The Wilderness Trail; Or, the Ventures And Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders On the Allegheny Path

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The Wilderness Trail; Or, the Ventures And Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders On the Allegheny Path
Charles a Charles Augustus Hanna
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Esther, wife of the first John Harris, assisted him in his trade with the Indians, and many incidents showing her cour- age and sagacity have been preserved in the local annals of Harrisburg.
Her grandson related that on one occasion she rode on horseback nearly all the way from her home to Philadelphia in one day. At another time, while in charge of their trading house on Big Island, she learned of her absent husband's illness, when she immediately started down the river Digitized by Google Tr
...aders of Conestoga, Donegal, and Paxtang 177 in a birch-bark canoe, so that she might join him and take care of him.
Watson states that she was an expert swimmer, and coiild use firearms as well as a frontiersman. Of her children, Elizabeth, the eldest, married in 1744, John Finley, the Indian Trader who afterwards (1769) guided Daniel Boone and his party into Kentucky.
Lazarus Lowrey came from the North of Ireland and settled in Donegal Township, Lancaster Cotmty, about 1729. He took up 500 acres of land about two miles from the site of the present town of Marietta, where he established a trading house; and in 1730 was granted a license to trade with the Indians, and also to sell liquor "by the small." His dwelling-house is still standing.


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