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Frye Genealogy Author: Ellen Frye Barker Call Number: CS71.f947 ADRIAN OF KITTERY About 1620 in that part called Kittery Point, of Kingsweare, England, the town on the river Dart, directly opposite Darts, mouth, lived a merchant, Mr. Alexander Shapliegh, who sent ships with merchandise to Lisbon, to Newfoundland, and later on to New England. In 1635, his son-in-law bought for him a large tract of land in the province of Maine, extending half way from Piscataqua (Portsmouth, N. II.) to the Agamenticus river (York, Me.). This tract of land was named Kittery Point, in memory of the old home in England and conveyed before 1650 to Nicholas, third son of Alexander Shapliegh. With the name of Nicholas Shapliegh that of Adrian Fry appears often on the Kittery, Me., records. He was a Quaker and married Sarah, dau. of John White. His mark with that of his wife often appeared on legal papers from 1664 to 1692. He witnessed a deed in 12-7-1663, was a witness at Court in 1667, and had a grant of 100 acres in 1669. In 1664 he witnessed a receipt for a "Negro Boy named Mingoe, and a Sorrell Horse." Adrian lived just south of Sturgeon Creek in 1674 and the place was called "Frye's Point" in a deed in 1713. In 7-15-1690, "At a Court of Sessions held in York, Adrian Fry & Family were P'sented for not Comeing to Mitting." During all this period he appears on the records as a grantor and grantee of various tracts of land. On 10-12-1692, Adrian Fry executed the following quaint paper: "Know all men by these presents, that 1, Adrian ffry of Kittery in ye County of York and Province of ye Mass. Bay in New England, planter, for many good Causes and Considerations me moving hereunto, Especially for the Naturall love and affection I bear unto my loving son William ffry as also for ye Comfortable provision for myself and my wife Sarah during our Naturall lives, have granted, Demised and do farm letten unto my foresaid loving son William ffry a certain tract of land lying in Kittery afores'd Joying to Creek's mouth on ye south side of s'd Creck, containing about nine acres be it more or less with ye Orchard upon it And twenty-Seven Acres more of land lying on and near horsidown hill bounded on ye East with Major ffrosts, land and Commons on ye South with John Morrells land and Commons, on ye North with a high way, To have and to hold all and Singular ye above Demised and granted Premisses with all ye Appurtenances thereunto belonging unto him ye said William ffry his heires and Assignes during ye whole Terme of ye Naturall lives of ye afores'd Adrian ffry and Sarah his wife, his s'd father and Mother upon ye rent hereafter expressed And after ye s'd Adrian and Sarah his wife To have and to hold all and Singular ye above granted Premisses with all the appurtenances and c / to him ye s'd William ffry and his heires forever in ffee simple without rent or other Incumbrances whatsoever and ye s'd Williams rent for ye fores'd lands during ye lives of his s'd father and Mother shall Maintain good fences and make good improvement of ye s'd lands and shall pay unto his s'd father the one halfe of whatsoever grain shall grow upon ye land at Sturgeon Creek mouth, together with the one half of the Cyder and Perry that ye Orchard shall yield / And allow unto his said father ye use of one Acre of land yearly during ye lives of both father and Mother of that land that lies next ye great river, and in case ye Mother shall out live the father he is to pay the same rent, to her / And for ye land at horsidown hill afores'd the s'd William shall allow his s'd father and Mother or longest liver of them the free use of the now dwelling house And a quarter of an Acre of land for a garden with liberties to cult and carry off such firewood or building timber as they shall have occation for their own use and when their abilities shall fail and need be, s'd William shall help his s'd father and Mother or either of them in cutting and carrying s'd timber or firewood and to pay his s'd father or either of them during their lives yearly one third part of what-so-ever grain ye s'd land shall yield he well fencing and improving s'd land / And s'd William shall receive two Cowes with their increase of calves shall amount to ye number of Six and then his father or Mother and he shall divide the increase between them in halves, in ye mean time his s'd father and Mother or either of them, to have all ye milk of ye s'd two Cowes And after ye first division made the said William shall carefully keep four meat Cattle for his s'd father or Mother durcing their lives as aboves'd with sufficient winter meat Always allowing his s'd father or mother to take ye Milk of two Cows if there be so many, And when ye four meat Cattle afores'd shall amount in their Increases unto ye number of Six, then s'd increase to be divided in halves as afores'd and so to continue from year to year so long as said father or Mother shall live And further if s'd father or Mother shall procure any sheep, he s'd William shall take and keep them winter and Summer for ye one half of ye increase of the lambs and wooll And s'd William is never to keep above ye number of ten for his s'd father or Mother both of Stock and increase and if any difference or controversie shall arise between the parties to these present it shall be determined by Indifferent men Mutually Chosen by both partys And for confirmation of the Premisses both part'es to those presents have Interchangeably set to their hands and Seales to these presents and an other of the same tenour / October 12 th, Anno Dom 1692 the word William in the Margent entered before Signing and Sealing hereof Adrian ffry his seal Signed Sealed and delivered his A mark in the presents of us Sarah ffry her seal her S.F. mark Robert Allen John Wincoll Robert Allen appeared before me and made oath that he saw Adrian ffry Sign and Seal ye abovesaid Instrum't to which he set his hand as witness, and Capt. Wincoll set his hand to as a witness at ye same time / September 16 th. 1695 Charles ffrost Justice peace a true Copie of ye originall Transcribed and Compared, March 12 th. 1700 p Jos Hammond Register. After this we find no further record of Adrian and he probably died soon after. The son William was made administrator of his mother's estate 11-22-1709. Issue, born in Kittery, Me.: 2 William, b. ; d. 3 Sarah, b. ; d. m. , 1695, Nicholas Morrell. 4 Joanna, b. ; d. m. , 1700, Thos. Mazect. 5 Elizabeth, b. ; d. m. 3-3-1701, James Thompson. 6 Joseph, b. , 1680; d. 7 Adrian, b. ; d. OLD KITTERY & HER FAMILIES Witnessed a deed in 1663, was a witness at Court in 1667, had a grant of 100 acres in 1669 and living just South of Sturgeon Creek in 1674. The place was called "Frye's Point" in a deed in 1713. He married Sarah (dau. of John White?). In 1692 they deeded land to son William for maintenance the rest of their lives. William was made administrator of his mother's estate 22 Nov. 1709. Adrian had probably died some time before. RE: OLD KITTERY & HER FAMILIES John White, 1604-9, was in Kittery as early as 1640. Had wife Lucy in 1670. Their daughter Hannah married Robert Allen. William Frye calls Francis Allen his "cousin." See York Deeds, VII. 107. This usually means nephew, but in this case I can only explain it as meaning cousin in the recent sense of that word, and this could be only by the assumption that Adrian Frye married Sarah, daughter of John White. Facts seem to indicate that William Thompson married another daughter of John White. Old Kittery and Her Families The lot next north was owned by Nicholas Frost, Jr., and passed from his heirs to Jabez Jenkins in 1696. North of this lot and reaching to the mouth of Sturgeon Creek was the old Frye homestead, where Adrian Frye was living, probably as early as 1663, the date when he is first mentioned as witness to a deed. His son, William, inherited the place, and sold ten acres of it, the point lying between the river and Sturgeon Creek, to Philip Pike, 4 April 1713. It was "commonly called Frys Point," and there was reserved "a burying Place of three Rod Long & Two Rod Wide fronting on Dover River."
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