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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Peter Frye Esq. (1723-1828)
Andover
Biography: Peter Frye, appointed [to the ECCP] January 15, 1772, was born in Andover in 1723 and graduated at Harvard in 17 44. He removed to Salem and taught school, and was also Colonel in the Militia and Register of Probate for Essex County from September 29, 1773, to the Revolution. He remained on the bench until the Revolution and being a Loyalist went to England where he died in 1820. Davis, History of Judiciary in Massachusetts
Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017.
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