 years old at the time and this is a prime age for indenture and immigration.]

Circa 1662: From an email communication from John Lyon to Charles Frakes, dated February 05, 2004, Subject: Re: [LDR] A Caveat About William Robinson of Somerset County and Tax Records.

“... always remember that you will never see a real Somerset land record citation of any kind before 1662, when the first surveys were made for the benefit of a handful of dissident emigres from Virginia - at Manokin and Annemessex.  Some of these folk were, of course, Quakers.  The Catholic Calverts granted religious asylum to anyone.  The County itself was not officially organized until 1666. The MD-VA boundary down in that corner of Somerset was a little mysterious for another decade, and only settled by agreement between the Calverts and Edmond Scarborough of VA in the 1670s...”

1663: From the website at :

“Database: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Name: Jno Freeke

Year: 1663

Place: Virginia

Source Publication Code: 6220

Primary Immigrant: Freeke, Jno

Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977 and 1979. Issued originally by Nugent in parts between 1929 and 1931; the parts were then largely incorporated in this work, no. 6220. Stewart, item no. 9025, compiled the article, "Ancient Planters [1607]," pages xxviii-xxxiv.

Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.

Page: 490”

1664: Lead Six, Mary Freek. From the research of George Rogers Frakes, of Oceanside, CA, personal communication to this writer. “1664. Mary Freek was transported to Maryland. Liber 7, folio 529. The Early Settlers of Maryland by Gust Skordas, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979, pg. 170.”

From Early Settlers of Maryland, by Gust Skordas, 1968, Genealogical Publishing Company. (An alphabetic index to early settlers of Maryland whose names were written in land office record books. Covers years 1633-1680. Records probably at the Maryland Archives Hall of Records.)

“Name PgSkordas Liber, Folio Remarks

Mary Freek 170 7 529 Transported 1664.”

From Maryland Land Office Records, Liber 7, Folio 529 (7:529), photocopy of original record obtained from Nabb Research Center, Salisbury University, Maryland.

“1664... March (Quite? Exite?)... Samuel Groom enters rights Vizt Ann ffisher, Mary Mills, Matthew Smith, Jane Wiginna (?), Christopher Benbridge, Mary ffreek, Roger Kirkman, Samuel Barnes, and Thomas North, in all nine heads the which he hath sold to Mr. Jerome White. Nicholas Goodridge witness the above sd. writing which was granted Mr. White.”

[CF Note: 1. In the original Land Office Record cited immediately above, this specific entry on the page is undated. The top of the page has 1664 written on it. The two entries immediately following this one are recorded as October 1, 1663 and December 18, 1663. It is possible this is a 1663 record rather than 1664. 2. The location of this record is not discernible from the page or the record, so there is no evidence it is even in Somerset County, Maryland. 3. It was once thought this woman was a candidate for the wife of, or relation to, Henry Freakes/Friggs I. This Mary Freek is probably not the same person as the Mary Robinson who married Isaac Noble first and Henry Freakes/Friggs second, because name is already Freek, and these records were not entered later on after the 1691 marriage of Henry Freakes/Friggs and a woman named Mary. 4. There is no evidence regarding a relationship, or familial connection, between them. For example, there is no evidence this is Henry Freakes/Friggs mother or sister. 5. See a possibly connected record for 1665 in this chapter.]

1664-1672: Lead Seven, various Freakes, Frake and Frankes in early Accomack, VA. The following five records are all from the 1998 edition of Joe Frakes book, Early Frakes Records. They are for persons with the Freakes, Frake or Frankes name, who immigrated or were transported into Accomack County, VA during the 1664-72 time frame:

“From "Certificates and Rights, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1709", Page 9; "Certificate granted to Capt. John Savage for 4200 acres...Henry Frankes...1664." (Editors note: This is the first known use of the Frankes variant.)

From "Certificates and Rights, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1709", Page 31; "Certificate granted to Richard Bundick for 1000 acres, 18 December 1666...Thomas Freake". [CF Note: See 1666 entry in this chapter for a second occurrence of this record.]

From "Certificates and Rights, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1709", Page 33; "Certificate granted to Henry Eldridge for 800 acres, 18 March 1666/67...Robert Frake." [CF Note: See 1667 entry in this chapter for a second occurrence of this record.]

From "The Research of Robert Leroy Frakes"; "William Hickman, with 1,000 acres in Accomack County, Va., at Arcadia, transported 20 persons, including Thomas Freake...1667."

From "Certificates and Rights, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1709", Page 48; "Certificate granted to Charles Searburgh (Scarborgh) for 1,300 acres, 16 May 1672... on the list of those transported...Elizabeth Franke."

[CF Note: These are possible candidates for progenitors or relatives of Henry Freakes/Friggs of Old Somerset County, MD simply due to their proximity to Henry in place and time. Accomack County, VA is due south of Old Somerset County, MD on the Delmarva Peninsula. Accomack was populated first, and many of the early settlers of Old Somerset came from Accomack.]

1664-89: From Early Settlers of Maryland, by Gust Skordas, 1968, Genealogical Publishing Company. (An alphabetic index to early settlers of Maryland whose names were written in land office record books. Covers years 1633-1680. Records probably at the Maryland Archives Hall of Records.)

Name PgSkordas Liber, Folio Remarks

Cox, Thomas, 113 9, 332 Transported in the “Golden Wheat Sheaf “, 1664.

Cox, Thomas, 113 7 556 Transported 1665

Cox, Thomas, 113 11 313 Of St. Mary’s Co. Service 1667. (17, fol. 30).

Cox, Thomas, 113 12 478, 498 Transported 1670

Cox, Thomas, 113 WC2 281 Immigrated 1689. Of St. Mary’s Co.

[CF Note: 1. Thomas Cox is the name of the man who sold Henry Friggs the land named “Friggs Adventure”. These records pertain to several Thomas Coxes. Need to determine which ones, if any, are for our Thomas Cox. 2. Liber/Folio refer to volume and page of Land Patent Records of the Land Office of Maryland from 1633-1680, probably recorded by the county clerks, and the volumes now at the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD.]

1665: Lead Eight, Mary Freake. From Early Frakes Records, with Frigg, Freke, Frake and Other Variants, 1000-1820, by Joseph I. Frakes, Crescent City, FL. Privately published, 1998 ed.: “From "The Research of Robert Leroy Frakes"; taken from "Somerset County and the East Shore", page 478;"; "Edward Hazard, Isaac Noble and Mary Freake all came to Somerset County in 1665. Passage paid by Charles Hall and Alice Hall. Each received 50 acres. Also on the list, John Walker." (Editors note: This is data given at a later date, not 1665, it indicates the above-mentioned landed in 1665, Mary Freak refers to Mary Robinson. She married, first, Isaac Noble, and, following his death, she married Henry Friggs/Freake. Passage paid, but no acreage received by Charles Hall, does that indicate a relationship by Hall with Hazard, Noble and Robinson families? Probably!)”

From the research of George Rogers Frakes, of Oceanside, CA, personal communication to this writer. “These people were entitled to 50 acres of land for coming to Maryland to settle. Charles Hall, himself, Ellis (Alice) Hall, Mary Freake, John Walker. Volume 10, page 343 of Land Patent Books. Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, by Clayton Torrance, 1979.

From Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, by Clayton Torrance, 1935, Whittet and Shepperson, Richmond, VA, reprinted 2000 by Willow Bend Books.

Pp. 473-479. “The following persons were entitled to 50 acres of land each for coming into Maryland to settle…The names of these “rights” have been obtained from the Land Patent Books, Hall of Records, Annapolis, which books contain records of surveys as made on warrants issued and names of this proving ‘rights’ as well as patents issued. The references given refer to volume and page of Land Patent Books…

January 20, 1665—Charles Hall, himself, Ellis [Alice] Hall, Mary Freake, John Walker (10:343).”

From the Hall family web site at : “Charles Hall Sr. was born in England circa 1635. He married Alice 'Ellis' (-----) before 1664 in England. Alice was born circa 1646 in England. Charles immigrated to Maryland 1664, and was credited with having transported into the Colony of Maryland the following persons: Ellis (Alice) Hall, Mary Freake, and John Walker. On 6 Jun 1665 he patented "Hall's Choice," 300 acres. In 1685 Charles Hall and William Planner were among the first Somerset County commissioners named to lay out towns in Somerset Co, MD. Charles died 1695 in Annamessex, Somerset Co, MD, at 60 years of age. Alice Hall died 1724 in Somerset Co, MD, at 78 years of age.”

From the RootsWeb site at URL http:\\archiver.\th\read\HALL\2000-09\0970012848: “Charles Hall b circa 1630-35 England d Aug 1695 Somerset Co., MD married Alice Hallam? B 1646 England d Apr 1724 Somerset Co., MD. It is notable that they had a son Charles Hall b. 22 Feb 1665 who died 24 may 1709 Somerset Co., MD. And, daughter Katherine Hall b 20 Jun 1670 Somerset Co., MD married William Planner. And, daughter Alice Hall b 2 Jun 1673 Somerset Co., MD married John Roach, Jr. And, daughter Rachel Hall b 3 Jul 1677 Somerset Co., MD married Randall Revell.”

From Somerset County, Maryland Wills, Liber EB #9, 1710-1729. Abstracted by Leslie and Neil Keddie, Waldo Books, 2001: “Folio 129, Charles Hall, planter, will written 06/09/1695, will proved 08/13/1695.” The will record probably marks the date and year of Charles Hall, Sr.’s death. He bequeathed to Alice his wife 50 acres of land called “Hopkins Destiny” lying on the north side of the Annemessix River, so they were Somerset Co., MD residents. The will also mentions his children Charles, Alice and Rachel; but not Katherine. Two additional daughters are named, Mary and Sarah.

From Maryland Land Office Record, Liber 10, Folio 347 (10:347), photocopy of original land patent record obtained from Nabb Research Center, Salisbury University, Maryland:

“Charles Hall, Patt. 300 Acres, Halls Choice... in consideration that Charles Hall of our said province of Maryland planter hath due to him two hundred acres land within our said province for transporting himself, Ellis Hall, Mary Freake (Peake?, Frake?) and John Walker into our said province to inhabite and one hundred acres of land more by assignment from George Johnson...”

[CF Note: 1. Of all the references shown above, the original record is clear that Charles Hall received land for transporting himself, an Ellis Hall, a John Walker, and a person whose name might be Mary Freake, Peake or Frake. 2. Contrary to Robert Frakes’ research cited in the entry from Joe Frakes book, the names Edward Hazard and Isaac Noble do not appear in the original record of persons transported by Charles Hall. Other credible sources indicate Isaac Noble was transported by Owen MacKrue. 3. Similarly, this Mary Freake is not the same person as Mary Robinson, even though this is suggested in Joe Frakes 1998 book. This was not written at a later date when she might have been using Freake as a married name, this is the original patent record from 1666. This woman immigrated to Maryland with the name Freake or some variant thereof. Other sources found after the date of Joe’s 1998 book indicate Mary Robinson was probably transported by, or at least along with, her father or uncle named William Robinson. 4. Frakes family researchers as yet do not know who this Mary Freake is, and have no leads for her ancestry or descendants. 5. Per Somerset Judicials, various pages: Charles Hall is a planter and Somerset county commissioner. William Planner is a planter, cattle owner, Somerset county commissioner, vestryman in Coventry Parish, and juror. Randell Revell is a planter and Somerset county commissioner. So Charles Hall’s children married into the families of the other Somerset gentry. 6. There is, as yet, no proven linkage between Charles and Alice Hall of Somerset County, Maryland and anyone connected with Henry Freakes/Friggs of Somerset, Maryland.]

1665: Lead Nine, Alice Frigg. From Early Frakes Records, with Frigg, Freke, Frake and Other Variants, 1000-1820, by Joseph I. Frakes, Crescent City, FL. Privately published, 1998 ed.: “From "The Research of Robert Leroy Frakes" taken from "Early Settlers of Somerset County and the Eastern Bank, Maryland"; "Alice Frigg immigrated to Maryland; also given 50 acres for settling." (Editor's note: Somerset County, Maryland, was not formed until 1666, I assume this means in that area. Some reports list the spelling as Figg, but, this editor has a copy of the original entry, it is Frigg. This is the first known use of the Frigg variant as a family name. Note the term "immigrated", not transported. This indicates she paid her passage. Perhaps, starting with a husband who died during the crossing. If so, were there children? Probably the mother, or grand-mother, of Henry Friggs? See 1715.)”

From the research of George Rogers Frakes, of Oceanside, CA, personal communication to this writer. “1665. Alice Frigg immigrated to Maryland Liber 8, folio 503. Pg. 171. The Early Settlers of Maryland by Gust Skordas, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979, pg. 170.”

From Early Settlers of Maryland, by Gust Skordas, 1968, Genealogical Publishing Company. (An alphabetic index to early settlers of Maryland whose names were written in land office record books. Covers years 1633-1680. Records probably at the Maryland Archives Hall of Records.)

Name PgSkordas Liber, Folio Remarks

Alice Frigg 171 8 503 Immigrated 1665.

[CF Note: 1. Frakes researchers do not yet know who this woman was. It is speculative to say who she might be in the absence of proof. There is no evidence of her starting with a husband who died during the crossing, nor of children. 2. If she was the mother, or grandmother, of the Henry Freakes/Friggs who settled Friggs Adventure in Somerset County, MD, then Henry would have been born around 1664/65 or shortly thereafter, about the same time as Alice’s arrival in Maryland. She would have to be married as a Friggs, or he probably would not have kept Friggs name, instead would have kept father’s name. That is, unless he was born a bastard child and indentured as a result. This is all speculation, there is no evidence of a familial relationship between this Alice Friggs and our Henry Freakes/Friggs of Old Somerset County, Maryland.]

1666: From website, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, CD-ROM:

“Freake, Thomas

Place:  Virginia     Year:  1666     

Primary immigrant:  Freake, Thomas     

Permanent entry number:  3822224     

Accession number:  9999925797     

Source publication code:  6212.30     

Source publication page number:  31     

Source publication:  NOTTINGHAM, STRATTON. Certificates and Rights, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1709. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co., Inc., 1997. 91p.     

Source annotation:  Date when grant was received for land in area cited. Original certificates are on file at the Land Office, Richmond, Virginia. Other historical information is also provided.”     

1666: From Early Frakes Records, with Frigg, Freke, Frake and Other Variants, 1000-1820, by Joseph I. Frakes, Crescent City, FL. Privately published, 1998 ed.: “From "Bristol and America", Volume II, Page 291, a rare book, in which appears names of 10,000 Servants, not arranged, indexed or categorized, which is a listing of servants to foreign plantations, who sailed from the Port of Bristol, England; April 7, among those listed was....Henry ffreke.... on the Maryland Merchant, whose destination was given as Virginia. (Editors note: This Henry is listed as an indentured servant. It is doubtful that this would be the Henry who patented Friggs Adventure in 1715.)

[CF Note: 1. See the 1676 entry in this same chapter regarding this Henry Freke and the Bristol Register reference. Joe Frakes’ entry for 1666, above, may be about 10-years too early. See the nearly identical entries for 1676 below. 2. This writer believes this man is a prime candidate for the Henry Freakes/Friggs who claimed land in Maryland in 1682. The ages certainly could work out. By my counting, if he is 16 in 1666, then he is born about 1650. A 7-year indenture after 1666 would end about 1673 at age 23. If he is the Henry Freaks who married Mary Noble then he would be age 35 when witnessing Isaac Noble’s will in 1685, and age 41 at marriage to Mary in 1691, and age 65 at death in 1715.]

1667: From website, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, CD-ROM.

“Frake, Robert

Place:  Virginia     Year:  1666-1667     

Primary immigrant:  Frake, Robert     

Permanent entry number:  3822399     

Accession number:  9999926627     

Source publication code:  6212.30     

Source publication page number:  33     

Source publication:  NOTTINGHAM, STRATTON. Certificates and Rights, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1709. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co., Inc., 1997. 91p.     

Source annotation:  Date when grant was received for land in area cited. Original certificates are on file at the Land Office, Richmond, Virginia. Other historical information is also provided.”    

1672: From the Archives of Maryland Online website at URL , from Index 117, an index to the book “A Supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland”, by Carson Gibb, PhD. (Not the actual data from the book.):

“Cox, Thomas

WT:705 Film No.: SR 7547

Of Somerset Co., service by 1672

Transcript. 17:30 [SR 7358]

MSA SC 4341-220”

[CF Note: “Service by 1672” indicates Thomas Cox was an indentured servant who worked off his period of indenture by 1672, making him entitled to 50 acres of land. Thomas Cox is thought to be the man who sold the land called “Friggs Adventure” to Henry Freakes/Friggs. Does this imply Thomas Cox was transported about 1665 also, and served a 7-year indenture also? If so, this would be consistent with the some of the data in the 1664-89 entry above that shows Thomas Cox transported in 1664 or 1665.]

1676: Lead Ten, Henry Freke on the Maryland Merchant from Bristol. From Early Frakes Records, with Frigg, Freke, Frake and Other Variants, 1000-1820, by Joseph I. Frakes, Crescent City, FL. Privately published, 1998 ed.: “From "The Research of Robert Leroy Frakes"; Henry Freke transported, on the Maryland Merchant, to Virginia by William Alford, Henry to serve four years to William Alford.”

From the website of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, at the University of Virginia, Virtual Jamestown Archive, Searchable Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, The Bristol Registers, at

“The Bristol Registers records all indentured servants who left from the port of Bristol, England from 1654-1686. The database contains records for approximately 10,000 indentured servants sent from Bristol to the New World. The Bristol Registers database are taken from the book The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686, by Peter Wilson Coldham, published by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, in 1988, 491pp., this entry from page 328…The original registers, entitled Servants to Foreign Plantations, were contained in two leather-bound volumes and can be found in the archives of the Corporation of the City of Bristol, England. Coldham has modernized the town and village names. Editorial comments added by Coldham are indicated by parentheses and brackets…”

“Indentured Servants Basic Search Results:

Servant Information

Name: Henry Freke

Gender: Male

Occupation:

Place of Origin:

Spouse’s Name:

Agent Information

Name: William Alford

Gender: Male

Occupation:

Place of Origin:

Indenture Information

Date of Indenture: September 5, 1676

Indenture Length: 4 years

Destination: Virginia

Ship: Maryland Merchant

Servant’s Parents Information

Name:

Occupation:

Notes: 4 yrs Virginia by Maryland Merchant, Mr. William Trego

From the website:

“Database: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Name:   Henry Freke

Year:   1676

Place:   Virginia

Source Publication Code: 1218.5

Primary Immigrant:   Freke, Henry

Annotation: Date of covenant or indenture of service and apprenticeship with intended destination. Extracted from Servants to Foreign Plantations, a two volume set discovered in the Council House of Bristol. A summarized transcription by R. Hargreaves-Mawdsley was published under the title Bristol and America.

Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. 491p.

Page:   328

Source Information: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database online]. Provo, Utah: , Inc., 2005. Original data: Filby, P. William, edit. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 2003.”

[CF Note: 1. This is probably the same source record as that referred to by Joseph I. Frakes in the 1666 entry above in this same chapter. Both the Coldham book (that is the online database taken from it) and the Robert Leroy Frakes citation agree this Henry Freke came over in 1676, probably not 1666. 2. Is he the same man as the Henry Freake/Friggs who settled in Friggs Adventure? Answer, not known. His destination is Virginia and not Maryland, despite which this could still be our man. The 1676 indenture date and 4-year period of indenture leads one to believe he is free to acquire his 50 acres of land by 1680. This comes intriguingly close to the entry later in this chronology for a Henry Freake whose service ends in 1682. 3. According to online sources a man named Lt. Col. William Alford was born 1607, immigrated to Virginia by 1653, and died 1674, so the timing of this indenture record for Henry Freke leaves a little to be desired with respect to that man. There is evidence of additional men named William Alford/Allford in Virginia in this same time frame. See the next record from the Alford Family Association. 4. Sources describe Mr. William Trego as a ships captain who traveled to Virginia and Maryland. An entry in Early Settlers of Maryland, by Gust Skordas, Genealogical Publishing Inc., Baltimore, MD 1968, pg. 63 states: “Treagoe (Trego), William Sr., Liber WC2, Folio 72, Marriner 1679. Of the City of Bristol. Rights 1679. (WC2, Fol, 213-214.)” Another entry in Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783, Consolidated Edition, pg. 672, by Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 2002, states: “Tregoe, William, mariner. Dorchester county. Tract = Refuge. 50 acres. 19 April 1683.” This places William Trego on the Delmarva peninsula, not too far from Henry Freakes, and in the exact same time frame as when Henry purchased land called Flodders in Old Somerset County, Maryland.]

More on William Alford. From “In Search of My Alford Ancestors”, by Hugh Edwin Alford. Alford American Family Association, Inc., Florissant, MO. Copyright 2000, first published privately 1970.

“Chapter Five, English Records.

William Alford: Included in the 1,000 emigrants, referred to as sailing from Bristol, was a William Alford, date, place of birth and marital status unknown. He sailed between 1654 and 1663, destination—Virginia.

This William has not been traced after his arrival in Virginia, but a William Alford witnessed signatures on documents in Charles City County in 1653 (a year before the Bristol records began, but records of that era are vague and this could have been the same William). A William Alford also witnessed signatures in this county, twice in 1661, and once in 1662. A William Alford also witnessed signatures in Isle of Wight County in 1671 and 1672. During this same period, a "Paddy" of Isle of Wight County was bound to pay William Alford of Elizabeth City County 1653 pounds of tobacco. These various transactions in different counties could mean that William Alford was an employee or representative of one of the British Companies responsible for importing settlers.

In 1662, Richard Aylife received a grant of 248 acres of land in Northumberland County, Virginia, for bringing in five persons, including a William Alford, and in 1670, William Hunt received a grant of 1150 acres of land for bringing in twenty-three persons, including a William Alford. This importation was to James City, Virginia and, of course, occurred before 1670. A William Alford served on a jury in James City in 1670. A Judgment was entered against a William Alford in James City in 1671, and in September of that year, William Alford was ordered to pay damages.

On March 4, 1675, Robert Gilbert was indicted for the murder of Colonel William Alford. A jury brought a verdict of "Homicide by Misadventure". John Hurst married Colonel Alford's widow. This William was an officer, either in the British Military Service (of which no record has been found) or an officer in the Colonial Militia.

From the above, it will be seen that there are records of at least three William Alfords in Virginia between 1650 and 1700. One was killed in 1674–5, probably the one imported by William Hunt, before 1670; another died February 11, 1709 in Saint Peters Parish; and the destiny of the third has not been established. There are reasons to believe that a fourth William was in the Colonies, as the records indicate, at least one signature was witnessed by William Alford before 1654. If this is correct, this William could have been a descendant of the Richard Alford who came to James City in 1620-21.”]

From the same Bristol Registers online database search utility mentioned above, the following record:

Servant Information

Name: William Alford

Gender: Male

Occupation: Yeoman

Indenture Information:

Date of Indenture: August 20, 1658.

Indenture Length: 4 years.

Destination: Virginia.

Agent Information

Name: William Weakley

Gender: Male

Occupation: Mariner”

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