I found these families in Morton's book and recall some of you asking about them. If you have a family that you are interested in----please send me their name privately!!! and I will then post the info I find to the List. This will help space on the List. Please remember that Morton did make errors----you may find that his clues confuse your research. =;o) Carolyn from: Oren Morton's "History of Preston Co., WV" David Graham arrived in America from Ireland about 1750. His wife, who came with him, was Margaret Patterson. They lived a while on the Juniata River and then moved beyond the Alleghanies. On the frontier they lived in peril of the Indians, a family of neighbors being massacred by the savages and the reports of firearms plainly heard. This may have occurred in the angle between the Monongahela and the Cheat, since the Grahams were there prior to 1779. The sons of the couple were John, Robert, Joseph, William, and David, no names of daughters being preserved. William spent his latter years on Patterson’s Creek in Hampshire. His hearing was impaired in the battle of the Brandywine. David, Jr., who seems to have been the youngest son, saw the flayed bodies of the two Indians killed by David Morgan in a hand to hand fight. His wife when only a girl helped to dress the heads of those of the Rev. John Corbley’s family who were scalped but not killed. According to tradition they were married at Harmony Grove, though it would look more probable that they began housekeeping while the groom’s home was at a gunpowder mill near Ice’s Ferry. Be this as it may, he settled on the J.T. Graham place in Pleasant. He was a weaver and also a teacher, and at the new home he continued to make powder. Of his sons, Stirling and David remained in Pleasant. Samuel settled near Masontown in 1833, and John S. located at Rowlesburg. The offspring of Samuel have shown a preference for industrial and professional pursuits. Sanford is a banker, Grant a druggist, and James A. a physician. ======= Friend is a pioneer name of the northwest of Garrett, but members of the connection have crossed the Preston line. John came with his wife and five children to the site of Friendsville in 1760. Five more were born in his blockhouse. Nicholas, the oldest son, was killed by Indians in 1776. Two other sons went to Missouri and the four sisters to Ohio. Gabriel, Joseph and John remained in Garrett and have a numerous posterity. Joseph married Sarah, a daughter of John Green. Their children were Andrew, John G., Josiah G., William E., and two daughters. ======== John Freeland came about 1804 from Pennsylvania, or from near Baltimore. He settled near St. Joe, but his sons, David, Benjamin, Aaron, amd Hiram located on the vicinity of Terra Alta, and James on Nettle Ridge. David was a great huntsman and is said to have killed 600 deer. William B. is a veteran teacher, especially of his home school, and has been in the State Legislature. Frank, the son of David, is a physician in New York. Benjamin Freeland settled in 1841 on the Nelson Ervin farm on the north slope of Mount Phoebe. ============ The brothers Jacob and Peter Fike were in Grant in 1810. The latter appears to have no posterity here. His son, Levi, a miller, is remembered for his practical jokes. Jacob, a son of Jacob, built about 1835 a massive stone house about a mile north of Brandonville. George Fike lived on the Jeremiah Thomas farm in Grant and went to Ohio about 1835. A son, Jacob, who removed to Maryland, had twelve children, mostly born here. One of these is William H., of Hazelton. Peter Fike came to Union from Fayette about 1853 and located a mile and a half south of Eglon. The connection is rather large. ======== (cs note: this DeBerry is mine. John b. c. 1742 France/Flanders/Holland? > Archibald > William > Sarah Cath. b. 1852. A descendent of Jonas says. "They first came out of South Carolina." He seemed to think that is where they landed. Probably in Preston Co. by late 1790's because of a petition signed by John DeBerry. ) John DeBerry was one of three brothers of a prominent Huguenot family who came to America by way of England. In France the DeBerrys had been wealthy but their fine estate was confiscated. A street in Paris bears the family name. James spoke French but his family did not. Falling into reduced circumstances, he came here about 1805 with three sons and a daughter, none of whom remained long except Archibald. The settlement was on the John H. Deal place near Zar. Of the sons of Archibald, Samuel and Joseph lived in Portland, and William in Valley, while Martin, Jonas, Jacob, and James remained in Pleasant. Parley and Wesley, business men of Terra Alta, are sons of Samuel. ======