Documentation
See:
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders
- Indian Trading Posts of Pennsylvania
- Based on The Early Traders of Conestoga, Donegal, and Paxtang, in Hanna, 1911, The Wilderness Trail
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders:The Setting
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders:Earliest Pennsylvania Traders
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders:List of Sketches
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders:1718 Tax Assessment
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders:License Lists
- Pennsylvania Indian Traders:Trading Paths
- USGENWEB
Traders
The following names are found on the first tax-list of Conestoga Township after its erection, in 1718, nearly all of the persons who bore them being then engaged in trade with their Indian neighbors[1]:
| Stephen Atkinson, | Thomas Baldwin, | Alexander Bense,
| | Peter Bezaillion | Richard Carter | Edmund Cartlidge,
| | John Cartlidge | Martin Chartier | Thomas Clark,
| | William Clark | John Coombe
(brother to Moses) | Daniel Cookson,
| | Richard Davis | Thomas Falkner | John Fa1rer
| | Thomas Gale | John Grist | James Hendricks
| | John Hendricks | Joseph Hickman | William Hughes
| | Morgan Jones | James Le Tort | John Linville
| | John McDaniel | Collum McQuair | Andrew Mason
| | John Millen | James Patterson | Joseph Roe
| | William Sherrill | John Taylor | Robert Wilkins
| | Francis Worley;
| | freemen (mostly single men):
| | Samuel Birchfield | Nathaniel Christopher | James Davis
| | Evan Evans | Richard Grice | John Harris
| | Thomas Jones | William Ludford | Robert Middleton
| | Thomas Perrin | David Priest | Thomas Wilkins
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Other Traders, whose names first appear on the earliest tax-list of Donegal Township (1722), were: Peter Allen (who came about 1718), Henry Bailey (1718), John Burt, Jonas Davenport (1718-19), James Galbreath (1718), Gordon Howard, Robert McFarland, Owen O'Neill, Samuel Smith (1718), William Wilkins.
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