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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eliot , John , 1754 -1690 (search)
Fry, Joshua 1754-1754
Military officer; born in Somersetshire, England; educated at Oxford, and was professor of mathematics in the College of William and Mary, in Virginia.
He served in public civil life in Virginia, and in 1754 was intrusted with the command of an expedition against the French on the head-waters of the Ohio.
He died at a place at the mouth of Will's Creek (now Cumberland), Md., while conducting the expedition, May 31, 1754.
He had been colonel of the militia (1750) and a member of the governor's council.
When Frye died, the command of the expedition to the Ohio was assumed by George Washington, who had been second in command.