Ch. 39 Summary & Notes

[Dave Monroe]

Maybe I can be of assistance ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> 395.35 "Professor Fry" ?

"'Twas Colonel Byrd that began it,-- Pa, with
Professor Fry, continu'd it.  My guess is, the
Professor did most of the Mathematickal Work,--'
(M&D, Ch. 39, pp. 395-6)

Joshua Fry (1699/1700-1754)

Fry, Joshua and Peter Jefferson.
   "A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia,
   Containing The Whole Province of Maryland, With
   Part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North
   Carolina."  Rept.  Ashford, Kent, UK: Headley
   Brothers, Ltd., n.d.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/images/vc1.jpg

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/images/map-NGmap.html

"Joshua Fry (1700-1754) was born in England, studied
at Oxford, and was a professor of mathematics at
William and Mary College. Around 1740 he settled on
the Hardware River south of Charlottesville and became
a planter. When Albemarle County was formed in 1744,
he was appointed a county justice along with Peter
Jefferson. He also served as presiding magistrate,
county lieutenant, and county surveyor. Because of his
surveying experience, he was appointed a Crown
Commissioner to establish the boundaries of the
'Northern Neck,' a proprietary grant of over five
million acres. Fry’s recommendation that his friend
Peter Jefferson be appointed a surveyor for this
project was accepted and the completed survey was
approved by the Council of State in 1747. As a result
of this success, in 1749 Fry and Peter Jefferson were
appointed Virginia Commissioners to extend the
boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina
further westward. In 1751 Fry and Jefferson produced
their new map of Virginia. Three years later Fry,
while serving as Virginia’s top colonial military
leader, died of injuries he received in a fall from
his horse. Fry left his surveying instruments to Peter
Jefferson in his will."

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/ch3-18.html

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/ch3.html

"Fry, Joshua (1699-1754) of Albemarle County, Va.
Father of John Fry and Henry Fry. Born in Crewkerne,
Somerset, England, 1699. Member of Virginia House of
Burgesses. Surveyor and co-author with Peter Jefferson
(Thomas Jefferson's father) of a famous early map
titled 'Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia,
containing the whole province of Maryland with Part of
Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina.' Upon his
death, the young George Washington took command of
Virginia's military forces. Died, of injuries received
in a fall from his horse, near Cumberland, Allegany
County, Md., May 31, 1754."

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fry.html

"Thomas Jefferson refers to his father, Peter, and
Joshua Fry in his autobiography: 'My father's
education had been quite neglected; but being of a
strong mind, sound judgment and eager after
information, he read much and improved himself
insomuch that he was chosen with Joshua Fry, professor
of Mathem. in W. & M. college, to continue the
boundary line between Virginia & N. Caroline which had
been begun by Colo Byrd, and was afterwards employed
with the same Mr. Fry to make the 1st map of Virginia
which had ever been made, that of Capt Smith being
merely a conjectural sketch. They possessed excellent
materials for so much of the country as is below the
blue ridge; little being then known beyond that
ridge.'

"Fry left his surveying instruments to Peter Jefferson
in his will. Peter left his to his son Thomas
Jefferson.

"Cartography enabled Virginia's gentry to identify
resources and control their access. A knowledge of
surveying gave them inside information on choice new
lands. George Washington chose surveying as a career.
When laying off the bounty lands received for services
in the French and Indian War, he reserved the best
land for himself.

"The extent and location of some lands required
members of the Virginia gentry to translate their
surveying skills into mapping skills. Skilled
surveyors such as Joshua Fry, Peter Jefferson, and
Thomas Walker, who were also prominent members of the
Loyal Company, were asked to map land patents,
frontier territories, and Virginia's boundaries."

http://wolves.dsc.k12.ar.us/cyberace/sbgone/gen/fam1/fry/joshuabio.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5148/jefferson_f_01.html

And see as well, e.g. ...

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/sb/exhibits/mapping/empire/

http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/l&c_precursors.html

http://www.surveyhistory.org/peter_jefferson.htm

And then there's ...

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