Pennsylvania Indian Traders:Robert Wilkins

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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

[Indian Trader] Robert Wilkins...settled near the Conestoga Indians in 1718. In September of that year he obtained 318 acres of land, the site of the present town of Marietta. He had four sons, William, Peter, Thomas, and John, who also became Indian Traders. William Wilkins traded among the Indians of the Cumberland and Shenandoah valleys, and died in Donegal Township in 1734. In 1722, at the time of the trial of John and Edmund Cartlidge for the murder of the Seneca Indian at Monocacy, William Wilkins's presence was required, as he had been a witness to the killing, being then in the employ of John Cartlidge. He could not be summoned, however, as he was then "one hundred and fifty miles up Sasquehannah [above Conestoga], trading for his master." John Wilkins traded with the Indians at Ohio. He died in 1741, leaving a son, John, who became a Trader in what was then Cumberland County about 1763; and after the Revolution, settled in Pittsburgh. Peter Wilkins died in the Cumberland Valley in 1748; Thomas, in 1747.