Friend Connection

[daveseibert]

I'm new and not a member of the Association, don't know if I belong. My 5th great grandmaw, was Sarah Friend Willson, she was married about 1784 in Path Valley, Franklin Co., Pa. to Robert Willson, born 1738 in Northampton Co., Pa. Robert Willson purchased land in Franklin Co., Pa. and fought in the Rev. War under Capt. Hawkins Boone, a cousin of Daniel. After the 1790 Census, Robert, Sarah and family relocated to Beaver Co., Pa. It was in Beaver Co., Pa. that first Robert Willson died 2 Oct. 1824 and Sarah survived him dying in 1839. Would appreciate help in locating Sarah Friend's parents. Many thanks. Dave.

[Pat (Friend) Thompson]

Hi Dave,
I don't know your Sarah Friend Willson and finding information before 1850, when census records started showing all names in a household, can be difficult at best.

I have asked several other Friend researcher to check their files but so far, nothing. I have an email out to the librarian at the FFAA library too. Unfortunately, the library is closed until May but we might get lucky and find something.

Do you have any other little tidbits about this family that might help identify them? What about children? That might help others find out whether or not they have more information on the family or maybe associate lines.

[Pat (Friend) Thompson]

Sorry, but so far the closest connect found is this one to William Wilson.
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Children of Jonas & Sara Friend (Skidmore)

1.) Joseph Friend…...Eldest Son
2.) Andrew Friend
3.) Sara Friend
4.) Nancy Friend
5.) Mary Friend……..Youngest Daughter & married Robert Clark.


The daughters of Jonas Friend, should be mentioned briefly;

1.) Sarah was born in 1759, and married Major William Wilson (1754-1851) on 19 August 1779. She died on 22 October 1832 and they are buried in the Casner Cemetery on the John Yoho farm one mile north of Mt. Ephraim in Seneca Township, Noble County, Ohio.

2.) Nancy married John Currence (1753-1845) and died on 26 September 1851 aged 92 years, 3 months, and 21 days. They are buried in the Currence-Walmsley Cemetery about four miles south of Huttonsville.

3.) Mary, clearly the youngest daughter, married Robert Clark on 19 February 1794 in Randolph County. They disappear from the neighborhood and may have gone west.

4.) Captain Andrew Friend, the younger son, married Eleanor, a daughter of Peter McCall, in Randolph County on 1 February 1802. He was appointed a Captain in the room of Boston Hoskins, resigned, on 27 May 1807, and a Gentleman Justice for Randolph County in 1814 by the governor. He was sitting on the bench on 26 March 1816 when it was "ordered that the Sheriff pay unto Andrew Friend One Dollar & 30 Cts. which was Collected from him for a tax on a Mill which he did Not possess.

Of the four children of Andrew Friend named in 1817 only Jonas and his sister Sarah have been traced further. Jonas, the first born, was living in 1850 a farmer aged 47 with his wife Tempy and a large family of children in Mason County. They apparently moved to adjoining Jackson County, West Virginia, but in 1880 he and Temperance were in Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio. In 1880 Jonas Friend's occupation is reported as "digs ore"-a hard life for an elderly man. Neither he or Temperance (nor any of their children) are found buried in Milton Township. His sister Sarah apparently married the James Canter who was head of a family in 1840 in Mason County, and it was her two eldest sons and heirs, orphans, who conveyed their interest in the tract on Kanawha Run in 1850. Jonas and Thomas Canter were both enumerated in 1880 in Union District, Jackson County, West Virginia

5.) JOSEPH FRIEND. Paid £3 12sh for 48 days. He was born about 1750, the eldest son of Captain Jonas Friend and his wife Sarah Skidmore and was later a Captain of Spies under Anthony Wayne. He died in what is now Webster County, West Virginia, in 1827.

[Pat (Friend) Thompson]

Hi Dave, Doug forwarded your emails to me since he really isn't into genealogy (but he does a SUPER job of maintaining the FFAA message board).

I have two suggestions: Post your additional information here with your first posting and second; you might be interested in joining Mark Friend's MyFamily.com site, where many other Friend descendants work together on Friend family research.

If you want an invitation to Mark's site let me know and I will email you an invitation. [e-mail]