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[edit] SketchEdmund and John Cartlidge, two brothers, were among the few Quakers who embarked in the Indian trade. Edmund Cartlidge owned land in Springfield Township, now in Delaware County, as early as 1702; while in 1712, his brother made application for a mill-site on the upper waters of Duck Creek. A warrant for 500 acres of land south of the Conestoga Indian town was issued to John Cartlidge under date of December 11, 1716; and one to his brother Edmund, bearing date October I, 1717, for 400 acres, upon which he had erected a grist-mill, on "a branch of Conestoga. 1 One or both brothers were among the early Justice of Chester County, which then included Lancaster. Many of the conferences between the Provincial authorities and the Indians were carried on in the house of John Cartlidge between 1717 and 1722. In the year last named, while both the brothers were on a trading trip among the Potomac Indians who lived along Monocacy Creek, in Maryland, they were threatened by a Seneca Indian, who had drunk so much rum that he became abusive and dangerous. When the Traders refused to give him more, he made an attack on them, and John Cartlidge killed him. Both brothers were imprisoned as a result of this affair; but were afterwards released, at the instance of the Five Nations. John Cartlidge died in 1726. His brother remained at Conestoga for some years afterwards. Edmund Cartlidge was one of the earliest Traders west of the Alleghanies, and made frequent trips to the Ohio country for many years after 1727. Edmund's Swamp, a noted landmark on the Ray's Town Trading Path, was named for him. |
