When Nicholas Fredd was born on 2 January 1694, in County Carlow, Ireland, his father, John Fredd, was 34 and his mother, Katharine Starkey, was 30. He married Ann Need in 1720, in Darby Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1753, in New Garden, New Garden Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 59.