Joshua Fry

Joshua Fry
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing Albemarle County
In office
February 1746 – 1754
Serving with Charles Lynch, Allen Howard
Preceded byn/a
Succeeded byPeter Jefferson
Personal details
Born1699
Crewkerne, Somerset,
Died1754
Fort Cumberland, Colony of Maryland, British America
SpouseMary Micou
RelativesJohn Fry (son)
Alma materOxford University
ProfessionSurveyor, 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]

  1. ^ Cassandra Britt Farrell, Fry, Joshua (ca. 1700–31 May 1754) available at http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Fry_Joshua_ca_1700-May_31_1754
  2. ^ 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).