Page:Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography volume 1.djvu/274

 240

VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

(secondly) Richard

His widow married Chichester, Esq.

Francis, Thomas, Wv^s a burgess from Up- per Norfolk in the assembly of 1657-1658.

Franklin, "Mr. Ferdinand," was a burgess from James City in the assembly of 1641, and a burgess (county unknown) in the assembly of 1642.

Fry, John, son of Colonel Joshua Fry and his wife, Mary MicDU, was born November 7' ^7Z7- I^£ ^^'^'^ vestryman of St. Anne's psrish, Albemarle county, and burgess for the county from 1761 to 1764, when his seat was vacated by his accepting the office of coroner. He was colonel of the Albemarle militia. He married Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer Adams, of New Kent, by whom he left issue.

Fry, Joshua, son of Joseph Fry, of Crew- kerne, Somersetshire, England, yeoman, was born in 1700; matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, March 31, 1718. He came to Virginia about 1720, was vestryman and magistrate in Essex county. In 1729 he was appointed master of the grammar school at William and Mary College and in 1732 was made professor of natural phil- osophy and mathematics and continued as such till 1737. when he was succeeded by Jr.hn Graeme. fTe removed to Albemarle county, which he represented in the house of burgesses from 1744 to 1754. In 1732 Joshua Fry, Robert Brooke, and William Mayo petitioned the house of burgesses for aid in making a map of the colony of Vir- ginia, but the petition was rejected. He was a justice and surveyor for Albemarle county and in 1745 was appointed county lieuten ant. The same year he acted as commis-

sioner to mark the western line of the north- ern neck, granted to Lord Culpeper. In 1749 Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson com- pleted their map of Virginia, and the same year he was one of the commissioners to continue the line between Virginia and North Carolina, which in 1728 had been run from the Atlantic ocean to Peter's Creek by William Byrd and others. This line was completed to the Tennessee river by Thomas Walker and David Smith, on the part of Virginia as commissioners. In 1752 he was one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of Logstown in the Ohio, by which the "Six Nations" surrend- ered their claim to the territory south of the Ohio river. When the French and In- dian war began, Fry was made colonel of the regiment to defend the Ohio river, and \\^ashington was lieutenant-colonel. Soon after, while on the march, he died at Wills' Creek, May 31, 1754. He married Mary Micon, widow of Colonel Hill, and. daughter of Paul Micou, who was an exile from France to Essex county.

French, Daniel, lived in Culpeper county where he was one of the justices. He was son of Hugh French, of St. Mary's parish, Richmond county, who died about 1701, and father of Margaret French, who married James Strother.

Fulford, "Mr. Francis," was burgess from Henrico in the assembly of 1641.

Gaines, Harry, was burgess for King William county in 1766 and 1767, and major of the militia. He died in July, 1767.

Gaddes (Gadis), John, burgess for James City county in 1 705- 1706.