History of Chautauqua County, New York, from its first settlement to the present timeWith numerous biographical and family sketches . ut the year 1743, and settled at Frankfort, Herkimer Co., N. Y.,where he was married to Eve Frank, and whence he removed to Busti in1811, where he died, Nov. 5, 1833. He, with Lawrence, son of HenryFrank, before mentioned, and two girls, Eve and Mary Frank, of the StephenFrank family, were captured, in the old French war, by the French andIndians, on the Mohawk, and taken as prisoners to Canada, where they werekept several years among the Indians before they wer
History of Chautauqua County, New York, from its first settlement to the present timeWith numerous biographical and family sketches . ut the year 1743, and settled at Frankfort, Herkimer Co., N. Y.,where he was married to Eve Frank, and whence he removed to Busti in1811, where he died, Nov. 5, 1833. He, with Lawrence, son of HenryFrank, before mentioned, and two girls, Eve and Mary Frank, of the StephenFrank family, were captured, in the old French war, by the French andIndians, on the Mohawk, and taken as prisoners to Canada, where they werekept several years among the Indians before they were ransomed. JohnFrank was again taken prisoner in the Revolutionary war. At Oneida lake,the first night after his capture, he escaped from his captors, and by the aidof friendly Indians among the Oneidas, safely reached his home at GermanFlats. In 1817, Stephen, son of John Frank, Sr., with his family and hisparents, and his mothers maiden sister, moved down the Ohio river, andstopped at Gallipolis, Ohio, where the father, John Frank, Sr., died. Theothers proceeded to Columbus, Ind., where the maiden aunt died. Stephen, \> K. ?% • % I?Ji^^c/u<KAjt ^ 7^-€Lyr\yK. BUSTI. 237 with two of his sons, went with a flat bottomed boat and produce to NewOrleans; and on his return he died on the Mississippi, and was buried onthe shore. His brother, John Frank, Jr., went to Indiana and brought hismother back, who died at his house some years after, at an advanced mothers maiden sister, on her return from her captivity among the In-dians, had forgotten her mother tongue, and was taken from the Indiansagainst her will, having been kept from her relatives, and forgotten Franks suffered much from the Indians on the Mohawk. John Frank had three sons : i. Stephen, who married Margaret, daughterof Lawrence Frank the elder. Their children were: Nicholas, Matthew, Polly,wife of Jacob Loy, Stephen Denus, Hiram, Eve, Solomon, Elizabeth, andJacob and Joseph, twins ; the last t
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