Ichabod Frost (1751 - 1836)

Born 14 Jul 1751 in Berwick, York, Maine

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Biography

Ichabod Frost was a Mainer.

Ichabod Frost was born on 14 Jul 1751 in Berwick, York County, Maine and his parents were Love (Butler) and William Frost.

Ensign Ichabod Frost served with 13th Massachusetts Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Ichabod Frost is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A042856.

He served in the American Revolution. In 1777 he was a Sergeant in the 13th Massachusetts Regiment, Continental Army. He rose to the rank of Ensign before his discharge on 9 Mar 1779.^[1][2][3] He also served as an Ensign in the 11th Massachusetts.^[4] His pension application is available online at Fold3.com.^[5]

Ichabod Frost was an innholder ^[6]

In 1787, he was recorded as a "Yea" vote in favor of Maine separating from Massachusetts ^[7]

In 1790 he resided in Pownalborough, Lincoln County, Maine. ^[8]

He was cited in the published diary of President John Quincy Adams ...

19 April 1802: Return’d to Boston early this morning

- Charlotte Welsh came to town with me

- Attended in the afternoon at the bankrupt Office

- Private Meeting in the case of Ichabod Frost

- The petitioning creditor had not all his evidence ready, and we adjourn’d the meeting.

- Received a letter from my brother

- And one in the afternoon from Bird, Savage & Bird, on my father’s concerns, which has given me great anxiety and alarm." ^[9]

1805 William Sullivan, Assignee of Ichabod Frost, a Bankrupt, versus Edmund Bridge ^[10]

1809 Commonwealth v. Frost ^[11]

Ichabod Frost died about 1836.

Research Notes

This was a fun focus as part of the June 2023 Sourcerors Challenge. I hope others are able to locate additional sources for Ichabod, there is clearly a lot to learn!

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFF-L9XZ-2?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-R9N%3A1597372301 : 29 August 2019), Connecticut-Virginia, Historical register of officers of the Continental Army > image 237 of 690; citing various published state rosters, United States.
2. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-CS15-C?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM6%3A1588792208 : 24 January 2018), Massachusetts, vol 6, Fracer, Joseph-Gypson, Henry > image 113 of 974; citing various published state rosters, United States.
3. ↑ Service Record of Ichabod Frost
4. ↑ Service Record of Ichabod Frost
5. ↑ Pension Application S.44855
6. ↑ Cyrus Eaton, Annals of the town of Warren; with the early history of St. George's, Broad Bay, and the neighboring settlements on the Waldo patent (Hallowell, Me.: Masters, Smith & Co. 1851)
7. ↑ James Phinney Baxter, ed., Documentary history of the State of Maine, v21&22 (Portland, ME: Fred L. Tower Co. 1916)
8. ↑ 1790 Census of Maine; Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790: Maine [pdf]; (Washington, D. C., Govt. Print Off. 1908)
9. ↑ Diary “19”, April 19, 1802. John Quincy Adams Digital Diary; Massachusetts Historical Society
10. ↑ William Sullivan, Assignee of Ichabod Frost, a Bankrupt, versus Edmund Bridge. Sullivan v. Bridge, #1 Mass. 381 (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court June 1805)
11. ↑ Commonwealth v. Frost, #5 Mass. 53 (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 1809) ...

    The defendant was indicted at the present term for corruptly taking and receiving, on the fourteenth day of October, 1807, of one Ebeneser Clough, more than at the rate of six per cent, per annum, for the loan of 200 dollars for ninety days, contrary to the statute, etc.

• Deed for Ichabod Frost (1751-1836); Gilder Lehrman Collection by Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, July 3, 1799. Gilder Lehrman Collection #GLC02437.07280; ...

- Ichabod and Susanna Frost signed over "a certain piece of Land lying in the Township of Warren, County of Lincoln." The land is likely to have been inherited by Susanna Frost who is now "relinquishing her right of dower."

• Selfridge, Thomas O. (Thomas Oliver), Thomas Lloyd, George Caines, Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court, publisher Russell and Cutler, publisher Belcher & Armstrong, and publisher Oliver & Munroe; ...

Trial of | Thomas O. Selfridge, Counseller at Law

Before the | Hon. Isaac Parker, Esquire ;

for killing Charles Austin, on the Public Exchange, in Boston, August 4th, 1806;

Boston : Published by Russell and Cutler, Belcher and Armstrong, and Oliver and Munroe ; sold by them, by Wm. Blagrove, no. 5, School-Street, and by the principal booksellers throughout the Union ; (retail price one dollar in boards), 1807; ...

p135: "To return from this episode to the question in the cause, I will proceed to inquire whether the fact of T. C). Selfridge's killing young Austin, is proved by the Government. That catastrophe has been clearly made manifest by the testimony of Doctor Danforth, Edward Howe, John Lane, Ichabod Frost, Isaac Warren, and many others. I will not attempt an argument on it."

• SELFRIDGE, Thomas & Oliver. & AUSTIN, Charles & CAINES, George & LLOYD, Thomas. Trial of T. O. Selfridge ... for killing Charles Austin, on the Public Exchange, in Boston, Aug. 4th, 1806. USA: Russell and Cutler, 1806; In list of "Witnesses for the Government" ...

p141: Howe, Frost and others say they did not see any blow struck before the pistol was fired, but perhaps these two witnesses will be sufficient to satisfy your minds that the deadly wound was given before the blow was struck, and there is a distinction in law between an assault and battery. The counsel for the defendant have attempted to disparage the testimony of Mr. Lane, without intending to impeach his moral character.

p142: I come now to the second question whether the killing and the blow were at the same instant of time, and here you have the testimony of a number of witnesses to prove that both happened at the same moment, (the Attorney General here referred fr the testimony, and read several extracts from those of Edward Howe, I. Frost, J. Warren, J. Bailey, Z. French, R. Edwards, H. Bass, and John Erving) which testimonies the reader will find stated as large in pages 36, 50, 51, 53, 54, se, 57, and 59.

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=22699919&pid=745 Ancestry Family Tree submitted by ancestry.com member

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Frost-3512 was created on 06 Aug 2013 by Jane Hanson through the import of Hanson Family Tree.ged . Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jane and others.