Nathaniel FROST

11 Apr 1711? - Bef 1776?

• Name	Nathaniel FROST
  Born	11 Apr 1711?	Berwick, York, ME?
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Kittery, York, ME?
  Death	24 Apr 1762?	Gorham, Cumberland, ME?
  Death	24 Apr 1777?
  Death	Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH?
  Death	Lee, Strafford, NH?
  Residence	12 Sep 1733	Dover, Strafford, NH
  Residence	15 Jul 1734	Durham, Strafford, NH
  Residence	10 May 1735	Durham, Strafford, NH
  	Old Kittery and her families by Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927 Publication date 1903 p 431 Nathaniel Frost "formerly of Dover now of Durham laborer" conveyed 10 May 1735 to Samuel Chesley his right in commons of Dover, once belinging to Nicholas Brock.
  Residence	10 Nov 1737	Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH
  Residence	18 Nov 1737	Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH
  Residence	31 Jan 1739	Durham, Strafford, NH
  	New Hampshire State Papers Volume 9 Page 239 Petition of Francis Mathes and others for a new parish in Durham ... 31 January 1739 The Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Town of Durham in Said Province Humbly Shews ... Nathaniel Frost ...
  Residence	2 Nov 1739	Durham, Strafford, NH
  Grant	11 Apr 1749	New Durham, Strafford, NH
  Residence	10 Jun 1750	The Hook, Durham, Strafford, NH
  	History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire : (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes by Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927; Thompson, Lucien, b. 1859; Meserve, Winthrop Smith, 1838- Publication date 1913 p 391 Baptisms The baptisms of the Rev Hugh Adams have been published in the New England Historic Genealgical Register Vol 33 and by far the greater part of them are interwoven with the genealogical portion of this history. The baptisms of the Rev John Adams have never been published. Those that have not been used in tracing the families of this history are here given. ... July 30 1749 Martha d Nathaniel Frost July 30 1749 Dorothy d Nathaniel Frost ... June 10 1750 Nicholas s Nat Frost of Durham in the Hook ... July 12 1752 Nathaniel s Nathaniel Frost
  Residence	30 Oct 1753	Durham, Strafford, NH
  Petition	1765	for Lee
  Residence	18 Nov 1765	Durham, Strafford, NH
  	New Hampshire State Papers Volume 11 Page 587 [Petition for a Division of the Town] Province of New Hampshire ... Dated at Durham November 18th 1765 ... Josiah Johnson ... Nathaniel frost ...
  Grant	9 Feb 1767	Chatham, Strafford, NH
  	New Hampshire State Papers Volume 24 Page 547 ... [Charter of Chatham 1767] ... 9 February 1767 ... Grantees of Chatham ... Nathl Frost ... Jeremy Bryent Esqr ... Walter Bryent Esqr ... Jno Johnson ... John Bryent ... Province of New Hampshire 9th Febry 1767
  Died	Bef 1776?
  Person ID	I56990	4 February 2018
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2019

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth DARLING
  Married	BY 1738
  Children	1. Martha FROST   2. Dorothy FROST   3. Nicholas FROST   4. Elizabeth FROST,   b. 1752,   d. 9 Aug 1834, Monroe, Waldo, ME  (Age 82 years)   5. Nathaniel FROST,   b. [1752],   d. 6 Jun 1782, New York   6. Winthrop FROST,   b. 1753,   d. 1810  (Age 57 years)   7. Mary FROST,   b. 1753?,   d. 1800?
  Family ID	F18116	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1776 Association Test: Nathaniel Frost r Lee Children Nicholas: widow makes deposition in Nathaniel Jr's pension claim Dorothy: Children are heirs of Nathaniel Jr. See pension file. Elizabeth: Children are heirs of Nathaniel Jr. See pension file. Winthrop: Heir of Nathaniel Jr. See pension file. Nathaniel: Mary: Heir of Nathaniel Jr. See pension file. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and NH: b 1711 s Nichols r 1765 Lee wife Elizabeth 1735 Frost genealogy in five families Five Frost Families. Part IV p 332 Nathaniel Frost, s Nicholas m Dorothy, was born at Kittery or Portsouth and was baptized 15 April 1712/13. He was a carpenter and farmer, and spent the most of his life at Durham and Lee, NH. In 1733 and 1734 he was at Dover, but returned to Durham about 1737. He married before November 1739 Elizabeth d Thomas darling, since on that date he and his wife Elizabeth conveyed to his brother John his interest in the house and land in Portsmouth, "bo't of their father Thomas Darling 10 Nov 1737." In 1765 he signed a petition for the division of the town of Durham and the creation of the parish of Lee Children Nicholas Nathaniel Winthrop New Hampshire State Papers New Durham Volume 12 Page 701 Volume 28 Page 97 [Names of Chesley's Associates 1749] [Masonian Papers Volume 7 Page 72] Province of New Hampshire To the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqur and other Gentlemen Purchasers and Proprietors of John Tufton mason Esqur his Right in Lands in said Province a List of the Subscribers to the Petition for a Tract of land above Rochester, to the abovesaid Proprietors, preferred by the hands of Capt Jonathan Chesley & mr Ebenezer Smith vizt- Durham April 11th 1749 ... Walter Bryent ... John Jonson nathaniel frost Borth 1 shire ... [The names are then repeated and numbered from 1 to 80. Ed] Volume 28 Page 98 [Charter of New Durham 1749] [Masonian Proprietors' Records 5 May 1849] Province of New Hampshire Portsmouth May the 5th 1749 Fryday three of the Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of Sarah Prust widow The Proprietors meet according to adjournment Voted that there be & hereby is Granted unto... Walter Bryant... John Jonson & Nathl Frost both one Share ... all in Said Province of New Hampshire in Equal Shares Excepting as Aforesaid and as Hereafter is herein Excepted on the Terms Conditions & Limitations herein After Expressed all that tract of Land within the Province Aforesaid Containing the Quantity of Six Miles Sqaure Bounded as follows... [described] [terms] ...[etc] Volume 28 Page 102 [Draft of Lots 1750] [Masonian Paper Volume 7 Page 73 and Proprietors' Records Volume 6 Page 228 and Volume 7 Page 61 Province of New Hampshire Portsouth May the 2d 1750 At a Proprietors meeting held at the House of Ann Slayton The Draft of the shares or Lots of the Township granted to Jona Chesly Ebenr Smith & others ... 19 John Johnson & Nathaniel Frost [Lot No] 23 ... 94 Walter Brient [Lot No 74] Volume 28 Page 104 [Condition of Settlements 1770] [Masonia Papers Volume 7 Page 74 An Inventory of the Familys Houses improved Ground & Fell Trees in the Township of New Durham Vizt Nil: Frost, Johnson, Bryant, Lot 23 ... Lot 94 No men settled No family 4 acres improved ground 4 acres of fell trees Volume 28 Page 106 [Another Report of Settlements April 1770] [Masonia Papers Volume 7 Page 75] An Inventory of the Improvements made In N Durham ... Lot 94 No houses No land improved 2 1/2 acres cleared 2 acres fell trees ... Lot 23 1 house burnt 4 acres of land improved No acres of land cleared No acres of fell trees Volume 28 Page 108 [Account of Several Lots] [Masonian Papers Volume 7 Page 76] ... No 23 A House has been built And Burnt and more than three Acres on Said Lot has been Improved for mowing & Planting ... No 94 Three Acres fell Trees & Mostly Clear'd Up Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the State of New Hampshire By New England Historical Publishing Company p 292 Nicholas Frost, who was a native of Tiverton, a town located not far from the city of Exeter, Devonshire, England, came to this country as a sailor, and in 1707 settled at Portsmouth, NH. Subsequently he reoved to Sturgeon Creek (now Eliot), Maine, where he became an influential citizen. He m1 Dorothy Mendum, d Jonathan Mendum s Robert Mendum r Duxbury, who was born in 1604 and settle on Spruce Creek near Governor Williamson, where he served as Constable in 1652 and Selectman in 1673, and where he died in 1682. Both he and his wife Dorothy were baptized 19 September 1708. She died not earlier than June 1713; and he m2 1714 Sarah Huntress. At his death in 1718, he left two children by his first wife, of whom Nathaniel was the eldest. Nathaniel Frost was born in Kittery, or Portsmouth, in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was a carpenter and farmer, and spent his entire life in New Hampshire. In 1733 or 1734 he was a resident of Dover, and in 1737 was living at Durham. In November 1739 he and his wife Elizabeth conveyed to his brother John Frost shipwright of Portsmouth, his interest in the house and land "bot of his father" at Portsmouth. In 1765 his name appears on the petition for the division of the town of Durham and the creation of the parish of Lee in the western section. Winthrop, the youngest of a family of three children, was born in Lee, NH in 1753, and died in that town in July 1810. New Hampshire Wills and Probate Early Deeds and Probate [2247/5641] Begin Nathaniel 12 September 1733 Nicholas Frost r Dover to Nathaniel Frost r Dover land in Dover Volume 21 Page 362 [2248/] 15 July 1734 Nathaniel Frost r Durham formerly of Dover to Samuel Chesley land in Dover Volume 21 Page 167 [2249/] 10 November 1737 Thomas Darling ("father" V 27 P 272) & Sarah Darling (wife) r Durham to Nathaniel Frost & John Frost both r Portsmouth house and land in Portsmouth bought of Jonathan Stutely "& is the House & Land now under occupyed by Richd Hilton Esqr" Volume 23 Page 39 [2250/] 18 November 1737 Nathaniel Frost & John Frost both r Portsmouth to Henry Sherburn house and land in Portsmouth "Being now in the Tenure & Occupation of Rich Hilton & others" Volume 23 Page 53 [2251/] 2 November 1739 Nathaniel Frost & Elizabeth (wife) Frost r Durham to John Frost brother r Portsmouth 1/2 land and house in Portsmouth which said Nath & John bough of "their father" Thomas Darling 10 November 1737 Volume 24 Page 271 [2252/] 30 October 1753 Nathaniel Frost & John Johnson both r Durham to Ebenezer Smith r Durham land in New Durham Volume 29 Page 301 New Hampshire State Papers New Durham Volume 12 Page 701 Volume 28 Page 97 [Names of Chesley's Associates 1749] [Masonian Papers Volume 7 Page 72] Province of New Hampshire To the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esqur and other Gentlemen Purchasers and Proprietors of John Tufton mason Esqur his Right in Lands in said Province a List of the Subscribers to the Petition for a Tract of land above Rochester, to the abovesaid Proprietors, preferred by the hands of Capt Jonathan Chesley & mr Ebenezer Smith vizt- Durham April 11th 1749 ... Walter Bryent ... John Jonson nathaniel frost Borth 1 shire ... [The names are then repeated and numbered from 1 to 80. Ed] Volume 28 Page 98 [Charter of New Durham 1749] [Masonian Proprietors' Records 5 May 1849] Province of New Hampshire Portsmouth May the 5th 1749 Fryday three of the Clock afternoon at the Dwelling house of Sarah Prust widow The Proprietors meet according to adjournment Voted that there be & hereby is Granted unto... Walter Bryant... John Jonson & Nathl Frost both one Share ... all in Said Province of New Hampshire in Equal Shares Excepting as Aforesaid and as Hereafter is herein Excepted on the Terms Conditions & Limitations herein After Expressed all that tract of Land within the Province Aforesaid Containing the Quantity of Six Miles Sqaure Bounded as follows... [described] [terms] ...[etc] Volume 28 Page 102 [Draft of Lots 1750] [Masonian Paper Volume 7 Page 73 and Proprietors' Records Volume 6 Page 228 and Volume 7 Page 61 Province of New Hampshire Portsouth May the 2d 1750 At a Proprietors meeting held at the House of Ann Slayton The Draft of the shares or Lots of the Township granted to Jona Chesly Ebenr Smith & others ... 19 John Johnson & Nathaniel Frost [Lot No] 23 ... 94 Walter Brient [Lot No 74] Volume 28 Page 104 [Condition of Settlements 1770] [Masonia Papers Volume 7 Page 74 An Inventory of the Familys Houses improved Ground & Fell Trees in the Township of New Durham Vizt Nil: Frost, Johnson, Bryant, Lot 23 ... Lot 94 No men settled No family 4 acres improved ground 4 acres of fell trees Volume 28 Page 106 [Another Report of Settlements April 1770] [Masonia Papers Volume 7 Page 75] An Inventory of the Improvements made In N Durham ... Lot 94 No houses No land improved 2 1/2 acres cleared 2 acres fell trees ... Lot 23 1 house burnt 4 acres of land improved No acres of land cleared No acres of fell trees Volume 28 Page 108 [Account of Several Lots] [Masonian Papers Volume 7 Page 76] ... No 23 A House has been built And Burnt and more than three Acres on Said Lot has been Improved for mowing & Planting ... No 94 Three Acres fell Trees & Mostly Clear'd Up New Durham Original Right of John Johnson and Nathaniel Frost Strafford County Registry of Deeds Volume 3 Page 208 Josiah Johnson yeoman Middleton Ebenezer Bickford Junior husbandman New Durham 50 pounds 65 acres in New Durham in the Second Division in the third range From the Gore so called Being 1 half of the right originally Drawn to John Johnson, Nathaniel Frost, Number Twenty three 29 October 1778 Josiah Johnson Wit: Joseph Roberts, Ephraim Roberts rcd 7 December 1778 Strafford County Registry Books Index [209/645] 26 July 1782 Nathaniel Frost et als to Samuel Willey New Durham Tax Deed 4 251 13 May 1787 Nathaniel Frost to Benjamin Willey Lolt #23 Division 2 Range 3 New Durham Deed 8 264 20 June 1812 Nathaniel Frost et als to Moses Canney Chatham Tax Deed 70 416 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/218966?availability=Family%20History%20Library Strafford County (N.H.) land records, 1773-1901 Authors: Strafford County (New Hampshire). Register of Deeds v. 69-70 1811-1812 Family History Library United States & Canada Film 16405 8128863 https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008128863?cat=218966 Volume 70 Page 416 [511/580 Joshua Heath Esq collector of taxes of and for the proprietors of the township of Chatham for 1798-1799 Moses Canney Esq Madbury $78 land in Chatham the whole of the original right of John Burley Jur No - the whole of the original rght of John Johnson No - the whole of the original right of Jeremiah Folsom Junr No - the whole of the original right of John Bennett Junr No - 1/3 of the whole of the original right of Ichabod Hilton No - 2/3 of the whole of the original right of Nathaniel Frost about 160 acres granted to the said Canney ...being the highest bidder ... 9 July 1800 Joshua Heath Collector Wit: Leavett Hill, Giles Richards