Sarah (White) Frye (abt. 1645 - 1709)

Born about 1645 in Durham, Strafford, Massachusetts Bay Colony (New Hampshire)

Wife of Adrian Frye — married 1665 in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Maine)

Descendants

Died 23 Nov 1709 at about age 64 in Kittery, York, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Adrian’s wife is given as Sarah when she witnessed Abraham Conley’s will, deeded property to son William, and in her own will. Noyes, Libby, and Davis erred in giving Adrian’s wife as Hannah, the daughter of Robert White. Stackpole noted that Adrian Frye married “Sarah (dau. of John White?).” His skepticism regarding Sarah as the daughter of John White is valid. The basis for Sarah White as the wife of Adrian Frye is tenuously founded on a deed in which their son William Frye called Francis Allen his “cousin,”^[1] a somewhat nebulous term in eighteenth-century usage. Francis Allen was the son of Robert Allen, as he was granted administration of his father’s estate on 21 April 1701.^[2] Robert Allen’s wife was Hannah White, the proven daughter of John White. It may well be the case that Sarah Frye was the sister of Hannah (White) Allen, but it is odd that in November 1678, John White, noting the “naturall love which I beare to my naturall Child Hannah Allen,” deeded all his property after his death to the Allens, with reversion to their oldest surviving son, with no mention of daughter Sarah Frye or any other heirs.^[3] Adrian and Sarah Frye did not name a child John or Lucy, as may have been expected if she was the daughter of John and Lucy White. It is also possible that Adrian Frye’s wife Sarah was the sister of Robert Allen, whose family were Quakers as were the Fryes.

Sarah White was born in Kittery, York Co., Maine, about 1645, daughter of John White and Lucy (surname unknown). ^[4]

NOTE: Her father was not the John White who married Mary Leavitt.

She married in Kittery about 1665 Adrian Frye.^[5]

She died between 1692 and 1709. Her son William administered her estate on 23 Nov 1709.^[6][7]

Child:

1. Eunice Frye

Sources

1. ↑ York County Register of Deeds, York Deeds, 18 vols. in 19 (Portland, 1887–1910), 7:224 (hereafter cited as York Deeds).
2. ↑ Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts, 1:37, citing York Co. Probate Records, 1:94
3. ↑ 10 York Deeds, 3:235.
4. ↑ Old Kittery and Her Families. https://ia801407.us.archive.org/3/items/oldkitteryherfam00staciala/oldkitteryherfam00staciala.pdf
5. ↑ Old Kittery and Her Families by Everett S. Stackpole page 796. https://ia801407.us.archive.org/3/items/oldkitteryherfam00staciala/oldkitteryherfam00staciala.pdf
6. ↑ Maine Probate Extracts 1:55; John Eldridge Frost
7. ↑ York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 2, 1707-1719, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9Z4-5  : 7 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 195.

• Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Elizabeth White - death: 23 November 1709;
• Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Elizabeth White - death: 23 November 1709; Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire.
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See also:

• WeRelate Profile for Adrian and Sarah (White) Frye

Acknowledgements

• White-21743 was created by Gerald Smith through the import of benskin.ged on Mar 4, 2015.