From the DAR: Served 1790-93 as a spy, Indian Scout. Served Maryland troops and was on payroll 5 Mar 1767, according to Maryland Muster Rolls. Served entire duration of Rev. War.DAR # A042632

Charles Friend Rev War enlistment


He was a Captain of a group of mounted scouts in the Rev. War from PA. Mrs. Messerschmidt , in her book, says that on more than one occassion Andrew Friend and his brother, Augustine, joined the celebrated Daniel Boone of Kentuckyin his hunting and Indian fighting excursions, and their names find honorable mention with his in the annals of that stirring period.
IGI37 shows b. 1728

Birth: Abt 1715 -- , Raccoon Creek, Gloucester Co., NJ
Death: 15 MAR 1793 -- , Wharton twp., Fayette Co., PA
Spouse: Josepha Drake
Parents: Johannes Friend, Anna Coleman
From Ancestry World Tree

Andrew settled at Turkey Foot, PA370

1773, Jul - Turkeyfoot Township created from Brothersvalley Township

Excerpt: Somerset County [PA] Outline, Page 260

Turkeyfoot Township was established out of the western part of Brothersvalley Township by the Bedford County Court in July 1773. It included nearly all of the western half of the present area of Somerset County and the southwestern corner of what is now Cambria County. Turkeyfoot Township contained many of the first settlers of Somerset County. This township was so named because of the peculiar conjunction of the three streams which unite where Confluence Borough is now located.

Some of the first settlers of the Turkeyfoot Region were Henry Abrahams, James Spencer, Richard Hoagland and Benjamin Jennings. Henry Abrahams built a cabin on the point of land between the Youghiogheny and the Casselman Rivers in 1765. James Spencer lived on the point of land between the Casselman River and Laurel Hill Creek at about the same time. Richard Hoagland owned a large tract of land lying east of the Youghiogheny River on both sides of the Braddock Road. He had the most cleared land in what is now Somerset County, the first assessment was made in 1772. He had seventy-one acres of cleared land at that time. Benjamin Jennings' land was located between Confluence and Ursina Boroughs.

Other early settlers of this same region were Oliver Drake, Andrew Friend, William Greathouse, Thomas Green, John Friggs, John Pursley, Augustine Friend, Danes Pursley, John Reed and Henry Smith. (The names of all the early settlers of Turkeyfoot Township can be found in the five different assessment lists which have been submitted for this township in "First Settlers" in Chapter XI of this work.)