• General Notes

  Benjamin Fry, while living in Frederick County, Virginia, enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, March 3, 1777 for three years. He served as Sergeant in Captain John Mark's Company, 14th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis.
  
  He was wounded in the Battle of Brandywine September 11, 1777, while serving as Sergeant under General George Washington, and was sent home on furlough (U.S. War Department record). He later rejoined his regiment and Colonel Lewis when ordered to join the Army of the South in Georgia. Benjamin was with Troop C under Count Pulaski at the Seige of Savannah. (Knight's "Georgia Roster of the Revolution").
  
  After the Revolutionary War Benjamin returned to Frederick County, Virginia, where he married Mary Ann Jameson. Shortly afterward he moved to Wilkes County, Georgia. In a 1790 Tax Digest, Captain Elsberry's District of Wilkes County, Benjamin is listed as owning 283 acres of land in Wilkes County and 250 acres in adjoining Franklin County.
  
  In 1792 Benjamin Fry sold land in Franklin County, Georgia, signed by Benjamin and wife Mary Fry.
  
  Record taken from Wilkes County Deed Book kk p. 16: "Benjamin Fry, late soldier in the 14th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis appoints Francis Baldwin to receive my pay due me as a soldier afore-said and my land also from the United States or the State of Virginia. June 20, 1793. J.S. Smith, Judith Jordan, Test." (This proves Benjamin to be the same person as shown on the War Department record.)
  
  Oglethorpe County Deed Book D p. 57: June 1, 1799, between Benjamin Fry and his wife Mary to Daniel Holderfield, wherby the said Benjamin Fry and his wife Mary sell 105 acres of land on waters of Macke Creek for $500. Witnesses: George Dogget, Isaac Eason, Thomas Duke.
  
  Wilkes County Deed Book ZZ p. 19: December 21, 1802, Benjamin Fry of Wilkes County, Georgia to William McLaughlin of the county of Oglethorpe state of Georgia for the consideration of $400 all that tract of land in Wilkes County containing 200 acres on the water of Long Creek. Witnesses: Pit Nuluer, John Moore, Om. Brookes. (This proves Benjamin was still living in Wilkes County when his son Benjamin was born 9/15/1800.)
  
  Early in 1803, Benjamin Fry and his family joined the many Georgians who were going westward seeking new homes. He and his family settled in old Randolph County, Georgia, which in 1808 became Jasper County.
  
  The U.S. Government granted Benjamin a pension beginning September 1810 because of a wound received while he was in Service. This would was doubtless received at the Battle of Brandywine. The last pension paid him covered that period from September 4, 1822 to March 4, 1823. On March 15, 1823 Benjamin Fry certified that three months previously he had moved to Henry County from Jasper County, Georgia. He died in Henry County September, 1823 (War Department Record).
  
  Date of death of Mary Ann (Jameson) Fry is not known, but it was between 1820 and 1830. Family tradition places her death about a year before her husband's - that is, about 1822. 1820 U.S. Census, Jasper County, shows she and her husband living with their son Benjamin Fry, Jr. in Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia. The 1830 census does not show her in the the household of Benjamin, Jr.
  

Details of Benjamin's family with Mary Ann Jamison