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Descendants of Frederick Iaac Ice

Generation No. 1

      1. Frederick Iaac¹ Ice was born 1680 in Holland, and died 1796 in Monongalia Co, Cheat Island, Cheat lake. He married (1) Mary Galloway Abt. 1720. She was born Abt. 1680 in Philadelphia, PA, and died 1745 in Virginia. He married (2) Ellinor Leviston March 09, 1752.

Notes for Frederick Iaac Ice:
Early records of Virginia were lost in the War of 1812. The first census of 1790 for Virginia was destroyed. A record of the 1790 census for Pennsylvania shows a George Ice. Also found are the names Isaac, Isaacs, and Jice.

Names and dates for Fredericks second family are taken from his bible, now located in the museum library in New Castle, Indiana.

Bible and family records;
      Printed 1771 by Alexander Kincaid
      his Majesty's printer
      MDCCL XXL

by his Majesty's Special Command and
appointed to be read in Churches
DAYS OF WEEK, HOURS OF DAY, & WATCHES

      7 inches length, 5 inches wide,
      Printed old style, "s is f".


Fredrick Ice was the first descendant of the Ice Family in America, although other Ices migrated to America as well. He was born about 1680 in Holland. Frederick Ice's name was never Iceler, for signature on an Indenture dated January 30th, 1791, was Frederick Isaac and Nellie Iaac. Also, the fact that Frederick, according to his granddaughters, used Iceleigh, a name of Scotch/Irish origin, may be given merit through this ship's record. Outgoing passengers from the port of Belfast, Booking Number 9, dated June 1775, was listed a Thornton Ice, aged 22, parents were Adrian Ice and wife , of Laggan District, County Down, Ireland. Passage was on the ship CHARMING MOLLY, a brigantine under the Master J. Reed, owned by British Maritime Shipping of London, England. County Down was in that part of Ireland that James the First of England had set aside for his protestant friends in Scotland, to take and use in place of the Irish Earls who had conspired against the crown. The Ices may have originated in Scotland/Ireland, all from the same family tree, with Frederick's ancestors migrating to Holland.

                        The Father of the Ice Family
                        Frederick Ice

The first known member of the Ice family was Frederick Ice, born Iceleigh, in Holland. Immigrating to America directly from Germany, where he was educated, he eventually settled in colonial Virginia. He suffered the ravages of indian massacres, fluctuating political times, and turmoils of a new frontier. One need only recall the saga 'The Last Of The Mohicans' to propagate a clear picture of the age. Nevertheless, none kept Frederick from aging to 116 years at the time of his death in 1796. He had lived to observe almost an entire century of our country's most passionate times, and now we will forever seek the records of those trials, binding us closer and closer to the true history of this era and this man.

An Indenture dated 30 January 1791, which was a release or sale to Robert Kile of Hampshire County lands owned by Frederick, by purchase from Lord Fairfax on August 12, 1761 was Frederick Isaac, and Nelly Iaac; Adam Iaac, Hinson Bright and Michael Cain were the witness to this sale of the old land on the drains of Patterson Creek in Hampshire County. The deed of release of the Hampshire County land can be found in Deed book No. 8 page 178 Hampshire County and the Lord Fairfax deed to Frederick Iaac can be found in the State Land Office Northern Neck book page 311. Another deed of release was made of more land in that county March 19, 1764, this was to Robert Gregg.
The land which Frederick held in Hampshire County was leased on several occasions. Records in Hampshire County show a lease of 100 acres to Robert Gregg, made 19 March 1764, Another lease made in 1765, and yet another as late as 1791, this one witnessed by one Addom Iaac, who most probably was Adam Ice. Union District is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania and the Mason-Dixon line, east by Chestnut Ridge, Preston County, south and south-east by Morgan District, and on the west by the Monongahela River and Cass District. Eston is 3 miles east of Morgantown, on the edge of Union District. All of the Uniion District east of Cheat was called Cheat Neck, and sest of Cheat was known asForks of Cheat by the early settlers. In 'The History of Monongahela County', the author describes Union District, stating that the area is drained by the Monongahela and Cheat rivers and their branches. "At this Ice's Ferry," states the author, " the road leading from Morgantown, West Virginia, to Uniontown, crosses the river, which emering from the canon of number 12, one mile above, now flows between low hills of the barron measures, with the Mahoning Sandstone making bold cliffs along the immediate banks. About one-fourth mile above the Ferry a small stream puts into the west bank of the Cheat over the Mahoning Sanstone Cliffs and descending it from the Morgantown road near Mr Bayles's. In passing up the river south-eastward from the ferry, the rocks rise very rapidly toward the Chestnut Ridge axis and the top of number 12, and makes it's appearance above river level in a massive dam-like wall just about a mile above the ferry."

Though his first wife's name is still a mystery, his children by that marriage are supposedly recorded in a family bible as John, Mary, Christena, and William. This bible resides in the care of the Patricia Gohring family in Toledo, Ohio. Originally settling in Baltimore,Maryland, he moved to the south branch of the Potomac River, married in the early part of the new century, living in what is now New Hampshire or Hardy counties of West Virginia. The following tragedy of Frederick's family was written by Virginia Hall Conaway, his great great granddaughter, having been told to her by her Grandmother, Elisabeth Ice Hall, who had visited her father Andrew Ice in the state of Indiana in the year 1848. Andrew at that time was ninety years old.
Grandmother Hall told me that her grandfather, Frederick Ice, said that the settlement on the South Branch of the Potomac (known as Wappatomoha, or Wild Plum, by the indians) was doing well, they had cleared ground enough to raise plenty for them to eat, and with the abundance of game and fish that abounded in that county the pioneer was satisfied. In the year 1745, after several years of toil, they had a remarkably good crop. He and several of the men went to the mill with grain for grinding to satisfy the winterfast. They had a long distance to go, probably to Winchester Virginia, which at that time was the center of trade for north eastern Virginia. When they returned to the settlement, they found the remains of a massacre.
During the settlement raid by the Mohawks, most settlers were killed and some were taken captive. The settlement was burned to the ground, all the livestock were driven off, and the remaining crops destroyed. Frederick's entire family was taken captive. The men of nearby settlements gathered in force to pursue, but his wife, possibly unable to maintain the brisk getaway, was killed on the trail. The indians got beyond the safety line with their prisoners and booty before the settlers could overtake them. All three children remained captive of the Mohawk for quite some time.
Mary, was mother of Teliskwatawa, or Tecumseh, the great prophet, born from the marriage to a Mohawk chief. According to the traditional story handed down through the Ice family, the two daughters of Frederick Ice were carried into Ohio and adopted by an Indian Chief. Also, Mrs. Marinda Ice Middleton says her Grandfather Oliver Perry Ice told her this story, which happened when he was only 4 years old. Mary, who had lived with the Indians came back to visit her people, and he remembered the big feast which the relatives made for her. They wanted her to stay there , but she would not. This was in 1825 as Oliver Perry was born in 1821. Tecumseh was born in 1768. Virginia Conaway says the Indian raid was in 1745. Mary was between 5 and 10. William (Indian Billy) was 10. She would be 28 to 33 when Tecumseh was born and between 85 and 90 when she returned home for a visit. He had always insisted she was very old.
William was raised for over five years by the Indians before he escaped and came back to his father.
John was rescued by his father after William's escape, who told their father where John was being held.
Nothing is known of Christena's fate.

After loosing his first family, Frederick married Eleanor (Nellie) Livingston (or Leviston, Livingstone) a widow with a daughter, Mary Jane It was believed that they were related by marriage to James Livingston, acting Major of Fort Cumberland. Frederick moved his new family westward to the Cheat River, settling on an island about a mile from the forks of the river near what is now Morgantown, West Virginia. The first child of this marriage was Andrew Ice, born October 16, 1757. He died in 1858. Magdalene was born February 16, 1760, and died young. Frederick, born July 9, 1762, died before February 29, 1788, as he was not mentioned in his fathers will. Abram was born November 25, 1764, and died 1790. Shortly after Abram's birth, the family moved to Ice's Ferry, Monongahela Co., Virginia. David Gallion (Adam)was born August 5, 1767, and died July 5, 1851. David Adam was the first white child born west of the Allegheny mountains in what is now West Virginia.

The country was settled from Pittsburg to Ice's Ferry. To own a three or four gallon kettle, a skillet and lid, and you were good for the kitchen. Clay ovens were used outside the houses to broil and roast meat over the coals. Wild turkey, geese and duck were common, also was fish and deer. It was the first settlement in Virginia west of the Alleghany's and the last up the river from Pittsburg.
I quote from Virginia Conaway's book "Ice's Ferry". Andrew Ice recalls, "My father, Frederick Ice, had good learning and could read and write five or six different languages. He was educated in Germany but did not teach his own sons to read or write. Daddy always had a good crop raised. He got some men to help him and we boys hunted and fished most of the time. Father never paid much attention to us, but he would ask us sometimes how we was off for powder and lead. I do not remember when we came to the Ferry. There were several families living there who had their houses close together. When the men went out into the woods to work they took the women and children along as well as their guns. Daddy never let the women and children out of his sight because he had lost his family once. The Ferry settlement was never troubled by Indians. There were a good many men and they stayed close together for a good many years. Daddy always had plenty. He had salt, leather, powder and lead. We had good clothes, for that day. Which consisted of pants made of tanned deer hide, or knee breeches of same with silver buckles, and woolen hunting shirt, a long coat belted at the waist and large fur cap.
When we lived at the Ferry our houses were of log, a double chimney, glass windows, and boards sawed at the saw mill for partitions and doors. There were men at the Ferry who could split as straight a slab as the old mill could saw. The houses all had puncheon floors split out of logs with an axe and fastened to the sleepers with wooden pins.
At the Ice's Ferry, we had apples and peaches in plenty. There was a good deal of cleared land, which belonged to Daddy. He had good fences and was better fixed to live than when we boys married and moved on Buffalo Creek, but we had taken up land for ourselves and wanted to work it. Father and Mother did not want us to come to Buffalo Creek at all. They said we were leaving as good a home as there was in America. And we were worse than Prodigal Sons who spent his father's substance in riotous living. But we (William, Andrew, Abram and Adam) disdained our fathers Heritage and concluded to hew out a living for ourselves."

Frederick Ice bought of the Indians Four, 200 Acre Tracts of land, paying $15.00 for each tract for his four sons, William, Andrew, Abram and Adam. This land consisted of Ground from Barrackville to Barnesville and part of Dakota mines.
An Indenture dated 30 January 1791, which was a release or sale to Robert Kile of Hampshire County lands owned by Frederick, by purchase from Lord Fairfax, August 12, 1761 was Frederick Isaac, and Nelly Iaac; Adam Iaac, Hinson Bright and Michael Cain were the witness to this sale of the old land on the drains of Patterson Creek in Hampshire County. The deed of release of the Hampshire County land can be found in Deed book No. 8 page 178 Hampshire County and the Lord Fairfax deed to Frederick Iaac can be found in the State Land Office Northern Neck book page 311. Another deed of release was made of more land in that county March 19, 1764, this was to Robert Gregg.

An account of the death of Frederick is found in Myers History of West Virginia, Vol. 2, page 481. It is from the autobiography of Rev. Harry Smith written about 1794. "During the summer, I saw a man, said to be 113 years old, ride to meeting on a horse lead by his son, himself an old man. He was a German (Hollander) known by the name of "Daddy Ice" throughout all the county. I visited him in his last sickness and found his intellect had not failed as much as might be expected, I preached at his funeral and it was a solemn time, while I preached his children, then old and gray headed people, and his grandchildren and great grandchildren.
So ends the partial history of Frederick Ice. His grave is on his island in Cheat River at Ice's Ferry. But now is covered by the waters of Cheat Lake since the damming of the river covered the island.

Markers at a eastern side of the bridge that crossed the river at the point of the island are testiment to the history. One marker, made of milling stones, was hewn by Frederic, on which sits a bronze, evgraved plaque;

      "Here on August 5, 1767, Adam Ice, the first white child west of the Alleganies, was born."

Another marker by the road, above the cliffs, states that George Washington passed this way on 25 September 1784. His conversation with Andrew is well noted in his diary.

Also about a mile from this bridge, across the river from the other markers spoken of , is a small roadside marker stating that one John Pierpont had established a fort there, thus marking his place of residence as 1 mile from Ice's Ferry.

Ice Revolutionary War Record

J. F. McAlester "Virginia Militia in Revolutionary War" R973,3455, Page 215, section 271, Monongahela County
______________________________15th of April until 12th of June 1777_________________________________
William Haymond, Capt.                              Peter Popeus
Morgan Morgan, Lieut.                              Levy Carter
James Johnstone, Ensign                              Fredk. Jukleberry
Zarah Ozban, Sergt.                              Jarvis Brumagin
Amos Ashcraft                                    Jeremiah Simson
John Doherty                                    Valentine Kennett
Edmond Chaney                                    Evan Morgan
David Morgan                                    Ruben Boner
Thomas Haymond                                    James Morgan Sr.
Wlm. Pettyjohn                                    John Lemaster
Robt. Campbell                                    James Morgan Jr.
John Ice
Frederick Ice
Henry Hank

Note: Mr. Henry Haymond of Clarksburg W. VA. has this original payroll. We are indebted to him for this copy.

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John H. Gwathmey "Historical Register Virginians in Revolution"
Ice, Frederick--Capt Haymonds Co. Monongahela Co. Militia
John Ice--Pitts. (paid at Pitts)
William Ice--Pitts (paid at Pitts)
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Will of Frederick Ice

In the name of God Amen

The Twenty-ninth of February, In the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty-Eight, In the County of Monongahela.

Being in great age weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be unto God, there fore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do made and ordain my last will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like decent manner at the declaration of my executors nothing doubting at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty power of God and as touching my worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give divided of the same in the following manner and form:
In prime it is my will and good order that in the first place that all my debts including funeral charges be paid I give and bequeath unto Ellen my dearly beloved wife all of the moveable in the dwelling house cows and hogs during her life and then to dispose of them to whom she pleases also the third of the plantation at the Ferry during her lifetime and then to fall unto my son Andrew wholly at her death. I give to my son Abraham and my son Adam a tract of land on Buffalo Creek also to William I be equally divided between them. I further give to my son Adam the Roam Mare Colt. I further give unto my grandson Jesse a horse and one hundred acres of land and I do ordain Francis Warman, Esq., John Mansey Simeon to be Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly dismiss every other testaments, wills and legacies and executors by me in any ways before this time named willed and bequeather.

Notifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness I have here unto set my hand and Seal and year within written,
            Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by Frederick Ice his last Will and                   Testament in the performance of us the Subscribers.
            William Norris                              his
            James Wilke                        Frederick * Ice (seal)
                                                Mark

More About Frederick Iaac Ice:
Burial: On the Island on Cheat River, now Cheat Lake, underwater.

Notes for Mary Galloway:
[Wullschlegerl-Ice.FTW]

Killed by the Mohawk Indians after a raid on the settlement.

Notes for Ellinor Leviston:
[Wullschlegerl-Ice.FTW]

Last name may have been Livingstone, a widow with a daughter, Mary Jane.

Children of Frederick Ice and Mary Galloway are:

+	2	i.		William Galloway "Indian Billy"² Ice, born April 01, 1725 in Hampshire County; died February 1826 in Monongalia Co., West Virginia.
	3	ii.		Mary Ice.

Notes for Mary Ice:
[Wullschlegerl-Ice.FTW]

Taken into Ohio by the Mohawk Indians in 1745, adopted by an Indian chief. Said to have married a son of the chief and became the mother of the famous chief Tecumseh, who was born is 1768.

Mrs. Marinda Ice Middleton says her grandfather Oliver Perry Ice told her when he was only 4 years old, Mary came back to visit her people and he remembered the big feast which the relatives made for her. They wanted her to stay there, but she would not. He said she was very old. This was in 1825.

iii.

Christene Ice.

Notes for Christene Ice:
[Wullschlegerl-Ice.FTW]

Taken by the Mohawk Indians during a raid on the settlement.

iv.

John Ice, died 1786 in Pine Grove, Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Notes for John Ice:
Unmarried, little is recorded in my families' history about the life of John. After his eventual release from the indians, he migrated west with his father, and that he held land near Fairmont, West Virginia. Indian Billy reportedly received John's legacy of land at John's death. John was killed by indians near Pine Grove on Fishing Creek, in Wetzel County, in the fall of 1786.

Ice Revolutionary War Record

J. F. McAlester "Virginia Militia in Revolutionary War" R973,3455 Page 215 section 271 Monongahela County
15th of April until 12th of June 1777_________________________________________________________
William Haymond, Capt. Peter Popeus
Morgan Morgan, Lieut. Levy Carter
James Johnstone, Ensign Fredk. Jukleberry
Zarah Ozban, Sergt. Jarvis Brumagin
Amos Ashcraft Jeremiah Simson
John Doherty Valentine Kennett
Edmond Chaney Evan Morgan
David Morgan Ruben Boner
Thomas Haymond James Morgan Sr.
Wlm. Pettyjohn John Lemaster
Robt. Campbell James Morgan Jr.
John Ice
Frederick Ice
Henry Hank

Note: Mr. Henry Haymond of Clarksburg W. VA. has this original payroll. We are indebted to him for this copy.
**************************************************************************************
John H. Gwathmey "Historical Register Virginians in Revolution"
Ice, Frederick--Capt Haymonds Co. Monongahela Co. Militia
John Ice--Pitts. (paid at Pitts)
William Ice--Pitts (paid at Pitts)
**********************************

Children of Frederick Ice and Ellinor Leviston are:

+	6	i.	Andrew² Ice, born October 16, 1757; died 1849.
	7	ii.	Magdalene Ice, born February 16, 1760; died in Died young.
	8	iii.	Frederick Ice, born July 09, 1762; died February 29, 1788.

Notes for Frederick Ice:
[Wullschlegerl-Ice.FTW]

Probably died before 1788, as he is not mentioned in his father's will.

+	9	iv.		Abram Ice, born November 25, 1764; died 1790.
+	10	v.		David Gallion Adam Ice, born August 05, 1767; died July 05, 1851 in Monongalia, W. Virginia.

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