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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
Petitioners for Traders Licenses
Trading with the Indians required a license. In their petitions to the Court, some assigned as reasons for desiring to become Traders, their advanced years of age, their loss of the use of a hand or arm, and other physical infirmities preventing them from hard manual labor. Others set forth that they had just arrived from abroad with large stocks of merchandise.
The following persons petitioned the Chester County Court for licenses to trade, between 1724 and 1755; to all of whom such licenses were granted by the Governor:
- James Adams, 1743
- Robert Anderson, 1743
- William Black, 1738
- Joseph Burgoin, 1733
- Thomas Clark, 1754
- Joseph Cloud (of Caln Township), 1724, 1725
- George Conoll, 1749
- Charles Conner, 1730
- Samuel Cross, 1744
- Matthew Dunlap, 1751
- Richard Hall, 1753
- Henry Hetherington, 1746
- James Hunter, 1750
- John McClure, 1743
- Archibald McGee, 1730
- Neal McLaughlin, 1749
- Charles McMichael, 1742
- James McMordie, 1751
- George Mason, 1730
- Samuel Mealy, 1750
- John Millison, 1754
- Terrence O'Neil, 1730
- John Prince, 1755
- Samuel Patterson, 1752
- Alexander Richardson, 1730
- James Rose, 1738
- John Shaw, 1754
- Daniel Stewart, 1742
- John Swanner, 1742
- Patrick Whinnery, 1749
- William Young, 1730.
In the Lancaster County Court for November, 1730, the following named persons petitioned the Court to recommend them to the Governor for Indian Traders' licenses:
- James Patterson, a Trader for thirteen years past
- Edmund Cartlidge, a Trader for thirteen years
- Peter Chartier, an old Trader
- John Lawrence, an old Trader
- Jonas Davenport, an old Trader
- Oliver Wallis
- Patrick Boyd
- Lazarus Lowrey
- William Dunlap, an old Trader
- William Beswick
- John Wilkins, an old Trader
- Thomas Perrin
- John Harris, an old Trader.
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