Hi Frazier researchers, I have posted quite a bit in the last two weeks about my ancestors in KY. I am however, also looking for them further back in Kent County,MD. There is a fanciful family legend that has a Hugh Frazier of Paisley, Scotland kidnapped off the streets at age 7 and sold into servitude in the US about 1700. He ended up as an indentured servant to a William Cummings and married his daughter Margaret "Peggy" at the end of his servitude. At some time or another this family ended up in Kent County,MD where they produced the following children: George who m. Mary (supposedly Wilson, daughter of William Wilson) and died in Harrison County,KY in 1801 ...see my earler post on him. John who m. Mary ( supposed Yearly, daughter of William Yearly) Hugh, Jr. Mary who m. James Collins Peggy who m. I have yet to prove a great deal of this story, but I have found the Fraziers in Kent County,MD. Since someone asked me about John Frazier, above and my response included information that might be helpful to someone else I am posting it here. George Frazier The Kent County Fraziers are in themselves, in a very short time period, a tangled web of George's, Hughs, Johns and Mary's. Haven't quite sorted them all out yet. Anywho......here is what I have on John and Mary Yearly Frazier of Kent County,MD: Mary Yearly's father was William Yearly and her mother Mary ( I do not know her maiden name. ) (Source: Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Vol I by Barnes and Wright) William Yearly of KE County b. abt 1685/6. In 1757 a land transaction lists him as being 71. d. leaving a will dated July 16, 1756 in which he names, among others, his wife Mary and daughter Mary Frazier. Mary Yearly died in 1765 and her will also names daughter Mary Frazier. (there is more on this Yearly family in the book but no names of William's siblings. Mary Yearly Frazier's siblings were names John, Williams, Patience and Susanna) I have also seen something by someone doing family research which says that Mary Yearly was the wife of Hugh Frazier rather than his brother John. I really don't have proof of the marriage so I don't know. I am heavily leaning toward John however. Hugh Frazier was taken to court on May 1, 1746 in Kent County for having committed fornication producing a bastard child by Mary Jerome, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Jerome (KECR JS#24:323). So if he ended up with a wife named Mary let us hope that it was poor Mary Jerome. Also, the will of a Hugh Frazier of Kent County,MD written July 7, 1800 proved Dec 10, 1800 from the book "Abstracts of Kent County, MD wills, Vol 1 1777-1816 by Christos Christou,JR and John Anthony Barnhouser pg. 163 MD Archives: Liber 8 Folios 83-85) "To my brother John Frazier my house and lot during his lifetime, then divided between my nephew Hugh Frazier, son of my brother George, and Mary Collins dau of Mary (his sister?) and Mary Yearly, daughter of Edward Yearly (is this a niece? if so another sister married a Yearly). Also, a Mary Frazier d. in Kent County in 1812. Will written Jan 15, 1812, proved Feb. 4, 1812 (MD State Archives: Liber 9 Folio 159-60) "After the death of my husband, my estate to all my children but if my husband survives my child or children then to my husband forever. Consented to and approbated by John Frazier,Jr. Exec. my husband John Frazier. Witnesses: Phillip Brooks, Thomas Brooks, Martha Cooper." A John Frazier served in the Revolution in the Kent County Militia, Private 1st Battalion 1775-1778 as did William and George and Thomas Frazier name that (Source: Bruckley's lists, Clements and Wright and The Patriotic Marylander, Vol III. Book: Revolutionary Patriots of Kent and Queen Anne's Counties, MD by Henry C. Peden, Jr. 1995) Kent County Fraziers who took the Oath of Allegiance there in 1775 were: George, James, John, Thomas and William (Source: Kent County Records) A John Frazier appears in the 1790 Kent County,MD census with 2 males under 16 years old and 4 females of all ages. He also has 7 slaves. (My Fraziers were slave owners in both KY and MO.) Also in the 1790 Census in Kent County are George, Hugh, and James. In the St. Paul's Parish Register (Kent County, MD Anglican Church), the following children of John and Mary (Yearly?) Frazier are baptized: Martha b. 7/1/1753; John b. 11/1/175? : William b. 2/1/1758 ; Hugh b 10/13/1763; Thomas b. 10/3/1771. Also, the children of John Frazier, Jr and Anne (Yearly?): James b. 8/24/1771; Samuel b. 12/3/1773