A1696 Visit to "Quanestagua" By Charles E. Hunter A t Conestoga, in October 1705, James Logan, the Provincial Secretary, reminded the Indians that William Penn had visited them — probably in the year 1700 — and that his son, William Penn Jr., had been there in 1704. However, a document in the

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

.) English Scholar's Library, Birming- ham, England, 1884. Talbot, George 1684 "Conference Between Col. George Talbot of Maryland and William Penn," in Narratives of Early Maryland. Clayton C. Hall (ed). Scribner's N. Y. 1910, pip. 437-448. Wallace, Paul A. W. 1961 Indians in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania

massacres by Indians occur- ring during the days of the French and Indian War. This starts with an account of the attack on Rocky Springs. Now, whether Rupp 2 and Mombert 3 thought it referred to the local Springs is of course open to question, but later historians have assumed that it was the local Rocky

east and some 40 miles of Lake Erie in the northwest. Into the eighteenth century, buffalo and turkey were abundant in Pennsylvania and so were flocks of pigeons and large rattlesnakes. Traders paid Indians for beaver pelts, which were in demand by fashionable Europeans. This was a cause of competition

natives than either the Dutch at Manhattan or the English at James- town, and presently secured much of the trade these nations had previously carried on with the Indians, More Troubles Among the Contending Nationaltties. In 1635, the acting Governor of Vir- ginia, Captain West, having heard of the Dutch

Indians scat- tered hereabout, as the fairly peaceable Conestogas, in the Pequea district, and at several native localities prior to the Revolution. A number of these reduced groups, however, were already on their way beyond the Susquehanna toward the Ohio river, or forced to the north- ern Pennsylvania

of Washington, five Indian chiefs, viz. Red Jacket and three others, of the Seneca �Nation, and Saucoresa, of the Tuscarora tribe, accompanied by Mr. Jasper Parish, their interpreter. The main object of their visit to Congress is, we understand, to obtain satisfaction for the death of two Indians