Colonel Joshua Fry was an English-born planter, politician, colonial official and military officer who spent most of his life in the British colony of Virginia. Although he served several terms in the House of Burgesses, he may be best known as a surveyor and cartographer who collaborated with Peter Jefferson, the father of future U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. After Fry’s death on a military expedition, George Washington became commanding officer of the Virginia Regiment, a key unit in what became the French and Indian War.
- Occupation
- surveyor, adventurer, cartographer, soldier
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1699, July 14, 1699
- Died
- 1754, May 31, 1754
