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Fought at Point Pleasant in Lord Dunmore's War at age 20. Served in Capt. William Nalle's Company of Volunteers in the Augusta County Militia. He died at the Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky.
John Frye has the distinction, possibly unmatched, of having served at the very beginning and at the very end of the Revolutionary War.

When a large war party of Indians with the infamous renegade, Simon Girty, laid siege to Bryan Station, not far from present-day Lexington, Kentucky, in the summer of 1782, George Rogers Clark called up the Kentucky Militia to give battle and end the Indian problem once and for all.
On August 18,1782, 182 men gathered, 130 men from Lincoln County and the rest from Fayette. They were commanded by Col. Stephen Trigg. Among the men were Daniel Boone and one of his sons. On August 19, the two opposing groups met at the bloody, tragic Battle of Blue Licks where the Kentucky Militia walked into an ambush and where sixty Kentuckians died before the rest fled. Daniel Boone’s son was killed and also Col. Trigg. Carpenter’s Station was fortunate to lose only one man, but that man was young John Frye, husband of Catherine Spears. It had been his turn to serve.
The monument at Blue Licks Battlefield lists John Frye as buried there with the rest of the slain; family tradition says that John’s body was returned to Carpenter’s Station for burial. However, there is no marker for John Frye in the Carpenter Burying Ground. It is more logical that John was buried at Blue Licks because the Indians scalped and horribly mutilated all the bodies of the dead. Catherine Frye’s brother, Jacob Spears, was with the burial group and paid 8 shillings for his service.
In a pleasant little park just north of Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky, the Kentucky State Historical Society erected a marker as a memorial to John Frye. It states:
JOHN FRY
John Fry entered land on Carpenter’s Creek, 8 miles north, 1780, on a Treasury Warrant for service in Revolution. Land Grant signed,1783, by Gov. Benj. Harrison. Engaged in Battle of Point Pleasant, 1774. Served in Rockingham Militia, VA. during Revolution. With Kentuckians when killed at Blue Licks Battle, 1782 at age of 28. Four generations of family owned land over a century.

When John and Leah Frye’s grandfather died in Virginia, John and Leah received bequests, and Catherine Carpenter signed an affidavit swearing that John and Leah were the legitimate children of their father, John, who was killed at Blue Licks. John Frye Jr. gave power of attorney to one of the Carpenters to collect what was due him from the estate. John Frye borrowed £270 from Adam Carpenter, his step-father, on October 26, 1805, just a few months before Adam’s death.

Birth	1753
Marriage	Abt 1777	Catherine Spears
Death	19 Aug 1782	BlueLicks Springs, Nicholas County, Kentucky

Spouse	Catherine Spears (1760 - 1848)
Child	Leah Frye (1778 - 1820)
Child	John Frye (1782 - 1853)

Father	Jacob Frye (1726 - 1808)
Mother	Mary "Molly" [FRYE] ( - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Frye (1755 - 1833)
Sibling	William Frye (1761 - 1834)
Sibling	Christina Frye ( - )
Sibling	Joseph Frye (1767 - 1808)
Sibling	Jacob Frye Jr. (1765 - 1839)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Frye (1773 - 1821)
Sibling	Catherine Frye (1773 - 1857)