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John Fries c.1750-1818, American rebel, b. Montgomery co., Pa. After serving in the American Revolution, Fries became a traveling auctioneer. Strongly opposed to the federal property taxes levied (1798) for a possible war with France, he stirred the Pennsylvania Germans into an uprising (called Fries's Rebellion) against assessors and collectors. He hid from federal troops, but his hiding place was betrayed by his dog. He was arrested and sentenced to death, but President John Adams pardoned him.

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Fry, Elizabeth

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Fry, Elizabeth (1780–1845), Quaker prison reformer. The daughter of John Gurney, in 1800 she married John Fry, a London merchant and a ‘Plain Quaker’. In 1811 she is recorded as an approved ‘minister’ in the Society of Friends. In 1813 her interest was aroused in the state of the prisons and she devoted herself to the welfare of female prisoners in Newgate. She campaigned for the separation of the sexes, classification of criminals, female supervisions of women, and the provision of secular and religious instruction. Feast day in CW, feast day , 12 Oct.

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