fur trade on his own behalf, moving with his mother to the Conestoga Manor in the present Lancaster County about 1700. Licensed by Penn's secretary, James Logan, to carry on the fur trade in this place, the Letorts enjoyed a thriving business during the opening decades of the eighteenth century. While

during the first two decades of the community's existence and has been beautifully restored to its pre-1750 appearance by the Louise Steinman von Hess Foundation. All of the original English Quaker settlers at the present site of Columbia were personal friends of William Penn's secretary, James Logan