Friday "467 years of family history"

18th Edition 

Table of Contents:

 

Table of Contents:

 

Friday Coat of Arms Shield -                                                                                         8

Bernese Oberland Adelboden Parish Church                                                                9

Frutigen Church and Frutigen Valley                                                                            10

Frydig Swiss Marriages -                                                                                            11

Frydig Births and Christenings -                                                                                               13

Swizerland Civic Heraldry Crests -                                                                                   19

Purry’s Pamplet description of Carolina 1731 -                                                              21

Arrival of the Switzers July 19, 1735 -                                                                           29

Arrival of the Switzers July 26, 1735 -                                                                           30

Origin of Friday, Region of Switzerland –                                                                 31

Ships that Arrived in 1735 -                                                                                                31

Friday, John –                                                                                                               32

Descendants  –                                                                                                  32

Friday, Martin –                                                                                                 32

            Descendants & Ancestors -                                                                                32

Marriage of Benedict Koller to Magdalina Spring 1-1740 -                                                  40

Brochure to attract migration to Saxe Gotha, SC in 1740 -                                          41

Property Owners, Saxe Gotha, Dutch Fork and various land grants -                              44

Arrival of John Friday -                                                                                                            45

Burial of John Friday -                                                                                                            45

Marriage and Baptisms 1737 – 1761 -                                                                           47

Photograph from Common Prayer Book - Baptism of Strauman 1741 -                           48

Dutch Fork 1744 -                                                                                                           49

Petition for Land for children of Martin and John Jacob Friday 1745 -                           49

Easter Service - Church of Orangeburg 1745 -                                                               50

Land Grant to John Friday (1791) 1747 -                                                                            50

Orangeburg Citizens Petition 1749 -                                                                           51

Orangeburg Church Members -                                                                                             53

Petition of Martin Friday for Anchor and Chain 1749 -                                                      54

Churches the Friday’s attended -                                                                                 55

Petition of George Millander 1752 -                                                                         57

Petition of Frederick Smitzley 1752 -                                                                          57

Petition to Recertify land plats 1753 -                                                                               57

Petition for Land Resurvey for John Jacob Friday 1754 -                                                    58

The Journal of Commons House of Assembly 1759  -                                                  58

Friday’s Ferry –                                                                                                            59        

Friday’s Dream Point -                                                                                                   60

Cherokee Path and Expenses of War with Indians 1760 -                                                    60

Charleston Deed book 1765 -                                                                                           61

Trading Post/Fort Granby/Cayce house 1765 -                                                                 62

John Jacob Friday (1719) property line with neighbors 11-1771 -                                  63

Survey for Benjamin Farrar 12-1771 -                                                                                  64

Land Purchase by John Chestnut 1772 -                                                                         65

Memorial Land Grant for John Martin Friday 1772-74 -                                                          65

Loyalist or Tory 177X -                                                                                                   66

Mr. Friday and Colonel Maxwell 177X -                                                                           67

Loyalists List - Governor of (SC) Proclamation Lists of 1779 -                                        68

General T Sumter at Friday’s Ferry 1781 -                                                               70

Estate sale of Elizabeth Rives Chappel 1782 -                                                              70

Loyalists List for Confiscation 1782 -                                                                           72

Loyalist List Officers Petition 1782 -                                                                           72

Occupations of early Settlers -                                                                                       74

People who knew the early South Carolina Friday’s -                                                         75

Where the Friday’s were, when -                                                                          77

Where the South Carolinas Friday’s lived -                                                              79                    

Gabriel Fridig (1752) an American Revolutionary -                                                   80

Land Purchase by William Authur 1784 -                                                                            81

Stub Entries to Indents Issued in Payment of Claims 1784 -                                        81

George Marks Will 1785 -                                                                                             81

Jacob Rumph Deed 1785 -                                                                                           81

The Hampton Deed 1786 -                                                                                           81

Sheriff Thomas Farrar Deed 1788 -                                                                           82

South Carolina Capital moves to Friday’s Ferry 1790 -                                                   83

George Washington’s Journal 1791 –                                                                           84

Migration of David Friday and Elizabeth Hogabook -                                                        85

Petition of Daniel Friday (1791-1798) -                                                                          86

Marriage of Drehr and Leever 1797 -                                                                            86

Joseph Newton Deed 1799 -                                                                                           86

Jacob and Sarah Seibels Deed 1798 & 1801 -                                                                87

Will of Mary Geiger 1808 -                                                                                         87

Petition Denying Loyalists Sympathies 1813 -                                                               88

Migration of Henry Friday – Alabama -                                                                                 89

Petition of Rueben Friday 1824 -                                                                           89

Migration of Godfrey Friday – Arkansas -                                                                  90

Photograph of Sabra Ann Friday (1833) -                                                              90

Migration of Henry Salley & Anne Friday – Florida -                                                            92

Migration of George Friday – Alabama & Texas -                                                             94

            Descendants -                                                                                                    95

Photograph of Mary Ann Friday Burroughs Cawthan (1832) -                                               95

The Friday’s who left South Carolina -                                                                                  97

Land Patent “Cash Act” of 1820 and Homestead act of 1862 -                                               98

Those who went by the name Fridig                                                                                    101

Those who went by the name Fridy                                                                         102

Those who went by the name Fryday                                                                                  103

Unlinked Fridays -                                                                                                           104

Martin and Mary Pou Friday House 1800’s -                                                               105

            Descendants -                                                                                                    105

Samuel White Deed 1820 -                                                                                           107

Dead Roll in Lexington District 1821 -                                                                            107

General Memorial of Deeds and other Conveyances 1821-Jan-1822 -                         108

Marriage Certificate for Thomas Friday and Elizabeth Brown 1827 -                             109

Bridge over Broad Petition (1828) -                                                                                    110

Will of William Friday Sr. 1832 -                                                                                               111

Land Grant Promise Letter from George Friday 1833 -                                                     111

Itawambas County, MS Deed Book 1 1838 -                                                               111

Canal & Railroad Petition (1839) -                                                                         112

Migration of Elizabeth Brown 1850 -                                                                           114

Estate Sale of Nehemiah Posey Sr. 1843 –                                                                     115

Marriage Contract for Mary Ann Friday & Robert Burroughs 1857 -                                   116

Marriage Contract for W M Lowery & Sarah Friday 1859 -                                       116

Estate of Emanuel Friday  1861 -                                                                           117

Simmie Ann Strong (1825) -                                                                                      118

Justice of the Peace 1869 -                                                                                         119

            Descendants -                                                                                                    119

Photograph of George Thomas Friday (1829) -                                                              120

Biography of William F Friday (1843) -                                                                                    121

Photograph of Samuel H Friday (1866) -                                                              122

Photograph of Leona F Fussel (1872) -                                                                                    122

            Descendants -                                                                                                    123

Photograph of Maude Friday & Charley Euton Marriage -                                             123

Photograph of L.S.Friday (1873) and Susan Katherine McCarty -                                              124

Photograph of L.S.Friday (1873) Businessmen and Formal -                                          125

            Descendants -                                                                                                    125

Photograph of L.S. Friday “Enclopedia of Texas” -                                                            126

Photograph of L.S.Friday’s Livery Stable 1907 -                                                               127

L.S.Friday Biography -                                                                                                        128

Photograph of Ed Brodie Friday (1880) -                                                              129

            Descendants -                                                                                                    129

Mary Ann Friday and William Brown                                                                                      130

House of William Brown and Mary A Friday 1885 -                                                 130

Descendants  -                                                                                                   131

Photograph or Clara Molin Thompson and George Thomas Friday                                   132

Marriage Certificate 1877 -                                                                           132

Photograph of Elbert Wade Friday and Nancy Wooley -                                                  133

Sell of land by G.T. Friday 1881 -                                                                           134

Photograph of Thomas F Friday (1848) and family –                                                       135

Photograph of Laura Friday 1850 -                                                                           136

            Descendants                                                                                                    136

Photograph of Samuel David Friday IV and family 1884 -                                         137

Photograph of Elizabeth Franks                                                                                    138

Laura Kissar Stroud -                                                                                                            139

Marriage Contract of Tabitha E. Friday & W.D.Woods 1871 -                                       140

Photograph of George Friday and Family Portrait -                                                           141

Photograph of Brothers George, Harmon and James Robert -                                                142

            Descendant of each brother -                                                                                   143

Photograph of John Friday -                                                                                         145

            Descendants -                                                                                                    145

Photograph of James “Jim” and Mary St. Andre Friday                                                           147

            Descendants                                                                                                    148

Birth Certificate for James Friday                                                                                   148

Biography of James “Jim” and Mary Friday                                                               149

Photograph of James Morris “Black Jim” Friday -                                                            150

Photograph of Jeannie E. Friday -                                                                                    150

Sam Joyner Friday & Lynn Ferguson Friday -                                                                       151

Black Jim’s Family photo                                                                                      152

Jeptha “Jack” Jackson Friday/Fryday Mustor Roll/Hospital Record -                                    153

Winn Parish Land Purchase 1860 -                                                                           154

Marriage Bond for Thompson & Weaver 1890 -                                                               155

Photograph of William Washington Fryday (1860) -                                                           156

            Descendants    -                                                                                                 156

Brother Bootmakers of Texas -                                                                                                 157

Bootmakers Biography -                                                                                                        158

Photograph of Willie Friday (1890) -                                                                                    160

Photograph of Lee Horace Friday (1896) -                                                              160

Photograph of Caddie Jackson Friday (1894) -                                                              160

Photograph of Mathew Friday (1886) -                                                                                    160

Photograph of Olan Van Friday (1904) -                                                                        161

Photograph of George D Friday Sr (1901) -                                                                    161

Photograph of Nancy Hale “Altie” Fryday -                                                             162

Photograph of Robert Dean Fryday -                                                                                   162

Photograph of Ira Haven (1902) & Lenora Lois Friday (1901) -                                                163

Photogrpah of Ira Haven (1902) & Biography -                                                                    164

Photograph of Wright Friday and Trigger -                                                                 165

Friday, TX established 1903 -                                                                                               166

Photograph of M.M Friday & Thelma Thompson 1939 -                                                           166

Photograph of William F Friday (1853) & wife Matilda Robinson (1857) -                                   167

Photograph of Evaline Friday and family 1943 -                                                                       168

George Friday boot shop – Midland, Tx -                                                                             169

Photograph of Elmer O Friday                                                                                   170

George Thomas Friday (1854) and children 1960’s -                                                 171

Tom Friday & Friday’s Boots 1973 -                                                                           172

Black Lake Friday’s                                                                                                        173

Headstones of Fridays                                                                                             174      

Soldiers and Veterans -                                                                                                         181

Time Line -                                                                                                                    185

Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana Land Records -                                                          189

Census Records -                                                                                                           194

SC Census Records 1790-1830 -                                                                                       203

Mississippi Births -                                                                                                           204

Cemetery Records -                                                                                                          205

Civil Draft Registration -                                                                                                     208

Research Items -                                                                                                           210

Bibliography -                                                                                                                 211

Friday Coat of Arms Heraldry -                                                                                     215

Index -                                                                                                                          218                   

 

 

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