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FROM: HERITAGE OF DEKALB COUNTY ORIGINALLY SUBMITTED BY: PAM WERSTLER
JAMES ASA FRICKS & MARANDA ELIZABETH
JAMES ASA FRICKS
Before Columbus sailed to America, Heinrich Fricker Frick farmed the fertile soil around Kappel on the Albis in Switzerland. Heinrich Frick first appeared on tax documents in that Swiss area in 1455. The Fricks, of German descent, were believed to have moved from the Palatinate area of Germany to Switzerland where they could practice their Protestant religion without interference from the government.
Seven generations after Heinrich Frick, three of his descendants arrived in Philadelphia on December 11, 1739. Rudolf, Johannes and Casper Frick were administered the oath of allegiance on arrival, thus becoming British citizens. Casper died soon after arrival, but Rudolf and Johannes settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the township of Milford. Rudolf Frick (born September 15, 1709 in Switzerland—died after 1769 in either Pennsylvania or North Carolina. Rudolf married around 1749 in Pennsylvania to Veronica_______.
Rudolf and Veronica’s children included Henry (1750), Jacob (1751), Mathias (1760) and Anna. Jacob Frick was born in Pennsylvania and died in Illinois in 1839. He was a carpenter and a farmer. He is the only known member of the Frick line to serve in the American Revolution. He enlisted in North Carolina.
