Distributing and updating/correcting the family tree of descendants of Henry Frank, who came to this country from Germany about 1740. I've found that Henry had three brothers and a sister, based on the will of Jacob Frank of Lancaster, PA.Jacob had gone to Bucks County, where Christopher Frank still lived, for the baptism of his sister's grand-son, in the year before his death.He became a godfather, and he remembered his godson in his will.His sister's son was appointed guardian for the godson, and received the bequest on his behalf. I think I've also verified the tradition that Henry's son Lawrence was born in Frankfort in 1749 even though Henry's presence there then had been otherwise unverified, because when living in Pennsylvania in February 1749 he was known as "Canitsocharie Henry Frank" (Canitsocharie/Schoharie is in New York, near present-day Frankfort).
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