Samuel Frye
1649-May 9, 1725
Was a Corporal in the militia in 1692 and a Lieutenant in 1698. Captain in 1708. Selectman, 1692, 1702-3. Town Proprietor before 1681. Was a farmer. A weaver by trade. In Essex Co. papers; "Wee ye subscribers selectmen of Andover ye above sd year, having informed ye Quarter Sessions at Ipswich ye 27th of ye above sd September that there was several children of Saml Wardwells yet was in a suffering condition begging their advice direction & order therein which they were pleased to consider of & order as follows yet ye Selectmen for ye time being should place out or if need require binde out sd children in good & honest families, referring to a law in that case provided. (S. Wardwell had been hung as a witch). Persuant to this order of ye court we have placed them as follows: viz. Samuel Wardwell we placed with John Ballard his uncle for one year, William we placed with Corpl Saml FRIE till he come to be of age of one and twenty years; sd FRIE to learn him ye trade of a weaver. Eliakim we placed to Daniel Poor until he was twenty-one years of age & Elizabeth we placed with John Stevens til eighteen years of age, all ye above sd were to find them with suites of apparel at ye end of sd term of tyme. Saml Frie ) John Aslebe ) Selectmen John Abbot ) In 1718 he built a sawmill and a gristmill. His son later added a fulling mill.
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