Rowland Frye of Wallington

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1777

Biography

Son of John Frye the elder of Antigua. London merchant, dying c. 1777, leaving substantial land holdings in Surrey (including Banstead Manor which he had purchased c. 1762) to his [half-]brother William and then to his nephew Rowland Frye of Warfield. In 1764 he sold land and enslaved people on Antigua for £20,000 to Samuel Redhead (q.v.).

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. I pp. 278-281.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

- 1764 [EY] → Owner

Frye's or Fry's [ Antigua ]

By a deed of 16/03/1764 Rowland Frye of Wallington sold two plantation of 420 acres in total (one of 320 acres in St Philip and one called Frye's Pastures of 100 acres in St Paul) with 177 enslaved people for £20,000 to Samuel Redhead.