Ruth Fry Mumford

Ruth Fry Mumford

Birth: 14 May 1745, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island

Father: John Fry, b. 31 October 1695, East Greenwich, Providence, Rhode Island; d. 6 September 1753, RI

Mother: Elizabeth Greene, b, 26 June 1706, Warwick, Kent, RI; d.1753, East Greenwich, Kent, RI

Marriage 25 Dec 1773, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island

Spouse: Augustus Mumford, b. 7 July 1744, South Kingstown, Rhode Island; d. 27 August 1775, at or near Cambridge, or Mystick, Mass.

Notes:

Ruth was named in the will of her father, John Fry (1695) made 16 Aug 1753 and proved at East Geenwich 27 Sept 1753.

Augustus Mumford "was killed by a cannon ball at Plowed Hill, at or near Cambridge, or Mystick, Mass., August 27, 1775. He had been one of the petitioners for the incorporation of the Kentish Guards in 1774. (Elder John Gorton and the Six Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich Bamberg, 2001)

References:

Pedigree Resource File for Ruth Fry - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SRCK-G9G

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ruth_Fry_%288%29

↑ East Greenwich Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891), 116. FRY, Ruth, of John and Elizabeth, [born] May 14, 1745.

↑ LAND: -30 Jun 1770 We Paul Mumford of Newport, shopkeeper, Gideon Mumford of East Greenwich, silversmith & Elizabeth his wife, and Ruth Fry, spinster, of East Greenwich for 342 Spanish milled silver dollars to Caleb Arnold of Exeter, yeoman, 3/5 of 285 acres bounded: Joseph Nicholas, highway, Thomas Fry, Lewis land, George Sweet, with 3/5 of 1 dwelling house. Signed: Paul Mumford, Gideon Mumford, Elisabeth Mumford, Ruth Fry. Witnesses: George Peirce, Benoni Hall, Thomas Casey, Job Peirce. [Exeter Land 20:85-87]