(1) Hij is getrouwd met Lucy Gilmer Fry.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 15 november 1808 te Mercer Co, KY, hij was toen 36 jaar oud.
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(2) Hij is getrouwd met Abby Lemaster.
Zij zijn getrouwd
Served in War against Indians 1791; was early in life a merchant and salt manufacturer at the licks near Shepherdsville, KY; was Judge of Quarter Sessions Court, Jefferson County, KY. Although a slaveholder, was an Emancipationist. He was admired and respected by all who knew him, including Rev. James Freeman Clark, who eulogizes him in his "recollections." Judge John Speed owned a handsome estate of the celebrated "Beargrass" land near Louisville, upon which he built a large house of the old Colonial style of architecture which he called "Farmington" and where was dispensed lavish hospitality; m. (firstly) Abby Lemaster, who d. 1st July, 1807; m. (secondly) 15th November, 1808, in Mercer County, Kentucky, Lucy Gilmer Fry, b. in Albemarle County, VA, 23rd March, 1788, d. 27th January, 1874, dau. of Joshua and Peachy (Walker) Fry. Joshua Fry, b. circa 1760, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution at 14, and was at Cornwallis' surrender. He received the best classical education and had a decided taste for scholarly pursuits. He inherited a large estate and in 1798 left VA for KY with his family and settled at Danville and became the owner of very large tracts of fine land. His tastes led him to teaching and he became the most noted educator in KY. Being a man of large means, he would never receive compensation for teaching and gave instruction to hundreds of pupils gratuitously. In the published biographical sketches of many of the most prominent Kentuckians, the fact of being educated by Joshua Fry is especially mentioned. His father was Col. John Fry who commanded the VA troops in the early colonial wars, and was a Member of the House of Burgesses 1761 to 1764. His mother was Sarah Adams, dau. of Ebenezer Adams, of New Kent County, VA. The father of Col. John Fry was Col. Joshua Fry. Col. Joshua Fry was educated at Oxford, England, emigrated to VA previous to 1710, during which yhear he was a vestryman Essex Parish, VA, Magistrate Essex Co., VA 1710-1720; here he m. Mrs. Mary Micou Hill, of Hugenot descent; Master of Grammar School William and Mary College, 1729; Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics at William and Mary College, 1732 to 1737; Presiding Justice, Surveyor and County Lieutenant for Albemarle Co., VA, at its formation, February 28th, 1745. Together with his intimate friend Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson) he was Commissioner in 1745-1749 of the Crown in marking boundary lines between VA and NC. Joint author of Fry and Jefferson's map of VA in 1749; Commissioner for Crown at Treaty of Logstown (near Pittsburg) with 6 Nation Indians in 1752; Member of House of Burgesses, 1745-1754, and Council; commissioned 25th February, 1754, by Governor Dinwiddie as Colonel and Commander-in-Chief of the Virgina forces in French and Indian War, his compensation being 15 shillings ($3.75) per day and 100 per year for his table. Geroge Washington was the Lt. Colonel, compensation as such per day 12S, 6d $3.12. While in command at Fort Cumberland, VA on the Potomtac River, he d. 31st May, 1754, and was burined near there. George Washington, who, by reason of Colonel Fry's death, became Commander in Chief, and the Army attended the funeral, and on a large oak tree which served as a tomb and monument to his memory, George Washington cut the following inscription: "Under this oak lies the body of The Good, The Just and The Noble Fry"
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