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William was born in 1735 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.  William's father was Benjamin Fry and his mother was Christen Ann Merkle.  His paternal grandparents were Heinrich Frey and Anna Catherine Levering; his maternal grandparents were Abraham Merkle and Anna Veronica Landvatter. He had eight brothers and a sister, named Abraham, Benjamin, Henry, Jacob, Joseph, Samuel, Lodowick, Christin and Elizabeth.  He was the second youngest of the ten children.  He died at the age of 61 in 1796 in Fayette County, Kentucky.