Pennsylvania Indian Traders:James Patterson

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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

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Sketch

[In 1717] James Patterson located...along the northern line of Conestoga Manor, about a mile east of Martin Chartier's post, and there established a trading house. He also took up a tract of land on the opposite side of the Susquehanna, in Conejohela Valley (in what is now York County), where he pastured the horses used by him to pack goods in his trading trips to the Indians of the Potomac. He was a licensed Trader in 1722, and died in 1735. The boundary troubles which began about 1730 between the Pennsylvania settlers and those of Maryland, led by Captain Thomas Cresap, entirely broke up Patterson's trade on the west side of the river, and entailed great loss upon him. His grandson, Captain William Patterson, (whose father, James, had settled on the Juniata, at the site of the present village of Mexico, before the French War), married a daughter of John Finley, another Indian Trader, who, late in his life (1769) piloted Daniel Boone into Kentucky. Susanna, daughter of James Patterson, Sr., married James Lowrey, another of the Donegal Traders. A second daughter, Sarah, married Benjamin Chambers, one of the founders of Chambersburg.