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- 1754 – Colonel Joshua Fry, a prominent inhabitant of early Albemarle County and an influential surveyor throughout Virginia, died. During the advance into the Ohio Country, Fry suddenly fell off his horse and died from his injuries at Fort Cumberland, in the Maryland Colony. In March, as hostilities between the French and English were coming to a head, Fry was commissioned commander-in-chief of the Virginia militia. His second-in-command, George Washington, subsequently assumed command of the militia.