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Elizabeth
Hilton Fryer
Elizabeth Hilton was born in 1737. she was the daughter of Albany carpenter William Hilton and his wife, Maria Jones Hilton. She grew up on Albany's Southside along the cowpath that later became South Pearl Street.
Elizabeth
was identified as a spinster in 1760 when she married
her neighbor, Albany weaver Isaac I. Fryer. Over
the next decade-and-a-half, their children were baptized
in Albany churches. Like her husband, she was a communicant
of St. Peter's Anglican church.
These
Fryers lived along South Pearl Street surrounded
by both of their families. In 1790, their first ward
home housed eight family members including Isaac's
sixty-year-old sister Catherine Fryer.
Elizabeth
Hilton Fryer died in August 1794 a month shy of her
fifty-eighth birthday. She was buried in the Episcopal
cemetery. Her husband lived until 1802.
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Sources: The life of Elizabeth Hilton Fryer is CAP biography
number 2540. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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