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
Sketch
Simon Girty, Sr., father of the notorious renegade of the same name was also an early Indian Trader of Donegal, located at one time on Conewago Creek. From there, he removed to Shearman's Creek, in what is now Perry County, where he was afterwards killed in a drunken brawl.
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