SEVENTH GENERATION

100. Frederich BODEY was born on 18 Jan 1756 in Germany. He died in 1818 in Rockingham County, Virginia. He served in the military. Frederich entered the service of the Braunsweig Army from either Gross or Klein Rhueden, Germany. Gross Rhueden is about 20 miles southwest of of Braunschweig, Germany. The people in this area are descended from Saxons. Frederich was one of the 3,964 infantrymen which the Duke of Brunswick hired out to the King of England during the time of the American Revolution for the sum of 160,000 pounds sterling.

On March 15, 1776 when he was about 22 years of age, Frederich was listed as one of the prisoners of war of Lieutenant Colonel von Speth's Company and Major General von Riedesel's Regiment (the same company as his father Henry served). At that time records showed that Frederich was about 6 feet tall (above average for this period, in the service for 3 years, and was 22 years, 4 months old).

The Company had been captured at the Battle of Saratoga in October, 1777. The POW's were marched to Winterhill, Cambridge, Massachusetts and remained until 1778 when they began the march to Charlottesville (Albemarle County, Virginia), arriving there in January, 1779. It was from this last camp that Frederich gained his release by the peace treaties of 1782 and 1783.

The war ended disastrously for England and the two armies rented from Germany were destroyed. After the peace treaties of 1782 and 1783, the survivors were allowed to return to their homeland. Many remained in North America, among them Frederich. The survivors of the two armies are known as "Hessians" and "Brunswickers".

By 1798 Frederich had located in the Shenandoah County of Virginia in Rockingham County. Here he was listed as a member of the Virginia Militia, denoting that he, of his own free will had joined the cause of the Colonists.

Frederich was in the military in the Tenth Legion in Page County, Virginia under Captain Jacob Kiser Company. Page County is part of Rockingham County. Two of Frederich's sons, Lewis and Christian, went to Champaign County. Ohio about 1816 but returned to Virginia when their father became ill. After their father and step-mother died, they returned to Champaign County and took the children of their father's second family with them (around 1821). He was married to DNK UNKNOWN.

101. DNK UNKNOWN died before 1797. Children were:

i. Elizabeth BODEY was born between 1775 and 1794 in Rockingham County, Virginia. She died before Mar 1827 in probably in Champaign County, Ohio.
ii. Lewis BODEY was born on 5 Mar 1783 in Rockingham County, Virginia. He died on 1 Sep 1839 in Champaign County, Ohio. He was buried in Bodey Cemetery, Millerstown, Ohio. Buried in Section 10 of Bodey Cemetery. Grave marker also has been checked in Spring Grove Cemetery which states "Burial site in Johnson Township, Champaign County. Memorial erected on present site in 1977."
50 iii. Christian BODEY.

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