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From a fascinating long messagethread archived at Rootsweb.com -- there must be dozens of surnames mentioned, from the 1600s & 1700s.
RootsWeb: NJGLOUCE-L [NJGLOUCE] New Sweden Indian traders to upper POTOMAC, 1730+
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NJGLOUCE/2000-04/0956240025
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[The] following has many items I have seen before, but never all at one place.
It has been my idea that many of these people with Indian blood traditions do not look early enough on their tree.
Martin Chartier was with LaSalle, in 1698, in Illinois, and led a mutuny, which resulted in him living with the Shawnee several years before showing up in English civilization near Joppa, Md, where he was jailed a spy. He then traded from a home on the river in w Lancaster Co, Pa where he told the Swedish traders of the west. Chartier traded at Piscataway, and at Point of Rocks, Md, on the Potomac, if not Oldtown, Md
FRENCH AND iNDIAN WAR FORTS ON UPPER POTOMAC
"Frontier Forts of Berkley Co, Va -The Berkley Journal, 1999, AND Cecil O'Dell's great book on Old Fredrick Co, Va pinpoint some of the Swedes, as does Dr Peter S CRAIG'S book on Nils Larsson Vriend, and another of his and Henry Yocum's on Olaf Stille,and the Steelman's.
Nichol's Fort was 5 miles sw of FORT CUMBERLAND, ON THE N Branch OF Potomac.
Anderson's Fort was west of Old Town, Md on n side N branch
Shelby's Fort was near FT FREDRICK - wife Letitia Cox, swede
The 1750's fort of Indian trader Richard Pearis was on the South Branch rd w of Winchester
Coleman Brown was killed by Indian's s Morgantown, WV
Enoch's Fort was on North River Branch of Great Capecon
Cox's Fort was at mouth of Little Capecon
Newkirk's fort was at Little Georgetown, on the Potomac - wonder if that's how Georgetown, Oh was named by Henry Newkirk
Friend's had an iron bank just west of Harper's Ferry.
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> Subject: FRIENDS and Indians
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>
> There are lots of tales about the Friend family and Indian connections. Below is the evidence I've found of them associating/trading with Indians. I'm researching traders on the upper Potomac, and find that the traders usually came from families with histories of trading.
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> Additions, corrections, and legends pertaining to the following are invited.
> 1668, June 5, Pa., Peter Rambo, Magistrate, advises prohibition against selling liquor to Indians.(Pa. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 7, pages 723-724.)
> 1668, June 25, New Jersey, license granted to Cornelius Larssen Vrende (Friend),
> Olle Rawson, and Olle Jonsson, to buy West Jersey Lands from Indians.
> (N.J. Arch. 21: 3)
> (Rawson was a cousin through the Rambo family.)
> 1669, Aug. 2, Pa., Henry Coleman "one of ye Finns and an Inhabitant at Delaware, hath left his habitation.being well-versed in ye Indian language apprehend him." (suspected as part of an insurrection)
(Pa. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 7, pages 723-724.)
> 1670, Oct. 5, Pa., re: fort on Delaware River: Israel Helm, Peter "PRB" Rambo, Peter "R" Kock.
(Pa. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 7, pages 732-733.)
> 1673, Pa. Magistrates opposed to war with Indians: Peter "X" Rambo, Peter "R" Cock.
> (Pa. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 7, page 756.)
> "Indian Blood" (1967) by Evelyn G. Olson, page 9: in 1674 Henry Coleman was part of a rebellion against the English, and hid out with the Indians for several years.
> (Coleman's wife is "said" to have been an Indian called "Bright Lightning".)
> 1675, May 13, Newcastle, meeting between Gov......
This LONG messagethread from Rootsweb continues here:
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NJGLOUCE/2000-04/0956240025
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