Individual Details

Hannah/Anna Fry, b. say 1616, will proved 29 April 1692. She m. before 1642, Thomas Rawlins, of Weymouth and Boston, who d. (intestate) before 28 May 1670.[25] The 1874 Rawlins genealogy states of this Thomas Rawlins that his “mother was a sister of William Fry.”[26] Chamberlain’s History of Weymouth, p. 562, exhibits the same confusion, calling him “a son of a sister of William Frye,” and neglecting to assign him the son Thomas mentioned in Frye’s will. Why these authors should have placed him a generation too late is inexplicable, unless it was merely that he and his wife outlived her brother by a generation. It is unlikely to have resulted from a simple misinterpretation of the reference to his son Caleb as “my cosen” in the will of William Fry’s sister, Mary (Fry) Harris, for had these authors assumed (in ignorance of seventeenth-century usage) that Caleb and Mary were of the same generation, they would have placed Thomas Rawlins a generation too early. Yet their reconstruction implies that the testator was actually referring to a grandnephew, a somewhat distant relation to be remembered in the will of a woman with children of her own. In any case, his dates forbid him being anything other than Hannah’s husband. As their son Thomas must have been born before 1642 and all their other known children were younger, it leaves open the possibility that they had older children, including possibly the Benjamin and Abigail named in Chamberlain’s Weymouth as “unrecorded” in the town records. Known issue:
Benjamin Rawlins (unplaced).
Abigail Rawlins (unplaced).
Thomas Rawlins (missed in Chamberlain’s Weymouth), called the “youngest child” in the 1642 will of his uncle, William Fry, so b. say 1640.
Joshua Rawlins, of Boston, mariner, b. 2 Dec. (10th month) 1642 at Weymouth. He married, and had at least one child.
Caleb Rawlins, of Boston, housewright, b. 8 March (1st month) 1645 at Boston, mentioned in the will of his aunt, Mary (Fry) Harris. He m. Elizabeth Wilmot, daughter of Nicholas Wilmot, and they had eight children, for whom see the 1874 Rawlins genealogy.
Joseph Rawlins, bapt. 25 June 1648, aged about 11 days, at Boston.
Mary Rawlins, b. 24 Nov. 1652 at Boston.
Samuel Rawlins, b. 1 Sept. 1655.

Birth

Abt 1616

Father	FRY ( - )
Sibling	Mary Fry (1604 - )
Sibling	William Fry (1608 - )
Sibling	TAMASIN FRY (1615 - )