original letters, etc. These, as a whole, il- lumine the early activities of our people before 1729. The minutes of land granting here, as well as in the other parts of Penn- sylvania, from 1686 are printed in Vol. 19, Sec. Series of Pa. Archives. They give a great deal of side light light upon many early

Susquehanna, from the mouth of the latter river up to the falls. But these titles both gave way to later English titles, etc. The First Indian Traders. This also suggests to us that it is error to say the first Indian traders in this section were French traders. Clayborne traded here in 1637 and earlier; and

near Nathaniel Rigby's, at Deer Creek, where being taken up for a spy, as he really was, and kept with them all day while they mustered, he learned their whole design, of coming up with a select army of men, drawn out of every company in the county to the number of about 300, including the officers