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James Frey/Fry

Name: James Frey/Fry

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 19th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Levin & Philemon H. Griffith

Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 01/01/1864

Company: F

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Rank at End of Service: Private

Notes:

Manumission recorded 08/19/1865


Source(s):

Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 284; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 3, page 42-43. Folio online at MDLandRec.Net; Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, 184, left; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Adjutant General, Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1867, MSA-S-936-49, Folder "19th, Co. F," Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 2905, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678).

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