D.A.R. Genealogical Records Committee lineage form (Carpenter/Fry/Spears), in 'United States. Genealogies 1720-1960', FamilySearch DGS 008978994, v.3-4/516-517, images 407-408

D.A.R. lineage form - Leah Fry b. Nov 1778, m. Jacob Carpenter, d. 11 Jan 1820

Form read on the image (G1/G1a). Death 11 Jan 1820 matches this tree exactly. CONFLICT recorded, not resolved: the form's birth 11 Nov 1778 vs the tree's 20 Nov 1778 - 9 days apart, do not overwrite. Child of John Fry x Catherine Spears per the form's children table (alignment caveat in register G1a).

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Research note · 26 Jul 2026

Audited 26 Jul 2026 - Junction #8. Re-parented to John Frye x Catherine Spears; she is Adam Carpenter's stepdaughter, not his daughter. Duplicate record [1074] merged away. See ancestry/zimmerman-carpenter-junction.md. [2 AUG 2026 - THE LINK TO HER FATHER IS NOW RECORD-EVIDENCED, AND IT WAS GRADED B- UNTIL TODAY] Four independent record classes, none of them a DAR compilation: (1) LEAH FRY ENTERS 150 ACRES IN HER OWN NAME, 8 NOV 1783, ADJOINING HER FATHER'S SURVEY, on Clough Overton's warrant #11124 - Overton being a captain killed at Blue Licks the same day as John Fry; (2) her grandfather GEORGE SPEAR's warrant #242 authorised VA Patent 8790.0 in the name 'FRY, LEAH' and VA 8791.0 'FRY, JOHN, JR.' - the grandfather's warrant patenting to the orphans; (3) a 1796 tax record showing land held for 'the heirs of John Frye'; (4) her mother CATHERINE's 1846 will naming her as Leah Frye who married Jacob Carpenter. All from the Kentucky Secretary of State Land Office databases, which are free and unwalled. ⛔ STILL NOT 'PROVEN' IN THE STRICT SENSE - no single record calls her John Fry's daughter in so many words - and NO PROOF FLAG HAS BEEN SET. But the grade rises from B- to STRONG, and it no longer rests on DAR's application-derived database. See ancestry/db-write-queue.md.

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