Here are my notes on John Friend,
Hope this might help a little
Note:
John Friend II (Johannes Frande/Friend) was born 19
September in Gloucester Co., New Jersey. He was baptized as Johannes
Nilsson. He
married Elizabeth Banner. He died circa 1778. He is listed as taxables with
elder brother Nils in Monocacy Hundred in 1733. Land surveyed for him in
1755 in Frederick
(later Hampshire) County, Virginia adjoining his brother Nils on Potomac
River.
The children of John Friend II and Elizabeth Banner (see #981) were as
follows:
i. Mary Frande/Friend died at Kentucky. She married Mr. Cessna.
ii. Joseph Frande/Friend married Rachel Rose.
iii. John Friend married Eleanor Banner and they resided in Kentucky.
iv. Isaac Frande/Friend. He resided at Hodgenvill, Kentucky where he died
after 1792.
v. Susannah Frande/Friend married Mr. (--?--) Phillips.
vi. Nancy Frande/Friend married Jediah Ashcraft.
vii. Elizabeth Frande/Friend married Mr. (--?--) Hench.
viii. Nils "Nicholas" Friend.
Elizabeth Banner married John Friend II son of
Johannes "John" Nilsson Frande/Friend I and Anna Coleman.
Sources:
Federal Writers Porject, Records of the Swedish Lutheran Churches, at
Raccoon, p. 234.
Grace L. Tracey & John P. Dern, Pioneers of Old Monocacy, Genealogical
Publishing Co.
(1987), p. 368.
Joyner, Northern Neck Surveys, Vol. 4, p. 24.
Friends Family Association, Friendsville, MD.