English-born American adventurer, professor, real estate investor and local official
Joshua Fry
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing Albemarle County
In office February 1746 – 1754
Serving with Charles Lynch, Allen Howard
Preceded by
n/a
Succeeded by
Peter Jefferson
Personal details
Born
1699 Crewkerne, Somerset,
Died
1754 Fort Cumberland, Colony of Maryland, British America
Spouse
Mary Micou
Relatives
John Fry (son)
Alma mater
Oxford University
Profession
Surveyor, professor, planter, politician
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.[1][2]
^Cassandra Britt Farrell, Fry, Joshua (ca. 1700–31 May 1754) available at http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Fry_Joshua_ca_1700-May_31_1754
^Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Fry, Joshua" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. which in turn cites his life by Philip Slaughter (New York, 1880).
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