The earliest known ancestors of this family were John Frederick (d. 1757) and his wife "Froney", who were Germans immigrants. Their first child, Abraham, was born 1723 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. They had four more children born to them. This Fredericks family came originally from the village of Ottweiler, West Germany. Descendants live in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and else- where.

Excerpt from The Family of Frederick There is no record as to his parentage, but his origin has been the subject of a tradition which was certainly familiar in the life time oi his grandchildren; and this tradition has been handed down in all the different branches of his descendants to the present time. For example, when the lawsuit over the succession to the baronetcy was pending, vice-admiral Charles Frederick, one of the two Claimants, wrote a letter to the M owing Post, dated 29th Sept., 1874, in which he referred not only to the family history extending over three centuries in England, but also to a previous and longer descent from a higher source in Saxony. Admiral Charles Murray Aynsley was another descendant of Christopher Frederick to whom in the nineteenth century the same tradition was familiar. This tradition was to the effect that Christopher was a grandson, by a morganatic marriage, of Frederick, Elector of Saxony, sur named the Wise he is recorded as having died unmarried 5 May, I 52 The suggestion of illegitimacy has never been made, although it must stand as an alternative possibility; but it is unlikely that Christopher would have been so well received as he was in England if there had been any such slur on his origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.