James Frye

James Frye (born in Andover, Massachusetts, on 24 January 1710; died in Andover, Massachusetts on 8 January 1776) was a colonial soldier at the onset of the American Revolutionary War. He is buried at Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts.

He filled several local offices and served at the capture of Louisburg in 1745.

He was the colonel in command of the Essex County regiment (known as Frye's Regiment) at the beginning of the American Revolution. He was in command of the regiment when it became part of the Army of Observation in May 1775 and was wounded the battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June of the same year.

He afterward commanded the 6th Brigade of the Continental Army during the Siege of Boston.

He was discharged, along with his regiment, on December 31, 1775.

References

• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Frye, James" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
• FRYE James, s. James and Johanna, Jan. 24, 1710-11 https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Bradford/aBirthsF.shtml ".
• FRYE James, and Elizabeth Osgood, Nov. 28, 1734 https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Andover/aMarriagesF.shtml
• FRYE James, Col., "while in the Continental Service," Jan. 8, 1776, a. 66 y. GR1 https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Andover/aDeathsF.shtml
• Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCKS-9X4 : 4 December 2014), James Frye, 24 Jan 1710; citing BRADFORD,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0599732 IT 1.
• William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. (New York: A.M., Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908.) Vol. I. Entry for Col. James Frye, Record #IV, Pg. 196. Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts; Col. James Frye, Pg. 196
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-11-09), "Record of James Frye", Ancestor # A043050.
• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 6, p. 136
• The Massachusetts Magazine (Salem, Mass., 1908-1918); Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 187, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 246 Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013).