Thomas Frye (politician)

Thomas Frye (* 1666 in Newport , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , † September 3, 1748 in East Greenwich , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) was a politician and lawyer . He served as Deputy Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Career

Thomas Frye, son of Mary and Thomas Frye, was born in Newport County during colonial times . Nothing is known about his youth. Frye worked as a glazier. He became a Freeman in East Greenwich in 1690 . At the time he was around 24 years old. Frye began a long civil service career in 1696. He became a Member of Parliament - a position he held for most of the time over a period of three and a half decades. Between 1698 and 1704 he was justice of the peace. He later served as a clerk in the Assembly for several years . Between 1713 and 1730 he held the post of speaker in the House of Representatives for ten years . In 1707 he was appointed one of the commissioners who established the northern border of Rhode Island with the Province of Massachusetts Bay . Two years later he was appointed to the committee that drew the lines between the two colonies. The Assembly appointed him and Andrew Harris in 1715 to collect all of the colony's laws and prepare them for printing. In 1719 he received ten pounds sterling for it .

After Jonathan Nichols died in his office as lieutenant governor in 1727, Frye was elected as the new lieutenant governor. He served under Governor Joseph Jenckes , who took office that same year. The following year, Frye was elected lieutenant governor for a year-long term. Frye died in 1748, leaving a very large estate, estimated at over £ 22,000. According to his last will, his unmarried daughters received the black slaves that were in his possession. His wife was Welthian Greene, daughter of Elizabeth Barton and Thomas Greene, and niece of Lieutenant Governor John Greene junior and granddaughter of John Greene senior , the co-founder of the town of Warwick (Rhode Island).

literature

• Austin, John Osborne: The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation , Genealogical Publishing Com, 1887, ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1 , pp. 88f, 298
• Bicknell, Thomas Williams: The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , Volume 3, American Historical Society, 1920

Web links

• State of Rhode Island