Pennsylvania Indian Traders:Jonas Davenport and Henry Bailey

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Documentation

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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

Sketch

Jonas Davenport and Henry Bailey were two early Traders in Lancaster County, where they settled about 1718. In 1719 Davenport was granted a tract of land adjoining that of Bezaillion and Le Tort in Donegal Township. He was licensed as a Trader by the Chester County court in 1725. Davenport and Bailey, with Le Tort and Edmund Cartlidge, were the first of the Pennsylvania Traders to venture themselves and their goods as far west as the Allegheny River, where they began trading as early as 1727. Davenport lost much of his property through the assaults of hostile Indians; and died in poverty near the place where he had first settled.