Person:William Frye (7)

Fry, William, "burried" Oct. 26, 1642.

William Frye granted 12 acres in Weymouth in 1636, buried 26 Oct 1642, m. Elizabeth Humphrey. Nuncupative will sworn to 26 Oct 1643 [NEHGR, p. 2:385 says "9^o of the 9^o mo. 1643", i.e., 9 Nov 1643], names two daughters Elizabeth and Mary; wife; Thomas Harris, Thomas Rawlens & John Meggs his three sisters youngest children. Suffolk Deed 20:456, 15 May 1672: Thomas Pearce of Dorchester and Mary his wife and Nathan Fiske of Watertown and Elizabeth his wife sell Samuel White of Weymouth lands "recorded on Weymouth Towne book to William Fry, deceased, the reputed father of the abovesaid Mary and Elizabeth".

link This may be to witnes & giue testimony, vnder the hands of those whom haue herevnto subscribed their names that Wm ffry of Waymouth who dyed the 26 of october, 1642, being sicke & weake in body. To his wife after his decease his house & foure acres of land being his home lot, & after her decease to his two daughters, Elizabeth & Mary. To his two daus. 2 acres of mead & sixe acres of land lying by the mill, also to each of them a Goate. To Thomas Harris, Thomas Rawlens & John Meggs his three sisters youngest children, each of them a kid. The rest of estate to wife
Thomas Bailey
John Burge
deposed by the above named before the court the 9 of the 9 mo. 1643

p 9 William Fry ( - 1642) of Weymouth, MA. William Fry and his sisters Thomasine (wife of John Meigs), Mary (wife of Walter Harris) and Hannah (wife of Thomas Rawlins) have been called children of William Fry and Sarah Hill, brother of William Hill of Lyme Regis, Dorset and Fairfield, CT. This is disproven by the will of William Fry, proved 25 Feb 1625/6 (PCC HELE 20). The parents of the above children of Axminster, Devon are not known.

p 39 Recap of above plus possibly from Axminster, Devon (5 mi N of Lyme Regis). Walter Harris and Mary Fry lived in Honiton, Devon (1621-1636).

p 44 Walter Harris documents the bp of seven children in Honiton, Devon between 1621-1636 and recaps the four Fry siblings.

p 58 Vincent Miegs 1583 - 1658 suggested son of Lawrence Meggs and Anne Wood of Bradford Peverell, Dorset, wife Em ___, children bp in Chardstock, Devon (3 mi. S of Chard): Mary bp 16 Apr 1610, John bp 29 Jan 1612/13 (m Thomasine Fry), Marke bp 25 Aug 1616 (m Avis), Vincent. Brother John of Axminster, Devon will 1632 overseers Vincent Maggs and Thomas Loring, probably the Thomas Loring of Hingham, MA and Axminster in 1634.

p 67 William Rawlins of Weymouth m in England Hannah Fry came about 1633 with two sister Mary Fry and Walter Harris and Tamizine Fry and John Meigs and brother William Fry. So Thomas Fry.

p 137 English Origins of Vincent Meggs (or Meigs) (d. 1658) of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven and Guilford, Conn. by Douglas Richardson. Recap of above citation to TAG 53:92 Vincent Meggs and Thomas Loring witteses to will of John Meggs of Axminster. he found the will probated in 1614 in PCC of William Wyatt of Westwater, Devon (tything of Axminster) dated 9 Feb 1613/4 probated 27 May 1614 (Ref 40 Lawe) naming godchild Thomas ffrye. The Bishop's Transcripts of Chardstock, Dorset included bps for the children of Vincent Meggs. Also rec's for George Fry m to Ralina Dabinot (Jane Dabinot m Thomas Newberry of Windsor).