http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f105-subject%3DDeFreesez%20family. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f105-subject=DeFreesez family. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5122.xml Anthony DeFreesez, (1788-1873) one of twelve children, was born May 4, 1788 in Rockbridge, Virginia. He died in South Bend, Indiana. His father was Joseph Hutton DeFreesez, (ca. 1753-1826) born in New York, New York, and his mother was Mary Start (ca. 1755-ca. 1829). According to Anthony's family narrative, DeFreesez is French in origin and the family came to New York, then known as New Amsterdam, from Holland. The name may have originally been DeForest and evolved to DeFreesez due to a Dutch pronunciation. Dr. John A. Henricks (1811-ca. 1876), great-great-grandfather of the collection donor, was born August 10, 1811 in Pendleton County, Kentucky. His family soon moved to Champaign County, Ohio. He studied medicine at Urbana with lectures in Cincinnati and then began to practice medicine. He continued to practice medicine until the early 1830s when he moved to the South Bend, Indiana area. He was married to Julia Comparet ca. 1833 and they had two children who both died in infancy. Julia died around this time... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5122.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT