now avail- able for a short history of Chartier and this tribe, is a letter written by Gov- ernor James Hamilton of Pennsylvania in 1750 to the London Board of Trade, in which he states: "The Shawonese in old times lived near the Spaniards (the lower Missis- sippi and Gulf of Mexico region) and were

the Pequea Church, in history so closely attached to his family, 5 we find that he died July 18, 1742, and that he was 80 years of age, placing his birth in the year 1662, or possibIy the last half of 1661, depending on the month of his nativity. We know for a fact he was in Pennsylvania in 1693, 6