Indian Trader and Interpreter

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Dedicated to Carol Middleton, Bassano and Lanier Genealogist : "* Jacobus or James Hendricks, born ca 1667. Was a carpenter and also an Indian trader. Married-1st: Lucy Duckett ca 1690. Their children: Ann Hendricks (b. ca 1692; m. ca 1707 John Linville they went to Rockingham Co, VA), Helchey Hendricks (b. ca 1694 m. Thomas Baldwin 3/1714; they went west of the Susquehanna River near Helchey's father, James), John Hendricks (b. ca 1696 m. on 2/2/1718 to Rebecca Worley at Chester monthly meeting 4/30/1718; lived in Dover Township, York Co, PA; d. about 1/1750 per his probate file), Henry Hendricks (b. ca 1698; known as 'South Henry'; m. several times -- one wife was Ruth Knott; d. 10/1786 in what is now Davie Co, NC), James Hendricks, Jr. (b. ca 1706; m. Ann Gale; d. on the west bank of the Susquehanna River, carpenter; shot by his father while hunting ), Samuel Hendricks (b. ca 1715; married 2 or 3 times -- one wife was Mary Sale; d. 5/1782 in Menallen Twp, York Co, P...

William Penn: America’s First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty : "In October 1712, Penn suffered a stroke while writing a letter about the future of Pennsylvania. Four months later, he suffered a second stroke. While he had difficulty speaking and writing, he spent time catching up with his children whom he had missed during his missionary travels. He died on July 30, 1718. He was buried at Jordans, next to Guli. Long before his death, Pennsylvania ceased to be a spiritual place dominated by Quakers. Penn’s policy of religious toleration and peace—no military conscription—attracted all kinds of war-weary European immigrants. There were English, Irish, and Germans, Catholics, Jews, and an assortment of Protestant sects including Dunkers, Huguenots, Lutherans, Mennonites, Moravians, Pietists, and Schwenkfelders. Liberty brought so many immigrants that by the American Revolution Pennsylvania had grown to some 300,000 people and became one of the l...

AN INLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ... - Google Books : "It being considered necessary to license English traders so as to prevent communication with the French on the Ohio, among the first was John Harris, a native of Yorkshire, England, who came to America previous to 1698. He entered this then lucrative field, the Indian trade, at the suggestion of his friend, Edward Shippen, who was a member of the Provincial Council. In January, 1*705, John Harris received a license from the Commissioners of Property, authorizing and allowing him to 'seat himself on the Susquehanna,' and ' to erect such buildings as are necessary for his trade, and to enclose and improve such quantities of land as he shall think fit.' At once he set about building a log house near the Ganawese (Conoy) settlement, but the Indians made complaint to the government that it made them 'uneasie,' desiring to know if they encouraged it. It was during one of his expeditions that Harris first behe...