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Descendants of John Lewis Friend, Sr.

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN LEWIS⁴ FRIEND, SR. (NILS (NICHOLAS)³, JOHANNES (JOHN)², NILS LARSSON¹) was born 1732 in Chester, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1808 in Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland. He married KARREN HAPPUCH HYATT Abt. 1751 in Hampshire County, Virginia, daughter of JOST HEYDT and ?. She was born May 16, 1732 in Oldtown, Orange County, Virginia, and died October 13, 1798 in Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland.

Notes for JOHN LEWIS FRIEND, SR.:
John Friend, born 1732. Source - LDS Batch/File No. 5025909 U. S., Maryland (as of Mar 1992) page 4,697.

M-154: John Friend of Hampshire County, Virginia was granted 194 acres on the Potomack River in said county. Surveyed by Mr. Thomas Rutherford. Adjoins land of Neil (Nicholas) Friend. 2 Apr. 1763. (pg. 150). Source - Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. II, 1742-1775. Compiled by Gertrude E. Gray.

Between 1749 - 1753 John Friend worked as a chain-carrier with George Washington on his survey team.

White men first came to Garrett County in 1750, searching for a passage to the west. They built a road in 1752. They fought a war from 1753 to 1763. After the war the Indians left the mountain country forever.

In 1764, a year after peace was formally established, following Pontiac's uprising, a white man named John Friend walked up the mountains from the Potomac River on the trail of a fur trader which followed a buffalo trace. He crossed the crest of the Alleghenies, then descended to the sole Indian village of the area on the Youghiogheny. Here he bought land. He traded an iron pot for several cornfields and a few rough dwellings. Then he returned to the Potomac. A year later he came back. He settled on the land. (now Friendsville). Source - Garrett County, a History of Maryland's Tableland by Stephen Schlosnagle. (see page 3)

John Friend's tract (in 1774) was "Friend's Fortune". Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 50.

July 15, 1776, John Friend and his neighbors enrolled in the Washington County Militia, Skipton Company, at Cumberland MD. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 60.

John Friend was allotted two military lots of 50 acres each as a settler. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 75.

Land Deed of Sale; 1793; John and wife Keronhappuch to Luke Huff, dated 09 Sept. 1793; Hampshire County, WV Deed Book 9, page 323; LDS Film 0588704; NOTE: Sale price was for forty pounds for 75 acres.

John Friend was residing with his son Gabriel in Friendsville, Maryland in 1800.

On June 1, 1808, Old John transferred the deed for "Friend's Delight" to John Friend, Jr. This was Old John's last signature of record. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 87.

Friend, John, Sr, 1808, Pvt Wash Co Md Mil Rev War (Gov. marker). Source - Maryland's Garrett County Graves, pg. 80.

Notes for KARREN HAPPUCH HYATT:
Karrenhappuck (Hyatt) Friend died in 1798. Karren had two sisters, Jemima and Keziah. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 86.

Children of JOHN FRIEND and KARREN HYATT are:

NICHOLAS (III)⁵ FRIEND, b. Abt. 1760, Virginia; d. 1776.

Notes for NICHOLAS (III) FRIEND:
Nicholas Friend was the eldest son of John Friend of Friendsville. Nicholas was killed in 1776 in the Colonist War (Revolutionary War).
He fell in the Crossings neighborhood. (Schraft's History). Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 60.

2.	ii.	GABRIEL FRIEND, b. June 17, 1761, Maryland; d. January 08, 1854, Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland.
3.	iii.	CHARLES FRIEND, SR., b. 1766, Hampshire Co., Virginia; d. 1828, Missouri.
4.	iv.	JOSEPH FRIEND, b. 1768, Virginia; d. Abt. 1860.
5.	v.	JOHN LEWIS FRIEND, JR., b. 1763, Allegany County, Maryland; d. May 23, 1849, Sang Run, Garrett Co., Maryland.
6.	vi.	AUGUSTINE FRIEND, b. Abt. 1778, Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland; d. Missouri.
	vii.	SUSANNA FRIEND, b. Bef. 1767, Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland; m. ANDREW HOUSE, JR.; b. March 06, 1758; d. January 1835.

Notes for SUSANNA FRIEND:
Susan (or Susanna) Friend and her husband Andrew House settled in Sang Run. They left the property (part of Friend's Felight) to Betsy Hoye and went to Columbia Co., Ohio.

Susan (Friend) House and her sister, Sarah (Friend) DeWitt moved away from MD in 1816, the year the corn could not grow. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 109.

Notes for ANDREW HOUSE, JR.:
Andrew House and his wife Susan (Friend) House were allotted military lots as settlers at Blooming Rose in 1787. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 75.

In the 1800 census, Andrew House was listed as head of a household of nine at Sang Run, MD. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 87.

7.	viii.		SARAH FRIEND, b. 1774, Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland.
	ix.		REBECCA FRIEND, b. 1770, Friendsville, Garrett Co., Maryland; m. (1) JOSEPH BUTLER; b. 1772; m. (2) ANDREW HOUSE; b. Abt. 1766.

Notes for REBECCA FRIEND:
Rebecca Friend and her husband Joseph Butler settled in Dunkard Bottom. They went to Ohio in 1808.

Notes for JOSEPH BUTLER:
Joseph Butler and his wife, Rebecca (Friend) Butler of Dunkard Bottom went to Ohio in 1808. Source - "Indian Blood", Evelyn Guard Olsen, pg. 109.

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