Indians located along the Conoy creek were generally known, while here, as Conoys or Ganowese ; but, as with all these early tribes, there was much confusion in their names. This was due to their different Indian names, and the different names given them by the Dutch, Swedish, French and English Indian

fishing parties are in evidence to catch the g amey bass, with which the stream was stocked twenty years ago. This was the hunting ground of that famed trio of Nimrods,Prof. Hall, of Lan- caster ; George Pownall and William H. Sproul, of Christiana, and woe betide the unlucky grouse, quail, rabbit or

death in 1681), purchased a tract be- tween the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, for Wm. Penn, from the In- dians. The western boundary of this was marked by "Fort Demolish- ed"(21), which, he states, is on the Susquehanna River, about four miles above the Conestoga Creek. Penn states that a road had

and Delaware as they are bounded at the present time and a portion of Pennsylvania, extend- ing to the 40th degree north latitude, but was restricted to unsettled and uncultivated lands. The Dutch had settled at the mouth of Lewes creek in 1631, for a short �time, but were driven off by the Swedes. In

, passing over the hill, and crossing the Little Conestoga at Dentlinger's mill, then down the west side of the creek, and in the In- diantown Road to the Indiantown of Conestoga. It was probably along this road that trade was carried on more than half a century before Penn's arrival, between the Dutch at

colonies of New England in exchange for other commodities. Beans, mellons, potatoes and tobacco were also among their cultivated products to which Europeans fell heir. Their women cultivated the soil, the men engaged in fishing, hunt- ing and war. When they first met Europeans, the Indians had little or no