Person:Joshua Fry (2)
Col. Joshua Fry
b.13 May 1700 Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England
d.31 May 1754 died in battle at Patterson Creek, Fort Cumberland, Maryland
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  • H.  Col. Joshua Fry1700 - 1754
  • W.  Mary Micou1700 - 1772
m. Abt 1732/33
  1. Elizabeth Martha FryAbt 1733 -
  2. Col. John Fry1737 - 1778
  3. Henry Fry1738 - 1823
  4. Martha Fry1740 -
  5. William Fry1743 -
  6. Margaret Fry1744 -
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Name Col. Joshua Fry
Gender Male
Birth[1] 13 May 1700 Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England
Marriage Abt 1732/33 Virginiato Mary Micou
Death[1] 31 May 1754 died in battle at Patterson Creek, Fort Cumberland, Maryland
Burial[1] 1754 Rose Hill Cemetery, Wills Creek, Cumberland County, Maryland
Reference Number? Q6289828?


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Colonel Joshua Fry (1699–1754) was an English-born American adventurer who became a professor, then real estate investor and local official in the colony of Virginia. Although he served several terms in the House of Burgesses, he may be best known as a surveyor and cartographer who collaborated with Peter Jefferson, the father of future U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. After Fry’s death on a military expedition, George Washington became commanding officer of the Virginia Regiment, a key unit in what became the French and Indian War.


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Record in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

  • Vol. 2 - [Excerpt] - In 1753 encouragements were held out by the Royal Government to settlers on western waters. Washington, on his return from Venango in December, 1753, or January, 1754, met many families crossing the Alleghenies. The Legislature, which was prorogued 14th February, 1754, appropriated f10,000 for encouragement and protection of western settlers. On 19th February, 1754, Dinwiddie issued a proclamation promising a land bounty to volunteer in the service and assist to expel French and Indians and help erect a fort at Forks of Monongalia. A regiment under Col. Joshua Fry was immediately raised and marched from Alexandria, about middle or latter end of March, 1754. Fry died at Patterson's Creek, and command devolved on Col. Washington, who had been defeated at Great Meadows on 17th April, 1754, having been dispatched from Williamsburg to Fort Cumberland in February, 1754, and having taken command of one Company from New York and one from South Carolina, as well as some Virginia Companies which had been previously raised and stationed upon frontier, from whence Washington rushed into the western country, meets and defeats a certain Jumonville, one of the enemy only escaping. Washington finds that the French were turning out of Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg) too strong for him to withstand, retreats to Great Meadows, is attacked and compelled to surrender to De Villiere, but marches out of his little fortification with honors of war and returns to Wills Creek, viz: Fort Cumberland. At this surrender Lieutenants Stobo and Van Braam were surrendered to that officer as hostages. Within a year the First Virginia Regiment was disbanded, though raised again, or another in its stead, and that one or two other regiments were also raised in Virginia, prior to reduction of Fort Duquesne, for that was not evacuated by French until November, 1758...
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Find A Grave.

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77689781

  2.   http://static-71-126-182-50.washdc.fios.verizon.net/Marker.asp?Marker=54023
  3.   Colonel Joshua Fry (1699-1754) was a surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, soldier, and member of the House of Burgesses, the legislature of the colony of Virginia. Born in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England, he moved to Essex County, Virginia as a young man to marry the wealthy widow Mary Micou Hill, who bore him five children who grew to adulthood, viz., John, Henry, Martha, William, and Margaret. He was educated at Oxford, and after his arrival from England was made professor of mathematics at William and Mary College. He was afterward a member of the House of Burgesses, and served on the commission appointed to determine the Virginia and North Carolina boundary-line. In 1743-1744 Fry and his family moved to what is now Albemarle County, Virginia to claim unclaimed plots of land and take advantage of surveying opportunities. There he built a house called Viewmont that sat on a plantation bordering the Hardware River. He was a colonel of militia and a member of the governor's council in 1750, and in 1752 was a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Logtown. Fry, along with fellow member of the Loyal Land Company, Peter Jefferson, created the famous Maryland-Virginia Fry-Jefferson Map in 1752. In the early days of the French and Indian War, Fry was given command of the Virginia Regiment and ordered to take Fort Duquesne then held by the French. During the advance into the Ohio Country, Fry suddenly fell off his horse and died from his injuries on May 31, 1754 at Fort Cumberland, Maryland. George Washington succeeded him in command of the regiment. Fry is buried somewhere in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Cumberland, Maryland.

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