I would like to learn more about the following folks. I descend from SARAH, and her first husband, Israel FRIEND, through son Charles. They are a very interesting bunch, but they were restless frontiersmen who moved around, and didn't leave many records behind. John Valentine House (Jr.), died after 1769 s/o John House Sr. died 1752, & Susanna Margaret first wife marr @ 1747, died d/o SARAH aka "Bokavar" marr 1st, @1725, Md., ISRAEL FRIEND (1693-1753) (5 ch.) marr 2nd, @1753, John Valentine House. (1 ch.) she died 1756 + (went west) d/o (Indian Chief) Eleanor (Nelly) Harrod, @ 1738, marr by 1758, John Valentine House (6 ch.) died d/o John Harrod Jr. & Sarah Moore 1. John House, @ 1747, Frederick Co., Md. marr 1775, Md., Mary (Polly) Chapline, he died 1838, Ohio 2. Levi House, @ 1755, (s/o Sarah) marr Sarah Pressley, he died 8 Oct. 1846, Ripley Co., Ind. 3. Andrew House, 6 March 1758, Fredk (Jeff.) Co., (W)Va. (s/o Nelly) marr @1783, Alleg. Co., Md., Rebecca Friend, d/o John & Karen he died @ 1837, Knox Co., Ohio (7 ch.) 4. Samuel House, @ 1760, Frederick Co., Va. marr Cassandra Eagon he died June 1828, Greene Co., Pa. 5. George House, ? 1763, Va. 6. Margaret House, marr 1 Oct. 1785, Fredk. Co., Md., John Conrad Ingelbrecht she died 7. Simeon House, 8. Thomas House, ? NOTES: 1739, John House Sr. came to Fredk. Co., Md. (died 1752.) (WMG 8:56-57) 1739, Aug. 23, Md., Prince George Co., survey for Thomas House, for "Strife". 1742, Md., Prince George (now Frederick) Co., deed, Israel Friend sold to John House, 40 acres called "Antietam Bottom". (WMG 8:56) 1742, Md., Prince George (now Frederick) Co., survey for Thomas House, for "House's Addition". 1747, Dec. 1, (Washington Co.), patent 25 acres called "Mill Place" to John House. 1748, Md., Frederick Co. is created from north-western Prince George Co. 1752, Feb. 29, Md., Frederick Co., date of will of John House, farmer, sick and weak; wife Susannah; 5 children, Andrew, George, William, Valentin, and Susannah; signed "X"; witnesses, Peter Stilly, Valentin (?) Watsher, Thomas Shay; proved 20 March 1752. (WMG 1:57) 1754, June 1, Frederick Co., account by Andrew and William House, executors of John House; inventory L.168.3.9.; payments L.26.16.5.; includes payment to Philip Turner, Andrew House. (A1: 42-43.) (LDS # 14040) 1756/57, Md., Frederick Co. Debt Books (taxes) : John House's heirs in arrears for 50 acres of "Antietam Bottom", 33 acres of "Two Wives", 25 acres of "Mill Place", and 100 acres of "Walnut Point" (Walnut Bottom); payments made by Sep. 1759. (WMG 8:158; WMG 9:31-32) (now in Wash. Co.) 1760, June 10, Md., Frederick Co., Power of Attorney: Jarvis Roebuck of New York City, and his wife Susanna Catherine, one of the children and devisees of John Valentine House (Sr.) late of Monocacy in Maryland, farmer, deceased . . . and did bequeath to his wife Susanna Margaret House 1/3 of his estate, and remaining to be devised to his children: Andrew House, William House, George House, and Valentine House (Jr.), and to her the said Susanna Catherine Roebuck . . . appointed Capt. Ogle and Mr. Peter Stille of Monocacy as attorneys to recover . . . Jervis Roebuck (German Script) and Susanna Cathrine Roebuck, signed in New York City 3 Aug. 1753. (Fredk Co., Md., Land Recs., Liber F:1014-1017) 1761/63, Va., Frederick Co., Charles Friend "orphan of Israel Friend" came into court to make choice of John Valentine Howe (sic) as his guardian, with John Smith as bondsman. . . (see my notes at end) ("Hist. Records of Old Frederick & Hampshire Cos., Va.", 1992, by Wilmer Kerns, pg 49; from minute book 1761/63, of Fredk. Co., Va. Arch.) 1763, Oct. 10, Md., Frederick Co., account by Thomas Beatty Junr., executor of Edward Beatty, received from (total 196 names) John House, Robert Turner, Solomon Turner, Dinah Turner, William House� (Fredk Co. Accounts, Liber A1, pages 120-134, 300-308.) (LDS # 14040.) 1763, Dec. 31, Md., Frederick Co., deed, Andrew "X" House and Catherine "X", and John House and Elener his wife of Frederick Co., Va., and George House and Sarah his wife (did not sign), children of dec'd John House, excepting John House the son of John House and Elener, sell "Mill Place" 25 acres near the mouth of Antietam, and "Two Wife's" an island opposite the mouth of Antietam in Potomac River, being 33 acres; (J: 89-93.) 1764, Dec. 9, Md., Frederick Co., deed, Andrew House (wife Catherine), George House, George House, William House (wife Sarah), Valentine House (wife Helenah), Peter Stilly, all on behalf of Susannah Roebak, for L.230 sell "Ship", on Carroll Creek, draught of Monocacy Creek, 100 acres, and also 70 acres of "Houses Addition" (J: 948-950.) 1764, Va., Frederick Co., John Valentine House and wife Eleanor living here. (WMG 8:56-57) 1766, Md., Frederick Co., estate of James Dixon (merchant) list of 1,737 debts, including : Philip Turner, John House, Enock Enockson, House's heirs . . . 1776, Md., Frederick Co., George town Hundred (now suburban W.D.C.) : John House, 63, Margaret, 50. 1777, Sep. 2, Va., Frederick Co., John Smith is Gent. Justice. 1778, Md., Washington Co. Oaths of Fidelity : John House. (NGSQ 6:12-21) 1780, Petition to create a new state "Westylvania", from s.w. Penna. & n.w. Va.: John, Samuel, Andrew, and George House. ("Ten Mile Country", 1993 ed., by Howard Leckey, pgs 141-153.) 1791, Nov. 14, Va., Hampshire Co., grant to Joseph House, 419 acres (surveyed 19 Mch. 1790) adj. John House, John Buskirk, Pattersons Creek, Rusk, Joseph Schritchfield, Plumb Run. (V:290) (Gray 3:137) Some Sources: "Northern Neck Grants", by Gertrude Gray, multiple volumes. "The House Family Tree", 1990 by Ardis P. Rasperger, which says : It is believed that Levi House was the son of Bokavar, daughter of a Chippewa Chief, and Valentine House, a trapper and Indian trader. When the Indian tribes went west, Bokavar went with her people taking Levi with her. He spent most of his childhood with the Indian tribes, but returned later to live with his father and step-mother, Eleanor Harrod. "Monocacy & Catoctin", 1994 by C.E. Schildknecht, Vol. 3, page 104, in the Middletown Valley: William House (1733-1822), came from Alsace in 1750. Charlotte's Web : http://www.charweb.org/gen/gendict.html This site gives the definition of GUARDIAN: an appointee of the court who cares for the property and rights of a minor or someone incapable of handling his or her own affairs. In colonial times a guardian was appointed as often to protect a property interest on a piece of property, rather than for the modern use as a supervisor to raise an orphan or a young person under majority. Susanna Freund, marr 24 Oct. 1758, Ev. Ref. Church, Frederick Md., to Wilhelm Hause, by Rev. John Conrad Steiner. (She probably related to the German immigrant Philip Freund (1718-1801) who later went to Washington Co., Pa.) Corinne Hanna Diller Houston, TX Cdiller@juno.com