Joseph Frye (March 19, 1712 – July 25, 1794) was a military leader from colonial Massachusetts.
He reported to have barely escaped with his life from a French-allied Native massacre of British forces after having surrendered Fort William Henry.
[2] For services during that conflict, the Massachusetts General Court in 1762 granted him a township on the Saco River which had once been the Sokokis Abenaki village of Pequawket.
Frye is best known for the role he played expanding the colonial frontier into lands formerly held by both the French and Abenakis.
He is regarded as the successor of John Lovewell, and also an enemy of Molly Ockett, leader and sage among dispossessed Algonquian peoples.