"Joseph Frye of Andover in the Province of the Masachusetts Bay... Whereas the Great and Genreal Court of said Province on the third Day of march A.D. 1762 Granted to me the said Joseph Frye a Township of the contents of Six miles square with liberty to lay it out in some place on either Side of Saco River in the County of York between the River called Great Ossape and the mountains above Pigwacket where I should think proper to make my Pitch... the said great & General Court... confirmed the lands... to me... upon the following Conditions viz that I settle the same with Sixty good Families each of which in the term of five years to have built a good Dwelling House of twenty feet by Eighteen and Seven Feet Studd and to have cleared for Pasturage or Tilliage Seven Acres each and... be appropriated for public Use viz- One for the first Ordained Protestant Minister One to lay for a Parsonage forever One for the Use of Harvard College forever and One for the use of a School forever And that said Town shall within Ten years have a Protestant Minister settled among them... in consideration of the Sum of twenty Pounds Sterling... paid by Stephen Farrington junr of Rumford in his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire yeoman... One Sixty fourth Part of the contents of said Township..." 2 May 1763.[1]
Stephen was the Captain of a company sent for relief of Bethel in 1777 and 1781 and was paid for his services by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1782.[2] He was the Commissioner of Safety for the town of Fryeburg in 1777 and was a Company Commander of the Militia. He was in command of a detachment sent from Fryeburg for the relief of the inhabitants on the Androscoggin River.[3]
Stephen is listed in the tax list for 1798 for Fryeburg with a house worth only $90, however, he had 190 acres of land making his entire estate worth $1498.75. [4]
Burial: West Fryeburg Cemetery, Oxford County Maine, USA Plot: Lot 322
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