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Adrian Frye first appears in 1663 at Eliot, ME.1 A Quaker, he married Sarah White, daughter of John White.2,3,4 In 1664, Abraham Conley, Adrian Frye and Elizabeth Conley were witnesses against Thomas Crawley, and in 1675 Abraham Conley was living with Adrian Frye.1 Removed to Portsmouth, NH during the time of Philip's War.1 12 Oct 1692 Adrian and Sarah ffry deeded, "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," their homestead to their son William in exchange for lifetime support, both signing by mark.1,5 Granted administration of his mother's estate, 22 Nov 1709.6,7 "Their poster. were largely Friends."1
"With the name of Nicholas Shapliegh [sic] that of Adrian Fry appears often on the Kittery, Me., records. … 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. 15 Jul 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."4
Torrey and Gen. Dict. Maine and New Hampshire (246) report that Adrian Frye also married Hannah White, daughter of Robert. Elsewhere (748), the latter work reports that Hannah White married Robert Allen, who was a witness to Adrian Frye's 1692 life care agreement.2,8

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About 1620 in that part called Kittery Point, of Kingsweare, Englan, the town on the river Dart, directly opposite Darts, Mouth, lived a merchant , Alexander Shapliegh, who sent ships with merchandise to Lisbon, to Newfondland, 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, extrending half way from Piscataqua (Porsmouth, N. H. ) 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 December 7, 1663, was a witness at court in 1667, and had a grant of 100 acresin 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 July 15, 1690, "At a Court of Sessions held ing Yourk, 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.

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On October 12, 1692, Adrian Fry executed the folloing quaint paper:

"Know all men by these presents, that I, Adrian ffry of Kittery in ye County of Yourk and Province of ye Massachussetts 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 inKittery afores'd Joying to Creek's mouth on ye south side of s'd Creck, containing abut nine acres be it more or less with ye Orchard upon it And twenty-Seven Acres more of land lyingon and near horsidown hill bounded on ye and Commons, on ye North with a high way, to have and to hold all and Singular ye above Demised and granted Premisses witha all ye Apurtenances thereunto belonghing unto him ye said William ffry his heires and Assgnes during ye whole Terme of ye Naturall lives of ye afors'd Adrian ffry and Sarah his wife, his s'd father and Mother upon ye rent hereafter expressed Adn after ye s'd Adrian and Sarah his wife To have and to hold all and Singular ye baove grandted Premisses with all the appurtenances and c/ to him ye s'd William ffry and his heires forever inffee simple without rent or other Incumbrances whatsoever and ye s'd williams rent for ye fores'd lands during ye lives of hiss'd father and Mother shall Maintain good fences and make good improvement of ye s'd lands and shall pay unto hiss'd farther the one halfe of whatsoever grain shall grow upon ye land a Sturgeon Creek mouth, together with the one halfo to the Cyder and Perry that ye Orchard shall yield/ And allow unto his said father ye use fo one Acre of land yearly during ye lives of father and Mother ot 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 pat the same rent, to her/ Andfor 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 thier own use and Mother of either of them in cutting and carring s'd timber of firewood and to pay his s'd father of 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 of Mother during their lives as aboves'd with sufficient winter meat Always allowing his s'd father or Mother to take ye Milk of two Cowes 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 of Mother shall procure andy sheep, he s'd William shall take and keep them winter and Summer for ye one hlaf 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 of 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 confirmatiion fo 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 12th, 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 Narj
in the presents of us Sarah ffry her
Robert Allen seal
John Wincoll her S.F. mark




Robert Allen appeared before me aned made oath that he saw Adrian ffry Sigh 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 16th. 1695

Charles ffrost Justice peace

a true Copie fo ye originall Transcribed and Compared,

March 12th , 1700 p Jos Hammond Register.