AN INLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, By WILLIAM H. EGLE

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 beheld the beauty and advantages of the location at Paxtang. It was the best fording place on the Susquehanna, and then, as now in these later days, on the great highway between the north and south, the east and west"(The Picture below is about 20 miles from Paxtang north where the mouth of the Junita


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