Unknown (Rambo) Friend (abt. 1663 - bef. 1694)

Born about 1663 in Kingsessing, New Sweden, Pennsylvania

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I'm parking her entry from Rambo & Beatty 2013 here temporarily to use in writing her bio. Today I'm just cleaning up and completing the links of Britta and Peter's children. I think her name may be Maria, based on speculation that her brothers John and Anders named daughters born in 1695 Maria. Her husband also named his only daughter Maria (born to his second wife, Mary, and he did not remarry for several years, which was unusual for the time). Deborah Shaw-5852 20:22, 7 November 2014 (EST)

7. Daughter RAMBO, name not known, is believed to have married ANDERS NILSSON FRIEND who born about 1656, son of Nils Larsson FrÑnde and Anna Andersdotter. In the 1693 census Andrew was listed with four in his household (himself, his wife and two children). The family lived in Ridley Township, Chester Co., PA until about 1694 when he moved to New Castle Co., Delaware to live on Andrew's 200-acres of his father's land located between Brandywine Creek and Red Clay Creek. The Rambo daughter died between May 1693 and August 1694, the dates her father, Peter Gunnarson Rambo, wrote his sister in Sweden and made his will. Anders Friend remarried to Isabel by 24 Jun 1699 when they were assigned pews in the new Holy Trinity Church at Christina [now Wilmington]. They moved by 1710 to Cecil County, Maryland where he was host to Rev. Andreas Sandel [#44] when the latter attended the wedding of Jonas AurÇn and Lydia Justis. From there they moved again west to the mouth of the Conococheague with his youngest son, Charles Friend. In 1740 he was living with his son Israel near Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Andrew died in 1748 at the home of his son Charles on the Potomac River. His Bible inspired an article by Peter Craig, "The Odyssey of Andrew Friend's Swedish Bible" in the Swedish American Genealogist, vol. 16 (Mar 1996). A great deal more about Anders Nilsson Friend is included in a paper by Peter Craig, The Family of Nils Larsson FrÑnde (Friend), 1988.

It seems likely that this first child of Anders Nilsson Friend was a child of his first wife, presumed Rambo. It is also possible that Anders Friend married a daughter of Israel Helm as a second wife immediately after the death of his first wife. 71. ISRAEL FRIEND, will dated 12 Aug 1749 names wife Sarah and children: Jonas, Jacob, Charles, Catharine and Mary. It is not known whether either of the other known children of Anders Friend were children of his first wife. Those children are: 72. CHARLES FRIEND, will proved 20 March 1751 73. MARY FRIEND, m. Robert Turner 3 May 1727 in Northeast, Maryland.

Sources

• Beverly J Nelson Rambo and Ronald Stephen Beatty, 2013. The Rambo Family Tree: Descendants of Peter Gunnarson Rambo. Five volumes. The print version is the 1st edition, 2007: Author House, Bloomington, Indiana. A read-only version of this comprehensive compilation (2nd edition published March 2009) is available for download in PDF format at Ron Beatty's Rambo family history site, where you can also order the 2007 book on CD (with extras, including images of original documents), and download text and web versions of the 2nd edition published September 2013.

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