Elizabeth Parcell of Essex County, NJ and Frostbug MD

[Mary Ann Hunt]

My ancestor Elizabeth Parcell(sp?)  was probably born in Essex County, NJ bet. 1745-1748.  She married Josiah Frost on 1 Mar 1768 in New Providence, Essex County, NJ.  They later  settled in Loudin County, VA for a couple of years and eventually settled in western MD around Mt. Savage in what is now called Frostburg, MD. One of their sons is recognized as the actual founder of Frostburg.  I believe her parents to be Nicholas Parcell, b. abt 1720, d. abt 1767 in NJ and a Rachel Westcott or Rachel Swain, having found info to make either of these women a likely candidate for being her mother.  Nicholas' parents were Thomas Parcell, b abt 1701, d. abt 1769 in NY and Acey/Arey Remington. He was baptized in the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church 26 Jan 1701.  As you can see I have bits and pieces of information on this lineage.  My question is...is anyone working on this line who has definitive information about the linkage?  My most perplexing problem has been that I have never been able to tie my known ancestor Elizabeth to these parents and grandparents.  It seems that most everything I have found is prefaced by "it assumed" or "according to information found in the NY Public Library" but I have never seen actual proof.  If any of you can offer guidance I would greatly appreciate the help.  The supposed lineage above does go back further into New Amsterdam and possibly to England but proof has been hard to find.  The Oct 1984 of the Purcell Journal touches on this line and I do have the information that was included in it but it mostly comes forward from Josiah and Elizabeth rather than back in time.

[Benjamin Christensen]

Mary Ann,

There are a few notes and at least one source listed on the FamilySearch.org record for this person, here: https://familysearch.org/tree/person/LDDJ-H4M/details. Not sure if those will help, but worth looking if you haven't tried that angle!

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:22 PM Mary Ann Hunt <hun...@gmail.com> wrote:

My ancestor Elizabeth Parcell(sp?)  was probably born in Essex County, NJ bet. 1745-1748.  She married Josiah Frost on 1 Mar 1768 in New Providence, Essex County, NJ.  They later  settled in Loudin County, VA for a couple of years and eventually settled in western MD around Mt. Savage in what is now called Frostburg, MD. One of their sons is recognized as the actual founder of Frostburg.  I believe her parents to be Nicholas Parcell, b. abt 1720, d. abt 1767 in NJ and a Rachel Westcott or Rachel Swain, having found info to make either of these women a likely candidate for being her mother.  Nicholas' parents were Thomas Parcell, b abt 1701, d. abt 1769 in NY and Acey/Arey Remington. He was baptized in the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church 26 Jan 1701.  As you can see I have bits and pieces of information on this lineage.  My question is...is anyone working on this line who has definitive information about the linkage?  My most perplexing problem has been that I have never been able to tie my known ancestor Elizabeth to these parents and grandparents.  It seems that most everything I have found is prefaced by "it assumed" or "according to information found in the NY Public Library" but I have never seen actual proof.  If any of you can offer guidance I would greatly appreciate the help.  The supposed lineage above does go back further into New Amsterdam and possibly to England but proof has been hard to find.  The Oct 1984 of the Purcell Journal touches on this line and I do have the information that was included in it but it mostly comes forward from Josiah and Elizabeth rather than back in time.

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[Phillip O'Shea]

Thanks for answering this lady Benj.  We are leaving Norfolk for an extended vacation into the mid-west on Tuesday so will be pretty much out of contact while on the road.  Just for your information, I will have my laptop with me and will follow all e-mails, but may not respond to them immediately.

Mike

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[Mary Ann Hunt]

Thanks for getting back to me.  I was out of town for about 9 days so I just saw your message this week.  I did check the link you gave me but the tree on family search was full of errors.  It did have a few things right but documentation was sorely lacking.  This is what I run into all the time trying to prove the linkgages in this line.  But I appreciate your taking the time to search for me.  Mary Ann

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[Benjamin Christensen]

Sorry to hear that! Perhaps you can correct the errors there to help other folks :-). These dead ends take a long time to break through!

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